Comments on: Paladin Changes in 3.0.9

By: Rom Johnson

Rom Johnson — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:32:50 +0000

I have observed a long standing pattern with how Blizzard handles Paladins. We are the outcasts, the kids everyone picks on in school, ect. Why,I don’t know and wish I did. It dosen’t make sence, really, since they created the class to begin with.

this is just a continuation of that pattern…. ;(

By: Rocklaw

Rocklaw — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:59:21 +0000

Looking forward to it!

By: BlogofLight

BlogofLight — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:48:08 +0000

ugh ugh ugh. I too was shocked at how fast the changes went live. I had just began weening myself off of Divine Plea and learning when I could find little “breaks” here and there to use it. I seriously was not expecting this to come so fast and I am fairly disgruntled at how quickly it happened.

30 minute seals are a bit overkill imo, I think 10 would be sufficient enough. I just keep telling myself that since I use the SoW Glyph and often my seal runs off mid-fight without notice, perhaps that will just make up for my lack of Divine Plea.

By: Phizuol

Phizuol — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:31:04 +0000

Sure, just replying to “Sorry for the long post, but do any of you see leaving the same seal up for 30 minutes straight?”

By: TakkaExodar

TakkaExodar — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:01:52 +0000

@Phizuol
Read all the notes. Seals now last 30 minutes and cannot be dispelled.

By: Phizuol

Phizuol — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:40:09 +0000

Sure, I use seal of wisdom all the time while healing for the glyph bonus, and now with these changes I’ll be needing it even more. Really 5 or 10 minutes would be fine, the main problem is 2 minutes means refreshing the seal in mid combat for longer boss fights.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:34:14 +0000

I’ll be bitter too, as the 5-person Heroic runs are my favorite thing to do in WoW at the moment and while I can eat a 20% penalty, 50% is risk I’m not willing to take unless we’re not in combat. In which case, I may as well drink/dumpling and get ALL my mana back, right?

Did I use Plea? Absolutely. I’d toss it on during trash pulls to avoid downtime, and it really made my dailies more manageable. I’m a bit nervous about our guild 10-person Naxx runs now too, as I was the go-to person for Patchwerk and Raz’s understudies.

This was the first change I was going to copy my character to the PTR to test out, too. So much for that plan. I’m weary of relearning how I play every few months.

Sorry for the long post, but do any of you see leaving the same seal up for 30 minutes straight?

By: Solvaran

Solvaran — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:13:37 +0000

I just don’t understand why they toss healadins into the flames first (I do agree mana regen needed to be adjusted, btw, just not this way). I think all healers should be nerfed at the same time since it is a game mechanic issue (i.e. not a paladin alone issue).

I also think this is much more of a significant issue at end game (i.e. 25 man gear) than 5/10 man. I mean, do you really want to take a -50% healing penalty on a 5 man or 10 man Patch? My gear is mostly 5/10 man epics (i.e. ilevel 200 purples) and my average holy light is 10k…. 5k kinda sucks. And at less then 4k flashes… sub-2k if I want mana regen?

By: Sophie P. Stillwell

Sophie P. Stillwell — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:30:14 +0000

This makes me sad panda on the one hand, and kinda excited on the other – I’ve gotten pretty comfortable with my healing rotation in Naxx 25, so this is going to force me to pay more attention. But hopefully not at the cost of a tank dying. It also makes gemming for +int without question the way to go – I’ve gotten razzed for my insane mana pool (22,000 unbuffed, 31,000 when Greatness procs w/ raid buffs) but clearly this is going to be necessary for major fights. I may be switching out some of my haste gems now – bummer since I was trying to cap haste.

By: Cyranor

Cyranor — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:21:27 +0000

Well I’m bitter even if you aren’t Siha :P.