grizlyus wrote:Imbaslap wrote:Harn wrote:Paladins could be very useful in games like WSG. BoF a druid? Hell yeah!
Sadly, ret paladins are probably the worst class in the game in vanilla, and well beyond even that. It's crazy how long it took for blizzard to balance them...they were so bad it wouldn't be implausable that the devs despised the class, as illogical as it seems.
But I feel the real problem here are the horde racials. Orcs and UD are just too good.
TBC is where ret pallies have fun and go crazy. I never understood why people would roll ret pally on vanilla as it is not even optimized yet. even then, I never understood how it is fun playing a spec that has to rely on white hits to do damage, with little mana to even cast judgements, and no actual yellow attacks(crusader strike in TBC for example).
this is just my personal opinion though.
You are really clueless in TBC retri is useless you cant really gear there in pvp nobody will take you to arena
and resilience fuck them up they cant really reck bomb/one shot someone anymore
vanilla ret is fine all you need is to grind there is no skill required to get high warlord/grand marshal its just grind
also full retri spec is bad you need to go reckoning you can one shot someone in a stun
never said anything about arena kid, I only said ret pallies do not get any real yellow attacks until tbc.
which is much better than waiting on white hits or (reckoning procs) to do damage.
still a useless spec regardless of how you look at it tbc and vanilla pvp wise. atleast you get to pve as one in TBC for some time without being a complete carry. (hence the have fun and go crazy)
even with gear, ret pallies still cannot do what a warrior can, no MS debuff, no real tools except waiting for a silly rogue to hit you a couple times to save up reckoning procs that are already capped at a set amount. lets not forget a holy priest could solo you by mana burning you to death when you cant even pop a PWS. then you're even more useless.