So…first off…let me start out by saying, Paladin has been my main since Burning Crusade. I stopped playing the game for a few years after Cata for some personal reasons, and came back to enjoy the fluidity built in to the game overall.
NOW! Sorry, Blizzard…but you guys really need to give some love to Paladins. I love the burst damage that we can put out, but that’s about all we have.
I can’t ever kill a healer…I get kited all over the place, and casters are my bane. My wings get spell-stolen…or I just get CC’d through the entire duration.
We need some sort of a snare or slow that is on less than a 30 sec. cooldown. Or make Hand of Freedom on a 20 second CD. Also, fix World of Glory please.
How is selfless healer supposed to be viable, when I can’t even get to my target to use Templar’s Verdict to build up the stacks of it? If we are sacrificing damage output for healing, it shouldn’t only do 10k more healing than a Flash of Light.
I am really worried about the path that Paladins are going down, but I refuse to stop playing this class. I love the look and feel of them, but you took away our raid wide buffs, you took away our Divine Intervention, for cripe’s sake, we can’t even bubble-hearth anymore.
I refuse to hop on the bandwagon and play a flavor of the month class like a fire mage or a Destro lock.
So please, a little love would be nice. At it’s current state, Ret is not as viable for meta-content like a lot of the other classes. Even getting into a mythic is hard for me because everyone wants every other class as a party member. I can’t succeed in arena without gear, and I can’t get gear because no one wants a Paladin in their group unless we’re a healer or a tank.
I’ve been playing this game since 2005… and I always will, but you guys need to really define this class in it’s role and decide if we’re gonna be a gimped warrior with flashy lights, or if we’re going to be the Vanguards of Retribution like we’re meant to.