I had an extra weapon token, so I bought prot sword just for fun. Oh boy it’s been entertaining, but I have to drink more than ANY healer by far.
Honestly frustrating as 1 dps can train you in blitz all the way to flag room and you’re just OOM without being able to drink. Is there any way around this atm?
Nope. Prot Paladins are by far the worst of the Tanks in PvP.
You’ll have to wait until 11.0.5 when they add a PvP talent to alleviate the mana issues.
Even that aside, prot paladin kinda just does not compare to other tanks in PvP.
Prot is not made for pvp. There was a dev that said they don’t want any prot paladin in pvp during and interview.
Isn’t just prot but Paladin is in a terrible spot design wise right now. Been rebuilt more times than the pot hole outside my house and both still arn’t working lol.
Would love to see that interview if you can link it.
Prot paladin is really rough because their througput is pretty poor in a meaningful way, they oom by using their heavily nerfed healing, and they take a ton of dmg. Even have their defensive utility can be gutted in pvp like purging bop, CC on the queen. That being said the 11.0.5 will give some mana relief with the pvp talent. At the cost of healing your teammates for 50% less which is crazy because you already heal them for little amounts.
It’s an old interview from the launch of dragon flight sadly. It was kind of a big thing for prot paladins back then if you don’t remember. They decided to do huge nerfs for prot in PvP only and forgot about them. That’s why now prot feels weak. It still is affected by those forgotten DF pvp only modifiers.
That I agree with, they’ve changed a lot of the class design overall and because of pve and it’s still littered with negative modifiers in pvp cause of nonstop nerfs. I just don’t recall them saying they don’t want prot pally in pvp.