Secondary resource for retribution. Would it solve its problems?

[Horn]

No one quoted me this time, I feel sad.

[Copain]

It's true, because prot has serious mana issues...

A real Prot can't heal more than three-four times without going OOM (Mind you we take off DP)

The bastard child Prot Healer Pally does not have mana issues.

Druids have health, mana and rage/energy when in bear and cat forms

That does not count, as it is not all in one form. We'd always have both according to OP.

And as the person you quoted said, DK rune system is not the same. That's runes being up, not a number representing power being up (A lot more complicated)







People need to stop trying to act like Pallies need an overhaul. We just got one this expansion; that's why half of you play Paladin.

And for those all like "OH SNAP THIS WOULD BE GREAT FOR PVP" or some BS, it won't be. It'd cause more balance issues. If it was as easy as "OH SNAP THIS WOULD MAKE IT BALANCED" Bliz would have done that.

[Varius]

The problem/solution i see coming is in cataclysm you get spellpower from Int... with spellpower removed from the game that would mean that a skill like sheath would give both mana and spellpower, while thats good for us couple that with a mana pool that we can make increase with a conserative dps rotation means that in a fight where healing is only necessary once every couple minutes a ret pally would become a better healer than a pure healer.

The only ways to get around this would be to make deep ret increase the mana cost of heals, or decrease our defense in other areas like removing/changing bubble.

[Sidonis]

1) Blizzard will tweak Retribution mana recovery via JotW IF IF IF IF IF IF they feel it's needed.
2) Mana-draining abilities were nerfed to only draw a max % of your base mana not total, meaning a priest/lock can't drain you dry with one cast.
3) As long as you have castable spells, you're going to have mana.

[Deleted]

What problems?

People will never be 100% agreeing with the changes that are added to a class. Simply adept and move on. This constant "we are broken and need a fix" is getting old.

Palas are fine. if not, adept yourself. done.