Yes because it’s only 2 specs that have had large buffs given to them.
Holyseizure-whitemane-1857111:
This does not mean “Scale relatively to their position in a tier ranking list”.
It means that the class scales in the same way, that if a piece of gear was good for you back then, the same piece should be just as good.
There’s a certain irony to you complaining about a lack of context only to post even smaller parts of the quote.
For reference, the actual quote:
Upcoming Adjustments to Retribution Paladins :
This includes having them scale mostly as you’d expect them to. Warriors are a great example of this, and in almost every early expansion of WoW, Warriors start weak and scale exceptionally well with gear. This is especially true in Wrath where Armor Penetration becomes more prevalent and available around the midpoint of the expansion, and gear in the later tiers is more tightly optimized to allow Warriors to lean into their strengths and shine. This sort of ebb and flow feels right for classic and we do not want to change this paradigm, and feel that these adjustments will allow Retribution to stay more relevant now without creating a massive new imbalance or placing them well above where we’d expect them to be relative to other classes and specs during this or future phases.
It is explicitly about how classes scale relative to each other and doesn’t mention anything about specific pieces of gear .
Holyseizure-whitemane-1857111:
Ret was powerful in ICC, and they will be today. Their statement has everything to do with how character’s scale with themselves, and nothing to do with how they scale relative to other classes.
This goes for every class except for the 2 that received 10%+ buffs that put them right up the top of the meters.
Ret (and Feral) aren’t anywhere near where they were in Ulduar, the buffs should be reverted as they have significantly impacted the relative scaling of classes.
The full quote once more:
Continuing the discussion from Upcoming Adjustments to Retribution Paladins :
Not a Goal – Make Retribution competitive with the highest output specs and classes in PvE. The utility of all Paladins cannot be overstated here and is absolutely a factor to consider still. With access to critical raid buffs, auras, and raid cooldowns such as Aura Mastery and Divine Guardian, all flavors of Paladins have a vital place in any raid composition, and as we’ve previously stated, we are pleased with their overall representation in raids, as a class. We do not want to start seeing Retribution become stacked in raids. Most raid groups that run Retribution Paladins typically include a single Retribution Paladin, and we feel that 1 or 2 is still a good target number to have in each raid.
Tell me, where is this specific to phase 2? Contrast this to other parts of the post that do talk about current (Ulduar at the time) balance, or other parts that talk about later phases.
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