So this is what we get when we have a SoV nerf as big as this last one...
People wanting pally's to DW.. roll a DK spec frost and pick up ToT job done, make your own little background like one of mine (fallen paladin, i.e got killed
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I agree with the person who said we don't need it. Even if the SoV change goe's live Ret's will deal with it same as we always have. We ain't really ever been top of the food chain so to speak or the stints we did have were very erm brief lol.
Some Ret's will whine and QQ, other's will bring sensible math and worked out solution's (that may or may not be listened to in the end). But some of us will still be Ret.. As far as I'm concerned they can make it the most crappy spec you can have and It would still feel right for me. I quested and grouped before fanatiscism had Threat Reduction, i went along with all the "balancing" we had back then, i even went with the different seals for the pally factions.
But getting to the point I will still be Ret as my main spec come 3.2, I'll still be Ret when 3.3 hit's and when the new expansion comes i will still be ret then no matter what blizz do to the spec. I have very little faith in Blizz getting it right, it's taken them 4 years of "tweaking" and they still cant reach a point where they want Ret's to be.
The SoV change is for atleast a while going to have the effect of "killing" Ret, but what it wont do is kill the Ret's that seen all this before.. it wont kill the one's who love the spec not just because its "omfwtfbbq" burst we love it because imo it's the "True" paladin, large Two hander running around smashing anything undead to pieces.
Aslong as WoW has PvP/Arena it will never have a balanced "Retribution" Paladin in there. Ret's are built solely around our burst and some of the utility we used to bring (which we dont anymore). People keep saying about our Utility, apart from blessings we have very little. Hands are great but people have to remember very situational, Seals are an awesome design and always have been they made the class somewhat skilled. Much through choice and how we used them, Judgement's were the same as we relied on the Seal we had to place the debuff.
I know I'm rambling a bit, but i guess what I'm trying to say is all these people looking to fix Ret i dont think it will ever happen, you have people like ronark and other's making awesome tree's and coming up with really intuitive ways to bring Ret up but not make it a faceroll spec, but none are really listened to. Blizz have their idea for Ret and noone knows what it is, we just have to sit on the rollercoaster and hope at some point it reach's the point where blizz want us to be.