Critadins....

[KingSwag]

Remember the time when paladins used to gear with Spellpower and used the holy/ret spec for the extra super OP bursts from judgements and Holy shock?

Where the duel would basically go.

3
2
1

Hammer of justice
Pop Wings/Trinkets/anything to increase spell power.
Judgement
Holyshock
One weapon swing
and the duel was over.

I severly miss those days. Of course this was early early TBC and was nerfed pretty extremely. But whenever you went into a 2v2 arena you always cursed under your breath cus you knew if they got close to you, you were screwed.

I know this is a dumb post, But when you think back on things it makes you realise how fun the game used to be due to dumb little things like this. And how you wish WoW wasn't like it is right now.

Or when BM was THE raiding spec.

If you were a warrior you were tanking or arms spec for the extra AP for your group.

If you were a rogue you were everywhere but only 2 of you were allowed in a raid for ROS cus that was all that ws needed.

If you were a shaman there was ony one of you who were the enhancement shaman to help the crub ass roges(which there was only one of)

There was only one ret pally in the raid because of yor increase in crit.

One shdow priest because you only needed one to never go oom.

There was one elemental shaman for the extra spell crit.

One arcane mage for the extra crit.

If you were allowed in as a boomkin you were only needed for your Insect Swarm.

Forming raid groups used to be actual fun/or infuriating because without those certain people "It just wasn't happening that night"



Before WOTLK everything just seemed so much more fun because if you were that one class/spec you were needed in a raid or you were guarenteed that loot because you were "The main" of that spec....

TBC just gave the feel of you were needed in a place because there was noone else to do so.

This post was originally just for theCrritadins section but after I thought about it lot's of things came back to my mind.

If you know what i'm talin about and are one of the people that miss Vanilla or TBC WoW then throw a post in here about something random you miss or why you think things need to be changed...I know this isn't in the right forum but pasting it in a new one seems unneeded just for the fact I started spewing a little bit lol =P

Flmng isn't needed buti you feel you must go ahead.

[DaGhostDS]

I know this is a dumb post, But when you think back on things it makes you realise how fun the game used to be due to dumb little things like this. And how you wish WoW wasn't like it is right now.

Or when BM was THE raiding spec.

If you were a warrior you were tanking or arms spec for the extra AP for your group.

If you were a rogue you were everywhere but only 2 of you were allowed in a raid for ROS cus that was all that ws needed.

If you were a shaman there was ony one of you who were the enhancement shaman to help the crub ass roges(which there was only one of)

There was only one ret pally in the raid because of yor increase in crit.

One shdow priest because you only needed one to never go oom.

There was one elemental shaman for the extra spell crit.

One arcane mage for the extra crit.

If you were allowed in as a boomkin you were only needed for your Insect Swarm.

Forming raid groups used to be actual fun/or infuriating because without those certain people "It just wasn't happening that night"


Before WOTLK everything just seemed so much more fun because if you were that one class/spec you were needed in a raid or you were guarenteed that loot because you were "The main" of that spec....

you sure you played the same TBC has me.. raidbuff werent raid wide so only having 1 of each spec would be a massive fail of a group..
i do remember having 3-4 shaman every raid, 2-3 shadow priest.. etc
and i did clear all the tier 4-6 before 2.3 a lot of time

[KingSwag]

So did I =)

The certain specs were set up for certain groups to make those group the if you would say "Super Groups."

Group 3 would be the melee group so put a armswarrior enh shaman rogue BM hunter and Feral druid to make that specific group do extra DPS.

Group 2 would be the Healing group so give them a spec that would in some way hep the group.(insert shadow priest for neve oom)

Group 1 would be the spell dps group. Give them the boomkin,arcane mage,elemntal shaman and 2 other spell dps to make their group hit harder.

Make sure you had a pally specced for sanctuary and every other blessing to get the maximum benefit from each one.

Many of the talents are still the same but do different purposes now...you used a resto shaman for healing or spell crit totems...You moved thoseshamans around in groups when say the spell dps group was low on mana for manatide.

It wasn't just grab 25 people and make the pull. It was getting the correct ammount of a certain class to actually beat the boss (not that it was any harder then than it is now) It jsut felt like a better game.

If I made my post unclear i'm sorry. Or if you disagree i'm also sorry =P

[Rhonen]

1. No, I don't miss Shockadin (or "Critadin" as you call it). I do just fine in BGs as Ret.
2. No, I don't miss guilds min/maxing their way through progression...thus excluding people from raiding because they're not a certain class/spec.

