WoW Paladin

Upcoming changes to paladin’s talent trees
Not every talent tree has those clickable abilities at the 11, 21, 31, 41 and 51 spots. We might eventually give Protection and Holy and 11-pointer and we have some ideas on what we would like to do, but mostly we want to see if there is anything they are [...]

Death Knight
Blade Barrier’s Annoying Spell Effect (src)
This was fixed for the next patch. It is a more appropriate animation.
Hunter
Survivability Versus Magic Damage (src)
We think survival against magic is a legit concern, and unfortunately gets overshadowed by (some) hunters concerns versus melee. We are discussing changing Deterrence.
Disengage While Snared (src)
As I have explained before, [...]

In my weaker moments (also trying to not level too fast and leave Feilynn in the dust since her PC is still on life support right now) I spent a little time playing the old Spooner. Paladins and Warriors would have to be my all time favorite classes in the game. Death Knight was fun [...]

I would say that as far as the talent trees, protection paladins have the most lacking in the class.
Protection Tree
There are several similar threads on Prot paladin issues so forgive me for only responding to this one. My thanks also go out to other players who have tried to respond here. I will comment on [...]

Going to group these two class posts together since they’re somewhat standard fare as of late. More issues with Retribution and more complaints about Elemental.
Shaman
Elemental Shaman balance at lvl 70
Fun is very relative. I think shamans are fun now. Obviously other players may disagree. I think the part where shamans aren’t as fun is actually [...]

Whatever I missed, is here via WOR.
Hunter
Autoshot not doing damage during Volley (Source)
That is by design. Even if it wasn’t by design, the current implementation is a good idea because Volley does so much damage now.
Exotic Pets vs. Cats: DPS (Source)
We made a big pass on pet dps for 3.0.3 so I’m not [...]

The saga continues lol. Some of this is reposted information and some is not, it really is getting a little out of hand with the ret arguing. But excessive Blue posts are better than months of silence!
Potential retribution paladin changes
Our eventual plan is to put Divine Shield on a shared 30 sec cooldown with Avenging [...]

Unbelievably long post on all things Paladin. We got A LOT of attention over the weekend. We’re getting nerfs to retribution again and at the same time Blizzard is fully aware of all the glaring issues with Protection and Holy suffering from the nerfs.
Yeah this is somewhat crazy but it’s a good read.
Holy paladin potential [...]

After playing for a while now with the changes trying to do what I used to do in questing and DPSing with my terrible gear, I can say the only thing we got nerfed on that wasn’t something we deserved was the mana regen aspect. This is hurting Holy paladins playing solo and Protection paladins [...]

I can only assume that my Holy Paladin readers as well as all other Paladin readers are gravely concerned with what’s going on. Rest assured if it really is so bad that the class becomes garbage again, Blizzard will rightly fix it. You have to remain positive in that sense or else you’re wasting your [...]

Many of us Retribution Paladins are pretty much in tears over the coming changes. I say, suck it up. We knew these nerfs were coming, we knew that the jackoffs that were abusing the hell out of the overpowered abilities pretty much just marked our entire class for death both by devs and other players. [...]

There are a lot of changes coming up including the great Paladin nerf (I really don’t think it’s so bad honestly) as well as the Hunter changes to aspects and such.
Death Knights got a little tweaking in the way of DPS increase in Blood. Druids got some barely noticeable drops in their DPS for feral [...]

My first character was a Paladin that I dumped at about level 33 before taking up the first Spooner (Warrior) so the class itself has always had a really strong spot in my heart. So now that I’ve been playing my Paladin a lot more I can really see a lot of what the community [...]

This has always been something I wanted to get since the game first came out and the mount made available. Baron Rivendare (the original Death Knight Boss in WoW) has such a slim chance to drop his own epic land speed mount as well as runeblade. Blizzard has seen fit to increase the drop rate [...]

Druid
Consequences of 10% armor increase on bosses for feral druids
It will hurt Feral dps, but we also needed to hurt Feral dps a little. Cats with a cat spec really hurt stuff now.

It will be a slight threat nerf to bears and warriors (and DKs and paladins slightly less) but tank threat is so enormous [...]

