WoTLK Class Changes For Rogues and Paladins
April 8, 2008 by Angelo Fernandez
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The Wrath of the Lich King expansion is still a way off but already we have news about what the devs have in mind as far as changes to Retribution paladins and Dagger rogues are concerned. CM Bornakk gives the good news in his forum posts:
On Ret pallies
We have mentioned in the past that we would like to improve Retribution Paladins in Wrath of the Lich King, we just don’t have a lot of specific details to release regarding this right now. We did say we plan on changing how their abilities work to share gear with warriors which will help make it easier for them to gear up though. source
On Dagger rogues
We understand that daggers need a bit of improvement and plan to improve them. Currently though there are other options for doing damage for the Rogue so it is not like all options are blocked, but like I said, we are aware of this issue. source
For some reason, I have this strange feeling that even if Ret pallies will get an improvement, the Death Knight speced for DPS will still win out big time. Even if I’m wrong, that’s probably not going to stop people from playing a DPS Death Knight over a Ret pally since they’re more bad-ass!
As for dagger rogues, I think making every spec more viable is a great idea. More options makes the game more fun since each class will have more versatility. I’m sure a lot of pallies are happy that the Retribution spec has become more accepted in the end game than it was before. it still needs improvement but it’s a start.
For Ambush specced rogues; Ambush specced rogues are often very good, but stunlock over-shadows it, therefore, a good idea would be to add more daggers, however, they would need more damage, and they would need to be slower, as slower daggers cause more ambush damage - if this were to happen, more rogues would ambush than stunlock, I think at least.
As for paladins;
Retri paladins; Retri paladins have often complained about their damage and warriors being OP compared to them, therefore most of them go healer or tank, therefore I agree on it being a good idea to improve retri paladins so that they have a chance as DPS’ers in wotlk.
I know people whine alot about Retri Pallies complaining that their DPS isnt high enough, but cmon guys its a game and we want to have fun. Im sick of being left out of groups etc just cus im retri it is a viable dps class, and lets see a Mage/rogue Assist heal out of situations when ya healer just got one shotted. I refuse to reroll a warrior, I pay alot of money for WoW I expect to be able to play a Holy Knight as it should be. =(