When is ret/war getting the lock treatment?

Wars are the most played class and over-represented in pvp for both casters and melee.

Retribution is the 2nd most played melee spec in the game. Does unhealable nuclear damage like destro locks. All while not having to cast a single ability, all instant.

Warriors have been oppressive for 3 seasons so far.

Balance changes are needed.

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Bad ret warrs plague the ladder and the moment they can’t press w all game it’s because of warlocks and warlocks get nerfed

Seems fair

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Lol! Rofl!

Them? Nerf Ret AND Fury/Arms?!

Bwaahahaha!

It’d sure be silly if they were to nerf a balanced and low rep spec like Arms :innocent:

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So then why was aff part of the destro nerfs? Huh???

Warrior bias

I agree fox, arms is rlly low rep could use a buff

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I looove Ret/war. I farmed all the way up to 2400 beating ret/war.

It’s a lot easier to beat than TSG/Hero cleave.

I’d fight ret/warrior all night before I que into RMP.

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What comp do u q

Whatever I find in LFG.

The 2400 push I played Thunder, LSM, Ele/rogue/Kitty. Around 2100-2200 I played double fury which was loads of fun. Only classes I tend to avoid are Mage/ret/WW.

I like how Conqueror’s Banner mastery and movement speed stacks.

It was VERY high dps/uptime. I’m shocked it isn’t played more.
It does extremely well into other cleaves, and at lower rating Wizards get too rattled by the damage coming out to really respond.

Couple that with how tanky a decent fury warrior can be. Very nutty.

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Those classes don’t synergize with mw that well

Feel like Ret War MW would be just fine if you are seriously running Double Fury games at high mmr.

Gives you some breathing room as ret can solo heal the team during your cc.

Like I get high uptime and durability of a decent fury warrior. (Decent being rare)

However Ret Double BOF, Sanc, Bop etc is very helpful for war.

I’m sure voiced games are a whole different world with ret paladins. The fact being that I mainly go voiceless likely plays into my comp preference.

The rets I’ve q’s with never press sanc. Never bop cc, and usually bubble air.

Turbo on paper is really good too~ and obviously its a very good comp. I just don’t have fun qing it myself and haven’t had much luck with it.

I’m much more a fan of caster cleaves or one caster one mdps.

I’d give more Ret’s a shot - I legit just leveled mine I’m doing 2x the lfg wars damage at 2100. Insane damage, utility, and healing. Even without PI Ret generally outpaces the warrior with Necrobanner by 1-2k dps. (Including GCDs for utility items like Sanc/Wog/BOF/Sacrifice/BOP/etc).

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That’s fair. A few bad experiences shouldn’t stand for an entire player base. Probably really missing out on making some great contacts.

Do you have numbers to back this up and in what bracket are we talking about? Seems like I see more rogue/x then Pally/warrior.

Really depends on the rating but I def see more warriors than rogues in the 2-2.4k MMR range. Especially after 9.2.5 nerfed the MLX cleave.

What class does the OP play? Just curious.