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Paladins getting the nerf bat in 3.2?!
4 Comments Add this link to... Karma: 1 Spam? Nerf it!
4 Comments Add this link to... Karma: 1 Spam? Nerf it!
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Its not necessarily a nerf. On one hand, it's a slight PvE nerf not having Exorcism loaded up and ready to go as an instant cast, but on the other hand, exorcism now damaging players is a fairly large buff in PvP.
Did the PvP side need a buff, Vidi? Or, is this yet another example of the impossibility of balancing between PvE and PvP?
I don't think it's about that. I think it's about the fact that players being completely immune to such a central ability in the Paladins arsenal means the class is broken. And, I think, that Blizzard had buffed the paladins other abilities to compensate, which made the Paladin class broken and unbalanced.
Paladins sure had alot of front loaded burst damage and this may increase that. But I think that to have an ability that is so depended upon in one aspect of the game ( PvE ) that does absolutely nothing in another aspect of the game ( PvP )certainly speaks to the opinion that Blizzard really doesn't have a complete vision of the class. And that lack of vision has created the imbalance, I think paladins are going to see alot more changes, both good and bad, that are going to either infuriate them or other classes. Someone at Blizzard needs to sit down and decide once and for all on a vision of what this class should and shouldn't be and move to make that a reality...and then nerf warlocks.
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Actually, it's a nerf. Spin it all ya like, the math put through has shown than there's a significant loss of DPS in PvE, as if Ret paladins were low enough on the DPS table, something the developers admitted to, and now that the burst damage is gone, it's going to hurt pvp as well.
So, yeah. A nerf.