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 original nerf to the spell was partially because of it being difficult to stop a paladin in PvP, so we are going to make the effect dispellable.
We’re still taking a look at some of Holy’s deep talents and I do want to acknowledge that there have been many great suggestions to change some of those.
We understand that some Holy paladins still feel that their movement and group healing mechanics aren’t sufficient yet. However, we still like Bacon of Light , Holy Shock and talents like Infusion of Light to help with these problems. We want to get a few of the kinks out and see them in action more before making further changes here.
We also want to reiterate that measuring healing is much tougher than estimating dps or tank mitigation. While healing throughput and efficiency are important, so is knowing who to heal when and with what spell. We’re going to keep a close eye on this through the rest of beta, in the Burning Crusade patch and when Lich King goes live. (src)
Protection Paladins and AoE Mitigation
In our tests, Protection paladins have mitigation right up there with warriors and probably better threat generation. If there is anything we’re concerned about, it’s that eventually paladin block may not stack up to warrior block because of e.g. talents like Critical Block. But that’s something we’re keeping an eye on and please note that we’re talking about theoretical encounters and gear that don’t actually exist yet. The game could be completely different by the time we get to that point. We have made a ton of changes to the way classes work and haven’t even gotten to see them on Live yet.
In BC, it was not a goal to have paladins be able to MT every encounter. It is now. (src)
This is fucking retarded. I rolled a pally to be an aoe tank. I love tanking with my pally and now its useless. god i hate you blizzard
uhm… wait, what? pally tanks are doing great right now, they can do more damage and they can still aoe, they nerfed the plea ability because it was overpowerd. it’s basically evocate but for paladins, they just didn’t want you to tap it and keep casting heals with infinite mana for a few seconds
Okay… I love tanking on my paladin right now, but I also have a feral druid who I enjoy tanking with.. Mark… How are pally tanks going to be useless after this? As far as I can tell, we can still AOE tank, we’re just going to be… a bit different like every other class i’ve seen. And if anyone knows anything about feral druid tanking… I’m thinking of going kitty DPS on her instead of tanking in WotLK as I still love my pally. Any ideas or suggestions would be awesome! ^^