Holy Wrath costs more than 600 mana to cast which for most ret is about 1/3rd of your mana bar.
With the current Ret rotation using Consecration you are still balancing out negatively in mana consumption even when using Blessing of Wisdom, Seal of Wisdom (Judgement), Sagefish, and Mana pots which means we rarely get the opportunity to use this spell.
Furthermore its on a 2 second cast which gets delayed furthur and furthur each time we take damage which is pretty common for melee DPS.
Many of the fights in ST require movement as well as have ADDs that spawn and make using AoE’s like Consecration necessary but if we want to cast Holy Wrath it’s completely impractical to do so, you’ll go OOM very soon into the encounter so in its current state we may as well not even use this as an ability.
Make Holy Wrath Instant Cast when using the rune and set its mana cost to be a % of our base mana like what was done with other runes.
This isn’t true since Ret also use the rune for reduced cooldown on Exorcism. We rely on Melee crits to proc exorcism and yes there are times when you might not see a proc for 15 seconds or more which can be brutal compared to only waiting 7.5 seconds with the Purifying Power rune.
Not that Prot is bad, we still have our glaring defects. We’re the only tank without reduced damage taken by % or 6% reduced chance to be crit. A lot of runes are just kind of DOA as the alternative DPS runes are just typically far better.
It basically feels like the devs don’t really care either.
Seems that way, most recent hotfix seemed to include just about every class except ours.
Blizz is under the impression that paladins are perfect right where they are despite practically most of the paladin community coming out and saying how crap the runes/changes to paladin have been.
They honestly 100% don’t care.
They will continue tuning shamans and give them “nerfs” that don’t really nerf anything at all and continue to completely ignore paladins and any mention of paladins.
Remember when a user pointed out on twitter that “The other faction equivalent class (paladin) are a sad comparison to Shamans”
To which Aggrend replied “Yeah for sure. Sit tight for more info.”
Well me and the rest of the paladin community have been “sitting tight” for awhile now with absolutely nothing to show for it.
What happened to listening to the community? What happened to transparency? Out the door as soon as the sales figure hit and no change in sight unless they see a significant loss in profit.