Maybe it’s nostalgia. Maybe it’s not. I’d love to see them return as basic buffs. There are two NPCs leading up to the Stormwind throne room that have these buffs and it just hurts my soul to see them have it and we cannot.
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Blessing of Might as a Battle Shout alternative should return at the very least.
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That would work. Tweak the buff to make it worse if they must, but atleast give us something. Druids got MOTW back.
We did just get a brand new bres and the new ret aura is really cool. We also have freedom, bop, spellwarding for prot, lay on hands… I don’t see them re-adding more group utilities on top.
Yeah, I’m with you. I’ve been maining a Ret pally since Wrath and I miss me buffs. The new Ret aura is AWESOME, but I need the dopamine hit when I buff myself with a spell periodically.
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Providing Blessings is a cornerstone of the Paladin fantasy, something Blizzard themselves said they wanted to bring back.
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I’m not going to lie…Giving paladins blessings is too much.
They’re in a really good spot right now. The devs did a great job with Ret.
Now they need to focus their attention to other classes/specs to make them as valuable.
as much as i’d like to see Blessings like that return, the folks in this thread make a good point: they already have a lot of spells. my alts have full bars as it is. 
not that i wouldnt make room for these though lol
I could maybe see blessing of might coming back in a nerfed form, yet with all that we have currently I doubt it. It is kind of icky that ret aura can pretty much only be run by ret paladins, or when you have 2 paladins in a group when its a prot and holy paladin. It would be nice to be able to bring a general buff to the table similar to other ones classes bring.
would devotion aura (3% dmg reduction) be considered the class buff for paladins?
In a way yeah, and also not really, overall it won’t make or break you having or not having it. It’s a case of its better to have it than not have if it can be helped, which is why raid teams always run one paladin per fight typically. I will say if we didn’t have it then paladin probably wouldn’t be brought along as much unfortunately without auras. Which isn’t the healthiest TBH, but is the nature of the game.
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I do kind of like the unique to class buff system for the most part. A few classes are left out (DKs, hunters, rogues, arguable evokers because the movement reduction is so niche).
Maybe they feel what those classes bring instead of a unique buff is enough? Battle rez, deathgrip/gorefiend/Slappy hands (situationally extremely strong), misdirect, Lust, enrage dispel, Shroud (again situationally amazing in certain conditions and mostly useless like in raids).