[Nikoll]

while i miss shockadin, i do not miss making raids.

[gunner_recall]

1. No, I don't miss Shockadin (or "Critadin" as you call it). I do just fine in BGs as Ret.
2. No, I don't miss guilds min/maxing their way through progression...thus excluding people from raiding because they're not a certain class/spec.

I shockadin on trash pulls.

Shock it to me, baby!

[Paladin885]

why is this class the only class(other than balanced druids) to have every reference to an attack, spec, or value ending with "adin" when referring to a specific aspect of this class?

[Meracalis]

Sounds like the OP enjoys a world where half the guild is denied raid spots for not being a specific class or spec.

[CamusKnight]

paladin =
pal + adin

Holy shock =
Holy + Shock

now merge the sustantives that fits the description and sounds cooler, you get the power of......




























HOLYPAL!!!1

[Snes]

A paladin missing BC days, not surprised!

[Tsær]

Do you also miss the day that we were standing outside of sunwell, buffing kings, salvation etc. and couldnt go in with the rest?

Ye, now that i think of it : that was awesome! 4 hours of mandatory ganking on the isle - a few times a week. If only those times could come back to us.

[Ronark]

Do you also miss the day that we were standing outside of sunwell, buffing kings, salvation etc. and couldnt go in with the rest?

Ye, now that i think of it : that was awesome! 4 hours of mandatory ganking on the isle - a few times a week. If only those times could come back to us.

I miss TBC as Ret because then when I DPSed as Ret, it actually showed that I was an exceptional player.

[Nillo]

I miss TBC as Ret because then when I DPSed as Ret, it actually showed that I was an exceptional player.

Server first to tank Illidan as a paladin :> (although it was crappy with 100 ms delay shears once in a while).
But Sunwell sucked balls because of forced raid setups (Prot Pallys too squishy for Brutallus ~_~)

[Kelesti]

I miss TBC as Ret because then when I DPSed as Ret, it actually showed that I was an exceptional player.

This. After watching the faceroll on beta, then ptr, and it stayed that way through live, there was no way in hell I was going back to my Paladin if that was the "skill" involved. Fuck that.

[Ronark]

This. After watching the faceroll on beta, then ptr, and it stayed that way through live, there was no way in hell I was going back to my Paladin if that was the "skill" involved. Fuck that.

I miss using Blessing of Sacrifice on our MT or Seal twisting between Command and Wisdom so I got mana, and downranking to Consecration rank 2 to not OOM myself.... Back then I was only the top 6th or 7th DPS, but I a.) Wasn't in BT gear and b.) Didn't have SoBlood :<

[Droih]

I miss druid's being over-the-top-cool with 20k hp unbuffed (!)


.. still got mine on 70, in Shatt, just to be able to enjoy it rainy days.. :<

[Rhonen]

I miss using Blessing of Sacrifice on our MT or Seal twisting between Command and Wisdom so I got mana, and downranking to Consecration rank 2 to not OOM myself.... Back then I was only the top 6th or 7th DPS, but I a.) Wasn't in BT gear and b.) Didn't have SoBlood :<

I felt really, REALLY bad for my alliance counterparts back then. Still don't get what Blizzards whole thought process was with that bogus seal they gave you.

Oh, and I don't miss seal twisting one bit really. Sure, carpel tunel was fun to get every now and then just to get 5th/6th on the meter, but boy was it a chore...

[shockpally]

As as TBC Holy/Ret and a WoTLK Holy/Ret i miss being able to actually defend myself in BG's. Soloing is actually faster with the greatly improved HS CD but Consecration and Judgments dont hit nearly as hard.

Over all it was the typical 1 step forward 2 steps back. What they are doing to holy now doesnt give me any inclination to spend any amount of time playing my Holy paladin.

Say what you want. In tbc a 40/00/21 holy paladin could heal anything and hold their own in BG's against any melee.

[Todyn]

I miss using Blessing of Sacrifice on our MT or Seal twisting between Command and Wisdom so I got mana, and downranking to Consecration rank 2 to not OOM myself.... Back then I was only the top 6th or 7th DPS, but I a.) Wasn't in BT gear and b.) Didn't have SoBlood :<

Healers: Todyn! get out of hte AOE
Me: but i need mana...

[danoob]

I miss TBC as Ret because then when I DPSed as Ret, it actually showed that I was an exceptional player.

I don't. I tried and I tried, but back then I always got beaten, even our enhancement shaman would kill me in the meters.

YaY faceroll...... though the damn enhancement shaman still is beating me. At least we are beating some of the other classes now.