Pally nerf inc

[Naysayer]

Paladin
Holy

• Sacred Shield can now only occur every 30 sec. (Up from 6 sec)
• Lay on Hands can no longer be cast on yourself.
• Infusion of Light now also reduces the cooldown on the effect of Sacred Shield by 12/24 sec.
• Aura Mastery now lasts 6 sec. (Down from 10 sec)

How bad will this effect the new fotm melee pally groups? It's looking grim after reading this blue post. More nerfs to come.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...77631492&sid=1

They're about to take pally's out back to the alley and give them a serious beating with the nerf stick.

[heyaz]

Doesn't look like any of those nerfs affect PVP specs very much, other than sacred shield (which absorbed a neglibable amount of damage to begin with). I hope there aren't more ret/prot nerfsl... i got a new team in the works

[Naysayer]

Doesn't look like any of those nerfs affect PVP specs very much, other than sacred shield (which absorbed a neglibable amount of damage to begin with). I hope there aren't more ret/prot nerfsl... i got a new team in the works

It's not the amount absorbed that was amazing (although 2k health every 6 seconds was good), it was the flash of light crit's every 6 seconds.

[Kromtor]

The non-holy speced sacred shield nerf would definitely hurt survivability in arenas somewhat, but i'm not too worried.

and i wouldn't call the ret pally group fotm until more than 1 person is doing it in arenas with success. ret is one of the most under-represented specs in 5's. i've only run into 2 other teams with a single ret pally

[Naysayer]

The non-holy speced sacred shield nerf would definitely hurt survivability in arenas somewhat, but i'm not too worried.

and i wouldn't call the ret pally group fotm until more than 1 person is doing it in arenas with success. ret is one of the most under-represented specs in 5's. i've only run into 2 other teams with a single ret pally

I guess flavor of next month would be more accurate.

[Fuzzyboy]

I guess flavor of next month would be more accurate.

What multboxing comps have 1600+ in arena? Shaman x 4 and 1 person playing paladins? I think we need more than 1, possibly 2, viable comps to cry FotM :P

[Naysayer]

What multboxing comps have 1600+ in arena? Shaman x 4 and 1 person playing paladins? I think we need more than 1, possibly 2, viable comps to cry FotM :P

Are there not a lot of people leveling pally groups now due to interact with target?

[Fuzzyboy]

I think there's a lot of people levelling melee-groups in general because of IWT and probably more levelling paladins because of the heroic-videos + the one person getting 1800+ in arenas, but my point was simply that until there are more than one flavor (shaman) it's hard to speak of fotm

[Fuzzyboy]

Anyway, I'm nitpicking, I simply meant to point out that in terms of PvP it would be great to see more than one viable team :-)

[heyaz]

I'd just excited to see a viable 5v5 that doesn't rely on another person.