Infraction for Antmanton: Whining

• Aldriana · 09/11/08, 3:15 AM

Post: [Paladin] WotLK talent trees/abilities discussion
User: Antmanton
Infraction: Whining
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

http://elitistjerks.com/f31/a35-wotl...ic_guidelines/, #3.

Original Post:

Ugh. Holy Guidance gets nerfed, seal damage across the board takes a beating, and Beacon still sucks, only now you have nothing better to do with your points than to hold your nose and take it. So much for cross-tree synergy.

As I feared, the weakness in upper-tier Holy was "addressed" by filling up the early tiers of Ret and Prot with mostly crap. Kings as a five-point talent is terribly, horribly bad, and still doesn't fix the problem of two mutually exclusive talented blessings in the same tree. Tier 3 Prot basically doesn't exist anymore. Ret side is slightly better off; Benediction does have some benefit to Holy Shock, Cleanse, and Consecrate spam, Conviction still helps your crit, and Sanctified Seals adds still a little more. While 14% crit is doubtless very good (and probably due to be nerfed), it leaves a very bland feeling now that Sheath is firmly out of reach for Holy.

Additionally, based on GC's comments about Beacon somehow being "too good," I'm getting a very bad vibe that Holy is being considered as mostly done now. Unfortunately, if this is the case, and especially with the new raid buff stacking mechanics, I fail to see how Blizzard really addressed the underlying undesirablity of the healing paladin in top-end raids and arena PvP. Beacon is a bandaid over the lack of AoE heals, and while a buffed Holy Shock with Infusion of Light covers a multitude of sins regarding mobility, why would you want a healer relying on crits and gimmicks instead of bringing a druid to spam HoTs and Lifeblooms without worrying about a bad run of non-crits killing a tank during a movement phase?

At any rate, I find myself now a lot less excited about the expansion than I was yesterday.