Greetings Alla readers. Its been a few days now, and we've all gotten a chance to play around with some of the patches new features. I've heard a lot, good and bad. Some seem to hate these new talents, glyphs etc... They say its too much too fast to adjust to, while others are loving the new features, especially achievements. I just thought this would be a neat topic, to discuss specific things you enjoyed about the patch (Or didn't).
I guess I'll kick it off.
To me, this patch was more like reigniting my love for my paladin. Now now, I know you're all giong to say "OMG SO OP ENJOY YOUR NURFZ LOL"...This isnt about the mad love the Ret tree got, its a combination of everything. Two years ago, I began to play this game, and rolled my first character - An alliance Paladin. I decided to give my character a horrid name, and a horrible haircut, thinking I will probably change games a few months later. I had rolled my Paladin on the Gurubashi server (Now commonly known as the server where almost all non-english speaking players go). I tired of not being able to communicate with players, and constantly being outnumbered and ganked by Horde. So, I rerolled a horde character, got him to 70, and rerolled another horde character, and also got him to 70.
Almost two years later, my little Alliance Paladin had still not reached 70. Sure, I had some flings where I would watch old Vanilla Ret Paladins tearing it up, but still being able to off heal and support other players, then play my paladin for a few weeks at a time. Sadly with TBC, the reality was that you cannot throw off heals, or dish out respectable DPS as Retribution Spec. You spec one thing, and do that only one thing if you wished to be effective.
Just before this new patch, in anticipation for these new talents, I decided to invest a little bit of money in my Paladin. A server transfer, and new name kicked things off. With this new patch, I have fallen in love with my Paladin all over again, for reasons that I have yearned for all of TBC - An effective melee/caster hybrid, who can dish out punishment, and still support his fellow team members where necessary with heals. Lets not stop there however, a whole new proffession, a haircut so i dont look so ridiculous, invites to groups where im not mocked and laughed at, its like heaven!
Now, we COULD get into the topic of PvP balance, but I will avoid it. I for one will say, Retribution Paladins are way over the top atm with burst dps, and I welcome the coming nerf. I never wanted to be god-mode, I've just always wanted to do a little bit of both, and thats exactly where it seems the class is heading.
Cheers to this patch, and preparing for our much anticipated X-pac. At a time where I was getting ready to throw in the towel on World of Warcraft, Blizzard busted out one hell of a patch, and I can't wait to take my "All new" Paladin out to Northrend!
Thats my little story, and take on the patch. Anyone have anything similar, or differnet opinions on the patch? All posts are welcome
Edited, Oct 17th 2008 3:32pm by LeetSpeak




