Cataclysm: The Ret Paladin- AKA Multi-Box Burst PVP Machines.

[remanz]

Well, I played quite a bit with my rets.

The good:

The burst is up from pre 4.0. Mainly due to we are able to throw hammers with wings. But I don't think this burst offsets the resilience and HP buff. TV hits really hard. I have yet to find a good way to sync 4 (3 holy powered) TV together. At level 80, landing those 4 TV together will mean death to any class. Judgement has a longer range now. So we get some damage while being kited.

The bad:

Pretty much anything defensive and healing. We are the suicide squat now. Kinda like arm warrior. Divine storm is not worth using anymore. and Missing that "free heal from attack" is quite large. Stand there and heal or use WOG mean less damage. Art of war procs a lot less. And it rarely procs together on all 4. Again, I have no good way to sync exorcism. All my defensive stuff are gone. No sacred shield. No sacrifice. Bubble shorter duration.

Conclusion:

Hate to admit. But I only got one way to beat someone in arena. That is to global a target right off the bat. In order to do that, I have to sync my attacks. Unlike shamans + healer, I don't have the staying power to hange with a group of 5 individual players.