Blinding Light

A PSA to Paladins and plea to Blizz to change this awful ability.

All Pallies, please do not use Blinding Light in the team fight. It removes all damage over time effects from the enemy team and is only a 1 sec CC since it’s going to be immediately broken anyway. In unrated content, 98% of the time pressing this button straight up helps the other team.

For Blizz, since most Pallies are definitely going to keep using it, please rework this ability so it isn’t such a self and own team troll ability in PVP.

To myself, since I know neither of the above pieces of advice will be heeded, find a 5 minute yoga routine to bring down my blood pressure every time some pally removes all harmful effects from the enemy team.

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Would be nice especially since they’re steadily removing all calculated aspects and the game is going into just a zugzug fest, they can at least change that somehow

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there so much little stuff like this that the average / new pvp player has no clue about

most players have no clue what diminishing return is.

does the game even have a built in DR tracker? is there even a tooltip in the game that explains DR?

its far too common youll see a tauren ret pally do his little stomp stun before doing his HoJ, makes no sense

and yes, playing a DoT class is super frustrating especially since MW monk is so fotm and they get their incap so often. i cant tell u how many times ive had 7 of my dots dispelled by an incap for no rzn UGH

Healer: is the kill target and is about to die

Paladin: uses blinding light as a stun

Healer: easily lives cause they just got the world’s most powerful dispel from the enemy team

Everyone on the Paladins team: rages and goes nuts

Paladin: but I had to cc him!

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Yup its nearly never useful. Take rep instead since you can flag cap right after a rep if they dont have a trinket

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this but cyclone / repentance / mage polymorph / hunter freezing trap / monk incap / priest incap chastise / dh normal cage / rogue blind

i’ll probably retalent i don’t want to piss anyone off.

Void torrent anyone
Friendly Hunter: Scattershots

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Add Evoker’s divide and conquer, Mage’s ice wall, and Warlock’s seduction to that list.

Nothing more annoying than almost landing a kill but some evoker or mage blocks the line of sight with their annoying walls just to save their own behind whilst not paying attention to the enemy health bars.

Nope. Its all internal and not a single line in the game mentions what DR is. Yes after so many years, its still the most absurd thing that we -need- to rely on addons for their game to work better.

I didn’t even know BL did that. Good to know.

A well timed cyclone on a kill target right as the healer is about to get a big heal off is a 1% move. A team 1% move if they then apply CC to the healer for when the target comes out of the cyclone. Very seldom seen in a PUG. Very hard to pull off but so satisfying when it works.

Yep, for single target all of those can be infuriating. As mentioned above, bad players who evoker/mage wall thinking they’re helping when really it just puts your friends in equally as bad spots is also awful

Blinding light being an aoe dispel for the enemy team though just takes the cake

The worst part about all of them though is if you ever bring this up to them (even the rare time I’m being nice about it) they just instantly get defensive and make excuses

Wanna come BG with me on my hunter?