The Art of War now reduce the mana cost of Holy Shock and Exorcism by 80%.
Well, there it is. We’re going to skyrocket up the gnomer charts I imagine. Other melee will stay losing because of armor but we’re going to have so much spell damage we’re going to basically just be holy dmg melee.
This is actually the perfect buff. Increases our dmg in PvE, but doesn’t make us broken in PvP since even with this buff, Avenger’s Shield is just too goated as a CC to not take I don’t think.
EDIT: And by skyrocket I imagine we’ll just be middle of the pack dps now lol. Though that combined with our utility usefulness in Gnomer is going to make Ret a Must Have in the raid going forward. You want us for our dmg, freedoms, cleanses, salv, bop, and loh now lol.
Depends what you’re fighting probably. As a Warrior the only Paladins in P2 that have posed a threat to me are ones running Exorcist. Exorcism hurts, a lot lol
This is quiet a substantial buff for raiding. It will probably guarantee DS/AOW over SoM/AOW now that spamming exo should be viable without Guarded by the Light.
Sure but you don’t get to choose who you’re fighting in PvP 90% of the time lol.
Then you’ve been facing lots of bad paladins, because I haven’t faced a warrior in P2 yet that has posed a threat to me. I eat warriors for lunch in 1v1 situations in Badlands and Desolace, and outlast warriors in FFA situations like STV.
Haha yeah that would probably give me problems, Ret burst is a lot higher unless I had rage already.
I have a weapon chain too and sometimes when I disarm other Warriors they immediately remember they have it and try to disarm me
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Happy for you guys getting a buff tho. Paladin is my favorite class but could never get into the Classic version of it. Love it in TBC and Wrath tho.
Yeah I got disarmed twice in STV and was like “nope, never again” and even though it’s literally just to no-sell one single class, I’m not regretting it even slightly lmao.
haha, we actually weren’t going oom thanks to guarded by the light, we just weren’t doing very good dps in the raid because of how high the armor is on all the bosses.
This change will make us a bit more caster than melee though, and we’ll definitely be up there now.
It does suck that they sort of just killed Guarded by the Light though in the process. No reason to take it anymore in PvE, and you apparently can’t even click it off in PvP either, making it worthless there as well. Dead Rune is dead.
But also Art of War was a dead rune before this change, so I guess that’s the trade off.
EDIT: I’m just laughing because I called it. I said we were going to get the P1 boomie treatment and one of our abilities would somehow be buffed. And we even got our biggest mana cost nerfed to practically zero mana. Pretty much exactly what they did for boomie, except our buff won’t make us stronger in PvP by very much.
I have a friend i taught this lesson to the hard way. I traumatized that man so much i made him put a chain on a Hand of Rag after clapping his cheeks repeatedly.