Paladin in Retail seeking reassurance for Classic

[Theloras-llane (Theloras)]

@Alys-warsong

As you can see from my current avatar, I was an original classic raider. Your destiny as a paladin in classic raiding will on be as a raid/tank healer/buff/cleanse bot & judgment of wisdom bot.

Retribution is a auto swinging seal of command judgement spamming joke

And protection is even worst; although, it’s ok for SOME dungeons.

Give me BC/WotLK/Cata/MoP/WoD/Legion/BFA version of the paladin any day of the week beside 1.12 paladin.

With that said. My advice is go warrior because at least you can tank or DPS & not be pigeonholed into healing.

I would be excited about Classic if they just gave paladins Crusader Strike from the BC pre patch it would be a game changer but that will never happen.

TLDR - we don’t need Crusader Strike in Vanilla - read/watch this about Spelladin my friend:

The Spelladin - new Retribution meta for Classic

Courtesy of DexterBravo: Gear competetion - That T2 gear that every pally wants for PVP or RP, isn’t good for holy. But it is BIS (likely forever) for Spelladins. That’s 8 pieces of items that is Spelladin prio, which won’t be replaced in ZG, AQ, NAXX. That’s a lot of gear for happy warriors, casters, etc., that otherwise was wanted by the AP ret. Actually viable DPS most likely (none of us know how Classic will be tuned in the end). Much better than AP ret – more dps, more mana uptime…