Any hope that prot paladins can pvp in WotLK?

[Wakeman]

Everyone know that prot paladins suck in pvp. Is there any hope that this will change in WotLK?

Right now a large proportion of our damage is reactive, which is useless against casters or hunters, and we cannot do much if melee do not attack us. Will Hammer of the Righteous and Shield of the Righteous add enough direct damage so that we can kill someone "actively"? Any thought?

[Agodaar]

Unless Blizzard fucks something up prot will always suck in pvp.. Both Warrior and Paladin prot.

[Andryana]

I don't think we will be able to do much as prot.

I'm kind of hoping that rumour of being able to have 2 specs to switch from would be true.. i would put some healing gear and play a healer on BG's which i actually like.

[Snake-Aes]

A Full prot build is nothing but something that just doesn't die in PvP, making you a good flag runner(yay poj) and guard to hold a place with a healer, but just that.

I know warriors with 20-ish points in prot are very survivable, and can still do reasonable damage.

[Wakeman]

I'm kind of hoping that rumour of being able to have 2 specs to switch from would be true.. i would put some healing gear and play a healer on BG's which i actually like.

I hope they will implement this feature too. Though I would still love to see prot paladins have role in pvp.

[ulushnar]

Hey, I killed a Prot Warrior yesterday! Whilst mind controlled in TK.

[Wakeman]

If only taunt can work on players.......

[Wakeman]

Hey, I killed a Prot Warrior yesterday! Whilst mind controlled in TK.

lol

Another proof that Prot Paladin > Prot Warrior!

[Snake-Aes]

If only taunt can work on players.......

Roll a DK

Death Grip is the sole reason I'll have a DK at all, originally. It's just too funny being able to play hot potato using 5 or so DKs

<starts punting gnomes>

[ulushnar]

I actually thought about this just the now.

In the new edition of the Dungeons and Dragons tabletop game the tank classes have an ability known as "marking". Simply put if a marked mob doesn't attack the person who marked them, they have a penalty to hit and (in the case of Paladins) they take damage. It's been designed to model a computer RPG tank's taunt without explicitly forcing a monster or player to attack the the marker.

Something like that would be an interesting PVP ability for tanking classes, a debuff applied to a player that does bad stuff if they don't attack the debuffer.

[Snake-Aes]

I actually thought about this just the now.

In the new edition of the Dungeons and Dragons tabletop game the tank classes have an ability known as "marking". Simply put if a marked mob doesn't attack the person who marked them, they have a penalty to hit and (in the case of Paladins) they take damage. It's been designed to model a computer RPG tank's taunt without explicitly forcing a monster or player to attack the the marker.

Something like that would be an interesting PVP ability for tanking classes, a debuff applied to a player that does bad stuff if they don't attack the debuffer.

So basically we'd have to consolidate the Ultimte ability of annoying the hell out of the mob...
I like it.

[Wakeman]

If only taunt can work on players.......

Roll a DK

Death Grip is the sole reason I'll have a DK at all, originally. It's just too funny being able to play hot potato using 5 or so DKs

<starts punting gnomes>

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I think when using on player, Death Grip only pulls the target player toward you but will not force him to attack you. Or will it?

[Snake-Aes]

If only taunt can work on players.......

Roll a DK

Death Grip is the sole reason I'll have a DK at all, originally. It's just too funny being able to play hot potato using 5 or so DKs

<starts punting gnomes>

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I think when using on player, Death Grip only pulls the target player toward you but will not force him to attack you. Or will it?

I'm not sure if it forces a retarget, but it does pull. That alone is funny enough for me.

[Andryana]

I'm pretty sure it's only a pull, but anyway it will fun to see that on BG's.

It gotta have some diminishing returns.. or else a player could be a ping-pong ball.

[Snake-Aes]

I'm pretty sure it's only a pull, but anyway it will fun to see that on BG's.

It gotta have some diminishing returns.. or else a player could be a ping-pong ball.

Can't tell given it's on a long CD(like 30 secs talented). If it doesn't, it'sl ike I said.

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