Would love exorcism back! Preferably tied to some kinda proc where it does double damage or something similar.
Would love exorcism back! Preferably tied to some kinda proc where it does double damage or something similar.
again combo points and hitting any thing on cd are not the only options look at all the other melee classes that don't have combo points. ret is no more complicated then any of the other melee classes its just less fun.
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I did to, recently got back into my pally because they got rid of it from holy and prot but i still refuse to play ret.
Bring back Divine Storm, Exorcism, Sacred Shield, Clemency, Empowered Seals, Emancipate, Judgements, Hands and Blessing, and grab a shotgun and take Holy Power out back behind the barn and then come back alone.
That would go a long way to fixing things. But it won't happen.
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Holy Power gone forever. It's shit and always has been. The only times it has been a tolerable mechanic is when enough gear and legendaries/traits/essences/set bonuses etc made it irrelevant and the spec immediately feels much better because of it. Every single fucking time this is the case. Just eliminating it entirely is good and makes all of the talents, powers and gear choices that much more meaningful because you're not thinking "I'd like that but then I have to deal with Holy Power so fuck it". People that think "hurr durr that's just skillllllllll thooooo" are the problem here more than anything else as they equate a clunky lame system being annoying to deal with 'skill' as if being more awkward means more skillful.
Auras and blessings being simple basic things. Fuck this 'it has to be intense gameplay' shit. That always ends badly and results in something being scrapped, awkward or shit. Just let auras be passive 5% damage reduction or something. That's nice and it's all they ever did anyway. Let blessings just be group buffs like Battle Shout or Fort. Throwing up a buff is part of being a paladin so leave it at that. Who cares what it does? The shitty absorb from Kings on everyone? A passive resource regeneration for everyone? I don't think either would be game-breaking but what they do is largely irrelevant, it's the feel that they give you that is the issue here.
Blade of Justice is shit. It was brought in so paladins have 'more weapon-based attacks' and is a ranged fucking spell of a sword flying out of the ground. Fuck off with that design. Functionally the spell's actually fine and works okay, even being too vital with regards to this stupid HP system. Just make it the same thing but Exorcism and give it back its old cool sound and visual. I love that sound.
Consecrate baseline so you have a basic shitty AOE like Whirlwind or Crash Lightning or whatever. Make a talent/spell interact with it and bam, you have AOE similar to Enh or Fury and both of theirs is fun and interactive enough. Hell just steal Maelstrom and call it Wrath or something and you have a good resource system like Crusaders have in D3.
Make Crusader Strike DO SOMETHING. Make it hit everything in your Consecrate. Make it actually do damage. Make it debuff targets rather than Judgement and have Judgement be some big damaging attack instead. All that paladin abilities do is 'do damage' and it's fucking dull. This is where the spec should have some fun shit added to it, not be forced to cope with a shitty Holy Power system. I swear so much of the spec would be much more playable without it.
All this "Ret has to be complicated hurr durr" can fuck off. Wrath Ret was the highpoint of the game and people only think of it as a starting point because they only played it then because it was shit before. Ret was the final point of evolution of a spec that always sucked and it fixed all of its problems. That's where it should go back to at least in part because lots of things it had then are lost now. "Hurr durr you could get some shitty addon to paly it thoooooooo" all the try-hards cry. Good. Let try-hards not play my spec. I'd love that. What's the real danger? Ret becomes an easy to play spec like fucking DH? Ohhhhhhhhhhh noooooooooooooo. What a terrible fate. People might rip on Ret's playerbase, something that has never happened before. Fuck that, I don't care if it's easy, so long as it's fun and it'd be more fun like that than now because Wrath Ret was the best it ever was.
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Nooooo. There is already an oversaturation of mobility amongst classes right now. The classes that are thematically less mobile but tankier (ex Paladins and Warlocks), should bolster their strengths and not fill in the holes of their weaknesses.
Everyone is getting an extra mobility skill with Covenants anyway.
One thing is crystal clear: even with some old abilities returning, we won't get classic or even cata or MoP classes back.
Now you are exaggerating a little bit. I already gave you Zeal as an example which would fit the seal fantasy. No clutter, no balancing or gameplay problems, no new or cumbersome mechanic. It looks like a seal when executed, why not call it so?
I have to admit that I wouldn't be opposed to return Seal of Truth and Seal of Righteousness, but I also understand that a lot of people didn't like them and for the sake of gameplay they don't need to come back.
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You will hear nearly the same feedback on the official forums since a lot of posters use both of them.
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Thanks guys for repeatedly telling me this when I already admitted I was wrong two pages ago. I edited the OP, ok? ;-p
Consecration for ret is (depending on its incarnation) a suboptimal spell, because it will eventually be rotational (as in BfA if selected as a talent), which means we are balanced around it, but t has the huge drawback that it is stationary. Which means, if the tank moves the mob(s) out of it, you are losing dps.
