by Thyr » Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:45 pm
i play a pally main, shammy bot. wot after its most recent change is a vaguely useful spell, languar is extremely useful. while the slow on it is not as good as my shamans main slows it still slows the mob until the shaman can get them slowed. ae slow is bad when duoing with the pally, i rely on the slows from languar to slow mobs until i have had a chance to secure agro on all the mobs. pallies have no real ae agro. yes i know i can use heal agro, but the shaman gets alot of heal agro from healing me as well, then toss the slow agro in there and usually at least one mob goes after the shambot if i rely on heal agro.
what are the real questions of this thread?
is wot overpowered. in its current from no.
was it ever overpowered. no.
why? it did not help on meaningful content. it did not keep me alive when being hit by several equal level mobs. on current and even the past couple of expansions raids the use of low level adds to keep wot procing does not exist, there are no low level mobs to keep it procing.
can pallies heal as well as a shaman? no. my fully raid geared pally cannot keep up in the healing department with my all bazaar/quested/group geared shaman. the pally cannot cast as high a heal as the shaman can as long or as fast as the shaman can (counting recast times), despite a much larger mana pool and better focus effects the pally runs dry of mana long before the shammy.
is languar a useful spell? yes.
why? it slows mobs even if only slightly on inc., it has a heal component to it, it has an agro component to it, it stacks with anything the pally can use.
should wot be returned to its orignal form? useless debate we all know that is not going to happen. just leave the sad spell alone.
is slay undead overpowered? no, barely useful. even when my guild was doing fc pallies were not even considered for dps. it was simply go offtank mob x. it is more gimick than anything.
can you compare shamans and palladins? no. they are a complimentary class to each other. they need each other. pallies need shammies a bit more than the other way around, but hey such is frequently the life of any tank.
what should shamans and paladins learn? we should be cheering each other on and hoping to get each other every upgrade and increase we can. pallies and shamans as a team can do impressive things.
as for other classes, you know what when i watched an sk with lower hp and lower ac (when i say lower i have over 500 more ac and 2k more hp) than i have soloing a mob in steam was i crying nerf the sk's? no. why? i was happy for him, he was able to play the class he wanted and do most the things he wanted with it. i hope he can continue doing this. i would hope other classes would take a similar approach and say good for him. it might make the game better for all.