Dilbrt wrote:
You can only know so much by reading, though. Sure I've read a TON about protection paladins, but I have very little experience actually putting it into practice. I have YET to see a frigging ret pally on this forum start off a post with "in my experiences in <insert raid here>..." Yes there are a few ret paladins out there that raid, but none of you pre-70s are them! Just shhh, and come back when you've lost your ret raiding cherry. Then we'll talk.
Tommyguns is one of the few Ret Paladins you can listen to on this forum. You kind of have to take everything he says with a grain of salt... and watch him closely, because sometimes he comes out of left field with some really ridiculous !@#$... but for the most part, you can at least use some of what he says as a base for your assumptions.
Me personally... I've never raided Kara or up with a Ret Pally. There's not one in my guild. So anything I talk about there is from word of mouth or videos or pictures or what have you.
However, I have partied with Retribution Paladins through every manner of five-man BC content up to Kara's doorstep, and without exception they have all managed to place dead last on the meters among DPS, sometimes even losing out to the tanks, unless they are just
ridiculously overgeared compared to both the content and the rest of the party.
Now, maybe that's not a fair assessment. You'll never hear me say that there's not a fair share of idiots playing WoW, and for whatever reason the Retribution Paladin seems to draw them in with the power of a black hole compressing a million suns. But I judge things the same way The Bureau does: I go by the numbers.
An idiot player with a great class can still whip up a lot of suck. But an idiot player with the most naturally DPS-challenged class/spec in the game... that's a whole new level of suck you just don't want to experience. Ever.
Edited, Jan 11th 2008 5:29am by Gaudion