Exorcism does not work on Players anymore!

ATTENTION ALL PALADINS!

If you’ve been doing some PvP and you’re Exorcism skill isn’t working, this is not a bug. There’s nothing wrong with your game or your interface. As the “Blues” in the forums would say, this is working as intended.

paladin using exorcism

Ghostcrawler came out with quite a lengthy post earlier about this matter and he said that they changed the Exorcism skill with patch 3.1.1 so that it wouldn’t work on players anymore and they didn’t have time to inform us all about this ahead of time. Their excuse is that they weren’t sure if they could get the tooltip changes up in time and changing the spell without changing the tooltip would just cause some confusion. Ghostcrawler insists that this isn’t a stealth nerf although I think that Blizzard should have at least said that they were thinking of making the change so as not to surprise a lot of people with the sudden change.

Obviously if you’re just concerned with PvE then this change doesn’t concern you at all, but for all those people who do a lot of PvP this change is a big deal especially since the new season of the Arena Tournament just started. Blizzard felt that using Exorcism in PvP the way things are now provides a certain mechanic to Paladins that they thought is quite overpowered. The good news is that Blizzard is seriously considering implementing new ideas to change the way paladins do their damage so that they will be less dependent on cooldowns and would make paladin damage less bursty and more interesting. Once they do this they do plan to remove Exorcism’s limitation on players. In the meantime, a lot of paladins are shedding tears on this matter.