Pally Changes

[Rinnhart]

Man. I'm really sorry but I don't know what to say other than "get better". If you think paladin defense is a joke, their heals are only situational at best, and you can't get around a 6 second cooldown interrupt with 1.5 second cast spells, I just don't know what to say.
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If you can't out DPS one Flash of Light every six seconds all I can say is "get better". PvP healing is about dumping life as fast as possible. Flash of Light is efficient, but it's a garbage combat heal except under specific circumstances.

Paladin defense is a joke. I'm not denying that they can soak up some physical damage (and even in that regard, a rogue with decent HP is about our equal thanks to massive avoidance over mitigation), I'm saying calling paladins the "defensive hybrid" or "invulnerable" is bull#$%& when that defense doesn't exist 96% of the time. The single difference between the shield and any other defensive ability is that it cannot be countered. Of course, it also doesn't do anything to protect your fellows, whereas abilities such as stuns, roots, fears, and crowd controls can be used in defensive capacities to the benefit of others. What does a paladin do while shielded? Heals himself and others with impunity. Nothing that cannot be done during the pause generated by any stun, root (assuming a lack of ranged interrupts), fear, or CC ability or simply by nature's swiftness, of which, is there a one that has as great a penalty as a 5 minute cooldown while still being essentially limited to such a narrow application?

Oh, sorry, they can hearth during that period, too.

This is one of those retarded things "they" have that "we" don't. The shield is garbage. But since the horde doesn't have it, it becomes a rallying cry for every slice of steaming newb pie that loses a fight.

We also have cleanse, which will shortly be decimated from any useful capacity in a heated fight thanks to them deciding to break the functionality of Decursive. I wonder how many more crutches we can kick out from under the gimp before he goes down. Without decursive, I promise you that there will be a noticeable alteration in the capablities of any paladin to handle debuffs, dots, and crowd control as a more defensive posture is really necessary to combat the #$%&ing onslaught brought down by all the instant cast crap. Which, really, is as it should be.