So what are they removing from Paladins in Cata?

[Deleted]

I heard they're removing Sacred Shield and Divine Intervention. Why exactly are they doing that, and are they gonna remove something else as well?

[Torne]

dispel is also removed if you are not specced holy.
as for why: because they want to.

[Silorn]

lets see... Sacred shield, judgement of wisdom, judgement of light, Seal of Command, D.I, cleanse for anyone other than holy, Blessing of Sanc (built into prot), Blessing of wisdom (merged with blessing of might), Kings is merged with Mark of the Wild and all of the resistance auras are baked into one.

Thats all i can remember off the top of my head... but i don't believe i missed anything :P

[Viradiance]

Havn't you heard? They're deleting Paladins in Cataclysm.

[iktankniet]

Havn't you heard? They're deleting Paladins in Cataclysm.

trying to be funny? well, you failed.

[Nillo]

trying to be funny? well, you failed.

In a bad mood today? :P

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Seal of Command, Blessing of Sanc (built into prot)

We won't really miss those 2 (SoC baked into SoR and Sanct was never used anyway due to disc priests giving the same buff)

[Deleted]

Offtopic: Iktankniet wheres that profile pic from? seems familiar to me in some way

i think some of the reason they have for the removal of spells are okay as for some others they are just lame, my gf plays a pala and is... needless to say furious about some of the things xD

... on the other hand... play a dps war -.- you aint got no loving in cata Hc's :|

[Orion71483]

They also made holy shield a passive ability for protection pallies.

[iktankniet]

In a bad mood today? :P

im using my laptop from my bed because im sick

its from a shirt ive seen on the internet. from http://www.topatoco.com somehwere. i wanted to buy the shirt, but its so damn expensive to get it from america to europe. not paying like 50 euro for a simple tshirt

[davesurfer]

For a prot pally they are removing fun. I know QQ, but I have 2 prot pallys for different lockouts, and so far hate the new mechanics on the PTR. I am using this weekend on the PTR to decide if I stay pally or take my prot warrior to Cata

I have 2 prot pallys, 2 prot warriors, 1 drood, and a DK tank. So far I think the warrior is the most fun to play on the PTR.

[Nikoll]

Let's not forget the removal of the ability to dps!

/sigh requital needs to post on how we are after buff.

[Kavelos]

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...74821&sid=2000

When I get home from work I can check, but it appears Exorcism is currently bugged and has actually reduced our overall DPS.

[Deleted]

Oh no your have a shield taken away from you? God forbid someone might actaually be able to kill you in PvP

[Mirokasi]

lets see... Sacred shield, judgement of wisdom, judgement of light, Seal of Command, D.I, cleanse for anyone other than holy, Blessing of Sanc (built into prot), Blessing of wisdom (merged with blessing of might), Kings is merged with Mark of the Wild and all of the resistance auras are baked into one.

Thats all i can remember off the top of my head... but i don't believe i missed anything :P

They aren't removing Seal of Command, its still a talent but the talent gives Seal of Righteousness cleave instead i think.

[maniacshoter]

they take some skills from us but we gained many others like :

blessing of might/wisdom merged , kings giving us resist to all kinds of spell magic given by our former auras

they merged ALL of our resists auras into a single aura

they are going to give us a guardian angel ( like the feral spirit of the shamans) ,

an interrupt spell ,

20% melee haste for retribution pallys ,

u can use hammer of wrath at any time during avenging wrath ,

templar's veredict ( almost a second avenging wrath ) ,

Your Judgement has a 100% chance to increase your movement speed by 45% for 4 sec when used on targets at or further than 15 yards from you.

All magic attacks against you have a [20%/40%] chance to cause 30% of the damage taken back to the attacker as well.

of course i'm talking about retribution , for another informations check the MMO class sections

PS: due to the recent changes some of the informations i've mentioned in this post could have been changed/removed

[Huldron]

Everything... everything everywhere

[Amaranthus]

I have 2 prot pallys, 2 prot warriors, 1 drood, and a DK tank. So far I think the warrior is the most fun to play on the PTR.

What? Really? Not saying having 6 leveled characters is not plausible but I'm having trouble actually believing this.

[eternalwhitemoon]

I'll miss Sacred Shield and DI... T.T

At least my Mastery gives me a built-in shield, and it actually can be on multiple people at once. Close enough.

Edit: To answer OP's question, I have no idea why DI got the axe. I loved it

Sacred Shield was likely removed because they stated their design goal for ret was to give them more damage at the cost of survivability. Lacking Sacred Shield is a serious PVP nerf for Ret.
Unfortunately, they don't do much damage on PTR so they feel like they have neither survivability nor damage >.>

[Sindy]

It'd be a shorter list to say what they're letting us keep!

[davesurfer]

What? Really? Not saying having 6 leveled characters is not plausible but I'm having trouble actually believing this.

Actually I have 9. They were all in my sig until I got in trouble for having too big of a sig

My toons are on hellscream US
Pallys:
Surfadin
Surfadina

Warriors:
surfang
Nicetail

DK:
Surfdeath

Druid:
Surfhorn

Also have Mage Surfblast, lok Surfdorn and Huntard surfandturf.

My Sham is 75 Surfshamwow