If Paladins are truly a support class all 3 specs should have access to Aura Mastery, it would add a little to the class fantasy as well as give Ret a little more “support” feel to it.
Auras are really lack luster for this class on their own. Devotion Aura is meh, Consecration is the best option and Crusader is just for class flavor.
Adding Aura Mastery to the class tree or baseline for all 3 specs would open us to more class comps for PvP and even have additional usage in a raid scenario.
Thoughts?
It’s Holy raid CD.
You can’t give a healer raid CD to the DPS and Tank spec.
It could have been an interesting trope for the Class tree to have a side “dedicated” to auras and capped by aura mastery.
Whilst replacing Holy raid CD of course.
But as it is, it’s not an option.
It’s by design, they use it as the class raid buff.
None of those are exciting bonuses.
There’s 1 raid buff per class so that they don’t incentivize taking 2 spot on a 20-man.
We temporarily had 2 with retribution aura and it did exactly what they expected, mythic groups started to staple in 2 paladin just for the auras.
Any aura (read additional class buffs) that would be generally good is something that technically unbalances raid comps.
In classic it didn’t matter because there were 40 man raids, you had many redundancy anyway.
Not the same today.
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