MoP Beta - Ret Paladin changes / action

[Ualaa]

Holy Shock, as an instant cast...
With the GCD reduced by your haste rating.

And without any form of a cooldown.
Assuming you take that talent.

With 5x Shock'adins...

If Pallies have enough damage to kill single targets in succession, assuming a 4/5x group...
It might not be a bad idea to run 5x heals.
You'll have very good survivability, but lack a bit against cleave compositions.

Still, my 1x Pally... on the Pally/4x DK team, can be pretty scary in the amount of healing output she does.
Imagine having five of those.
And the ability to do some decent damage, even if you're taking out opponents one at a time.
My 5x Resto Druids can consistently take out 2-3x their number, anytime players ignore CC, and go for straight damage based killing...

[Mokoi]

Ualaa, BTW have you been following resto druids at all for your resto team? Does the voting of insect swarm off the island change your thoughts on the team? Or is everything still looking good. I am considering a great 5x resto druid and 5x demo lock team which should be an unavoidable machine of hatred.

[Ualaa]

Haven't really followed much, beyond occasionally searching youtube for videos.
Or reading what has been posted here.

My team would be primarily Feral.
The same as the Pallies are ideally primarily Ret.
It's just that the healing off-spec... works very well, and is quite effective.

[Multibocks]

Multi, I saw. I also watched a great PvP stream where a ret pally went up against gladiator arena players in BiS (of course not PvP) gear, and the ret aplly was no better than average, and got destroyed by several classes, most noteably by the warlock (Demo, Destro and Affliction).

The nerf to Holy shock is huge. It still hits well, but not nearly as much as it did, and I agree it's better this way, but it hits about as hard as a frost strike, and less than howling blast I think. And it's not aoe

Ya but think of the survivability!