This problem could be solved through a) cons having no cooldown (but then it will not grant hopo, which renders it quite useless) or b) let cons move with the player (which it did through a glyph for prot I think in WoD). About the moving part blizz seems quite adamant to not return that, because it was requested for quite some time now.
They solved the problem for prot through dramaticaly reducing the cooldown, but for ret a lower cooldown means no holy power generation and mediocre damage at best.
Which all doesn't mean that I dislike cons (no high end player AT ALL), especially if it would finally get a new animation. Just reciting the general problems the ret community has with cons (but I am sure someone will prove me wrong on this xD). Perhaps blizz finds a satisfying way to implement it, I am excited.
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Get out! I want my Long Arm of the Law back! In fact that is the single most requested ability by me. They could keep all the rest if I got LAotL back. Blizzard, please!
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I don't see them doing much more than returning auras and blessings tbh...
Prot is a rotational CD based spec that also has some situational tank desicion making moments.
Holy has the mana bar to play around.
Ret has HoPo and the forgotten mana bar. I don't see them returning to pre cata system where everything will be attached to mana so for rets and their damage I believe HoPo will stay. Having said that I would love to see them complimenting with baseline survivability for the lack of mobility and with group/raid wide utility bound to mana leading to some decision making regarding mobility/self damage reduction-survivability/group wide utility/ dps CDs. I honestly don't see them going into the trouble of balancing the above so again it will be something superficial like auras and blessings and a couple of spells coming back.
I'd really like to see empowered seals back. I know it wasn't that popular even back in WoD, but I really enjoyed it. It actually made for a fairly complex rotation that I haven't seen in ret since.
Pretty sure Roll the Bones is rng buffs, which is what makes it so frustrating to use. The model I presented gives the player the ability to choose the aura/seal buffs that he wants for certain fights, giving depth to the - let's be honest - shallow builder/spender model we have today. Seals/buffs were what made paladins awesome in Classic. If they're afraid to give us useful buffs like Blessing of Might directly, they should be part of our rotation.
I care. I don't want forgettable shit for flavor.
BoJ is my favorite Ret ability and reminds me of the temple knights of FFT, which is a great incarnation of the Paladin archetype. I'm all for exorcism coming back, but not at the expense of BoJ.Blade of Justice is shit. It was brought in so paladins have 'more weapon-based attacks' and is a ranged fucking spell of a sword flying out of the ground. Fuck off with that design. Functionally the spell's actually fine and works okay, even being too vital with regards to this stupid HP system. Just make it the same thing but Exorcism and give it back its old cool sound and visual. I love that sound.
While I'm in agreement with D3/Wrath concerns, Consecrate just hasn't been fun or useful in as long as I can remember. It really does need a rework on what it does if it's to be fun in any capacity. I do love the ability thematically and aesthetically.Consecrate baseline so you have a basic shitty AOE like Whirlwind or Crash Lightning or whatever. Make a talent/spell interact with it and bam, you have AOE similar to Enh or Fury and both of theirs is fun and interactive enough. Hell just steal Maelstrom and call it Wrath or something and you have a good resource system like Crusaders have in D3.
Agreed.Make Crusader Strike DO SOMETHING. Make it hit everything in your Consecrate. Make it actually do damage. Make it debuff targets rather than Judgement and have Judgement be some big damaging attack instead. All that paladin abilities do is 'do damage' and it's fucking dull. This is where the spec should have some fun shit added to it, not be forced to cope with a shitty Holy Power system. I swear so much of the spec would be much more playable without it.
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That just makes Ret into a holy version of enhance. I want specs to be more different, not less. Ret's been a build and spend spec since Cata, and the problems with it have been from Blizz mucking with the resource build rate, not the core system (once it was fixed mid-Cata). It would be better to get rid of the build-spend pattern in other specs where it was added as their core system in WoD or Legion.
not saying its any harder but each spec should have an extra degree of complexity which requires some skill to pull off, not just hitting something off cd
the only playstyles WoW has is Procs and combo points of different variations like runes, HP, everything in melee is try to hit your most powerful ability as soon as possible and anything else when it comes of cd, not very interesting combat either way, ret before HP was even more braindead and basic than it currently is now, you could play ret back in wotlk with a 1 button macro and come top.
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Runes don’t work like combo points they have never been a build 5 with to do x. We also have 15 years worth of class design between shamans warriors and pre combo point Pallys to draw from to show that combo points and the current proc style are not the limits to the classes.
Seals. I want to see these seals again.
runes are a variation of combo points, if you dont have enough combo points you cant either do something or it will be far less potent, if you dont have runes available you cant use an ability, it is the limit on what blizz can do since they lack the ability to make classes actually interesting to play.
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