I have had some of the most fun I’ve had in years as a healer in Retail since coming back to play Holy Paladin in Pre Patch. It feels like the best of WotLK and MoP Holy Paladins mashed together and I absolutely love how it feels to play. Please, please roll the changes back in beta and spend more time to cook up a solution that allows players to choose between the current live version of Holy Paladin and and a melee focused style with CS as part of the rotation. I came back to retail because of the state of Holy without crusader strike and the recent changes in beta are super disheartening.
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+1 agree with everything you said. I’ve been playing paladin since Burning Crusade and I was so excited to finally be able to just heal and focus on healing without having to be in melee range and weaving in useless dps buttons for the sake of just making the spec have more buttons. It’s clunky, makes healing harder than it has to be, and pushes people away from healing when we need to be doing the opposite. Please consider reverting these changes.
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I only partially agree. I am very happy with having crusader strike back but the way it was reintroduced disrupted what was actually a very good rotational flow. If they can strike a compromise between the holy shock →judgment loop while still having the ability to use crusader strike for damage and downtime I think the spec will be perfect.
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I can absolutely see the argument for making CS an option, but now it’s mandatory and the implementation is crazy ham-fisted. I’d like them to roll back the changes and work on allowing the option to reincorporate CS into the rotation without losing the current feel HPal has in prepatch. I personally do not want to ever be required to press CS again as a Holy Paladin and it feels super bad for them to deliver on that in prepatch and then force feed it back to us afterwards.
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I personally would love it if they require Crusader Strike to be used in our rotation. IF they can make it feel satisfying to press, whether done via making it hit like a truck, make it a mana restore tool…or even add hps to it via a Veneration-like shield or Hammer and Anvil interaction. I want them to cook this idea a bit more before they scrap it.
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Please revert the changes! I just started Hpal and been loving it!
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I was on the side of the fence that didn’t want Crusader Strike removed before I got to play the new HPal then when I did get to try it in pre-patch I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. I do think this new change needs to be reverted or CS needs to be turned into an option so people can have a choice because this just ain’t it.
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I agree. Holy paly felt good. I was thinking of going main hpal. They could have tweaked somethings. Maybe add another (or two) interesting button to push; but not gut the current rotation and feel of the class.
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