Ret - Bringing Back Reck-Bombs!

[Phr057]

This is meant to be more of a theorycraft/joke thread. I am not trying to catch any flak for this, just having some fun.

Since the nerf to Divine Storm and the upcoming nerf to Righteous Vengeance. I think it would be fun to try out Reckoning Bombs again with Two-Handers.

Using a sepc (At 80 obviously) like this:
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=sZ0ebVf0xZVfrtdbufMsMzh

Just something to joke around with once or twice in BGs.

[Artex]

Paladin DPS stopped relying mostly on auto-attack once seals started proccing off special attacks.

Even if it did work, the whole reason we got nerfed in the first place was our burst damage.

[Phr057]

Paladin DPS stopped relying mostly on auto-attack once seals started proccing off special attacks.

Even if it did work, the whole reason we got nerfed in the first place was our burst damage.

That isn't what I am getting at. I'm just talking about extra burst in PvP. Funny to see someone drop because of 3-4 critical white hits from it. If it does work....shhhhhhhhhhh....we must keep this a secret from Ghostcrawler.

Edit: And also, if you look at DPS parses, Auto-Attacks are still our main source of damage.

[zarondd]

If nerfed "into the ground" turns from a joke into the reality of bringing back the auto-attack days, this joke thread might turn into a serious theorycraft thread.

Theorycraft wise, reckoning bombs only existed in the true from back when the charges could be stored and expended at once.

Current reckoning isn't all that noticable so not many people would pick up on you joking around in BGs.
Old "Firestone is OP" in pvp, was however noticeable and funny.

[Knighthonor]

Reckoning Bomb

BABY IT'S BACK

[Phr057]

If nerfed "into the ground" turns from a joke into the reality of bringing back the auto-attack days, this joke thread might turn into a serious theorycraft thread.

Theorycraft wise, reckoning bombs only existed in the true from back when the charges could be stored and expended at once.

Current reckoning isn't all that noticable so not many people would pick up on you joking around in BGs.
Old "Firestone is OP" in pvp, was however noticeable and funny.

Still, with Damage Scaling and Auto-Attack still being one of the main sources of damage, Reckoning might be fun to at least test. It would be like having our own form of Sword Specialization.

[Hawkmight]

Paladin DPS stopped relying mostly on auto-attack once seals started proccing off special attacks.

Even if it did work, the whole reason we got nerfed in the first place was our burst damage.

wrong.

we got nerfed because at lvl 70 we had all of our lvl 80 skills plus we could bring them all to bare fairly quickly up front. This had nothing to do with 80 (if it did it would not have been hot fixed and stayed on beta) Our burst per hit was nothing special as 4-5 classes could do WAY more per hit. (sorry no paladin at 70 was knocking off 8k crits) But when you can 3k crit on 4 different moves in less than 8 seconds (plus proc damage) Blizz felt it unfair for people to have to deal with it for a month since their resilience and health pool was not up to taking that much damage

now they reverted AW/DS to be totaly gimp, even in PvE

[Jaixenkhadgar]

wrong.

we got nerfed because at lvl 70 we had all of our lvl 80 skills plus we could bring them all to bare fairly quickly up front. This had nothing to do with 80 (if it did it would not have been hot fixed and stayed on beta) Our burst per hit was nothing special as 4-5 classes could do WAY more per hit. (sorry no paladin at 70 was knocking off 8k crits) But when you can 3k crit on 4 different moves in less than 8 seconds (plus proc damage) Blizz felt it unfair for people to have to deal with it for a month since their resilience and health pool was not up to taking that much damage

now they reverted AW/DS to be totaly gimp, even in PvE

Wrong... Paladin and mages have crazy burst even at lvl 80... almost as ridiculous as it is now...

Hence why both classes are getting changed soo dramatically. The only other class I've seen on beta in arena with near as much burst as these 2 classes are boomkins.. which I imagine will be changed a little next.