We have seen changes and we all rolled with them. Rolled faces that is. I have been playing a paladin almost as long as I have been playing WOW. Now I remember pre 3.1 pre wrath talents and t6how hard it was to find a good ret paladin or a ret raiding progression content for that matter. T4-6 was when I started to tank I was not in a progression guild at the time as we did not have enough full time raiders to get into 25 mans. But I was told "LOLRET we dont need that dps wanna tank or heal?" Now at that time I loved tanking but I had worked so hard on my ret set I was reluctant to tank. But with the help of fellow guildies I geared up and became the MT for our 2nd raid group, opposite a druid (how I loved that combo), but I digress. Even in pvp we were the class people sought out when they needed to auto attack while they were /afk filling up a Mt. Dew tossing a Hot Pocket in the mic, or tossing a load of laundry into the dryer. We were the free HK of BC. We were also the laughing stock of the wow community.
Then comes beta and the new talents. Being a person who did get a beta key I started to mess around with the new talents (pre Serennia QQ for nerf), and I was giddy like a school girl. The Art of War talent was sexy as all get out. And judgements were op. I was one of the paladins who, even though I loved it, wrote in and let devs know about the op status of paladins. I even blamed it all on Serennia lol, sorry mate I had to you lead the way of Nerf cries. After a while the talents were balanced and were released. There were still people QQ'ing about paladins being op. I and alot of paladins replied to this with remarks like,
"You are just mad we are no longer a /afk hk anymore for you"
"So you cant face roll a death on us GG"
"Those of us who were/are skilled paladins and were held back by talents will now shine"
"LOLTIMETOONEHITEVERYONE"
"We cant kill you in the span of 1 hammer if we can you suck/need better gear (more res)"
"Our time now"
Cries came in all over that we were now op and should be nerfed. I agreed to an extent. We needed to be re-tooled and looked at but not nerfed.
Now here we are towards the end of the Naxx season (I know we are in Ulduar now but time line sake), and we are not putting out as much damage. I was geared better than our fury tg warrior and our best dps DK and I was still only putting out 2-3k on boss fights (non gimmick while they were hitting 4-5k. Now I was blown away by the numbers They were worse geared and able to beat me. How was that far. Now came the lol's of yesteryear "LOLRETCANTDPSHEALMENOOBLOL" We all remember these cracks.
Now into Ulduar, we were given a buff, and a nerf to Exorcism. It was a way for us to have 1 more button to press and a way to do more damage. Nice but not on the pvp end. It was no longer usable on locks pets demo locks or lich dk's wtg blizzard. Granted our dps was slightly better but come on is it fair that we have to be in the best gear only to put out the damage or every other class from the last tier?
I, like most other paladins will continue to play this class. No matter how many nerfs "into the ground baby" (god I hated that GC he was so arrogant) we will still rise above and still find a way to dps and kill you. You can cry OPRET all you want we are like the a TIMEX we take a licking and we keep on ticking.
In closing keep your heads up my fellow paladins we will get there some day.
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