Cataclysm Class Preview: Paladin

[Nezumi]

Now i have to reroll Pally

[Kangodo]

Critical Healing Effect: When the paladin gets a crit on a heal, it will heal for more.

OMFG isnt this just a what a crit does?

/Facepalm

You are the living proof about the intelligence of the wow crowd :')
It means that crits will heal harder ofcourse! A crit now heals for 150%, with enough mastery it will heal for 200%.

Yeah, that is still bad if you ask me.
Blizzard said we would WANT to wear plate because it increases our Mastery..
But sorry, if thát is our Mastery I am still going to take mail, leather and cloth.

[Krymoar]

After 5 years of playing a paladin, lol reroll.

P.S blizzard, you we're supposed to make our class difficult to play, maybe even rewarding.
Instead, you nerfbat us with greater mana costs, and a LONGER heal then holy light, which we wont ever use in PVP.

[RazumiMS]

Blinding Shield (level 81): Causes damage and blinds all nearby targets. This effect might end up only damaging those facing the paladin’s shield, in a manner similar to Eadric the Pure's ability Radiance in Trial of the Champion. The Holy tree will have a talent to increase the damage and critical strike chance, while the Protection tree will have a talent to make this spell instant cast. 2-second base cast time. Requires a shield.

Thank god my paladin is prot. Sorry for ya, rets.

Istn much a problems since thats something warriors had to deal with SINCE VANILLA !!! now you Lowadins actually have to think about Learning to play since your class is the easiest ingame !
Lil tip ( equipslot makros do the job /equipslot 16 [weapon] /equipslot 17 [shield] ) omg i just helped an OPaladin ..... you are seriously by far the most usefull class in PvE which was ok since you werent that strong in PvP in wotlk , But seriously , BUFFING RET PROT HOLY ..AND giving you lucky 13year olds pvp tools is just disgusting .... this class was intendet for people who are too dumb to play classes that require skill and now they make it even better since it already took almost 0 effort to master this class .... blizzard should really get kicked in their little-paladinworshiping- nuts !!!!

[Sormer]

/Facepalm

You are the living proof about the intelligence of the wow crowd :')
It means that crits will heal harder ofcourse! A crit now heals for 150%, with enough mastery it will heal for 200%.

Yeah, that is still bad if you ask me.
Blizzard said we would WANT to wear plate because it increases our Mastery..
But sorry, if thát is our Mastery I am still going to take mail, leather and cloth.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irony

[Madness20]

Istn much a problems since thats something warriors had to deal with SINCE VANILLA !!! now you Lowadins actually have to think about Learning to play since your class is the easiest ingame !
Lil tip ( equipslot makros do the job /equipslot 16 [weapon] /equipslot 17 [shield] ) omg i just helped an OPaladin ..... you are seriously by far the most usefull class in PvE which was ok since you werent that strong in PvP in wotlk , But seriously , BUFFING RET PROT HOLY ..AND giving you lucky 13year olds pvp tools is just disgusting .... this class was intendet for people who are too dumb to play classes that require skill and now they make it even better since it already took almost 0 effort to master this class .... blizzard should really get kicked in their little-paladinworshiping- nuts !!!!

I guess you never really played a paladin despite u have so much hate against them. Warrior ass pain? lol

[greatbox]

/Facepalm

You are the living proof about the intelligence of the wow crowd :')
It means that crits will heal harder ofcourse! A crit now heals for 150%, with enough mastery it will heal for 200%.

Yeah, that is still bad if you ask me.
Blizzard said we would WANT to wear plate because it increases our Mastery..
But sorry, if thát is our Mastery I am still going to take mail, leather and cloth.

The problem with that argument is that, according to everything blizzard said, that each holy light spam will not be able to top off the tank in two or three crits.

Thus, having higher crit healing actually becomes relevant, since Max HP will be much higher in Cataclysm, scales faster with gear than it does now, and the boss encounters will be designed around that fact.

[soffa]

i welcome any change to pallys to have one interupt in pvp takes some skill and timing to use it at the right time to win hard pvp games

our damage is good thats never been the problem i have played pally for 4yrs cause i like pallys pretty much that simple....

looks like ret will be awesome and more so prot lill baby holy shock and a blind....with a new single target strike which will prob do alot of damage.....good times muahahahahahaahahahah

[Primme]

THEY ARE GONA SCREW MY BEACON OF LIGHT OMFG !!!! ITS BULLSHIT BULL SHIT MAN

[Ironjaws-Mike]

Once again, it looks like paladins need to swallow there pride and be alls punching-bag just beacuse all those paladin haters dont know how awesome paladins really are. :P

[Xerif]

just what ret needed! a gargoyle type offensive cd.

