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[Karafa]

Originally Posted by Ephirith [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ret was not viable until 3.0; it was a pretty poor spec for the entire expansion. But when 3.0 dropped it was the most overpowered spec WoW has ever seen--for a short while, and it slowly tapered off in power as Wrath progressed.

TBC was a bad time for paladins in general in pvp. Holy paladins were too easy to control, and prot didn't have the kind of gimmicks it was given in Wrath. Even in PvE Holy was kind of disappointing for anything other than brute force main-tank healing efficiency.

Nihilum had Paladin's off-tanking up to and through BT. S3/S4 Arena was dominated by Prot Paladins in Holy gear partnered with a Prot Warrior, and Ret dps is no where near as poor as you're portraying it to be in this era.

[Noselacri]

Ret DPS is pretty horrible in TBC. If you have great gear, are very skilled and work absurdly hard, you can just exactly reach the level of the worst geared/skilled/half-assing people playing actual DPS classes. On top of this, a ret paladin brings almost nothing that a prot and a couple of holy paladins don't cover, both of which should be present in almost all raids. To make matters worse, ret is barely viable for alliance since your DPS drops by like 20% if you don't have Seal of Blood.