Pally Changes

[Roland]

I think rogues need to be a little less dependent on timers.

Don't you touch my timer-based skills! We get along just fine without them, but ALL of our really powerful skills are timer-based. Get rid of that, and we are TRULY glass cannons. Without our abilities, we are NOTHING.

Rogues do need some TWEAKING. Certain talents and talent trees need a bit of reworking and/or replacing, and a few other minor changes here and there. But that's about it. We have our very serious deficiencies, and we do need our "love" too, but at least we can get by them. Although, it does suck being forced NOT to put points into a Talent simply because it almost BREAKS one of our skills. :P Now that's absurd.

IMHO, and I've said this before, Paladins need a small DPS boost. They should be able to contend with, but NOT outdue, a base Warrior, even a Defensive-oriented Warrior. They should NOT be able to contend with an Arms / Fury Warrior (who should, however, be able to contend with a Rogue, to some extent). They should ALSO have a few more, or a bit better, offense-oriented spells. Nothing game-breaking, but tweaking what they have or giving them one more option wouldn't hurt. Primarily, all their offensive spells target Undead only, which is absurd, given that only 1/8th the populace is Undead and MUCH less than that are monster undead. Make our spells work on everyone, not just Undead, and it'll be a great start.

And, as has been said before, Judgements, Seals, and to a minor extent Blessings need to be reworked. What worked in Beta was completely changed, and is now rather screwed up.

I don't want to see Paladins turned into unkillable casting warrior-gods. I DO want to see them have more versatility available to them, better Talent trees, and something to help them boost their damage a bit (enough to contend with a Druid in Bear form, for example). I do not think, nor can I ever imagine myself thinking, that they should be as powerful offensively as a Warrior, but they SHOULD be able to at least tank without the "click... wait..." syndrome.