So far i tested most classes in dragonflight except for shammys and priest , and i noticed something particular on paladins . / also long post
Their failed talents design and concepts .
In dragonflight talents tree there is a constant , many of the skills we had on shadowlands were divided in 2 parts and their strongest talents are just shadowlands legendaries in a weaker version ,for example in the case of paladin not only they divided skills like avenging wrath aka wings in 3 separate talents just to regain its effects from previous expansion they also nerfed its damage in pvp ,
and not satisfied enough with that they gave us a weaker version of ret paladin shadowlands legendaries and nothing else .
For the people that didnt play paladin in shadowlands let me explain you .
Retribution Paladins in shadowlands had objectively the worst legendaries of all classes and specs , just to mention they were so bad that earlier seasons paladins used prot paladin legendary as bis one , the one that summon a angel that give you inmunity for few seconds when health too low , specially on season one they evade completly retri paladin legendaries until in later seasons they changed to final veredict just for the extra range and to be able to use it while disarmed , nothing else .
So paladins talent tree is just that , bad legendaries in a weaker form , skills that were baseline divided in several talents , and skills/ builds like Consecration that have 0 real utility in pvp , talents points to buff the damage of a weak skill by 10% ? one thats static and in best cases cant even become the 1% of your damage ? really blizzard
Now , the other problem is only thing paladin got is burst every 2 minutes , after that they are squishy , while other classes got 2 , 3 or 4 defensives , paladins got bubble/ divine shield that can be dispelled or destroyed by warriors , shield of vengance a skill that get affected by dampening and realistically a demon hunter can pop it in 1 global , and blessing of protection a skill with 5 min cd that can be dispelled , stolen by a mage etc .
The third problem is mobility , whats the point of burst if paladins cant connect it ,if someone even played with them in solo shuffle , you know well that your melee skills uptime on mages is 0% most of the times , we got a 45 second coldown horse for 4 seconds that can be slowed , that require a global and thats it.
And talking about defensive many will say paladin heal was op in shadowlands , there big difference , first we got a big nerf on word of glory on pvp , second we are affected by dampening so hard , third we need to sacrifice our damage to heal us and this healing is usually less than 1 global of a demon hunter , and 4th everyone got a mortal strike effect , people that had it in shadowlands now can apply it more easily or got easier access to it .
While other classes got similar or better than shadowlands , paladins got weaker with a terrible desgined talent tree , a weaker burst that can easily be cced ,or kited , a healing that sometimes is better not to press it than pressing it because you would lose a global .
Also before someone say that at least consistent damage of a paladin is good , no , is the same or lower than a arms warrior , while arms warrior got gap closers to actually have uptime and extra to that have mortal strike a 25% healing reduction , indirectly making their damage to be more meaningful when pressuring .
Blizzard put more effort on this class , holy paladin is terrible , prot is a meme that got heal nerfed not long ago along taking more damage that queue in solo q as healer so people hate it for being weak , and ret is boring , 0 uptime against casters , weak defensives , melee , casters eat it , even healers just saw a resto shammy doing 250k lighting bolt non crit in solo shuffle.
And for the people that is now trying to make dragonflight look like the best expansion , it isnt , stop being delusional , classes design and talents are just reusing shadowlands one , the talent tree is full of bugs , theres disconections when flying randomly , the more you keep hiding this problems with delusional opinions that everything is good the lazier blizzard will get .
