tommyguns wrote:
i lived with a broken pally Ret spec for 3 yrs and nobody asked for my input. yet warlocks and hunters(who state "what problem?") cant live for 3 weeks of not being OP.
Ghostcrawler has repeatedly stated that Blizzard's dev team is moving to a more proactive method of balancing classes and specs. Take a look at how Blizzard is dealing with classes in WotLK compared with TBC - they're making more frequent changes to affect balance. On top of that, they've adopted a complete change in philosophy regarding level of hybrid DPS and how raid buffs work and stack so that you will "bring the player and not the class," a philosophy that has only benefited Retribution Paladins.
GC wasn't heading up the dev team for the last 3 years, and is not responsible for broken specs withering on the vine in the past.
I've read a lot of what GC posts on the forums (blue.mmo-champion.com), and he has by far and away been effective at communicating while maintaining a generally respectful and adult tone.
Lord Justdistaint wrote:
It seems a bit odd with tthe general state of the paladin community that GC should even be allowed to say that.
With a few notable exceptions the general paladin community at the official forums seems to be made up of disturbingly self-important idiots who are probably mentally ill.
As far as your original point:
Lord Justdistaint wrote:
I am opposed to the notion of any part of Blizzard (aside from the players) hating another class.
Given the number of threads that were popping up about Divine Storm at the time (~1 month ago, why'd you wait so long to post it?), GC or a CM
should have been locking new DS threads on the DD forums.
If there is a problem with an ability, it's more useful to have one unlocked thread for the devs to look through than to have them try to dredge through 40 different DS threads. This also keeps the forum functional for other classes. It's not specific to Paladin -- if you look back, you'll see that in the DD/tanking/healing forums, Blizzard is being more aggressive about locking flaming/redundant threads about any one class/topic than they were in the class forums.