Some good news and some not so good news in this batch of Blue posts. Druid healing not so much nerfed as just forced off easy mode.
Lifebloom nerf
Even if you only consider PvE, the reason we changed Lifebloom, as I have said before, was it became the correct answer to any situation a Resto druid [...]

Once more presumably these changes will be coming in Patch 3.0.3 for the Live servers in preparation of retail release of Wrath of the Lich King. Credit to MMOC for pooling this info off the talent builders and skill lists.
Death Knight
Skills
Frost

Targets affected by Chains of Ice now regain 10% of their movement each second for [...]

This is coming from MMOC and the Official Wrath of the Lich King forums. Now in the title I say that they’re possible class changes because anything can happen; they could push these as hotfixes, they could come out with 3.0.3, they could come out on Nov. 13th with the retail Wrath of the Lich [...]

As I stated yesterday, we are happy with Ret’s PvE damage and sustatined damage in PvP, but were concerned that the burst damage in PvP could be too high. We discussed this for literally hours yesterday, which was certainly not the first time we have discussed the issue. Thus I hope these changes are not [...]

I don’t expect this change to be staying for long because Paladins don’t need their auras to work with the speed or fuildity that Warrior stances, DK presences, or Hunter aspects do. A paladin can tank or DPS or heal with any aura active and it won’t really make or break the gameplay. But for [...]

Nah I’m just kidding, so is Ghostcrawler. I actually got on my paladin last night and got him to level 69 in about 12 mintues, felt great but REALLY overpowered considering my gear really is, complete shit. I can only imagine what fully geared ret. paladins are doing right now and how they love it, [...]

Paladin
Blessing of Sanctuary
We like Blessing of Sanctuary as a buff you can put on anyone. However, we might do something like let it benefit the paladin more than other targets. (Self buffing gives a better result than buffing someone else.) Or we might just add more paladin mitigation somewhere else in the tree. That all [...]

Paladin
Holy

Divine Plea - You gain 25% of your total mana over 15 sec, but the amount healed by your spells is reduced by 20%. (Down from 100%)

Glyphs

Glyph of Flash of Light - Your Flash of Light heals for 50% less initially, but also heals for 140% of its inital effect over 12 sec. (Down from [...]

Divine Plea Changed
We are still showing good healing from Holy paladins. However, we are getting feedback that they may be struggling with mana and perhaps even with boredom. To help with both of these potential problems, We are going to change Divine Plea to only reduce your healing by 20% (up from 100%). However, the [...]

Skills
Holy

Divine Plea changed to : You gain 25% of your total mana over 15 sec (Old - 10 sec), but the amount healed by your spells is reduced by 100%. (Old - 50%)

Talents
Holy

Judgements of the Pure now lasts 1 minute. (Up from 30 seconds)
Infusion of the Light now reduces the cast time of your next [...]

Paladin
Paladin / Hybrid DPS in WotLK
Ret should be as close to the top as anyone else. Our buckets at this point are basically DPS, Tanks, Healers. When the tank and healer are doing dps, it’s even closer. You may be a couple hundred dps lower than a pure dps class (hunter, mage, warlock, rogue) but [...]

Here’s a list of all the undocumented class changes that have come through in this patch. Very interesting stuff here and I’ll have to play around with it to really have an opinion but right now on paper, I see Death Knights finally getting some damage buffs and survivability nerfs which might put them BACK [...]

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PvP changes
Death knights have a lot of options at the moment, which is cool, but makes it really hard for another player to catch a break and burn a death knight down. So we’re going to try some [...]

We got a new build last night that so far hasn’t done much but add some pretty exciting class changes. A healthy mix of nerfs and buffs and some retooling that makes tree synergy much smoother.

Death Knight (8970: Skills | Talents)
Blood

Blood Aura - Now healed by 2% of the damage done, up from 1%. [...]

Paladin
Protection
Talents

Hammer of the Righteous (Tier 11) changed to - Hammer the current target and up to 2 additional nearby targets, causing 3 times your main hand damage per second as Holy damage.
Improved Devotion Aura (Tier 4) now increases the amount healed to the target by 2/4/6%. (Old - 1/2/3%)
Toughness (Tier 3) reduces movement impairing effect [...]