Please lock this thread it is serving no purpose.

I predict 4 months of "WTF, shield slam is nuts" on the PTR forums followed by a patch and then 12 hour hotfix following the collective "REEEEEEEEEE" on the general forums that was somehow missed previously.

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The change to the way block trinkets proc will make the rare gigantic Shield Slam much harder to pull off. That said, Prot warriors (or paladins) are not exactly destroying everyone in PvP right now so we're not super freaked about this. The resilience change will also make it that much harder to wade into a PvP environment in full tanking gear (since defense doesn't help against spell crits). No doubt none of this will stop the flood of LOLZ SHIELD SLAM IZ OP videos for the next few months.

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Ghostcrawler demonstrates his intricate knowledge of how the forums work.

Also, he is up late. o.O

I suppose I am obligated now to say "First" by forum law.

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Ghostcrawler demonstrates his deep knowledge of how the forums work.

Also, he is up late. o.O

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GC doesnt sleep, he waits

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What's your view on cheese specs like, holy prot (very deep protection) in arena. With the recent changes to the 2s bracket, are you guys still aiming to change things like that spec in arena. Never running out of mana the survivability that comes along with it make for long and tedious matches.

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2s don't matter, and protadin healers are bad in 3s and 5s. It's a non-issue, although I feel your pain.

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What's your view on cheese specs like, holy prot (very deep protection) in arena. With the recent changes to the 2s bracket, are you guys still aiming to change things like that spec in arena. Never running out of mana the survivability that comes along with it make for long and tedious matches.

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This post was just delicious. Bolded my favorite part. Really it wouldn't be so funny if it wasn't coming from a resto druid...........but lawl.

I love how resto druids are like "nerf prot healadins, they can almost last as long in an arena as we can".

Prot is only good in 2's, and even then deep holy is still better, 2's are essentially being removed from the game in 3.2, so why would a spec that is absolutely terrible (honestly an elemental shaman is a better healer in 3's than a prot healadin) in 3's and 5's get nerfed when the only bracket it works in is being downplayed?


Seriously though, resto druid complaining about mana regen and survivability of another healer in 2's just kills me.

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The change to the way block trinkets proc will make the rare gigantic Shield Slam much harder to pull off. That said, Prot warriors (or paladins) are not exactly destroying everyone in PvP right now so we're not super freaked about this. The resilience change will also make it that much harder to wade into a PvP environment in full tanking gear (since defense doesn't help against spell crits). No doubt none of this will stop the flood of LOLZ SHIELD SLAM IZ OP videos for the next few months.

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Paladins in general won't be doing much of anything when 3.2 comes out. Goodjob.

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Paladins in general won't be doing much of anything when 3.2 comes out. Goodjob.

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See: Tanking. We will definitely be doing that.

Yes so the threads degenerated completely off topic now passed the blue post, but thanks for addressing my concerns and assuring me there's still a sort of niche available for it.


Next up, WTB parry, dodge, and SBV in place of crit for alternate warrior pvp gear.

But that's anoother thread topic.

Oddly enough they pre-empted that on Paladins, they nerfed ShoR to 100% BV from 130% BV. I wouldn't be surprised if they did the same with Shield Slam (not 130% to 100% per se, but adjust the values for the new BV increase).

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Q u o t e:
The change to the way block trinkets proc will make the rare gigantic Shield Slam much harder to pull off. That said, Prot warriors (or paladins) are not exactly destroying everyone in PvP right now so we're not super freaked about this. The resilience change will also make it that much harder to wade into a PvP environment in full tanking gear (since defense doesn't help against spell crits). No doubt none of this will stop the flood of LOLZ SHIELD SLAM IZ OP videos for the next few months.

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Wait, what? The patch notes don't insinuate anything more than their durations being doubled as opposed to their block values being doubled like everything else.
Is this not true?

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Q u o t e:
The change to the way block trinkets proc will make the rare gigantic Shield Slam much harder to pull off. That said, Prot warriors (or paladins) are not exactly destroying everyone in PvP right now so we're not super freaked about this. The resilience change will also make it that much harder to wade into a PvP environment in full tanking gear (since defense doesn't help against spell crits). No doubt none of this will stop the flood of LOLZ SHIELD SLAM IZ OP videos for the next few months.

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how long exactly have you been awake for?
i swear you were posting in this forum when i looked at it this morning, and it's now midnight...

DPS Prot warriors LOL

I just wanted to post in this thread because the title is so amazingly awesome and brutal.

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Ghostcrawler demonstrates his intricate knowledge of how the forums work.

Also, he is up late. o.O

I suppose I am obligated now to say "First" by forum law.

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No, he'll sometimes delete the post and be a jerk about it. It's not law. Best you not say first if you can avoid it.

I'm actually going to try a full prot / tank team for 3v3 (thinking prothealer / protwarrior / blooddk)....

Hopefully resil will knock the burst a rogue and mage can put out, and i will out live a priests mana any day with a prot warrior and another tank on him.

Here is hoping to have fun in 3's with the spec i like.

With tanks it will be anti melee (good bye cleave team) and if resilience does what its suppose to do with the new pally talents and block stats say good bye pmr also.

You can cc me 10 sec if you want not like your going to kill a tank in that amount if time, that's if you can time your cc when i don't have a bubble available.

Kill the blood dk, thats going to be a lol. Kill the warrior ive seen prot warriors in 5v5 tank the whole team for about 10sec. Kill the pally right and then who are you going to cc?