Seriously Blizz. 3 specs, Holy Healer, Prot Tank and Ret Melee DPS are ENOUGH for Pallys. You don’t have to go about this weird obsession the SoD team seems to have in Phase 5 to “create” a new class called Shockadin. You guys sure did waste a lot of time making an armor set and items etc to try and make Shockadin a thing. BUT if you’re going to just nerf the living HELL out of the Pally Runes and abilities just to make Shockadin seem “balanced” then just don’t bother. Ok? Don’t make Holy Healing Pallys pay for the programing crimes of misguided developer time spent trying to make a new class out of ONE spell.
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dreams of shockadins being viable have always been around 
just let em have fun who cares. SoD is an unsalvageable mess. its only benefit at this point is endless experimentation. i guess you can extract some enjoyment from that.
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Shockadin has always been a thing since OG classic.
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Always a thing. But heres the secret to shockadin, its just hpal with offensive burst. The key part of that phrase is that shockadins are SUPPOSED TO HEAL STILL. The shockadins you are referring to that try to make it a thing are idiot wow players that have no idea what makes shockadin important for hpal.
So holy reck is supposed to be that good mix of heal/offensive burst. But SoD butchered reckoning in pvp, so only thing left are shockadins. Anyone that wants to make shockadin good in pve, are just lazy paladins that refuse to roll a caster lol.
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Dude… nobody asked for Shaman, Warlock and Rogue tanks or mage healers either.
This is an experiment, they are trying out things… why would you not be ok with them trying new dps specs?
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actually they have been asking for shaman tanks and lock tanks to a lesser extent for many years now.
shaman tanks were indeed a thing back in original vanilla up to about sm cath.
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Shockadin is a dumb concept
Plate shield class that does all instant cast damage that bypasses armor. Well Retaining all its healing capabilities of a full on healer. On top of the classes ability to bubble, 6 second stun, dispell and freedom. You can’t have spec with everything and no weaknesses.
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Want to talk to my arcane mage healer about it?
Shockadin is not a “dps spec”, it’s a meme spec that revolves around a single ability.
Even in regular vanilla “shockadin” was literally just a worse and weaker version of 3-minute mage spec. A meme where you use divine favor → shock to get a big crit and surprise people with it.
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it’s just as valid as any other silly SoD dps spec
Low armor
No bubble
Have to cast and can’t spam instant cast damage all day.
Try again
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nobody asked, emoji spammer
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So was melee hunter, gladiator warriors (well…) and 2H enhancement shaman.
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It has not. Just because there has been a spell called Holy Shock since vanilla and a class called Paladin, does NOT a real spec make. Shockadin is and has always been a stupid joke meme since 2004.
I care because if you’ve been on the Phase 4 PTR or paying attention, Blizz Devs have been nerfing the HELL out of anything (Runes, Items etc) related to Holy shock in a pre-emptive move to somehow make Shockadins a balanced spec at the cost of further cripling Holy healing Pallys… AGAIN. Holy Pallys can’t get a break it seems.
like the others said shockadin has been a thing since original vanilla
you can either be a spell damage shockadin that has a lot less offensive power
or a 2h damage shockadin that plays like ret with better off-healing/support, but not as good healer as healer/spell damage shockadin
2h ret holy shock has been underrated since forever, only a handful of people play it, but it’s underrated because it’s good, in original vanilla it also helps solve that meme people say about “ret having no attacks”
They dropped support for the Arms talent tree, so warriors only have 2 talent trees now, freeding up Dev time to make melee hunters and shockadins.
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what’s the problem with them trying new stuff? if you don’t want to play shockadin dont play it lol?
Nerfs are on the PTR now
I don’t know who asked for it but I know who gave it to them: The same person that decided Druid can have 4 spec…
It wasnt a meme in vanilla. The meme was players taking a support/heal tree and trying to DPS like a warrior in it with only spellpower lol. Alot of paladins go tri-spec shockadin spec, because the burst is more consistent versus a spec like holy reck (Stun-JoC-Holy Shock).
Most of the offensive paladin specs rode around in t2.5 anyway (peaceblade was dueling as holy duelist in that setup when he needed to raid heal but didnt want to respec for pvp). And similarly rets could go 20/0/31 and become a very good pvp heal support bot which got really good when you get 5-6 t3 on belt/boots/gloves/bracers/ring/helm and go offensive for the rest to hit 900-1k AP, 20% crit, 700 healing power 5280 health.