Pally Changes

[MongoJerry]

Sap them! Seduce them! Fear them! Sheep them! Once the Divine Shield is gone, all they have is plate, and sorry, two out of the eight other classes do physical damage, that's 6 classes that are dealing damage the paladin might have the right aura up for.

You're assuming there's only one paladin? It's a rare AB or even CTF where there's only one paladin. And if you sheep or charm at the start of a fight, a priest or two might still be alive to dispel. Why would a paladin bother using Divine Shield to break out of sheep or seduce when their partymates can break them out of it for free? I suppose if they really had to, that's an option, but a paladin who wastes Divine Shield too early doesn't know how to play his or her class. The whole point of Divine Shield is that it's that it's that ever present ace in the hole. The paladin should be using every other trick in the book to keep alive first and only when there's finally enough damage directed at them Divine Shield, heal to full (possibly dispelling or healing other partymates), and laugh at the foolishness of the Horde players who wasted their time attacking the paladin while their party was being picked appart and crowd controled by the rest of the Alliance players.

Shed damage. Yeah, sure, whatever. Warriors and your average warlock are far tougher against spells thanks to larger hitpoint pools, and forget casting on a warlock that has a felhunter out.

You're going to honestly say that a warlock can last longer than a paladin in a fight? And even warriors can be killed -- unless they're being healed by paladins, of course.

Shamans mitigate slightly less than paladins, and if they didn't nuke, they'd be much better combat healers than paladins thanks to worthwhile flash heals, generally better caster stats on their gear, and actual healing spell talent progression.

Dispel, dispel, dispel. God, it's like banging my head against a brick wall. Why don't Alliance players get how unbalancingly powerful cleanse is? All Alliance players have to do is kill the squishy Horde priests and they can sheep, freeze trap, entangle roots, charm, frost nova, and dot all they want. All the paladin has to do is stand there and spam decursive while his or her teammates wipe the floor with the Horde team. I think that Alliance players don't realize how powerful crowd control spells are, because they're so used to not being crowd controled. Meanwhile, Horde is obsessed with it. Every AB game, I get our warriors shouting, "Need dispell!" after being sheeped, and I repeatedly have to call out, "I'm dead!" The Alliance side just doesn't have to worry about that with thier effectively invincible priests in plate.