Shockadin should be buffed

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Paladins have like 5 runes all revolving around exorcism. They made some runes for shockadin, one for holy shock in general and Art of War (mainly for exocism but also applies to Holy shock)

Only problem? Holy Shock sucks. Like S U C K S. Damage? Exorcism deals 3x the damage on half the cooldown. Only upside is that you can use it as a quick self heal, only thing? that self heal is actually terrible, less than a flash of light. Even if Art of War resets the CD it doesn’t even feel worth pressing unless to self heal if you’re desperate. This also includes the 2 min 100% crit ability.

Also… the only rune for Holy Shock is in the belt slot. It increases HS damage by 20% and crits will reset it’s cooldown, which actually can sync pretty well with the 100% crit 2 min CD.

Only issue is that in the belt slot is Sheath of Light which also increases holy shocks damage AND healing by about the same lol and also increases damage and healing of your other holy spells. So like wtf is the point of shockadin runes if it’s so bad that other runes not meant for it make the play style better.

for Infusion of Light to be good it’d have to = increase damage AND healing of holy shock by 100%, and half it’s cooldown. Even then I don’t see it outpreforming exorcism

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Dude it’s simple. We’re not shamans so they don’t care. They buffed stormstrike in the talent tree, reducing it’s cooldown from 20 sec to 10. It having the blue boy tag on it has proven too high a cost for them to emotionally wrap their minds around the idea that a 30 sec CD for 200 damage/healing is weak.

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I just don’t take holy shock in favor of getting conviction/vengeance and call it a day. Not the best DPS in the world, but I find it satisfying.

So yeah, buff holy shock.

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I can only assume the SoD dev that has an obsession with an offensive shockadin fantasy realized Exorcism is actually stronger as an offensive tool than Holy Shock and just decided to swap their obsession from shockadin to “shockadin,” by way of Exorcism, where they can be noticeably more powerful offensively while getting the offensive benefits of the ret tree.

Either that or they took the offensive-shockadin dev off paladin rune design duty and put someone who is a big hammerdin mark on paladin rune duty for P3.

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Honestly ret and holy need a complete new set of runes. They have been completely abandoned by blizzard.

Prot is the only viable spec to play for paladin. Meanwhile, shaman are OP in all of their specs.