How to Fix Ret Survivability

Classes Paladin
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I’m making this topic for people to talk about ideas on how to fix Ret survivability. I personally feel this is the main issue with Ret at this point in time. Our damage is in a better place than it usually is, and our mobility isn’t great but is definitely serviceable for most content. What feels bad is playing a healing, plate wearing class with invulnerability that is still somehow easier to kill than almost any other spec.

I’ll throw my hat in the ring first and give you two ideas I’ve had in this regard.

  1. Separate SoV and DP on the talent tree and let us take both.
  2. Make a new talent and give us back the auto-bubble cheat death from Legion. Put it on a separate, but longer cooldown from normal bubble (lets say 6 min).

I mean there are a lot of possibilities.
What do you think? What are your ideas?

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Your #2 is good, but the talent tree feels pretty milked as is… I don’t know if I would talent into that because the majority of the time you aren’t going to be using it (hopefully).

What about a damage reduction baked into one of our spenders or something?

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Yeah, this is an interesting idea. I could see something like “targets hit by holy power spending abilities deal X% reduced damage to the paladin for 3 seconds” or something. Make it so you have to keep spending to keep the DR up.

**Edit - This would have to be a small DR maybe only 5-10%, since it would be up all the time, but over the course of a dungeon this could save you from dying on longer pulls that do group wide damage.