European Blue to Paladin Tanks "We'll fix you eventuall

Anyone else find it kinda odd how the customer service on EU forums is so much better than the US?

Shame the EU forums are banned at my work place.

Reading the US forums makes me want to take my holy shield, smash my face into it.

Edit:

Sorry I forgot, I did have a point.

Can't wait for Zul, just to see if they're going in the right direction about it all. But lets be honest, they've improved!
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Tanked:
- Attumen and Midnight (same time)
- Maiden
- Offtanked Gruul

the EU forums arent as good as they sound, the grass is always greener and all that.

mind you, ive been banned for nearly 18 months, so what would i know
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http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Tarren+Mill&n=Lolelf
Upcoming tankadin!

As usual, nerfs are faster than improvements for pally.

I wonder how the new 10 man will be for us. If it is a time encounter perhaps we can AoE type tank it then and rip through it quicker then the CC Required classes will.


I also cant wait for the new badges stuff we can purchase with the upgrade of 2.3


As for the fix in time, I guess shall see.
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Heal? Did Caeser heal when he conquered Gaul?

So far, we're not bad at Karazhan, even if you don't count on exorcism.
The bigger the raid is, the less shiny we seem to be. I doubt Zul will help us much.

I still have hope for 2.3. I guess it probably wouldn't be hitting live servers until late November at the earliest at this point, even if it went to PTR in, say, 2 weeks, so that might be what the CM meant by "It might take a while."
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Me, LOL!

From Blizard, "It might take a while." is translated by "we'll see for WowTLK."

Now mind you, this is infinitely better than "The developers are satisfied with the current state of paladins" or "Given the potent buffs and heals paladins bring to raids, it seems unfair to us for them to tank as well as they presently do" or "of late we have unintentionally weakened warriors' status as the premier tanking class, and this will be unequivocally fixed in an emergency patch being applied this evening".

That said, the wait does indeed seem endless and is indeed driving me nuts.
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Scarlet Crusade - 0/49/12 - Uncrushable at 13.4k
Gruul the Dragonkiller attacks. You block.

"It might take a while" = v3 patch 3.2
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"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist."
-Verbal Kint

Where is Velhym when you need him?

Just give us some more stamina, and give us it now!
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What seems really sad to me is that in the early days of TBC beta they had the changes where they should have been to allow paladins to be equal in functionality with warriors as tanks. Warriors who felt their role was threatened in raid encounters and in general cried and moaned about their horrible fate (as much about their own talent changes as about the paladin changes, actually) and the result was nerfing paladin prot.
Since then there have been a few other changes, but realistically they had it right before (the stam was there, the damage mitigation talent balance was there, etc.) and just haven't gotten around to getting back to that.
It's disappointing, really.
In the meantime, regardless of how many times many of us pull off great control of multiple adds in aoe tanking situations on trash or boss adds (the role we are primarily, if not entirely, relegated to fill, which seems fine with some people . . . ) there still is pressure against us bein prot or being brought to raids at all.
Being forced into a niche/specialist role to the extent it seems we are is pretty unpleasant. Maybe that pressure isn't universal and some guilds run differently (I get the impression Psiven does more MTing than many of the rest of us get to, for example). Maybe I'm just bitter at my own particular situation and don't realize how it could be somewhere else. It seems to me that our situation is too analagous to if they made warlocks so they were only useful against demons and elementals for their banishes and damage, and for soulstones, healthstones, and imp buff. Possessing the skills, but lacking the tools needed to perform - that's how I feel.
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Mavrix
BE Tankadin
Dalaran

http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/#character-sheet.xml?r=Dalaran&n=Mavrix