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, but ultimately it shouldn’t be so. Kind of like a Platypus breeding with a Giraffe. “I’M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE!”
Since these threads seem to be proliferating, I figure’d I’d just start a new one. Here is a quick Q&A. (src)
Q: Is Ret OP?
A: Perhaps. We think Ret’s dps isn’t abnormally high in PvE, and may not even be high in PvP over the course of a long fight. Where we are worried is how much damage Ret can do up front. It’s also Holy damage, which isn’t a big deal when you’re considering a fully sundered mob, but can turn into a lot of damage in PvP.
Q: Are we going to nerf Ret?
A: TO THE GROUND BABY. Okay, not really, but sometimes I can’t resist. We’ll see how much that quote comes back to haunt me. We will probably be making some changes soon, perhaps even hotfixes. We want to be very surgical about what we do. We don’t want to overdo it, and we don’t want to hurt their sustained PvE damage. When we’ve decided, I’ll make sure you all know.
Q: Why did it take us this long to admit there was a problem when EVERYONE knew about it?
A: A couple of weeks ago there were some bugs with weapon equipping that caused some problems that of course were being exploited. We didn’t want to nerf Ret TO THE GROUND BABY only to discover that the weapon problem was causing 90% of it.
Q: Enough about Ret. Unholy death knights are worse!
A: That wasn’t a question, but we think we have Unholy in a better place now. We made some changes to a few deep talents (that the DK community is already aware of, so don’t fret) to get Unholy’s dps more in line. Also, you aren’t going to see any PvP DKs for a long time, so we need to focus on paladins for now.
Q: Hi. Thanks for the update. While you’re here, can I ask you all these other offtopic questions about paladins or the game in general?
A: …
yep they are so freaking OP its ridiculous.
/agree
everytime i came across one in pvp gear i was dead and /hug ‘ed before i knew what just happened..
Ret = FUCKING OP
i keep getting 3 shot in BGs, that is, when AV dosent crash on me
Ok, ret dps is almost inline. That rogues are QQing about being killed while stunned makes me laugh.
Ret healing is absolutely silly atm. Bliz should nerf the spell power from AP (talented) and adjust damage coeficients up to compensate about 85% of what it is now. Hammer of Death (er Wrath) should be 30% hp usable, not 35%.
Ret isnt outrageous OP. It’s just that for ALL of TBC, wow forgot Paladin is a melee hybrid class (ie, tank/ret) and now cant believe ret is so tasty.
QQ more.
yeah in the end it’s all just QQ but frankly, my ret paladin Spoøner is in shit gear (go ahead and armory him) and I am killing anybody and everybody who doesn’t fuck my HP in the first 10 seconds of the fight. The hardest opponent so far has been a full season 3 warrior I just ATE
but I’m not complaining, leveling is now actually viable and less of an anal grind as a paladin
I´m a 70 hunter, 7000 armor, 12 k health and 306 res – a pally hit me for 12600 in 2.6 sec… Ridiculous – and in the bgs last night the top three often were ret palas. I heard about a guy soloing durn, ramp, bf without a prob…
Are blizz gonna do anything about it? NO -they say it evens out at 80 – so lol
Ok, I’m a ret pally and now that I am 80 there is close to nothing for peeps to QQ about as far as ret goes. Hell I’m about 50/50 for duels and 50/50 for arenas. so, yeah, it does all equal out at 80
@ Diamondleaf – so what you’re saying is that you suck at playing a Retardin.
Those super paladins mentioned here and there are a few guys who played arena or did instances and got the gear to max, adjusted and respecced 100s of times, duel several hours and just hate to lose.
I hope Blizzard make a good final paladin soon.
And I want to thank Blizzard about arena points starting at 0, and somewhat nerfing the source of giving (gear) boosts to people with no skill.
im sorry but ret pallys are total BS in pvp.. i got a hunter with 600 resi 4.9k ap 27k health (buffed) and rets kill me in seconds… literlly goes 4k 5k 5k 5k hammer of rofl=dead and ive hit them for about 8k at most if my ES crits… they hand of highcooldown my concussive shot laugh at my traps heal through.. even if i get em low they bubble or LoH just to kill me.. its utter bollocks and this ISNT balanced by any means id happily face 10 rogues on a destro warlock than a pally on any of my other toons something needs to be done because im fed up with alot of the wow community accepting overpowered classes in pvp… the game will lose alot of subscribers if some stuff doesnt change. this isn’t acceptable and isnt fair on those that can play their class well but are facerolled in 4 keys by a loladin.