Finally this point... I decided to have a look at the data. For 25m heroic encounters, I see on most high magic and physical damage fights a mixture of priests, monks, and paladins, with the occasional shaman there. That looks to me like problems with druids and maybe some lingering shaman problems, but as I mentioned, paladins are just competing with priests/monks, and are
not "well above others."
Now there's a fight (Jin'rokh) where paladins seem to dominate, but we also know that due to encounter gimmicks priests dominate Horridon and monks dominate Tortos, and we know therefore they are all just encounter-based anomalies that should not be taken seriously, right?
So what you're claiming here, I don't see.
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Unless the logs are bugged in which case this discussion is moot, your priest in an almost 10 minute attempt cast spirit shell
twice. That's a 1 minute cooldown ability, and at least on normal (and I'd imagine similar on heroic, perhaps even more so with the extra quilen there) the damage spikes are extremely predictable.
Not the paladin's fault the priest isn't using his abilities.
(not to mention on that fight, the top logs I see are mostly... monks).
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http://worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-2j...=17620&e=18271 - 34m SS + DA versus 26m IH
http://worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-uo...?s=8113&e=8725 - 34m SS + DA versus 25m IH
http://worldoflogs.com/reports/rt-bm...?s=4028&e=4643 - 32m SS + DA versus 28.6m, 25.4m IH
Yeah.... 10-11 minute kills, I see 6-9 uses of SS. So it's not a "can't use SS" thing.
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TL / DR: Not even claiming that we're "underpowered" or that others are "overpowered" - just saying that your suggestions are absurd.