by Elizabeth Wachowski 
Jan 22nd 2012 at 10:00AM
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| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Love Is In the Air | 2/2 - 2/15 |
| Blackrock Foundry Normal and Heroic open | 2/3 |
| Darkmoon Faire | 2/8 - 2/15 |
| Blackrock Foundry Mythic opens | 2/10 |
| Lunar Festival | 2/16 - 3/2 |
| Blackrock Foundry LFR wing 1 opens | 2/17 |
| Blackrock Foundry LFR wing 2 opens | 2/24 |
| Darkmoon Faire | 3/1 - 3/8 |
| Blackrock Foundry LFR wing 3 opens | 3/10 |
| Blackrock Foundry LFR wing 4 opens | 3/24 |
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
yous95 Jan 22nd 2012 10:19AM
Mr. Snuffles > Blood Elf Retadin
Skyburnone Jan 22nd 2012 10:24AM
That tree is photobombing this picture o_o.
Andrew R. Jan 22nd 2012 10:39AM
Anyone else see the face on the retadin's WWE size belt?
protopet Jan 22nd 2012 10:44AM
This is actually a screenshot of blizzard's newest raid boss. Wispy Woods
Namus Jan 22nd 2012 5:56PM
wow haven't heard that name in ages, gogo Kirby!
Mike Jan 22nd 2012 11:38AM
I actually see so few retadins anymore it's ridiculous. They seemed to make up the vast majority of the paladin population in Wrath, but my hypothesis (that I have no way of testing) is that they all went prot once Cata rolled around, chasing faster queue times. If I /inspect and then just run around clicking paladins, I'm actually pleasantly SURPRISED when I find a single ret in the vicinity.
It might be good that there are more tanks; I'll concede that. The downside, of course, is that most of the fresh protadins are either straight terrible or have the DPS mindset, and I honestly believe that protection paladins are the new "death knight tanks" of the Wrath days. At the very least, when our warrior is out and our raid group pugs a tank, experience shows I have the most reason to be nervous if I'm going to be working alongside another paladin.
/bitteroldman
I've been a prot paladin for years and these galldarn rookies aren't doin' their research. Usin' DPS gear and not taking Divine Guardian...make protadins look bad, me included! Get offa my lawn!
VioletArrows Jan 22nd 2012 1:23PM
Not so much faster queue times, but more like all of Cata's changes killed any semblance of fun/survivability in retribution. And no, I'm not after your job (I hate tanking), I literally do more dps and *don't die* doing normal solo stuff in prot.
terph Jan 22nd 2012 3:56PM
Yeah, and it's hard to stay competitive DPS-wise. Takes work and even that perfect execution will sometimes be undermined by the RNG gods frowning upon you. I was looking to compare my logs with other ret paladins on my server, and I discovered that there really aren't any others. Maybe 1 or 2 other people competitively raiding and often not as ret. I assume many of them probably went prot/holy or flipped to another DPS toon.
Caylynn Jan 22nd 2012 4:04PM
I was main spec holy with off-spec ret all through Wrath. Ret was fun to play on my off nights, for questing, or when we would decrease to 2 healers on heroic modes in 10 mans after running 3 for the first while.
Cata killed all the fun I had going ret. I didn't want a spec that was complicated to play when I went dps. I wanted something fun! If I wanted challenge, then that's what healing was for.
Now I'm holy all the time, even when doing dailies - I just can't stand ret. I am working on getting a prot gear set though, as I know questing/dailies will go a heck of a lot faster as prot than as holy. Ret is sadly dead to me. :(
yab Jan 23rd 2012 12:22AM
It's that darn Divine Purpose proc I tells ya! But luckily (at least from what they shown) the original Seal of Command...seal, will be making a come back in Mists. Should make those big hits come back.
yab Jan 23rd 2012 12:22AM
'twas reply to Mike. I could have sworned I hit reply under his post!
nathaniel.crisp Jan 23rd 2012 12:50PM
Headline is from a newspaper at the end of a fantastic movie......Transylvania 6500 so gonnawatch it with the kiddos when I get home tonight.......
Also I can't be the only who realized the reference or maybe my age is showing