Last week. I felt glad that retribution paladin can almost kill anyone
if they wish.
They has got nerfed a lot, but still powerful.
But now, look, they’ve got nerfed again….there has no reason for me to
choose paladin:
We don't nerf anyone due to public outcry. If we did, there would
probably be 1-2 classes left that were even PvP viable. At most
seeing a lot of QQ about one class might get us to look at the numbers
to see if there is any truth to the matter. However I will say that in
this case there were so many people telling us the same thing that
it's hard to come up with an explanation for how they can all be wrong
and some of the Ret paladins be right. (I say "some" because several
Ret paladins admit they were killing stuff to fast.)
We collect a lot of data from both Beta and the live servers, and Ret
paladins were killing people very quickly and often, especialy at
level 70. Even after the nerfs, they are still very good at 70.It's
never fun to nerf anyone and we know the boards are going to be on
fire for several days when we do it.
It's our fault that the imbalance existed in the first place and we
needed to take steps to correct it. Players are understandably nervous
about the new world order with all of the changes we've made to
classes and combat. Most of them, I am confident, want to see balance
problems fixed quickly.
Is it a “buff”?
Holy's dps does seem low and it is something we're discussing, since
as you pointed out, other healers got a nice dps boost. Getting a
Seal / Judgement system we liked was a more pressing design change,
but now we think we can go back and figure out how to help a Holy
paladin who wants to do decent dps especially when soloing or when
healing isn't needed.
Check:
www.thecheapwowgold.com for more information about the new
changes about paladins.