Some of you may remember a thread from a few months ago about removing paladins from the game. For those who missed it here is the summary.
All 3 paladin specs are not only viable but oppressive.
Paladins are present in an overwhelming majority of all pvp interactions.
The defensive toolkit is so vast and caters to players who make mistakes. In other words, paladins are not punished for bad game play because their defensives can retroactively bail them out of bad situations. DKs have to pre IBF to avoid a stun, paladins can just freedom out of it for example.
Since mana isnt an issue for this class, they effectively have 0 resource management.
There was a popular uproar and the community called for this to happen but Blizzard has been silent. 2 months later, paladins are more pervasive than ever. There are more paladins than every other class (if you dont count priest and warrior) combined. So if there is no official response what can be done?
MANUALLY REMOVE PALADINS FROM THE GAME
I have spent the entire summer mercilessly ganking paladins on their way to karazahn. Today I earned my 5,000th Honorable Kill on Paladins in Eastern Kingdoms. I have made it impossible for paladins to complete their class quest of running Karazahn 500 times a week. There has been a sizable decrease in the ally paladin population as a result. But I am just one and we are many. The time has come to rise up and join me. If we all kill every paladin until they have to log out maybe we the players can enforce some balance.
A lone orc fooling himself into thinking he’s doing good and attempting to rally everyone under his banner, while everyone looks on shaking their heads in confusion and disappointment before moving on with their lives?
I like how wars have been unjustly nurfed into the ground for 3 patches but they got fixed pallies to not be garbage when the other two pally specs were undisputed the best healing and tanking class so they made ret go from F tier to B tier overnight making sure they will be S tier by icc S well.
Nothing unjust here. Warriors were S+ tier for 2 expansions in a row. During Uld/TOGC they are happy middle of the pack. Actually top 1/3. In ICC, with capped Armor Pen, warriors are expected to be S-tier.
Such shows history of wrath, pservers and sims.
There are tons of other specs that have never been S-tier in the first place. Stop crying.
First, go get 100 parse. Be the best you can. Stop comparing apples to oranges. Go be the best version of yourself. But I bet you can’t even do that. Because actual difference between top tier players is not that huge. Except for warlocks and DKs.
The rest of the balancing is actually really really really good in Wrath.
If your feelings are so darn hurt that you’re not S-tier today, go re-roll. And I say it as a C-tier MAIN. I aint crying.
Is this a new thing with Wrath Classic? Don’t remember this back in actual wrath and I mained a pally back then.
Or this something they’ve done differently with Wrath Classic? Or are players just worse at the game and not getting better so just asking to remove Paladins instead?
Warriors are in the middle of the pact dps wise, not like you need help… shamans, boomkins and shadow priests need it more, hunters too. Plus with Shadowmourne it’s going to put them above all casters.
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Im sorry to be THAT guy but this is what people wanted. This is like saying “remove warriors from classic” or “remove warlocks from BC” dont even try me on paladins being “more op than those were” thats a load of crap and everyone knows it. When i played classic last the raid was almost 30 warriors. If you dont like wotlk (which paladins being op is part of it) then dont llay its that easy. I dont even main paladin in this expansion but it just baffles me that people go “can i eat a poop sandwich” and then are mad when blizzard poops in their sandwich. This is 13 year old information. People told you day 1 paladins and warriors were gonna be number 1 at the end and wow woah what a shock they are! Especially anyone who played WotLK back in the day knows two facts, DKs were waaaaaaay more busted than whats in classic and paladins were gods. So to end here anyone who wants to argue, i will not be arguing as it doesnt matter what you say, this is what people asked for, and blizzard happily gave you the same poop sandwich you asked for.
