Retribution Paladin's: Whats your opinion?

#0 - July 7, 2010, 7:07 p.m.

With Divine Storm being attainable at level 10, I believe that this is a sign of more offensive abilities coming to the Ret Paladin. The new bottom of the tree talent will most likely be a interrupt with a short cool down.

That being said.. What do you guys think about the future of ret?

p.s: we wanna see a new beta patch!!!

Ghostcrawler

#65 - July 10, 2010, 5:06 a.m.

After further reflection, we don't think Divine Storm makes a good level 10 Ret ability. It really wants to be an AE attack, and it's just hard to make an AE attack a signature ability usable in as many situations as a signature attack deserves to be.

Divine Storm will probably go back into the talent tree. It won't be the 31-point though. Both the 31-point and the 10 ability need to have more single-target use. That means something like 3 new abilities for Retribution and several new or modified talents on top of that. Crazy.

As you can see, we're still iterating a lot on paladins. Our lack of communication is because things are changing quickly, so it doesn't make a lot of sense to share it all until things feel a little more stable.

Ghostcrawler

#86 - July 10, 2010, 6:03 a.m.

Q u o t e:
Did you not like the meteor attack style for Divine Storm?

It's okay in practice, but really we're trying to have different rotations for single vs. multi-target fights, so it doesn't really help with that problem.