Comments on: I fear for LoH’s safety

By: Rhidach

Rhidach — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:04:18 +0000

That would be the straw that broke the camel’s back.

By: Suicidal Zebra

Suicidal Zebra — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:49:23 +0000

*Watches Prot/Ret gain popularity in Arena*

*Anticipates Ardent Defender being linked to Forbearance*

*cries*

By: Rhidach

Rhidach — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:54:15 +0000

I will definitely do that today, TRM. Great idea!

By: The Renaissance Man

The Renaissance Man — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:07:15 +0000

Elle, over at Altadin, found a healer survey that covered a consise spectrum of ideas, from personal gear philosophy, to class balance. At the end of the post, she challenged someone to come up with a equivilent survey for tanking. I put one together. You were one of the first bloggers I read who got me interested in maximizing performance through spec and gear choices, and as such, I’d love to get your take on it.

http://childrenofwrath.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-do-you-tank.html

By: Davinfelth

Davinfelth — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:20:40 +0000

wasn’t GC going to stop posting, I find him an unproffesional blizzard employee who likes the whining he causes, then whines when it happens. I don’t know if its just my perception, since I’ve played a paladin since launch, but its seems he wants to remake us a joke, since he loves laughing at our expense. LoH only threatens pvp rogues and dot locks. The addition of forbearance is clunky. Its not been an issue for nearly 5 years, why not wait to Cataclysm, or are the new raid bosses so piss poor, they don’t want prot pali to “faceroll” all their hard work

By: The Renaissance Man

The Renaissance Man — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:58:30 +0000

*Sigh* Fail on the devs part.

By: Suicidal Zebra

Suicidal Zebra — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:29:16 +0000

This just in:

Lay On Hands now causes Forbearance and can’t be cast of players with Forbearance. That means that LoH being cast on you prevents you from casting Divine Protection for 2 mins.

Great work numbnuts!

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:14:29 +0000

“Damocles’ nerfbat is dangling precipitously above our heads.”

Maybe it’s because I roll as Holy, but that just doesn’t sound very threatening.

I don’t see them shuffling tanks around too much before Cataclysm because everyone has to tank the same bosses. I don’t know why they think LoH is such a big deal. It has a long timer, can’t be used in Arena, etc. The most important aspect of the spell, and one I don’t think they should change, is the instant cast. Ret has Art of War to do an instant FoL, but Prot cannot use a cast time unless fighting the easiest trash mobs.

Off healing as Prot during an emergency and still in Prot gear is an absolute joke. Flash of Light is 1k to 1.5k. Holy Light is 4k to 5k. Mana lasts all of a dozen casts if you’re lucky.

By: Cassandri

Cassandri — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:14:09 +0000

Well as a non Paladin, but as a Hybrid I can safely say that I LOVE it when our Prot Pally is a surefire gonna and he pops Lay on Hands … in a raid.

In a battleground I don’t really notice any difference between Paladins. I sure couldn’t tell you what spec they are, but I tend to assume they’re all the “Awesome PVPness” one – you know, the one that kills you.

But I have to say, of any class, the Paladin is the one that you *think* you are close to killing, only to have his health bar jump up. Again.

That said, I don’t treat Druids much differently based on what spec they are. How can you tell what spec they are anyway? The good ones are all forms at once.

By: tankadin

tankadin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:46:58 +0000

I’ve got one of each of the four tank classes at level 80, ready to go and you know what? I think this may be it. If we go into T10 gimped as prot paladins I’m switching mains to a pure dps class. I can’t take the yo-yo-ing anymore.