The class tuning regarding Holy Paladin on 3/24 is a complete and utter joke. For starters, Lightsmith is nearly 45% behind herald of the sun in raw throughput, adding an extra 3% intellect to a weapon enchant in its tree doesn’t even begin to fix it, it needs a complete rebuild from the ground up to work for holy like it does for prot. More importantly, our spenders continue to feel awful and unfulfilling to press which is such a letdown and massive down grade after spending all of tww to build up to what we had in season 3, fun, engaging and rewarding gameplay with our spenders. Our cooldowns are weak, wings on it’s own, is one of if not the worst CD in WoW currently, purging the dawnlights and suns avatar beams off the cooldown killed its main saving grace from TWW and one of the more fun aspects of Holy Paladin and what brought such a good healing profile to a raid team. The spec needs some aura buffs bad and a direct increase to our spenders, eternal flame / word of glory, no joke, needs a flat at minimum 40% buff, it is missing so much power, and hpal core identity has always been a spot healer, so turning us into LoD slop spam has been nothing but a down grade for the spec in general in raid, Pres/Holy priest cover aoe slop healing perfectly fine. You guys have got to start doing better and listening to feedback from people who play your classes, it is absurd and infuriating to be in this state despite nonstop endless feedback being posted in all forms of community about how unsatisfying and weak holy paladin design is for raid, I understand that the M+ hype spilled into raid, but a lot of these issues are easily fixed by just simply increasing our raw throughput outside of holy light and giving eternal flame some much needed and requested love.
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I’ve just accepted the cycle that is HPal tuning at this point. Since DF S1 we have been in this cycle of spenders feeling absolutely terrible at the beginning of the xpac with no sign of hope other than aura buffs every other patch. Then by the end of the xpac we are finally decent. So my expectations are fairly low this time around.
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What really annoys me is throughout the entire Alpha/Beta players were warning Blizz about putting to much power into Judgment and that it will cause balance problems later on.
Naturally Blizz ignored the feedback and very last minute we get nerfs like EL, and now they are still nerfing it and the entire class is now underperforming because of it.
If Blizz just actually listened for once…