Ret is great for BGs atm. Arena is disabled anyway, so theres no point discussing arena viablity now. The game will change drastically at 85, so it might be shit then, who knows. But that isn't whats being discussed in this thread.
If you are struggling in lvl 80 bgs atm, you are either completely undergeared, don't know how to gem/spec/gear (I gave a nice explanation some pages back) or it's simply a L2P issue. I'm doing great and it's a lot of fun. Only complaint is lack of dispel protection, damage is good, survivability is also good, and mobility would be good if we could actually keep our 50% uptime freedom.
on sience i hit 80 on 3.2 i saw all ret paladin impossible to kill, because they could kill me with the press of 4 buttoms, ding 6k damage instant while i take 10 sec to make the same damage on then, on pve i could out dps paladin easilly, on 2v2 rated, i was doing half of damage than my retdin parner, while i had more gear, it´s not 123pwnage anymore
Hey Simplistic (and Requital too for that matter).. you guys failing doesn't mean the class fails.
It means that -you- fail. Some people clearly make it work, but you guys keep going "NO! NO! LIES! ALL LIES!! That's the ONLY possible explanation for why you do well while I don't!!".
You don't seem to even consider for one second that the problem just might lie with you.
I've been doing better post patch, I can stand up to most ranged class with varying degrees of success.
I thought they were attempting to remove RNG in rotations so damage isn't
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With the new mechanics for a majority of trees it just seems more random 0o
Guess what, I'm not failing. I generally do well in BGs...I do also see the glaring inefficiencies of the class. Any target that I have any sort of TOT with dies. I heal a lot and can win almost 100% of the time through attrition. We are the offensive wing of a class. I shouldnt heal myself and wait for you to die. Beyond that, yeah some other classes are out of control. Mages need to be toned way down at 80...like I said in another post, 22k arcane blasts on 1500 resilience are just uncalled for. A smart frost mage will absolutely effortlessly own you no matter what you do.