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Hi Ppl, does anyone know if they are planning to nerf paladins at all? Last night in a bg me at 38 faced off against a lvl 31 pally, we just stood there no running around and i was in bear form, and he was holding his own no one seen us or interfered and we were fighting for at least 3 mins. Its a common sight to see at least 5 ppl trying to bring one of them down. Does any one have any tips for a feral druid on how to break a pallys face cause im lost. Pallies dont even seem to need decent gear, these guys are built to do this stuff in pve but it makes them all but immune pvp monsters. My gear is pretty decent some blues and most stuff is enchanted i have the viscious hammer i believe its called enchanted with +7 wep damage , and its still not enough. So please if you have tips share them with me, and help me break a face!

Sorry you're having a rough time with pallys, but I can 100% guarantee that Blizzard will never nerf them based on performance BGs under the level cap.

Tabstopper its unfortunate that you say that, cause its almost boxing ppl into choosing the same classes to be viable in pvp, bg, arena type encounters. I know the game is PVE based but they really should do a better job of balancing for their pvp portion of the game. Like what about pvp instance balancing , your nerfed only for the time your in pvp to be balanced to other players but when u leave its back to normal. I guess i can just hope and practice. Plate , bubble and I swear instant heals, its just to much for pvp.

Nevercrits, to change your gear on the fly try the addon Outfitter. I think every Druid should have it. Excellent way to swap what gear you are wearing.

TY for the info guys ill grab out fitter and its nice to know when i hit 80 maybe 70 to ?, the BG will balance out. Ill just consider this training for now.


Edit: The comment maybe 70 is due to the fact im waiting for Wrath to go on sale or the price to come down before i buy it.

Edited, Jan 15th 2009 3:28pm by nevercrits

Heh - even at 80 pallys are a bit OP still I find. At 70, they were sometimes bursting me down in bear form (in full tank gear) within the duration of their stupid stun - very frustrating. They have been nerfed a bit since then, but are still tough.

where have you been for the last few months?
PVP is more unbalanced now at lvl 80 than at any other time, personally I love it as a prot warrior.

really? thats why rogues are killing me in stunlock and mages and killing me with instants. "balanced" is def the wrong word to use

Oh good grief, I realize text can be hard to "read" sometimes, but he did say "balanced". Whether you think it's "def" the wrong word to use or not those "" mean something. ::twitch:: As in we all already know PvP is NOT CURRENTLY Balanced. Blizzard knows it's not balanced, level 80 PvP has NEVER been balanced. The expansion has been out how long? 3 months with a vast majority of the player base NOT level 80 yet. You really think a Beta with a mere fraction of the overall millions of players is really enough to balance PVP? That these types of games descend from the clouds with a bright light and chorus singing that it's been touch by the hand of god?

It's a work in progress, it always will be.

An interesting thing about the balance at them moment, my epic geared feral logged on to kill a level 72 mage that had killed my alt a few times. He very nearly killed me! With his slow, blink, frostnova etc, I was almost out of mana from shifting to remove the movement impairing effects. If he had been frost, I might have died due to running out of mana and not being able to get to him.

Granted, I didn't go for max control after I pounced him (no early maim), but I wasn't expecting to have any trouble killing him! To make up for it, I killed him twice as he rezzed at 50% health afterwards (He had killed my alt 3 times so it was only fair) .

When in battlegrounds, i use a pretty simple tactic to survive and kill paladins as a balance druid.
first off, this goes for any class, u DONT want to be caught in moonkin form ever. The element of surprise is ur key to succes.
You should either be mounted, in cheetah form or in catform. so ur enemy has no clue youll be spamming wrath in a couple of seconds.

1: let them come to you
2: before they hit, get hots up, 90% of all paladins open with their stun, u should try to outheal as much of their damage they do during this stun with ur hots.
3: after stun, hot up again, heal up
4: dots and kite, use cyclone and roots to create distance an make them put hand of freedom on CD
5: keep dotting and hotting till they are at about 60% health, at this point they should feel like its an easy win for them.
6: cat form, sprint for about 3-4 sec
7: roots, wrathnuke, this should either surprise them enouhg to get them down, if they are slow, or make them bubble
You should have enough distance to not get hit during first seconds of bubble, the paladin will heal up during bubble and try to get close to you
after bubble, just keep rooting, dotting and hotting, till they drop below 70%, this is ur mark to drop treants and nuke like hell

WIN! well, most of the time ;P