Why ret is a low priority.

#1 - Oct. 16, 2007, 5:43 p.m.

Q u o t e:
The real reason Ret is ignored because we have too many people playing damage classes/specs already.

Think about it. There is a shortage of healers, so holy gets buffed. There is a shortage of tanks, so prot gets buffed. We have yet to see a shortage of dps, so the devs aren't really motivated to fix ret.

It might have nothing to do with the devs not knowing that there is something wrong with ret. They just don't think it's a wise use of their time to fix it.

So basically the entire paladin class is nothing but a tool for blizzard to plug gaps in their game balance with is that what you're trying to say? Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are playing a walking bandaid?

Eyonix

#6 - Oct. 16, 2007, 5:51 p.m.

We're not ignoring retribution paladins, as you can see by reading the 2.3 patch notes. Additional changes are coming as well.

Eyonix

#37 - Oct. 16, 2007, 5:57 p.m.

Q u o t e:

Please, do tell :)

After further patch testing and some serious discussion, we’ve decided to add threat reduction deep in the paladin's retribution tree. As a result, fanaticism will now reduce threat caused by all actions by 6/12/18/24/30%, in addition to its current effect of course.