I’ve been seeing these videos and threads about how awful Prot Paladin is going into Midnight. Essentially, lack of defensives. I never pay any mind to these threads or videos. I am curious, however, if anyone has played Prot Paladin extensively in Beta and can validate this? Or if it’s just doom like everything else?
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It’s not tuned properly for the philosophy change they are going for, people are dooming because “we lost soo much stuff” not realizing the power is being baked in, even if it’s being done slowly or halh-hazardly.
That being said, there are legitimate gameplay concerns and puzzling decisions.
The apex talent, for example, gives Avenger shield it’s HP generation back at random on procs…
That’s a round-about way to give it back that feels unintuitive and that mess with your ressource planning.
Basically, anyone who’s complaining about getting clapped are complaining about tuning.
If they link that with having less defensive CD’s than the point of the changes went over their head.
Now, it’s not that tuning isn’t important but it should really be differentiated from the gameplay complaint.
Personally, I disliked the CDR gameplay, the removal of HP generation on AS in Dragonflight and the “stand in consecration if you don’t want to die” aspect.
So all the changes being made moving away from these are welcome to me, I can be patient on tuning.
Because of these, I may very well pick tanking back more seriously than I did in the past few years.
If midnight were to release today, Prot would be in a bad spot as many other spec but it’s not releasing today.
It’s still important to point out that the numbers and stuff they have on at the moment aren’t working out.
I am currently seeing in Beta that Prot Paladins are pushing pretty high in keys so it can’t be that bad.
I’m going off the criticism I’ve seen levied in some reviewers videos with gameplay footage and what some people here on the forums said.
I’ve mostly kept up with the patch notes changes and their philosophy but couldn’t find the time to play it myself on beta because of IRL stuff and the holidays coming.
So, take that for what it’s worth.
I just wanted to say to be vigilant about people conflating tuning with gameplay because these are comment I saw being made.