[flashlightt]

Not as exiting as i expected, but well hopefully there will be less pallies around and that means more raid spots for my pally alt -_^

QFT.

Just feels so wrong to see the overwhelming amount of paladins now a day. I dont want paladins to be what they were in classic, but atleast then we were kinda rare.

[frownface2000]

Overall I'd have to say the changes look pretty good.

Although I was hoping that Holy's matery would be something along the line of "splash healing" so that all the paladin's heals would heal an additional say 10% (maybe a lower base % and increased by mastery stat) of the total heal split amongst all targets in 10-20 yds.
I feel like that would have been an interesting mastery, giving us a weak but consistent aoe healing capability on all heals.

Still, considering the planned Cata health changes, even the "bigger crits" looks like it will be pretty useful.

[Elechan]

Failure to read is strong with you.

1) Blizzard already said that they WANT to and probably WILL give interrupt for ret paladins, so your #1 point is already moot.

2) You trying to twist your words on Leap of Faith doesn't negate the fact that you FULLY stated that your idea of how it works as a distance closer. Stop trying to weasel your way out of your failures. Why try to lie when I've already quoted your post from before?

3) Paladin representation at the moment is VERY strong in arena and are INVALUABLE in BGs. Bubble is not a mechanic that needs helping atm - and they're not going to add talents to minimize the damage done by abilities that are SUPPOSED TO counter bubble. Why would they add an ability / talent that negates any downside of the bubble or need for counters? It simply doesn't make sense. If you thought about it from balance perspective for few seconds, you could arrive to this conclusion.

4) BIGGEST FAILURE OF ALL
HOJ doesn't get dodged, or parried. It's strictly a spell. Learn to play paladins. You're making the rest of us look bad. Apparently, you've wasted all those time spent since Vanilla WoW.

I'm really glad that I had a chance to quote your fail reply before you can modify it. Again, take my advice - DO YOUR HOMEWORK FIRST before you come up with another stinker like this "HOJ gets dodged" BS.

No, HoJ IS BOTH A SPELL AND A PHYSICAL fucking ability. It has been since vanilla fucking WoW. If that changed, I don't remember any damn patch notes about it. Even as just magical, it's stupid as hell to be magical. At least it won't be so bad now that warlocks can't get rid of it.

As for Interrupt, they stated in the past they didn't want to give us pure one, now they finally do, but my idea was mostly a way for us to get SOMETHING with their mindset of still not giving us a pure interrupt.

And I've meant Leap of Faith as in more like it actually leaps or something, it still sounds more paladin to me than Priest (in terms of the wording). Hell, Divine Intervention really should be Martyrdom (as I remember someone bringing up somewhere) cause that's what it is. Fact is, Paladins need a gap closer probably more than any class atm... far more than warriors needing a THIRD. Another idea I've had was kinda a monty python reference of a "Holy Hand Grenade" but it is one we have to position to use and it has a knockback effect. Basically so we can knock enemies back to us. It'd be a gap closerm but it'd be unique from a charge, leap, grip, etc.

Of course you'll just come in and say it's stupid cause you're a tiny dicked asshole that just thinks is the smartest person around eh? I hate people like you, you are the kinda people that make this world horrible. Take the stick outta your ass and stop being a prick just cause you might not like something. You can be critical of something, but you aren't CONSTRUCTIVE in the least. I hope you get banned for being such.

Btw, only reason Paladins are so high and always have been is because it's a FUN class. People genuinely enjoy the type of play style the Paladin class offers in PVE and PVP (even if not great in PVP and was epic shit in the past) while also enjoying the Lore. Come rated BGs, if we were to stay as we are now with the Cataclsym dispel changes and whatnot, ya... we'd be terrible. The only reason we dominate BGs is because BGs are so full of poorly geared retards that it's easy to just smash them dead.

[ArthurEdwards]

Can't wait for the changes commin.. that Blinding Shield will make those Paladin unbeatable tanks waring those plates, hell defense, ability to heal and now can blink nearby targets? Isn't they make it overpower over other class?

[greatbox]

No, HoJ IS BOTH A SPELL AND A PHYSICAL fucking ability. It has been since vanilla fucking WoW. If that changed, I don't remember any damn patch notes about it. Even as just magical, it's stupid as hell to be magical. At least it won't be so bad now that warlocks can't get rid of it.

Wrong. Produce a SINGLE screenshot that proves your claim