Paladin Class: Done?

Rohan posted an interesting article on his blog (Blessing of Kings) about the flak that Ghostcrawler is taking surrounding the 'gap closer' that is Judgement of Justice (JoJ). Commenters on his blog are most often very knowledgeable and solid gamers (other than the goofy comments I leave) and I have always found that his 'articles' are comprised of both the post and the comments because the commenters are typically very knowledgeable. I digress.

The short of it, though, is that it would appear that the development team is rather satisfied with the current mechanics of the class - and I have to agree with Rohan's interpretation. Further, I think I'd have to agree with the development team.

The political backlash if they nerfed retadins back down without nerfing DKs down would be huge. They are now the top two played classes in the game according to warcraftrealms.com (link). From a sheer diplomatic stand point, why nerf a class when you can up-notch content to get the same balancing effect without taking something away from buyers? Strategically, if they can bring all classes up to a 'balanced' level, they can then address 'OP' by making the content 'tougher'. It's the getting them all to the same balanced level that is tricky - and from who's opinion?!

And as I commented to Rohan's post, we have to be careful of not encouraging Blizzard to expend coding time on marginal improvements for a class rather than spending it on rolling out new content - and those promised new dance moves!!

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C'mon, you know you want to see spec-specific dance moves!! Retadin versus Healadin dance off!