Holy Wrath is a Holy Thunderclap

Sorry for the stubby post, but another pertinent GC quote from the bowels of the official tanking forums. Don’t say I never did anything nice for you guys after wading through much of that garbage and fit-mongering to find the gold.

When asked if Holy Wrath–now able to hit all enemy types–would apply Vindication, making it a Paladin version of a Warrior’s Thunderclap, Ghostcrawler replied:

This is, in fact, exactly what we did.

Likewise, the same person brought up that Thunderclap was upped in duration to 30 seconds and that Vindication might get the same treatment. Ghostcrawler confirmed this with a simple:

Ditto.

This doesn’t change that Vindication has a sub-100% uptime. I wonder if that’s on the block for being changed as well.

Overall though, it’s instances like these (or the stam modifier disparity being resolved) that keep me from overreacting to any negative beta news that arises. Now, let’s see if they resolve another obvious issue (Rebuke).

5 Comments to “Holy Wrath is a Holy Thunderclap”

  1. Rhabella 23 July 2010 at 9:45 am #

    Though I tend to agree with you, and after last night’s beta, I can actually say these reactionary builds look like tons of fun, I am still cynical about rebuke. There has to be a long standing rationale at Blizzard justifying the lack of an interrupt for paladins. I just wish someone would share what exactly that logic might be.

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  3. Impadin 23 July 2010 at 9:57 am #

    Am I the only one, that cant understand why we are getting more and more similiar to warriors. Why not make us different ? Yes, we may be better at one thing than the other then, but cant see why that is so bad. Good players/groups/raids are able to overcome such things. They alwasy have and always will….
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    • Rhidach
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       23 July 2010 at 11:21 am #

      They’ve given up on balancing our class while keeping them differentiated. It’s easy just to homogenize.

  4. Broh 23 July 2010 at 12:05 pm #

    I agree with Impadin…this homogenizing, i think is making the game kinda boring…it’s nice to be different….the way it’s going mine as well just have one tank class