GC balancing ret around duels - Wowraid Bluetracker

Damage Dealing	GC balancing ret around duels
11/02/09 04:48:56 PM Patch 3.2.2a Iapetes	Q u o t e: Also, it doesn't mean paladins are being singled out for one-vs-one duel balance (though I'm sure I'm going to be reading that for months to come). Well of course you are GC, what conclusion do you think people are going to draw from this? SS makes a huge difference 1v1 and definitely makes ret feel kinda 'tanky' there, but in arenas ret paladins are not particularly hard to burst down once and force a bubble, then do it a again, as it is. I have very serious doubts about ret's viability as an arena spec without SS to help us mitigate damage, and give us important utility. And ret's not even overrepresented in arenas, so how can you possibly make us believe it is anything other than duels that you're balancing around? Nerfing prot paladin healing, that I can see. I understand the logic of pushing more healing into holy to prevent things like prot healers. But you're flat out ruining ret paladins and you need to wake up and pay attention, and stop balancing ret around the BG heroes. PS: if you really feel the need to do something about ret's survivability to some degree, how about targetting the Sheath HoTs instead? At least if you removed those it wouldn't, you know, ruin the spec or make the playstyle less interesting.
11/02/09 05:02:55 PM Patch 3.2.2a Ghostcrawler <Lead Systems Designer>	Self-fulfilling prophecy is self-fulfilling. Hopefully "Ret is the only spec balanced around one vs. one" can join the annals of "Prot warriors will be nerfed until representation is equal" and "GC says you should choose avoidance over stam."
11/02/09 05:37:17 PM Patch 3.2.2a Ghostcrawler <Lead Systems Designer>	Q u o t e: Also, I'd like to hear how this is a self fulfilling prophecy GC. Cus I'm not seeing it at all. I said in the other big paladin thread that we are specifically not singling out paladins for duel balancing but that I was sure it would get quoted into perpetuity that we said we single out paladins for duel balancing, much like my other examples of things we are not doing that then get quoted as things we are doing. Some of the other things that have been quoted in this thread are things we did say that we just haven't gotten around to yet. There's a big difference.

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