Patch 7.0.3: Thoughts?

[Eonwë]

Heya :}

Since the pre-Legion patch is out, and making some pretty big changes, I thought I'd ask what everyone's thinking about it so far. I'm short on time right now, but I'll throw my two cents in as soon as I can.

[Eonwë]

My thoughts:

My focus has primarily been my Paladin of course.

1.))Spells:
The spells are flashier, a little more fun to watch, when I'm actually looking at them and not focusing on the fight, hehe.

I feel like I have fewer "uh oh" buttons. If I was in trouble before, I could throw on Seal or Insight, use Word of Glory, or use my instant Flash of Light before I had to choose between Divine Shield or Lay on Hands to bail me out. I've lost Seal of Insight and instant Flash of Light, and I have to choose between Word of Glory (with a 2 charge limit every minute) or a heal on damage finisher that requires 5 Holy Power. Granted, for soloing there's Greater Blessing of Wisdom and Greater Blessing of Kings that would theoretically help with longevity, but not much for saving your bacon when you need it.

I'm not crazy about the new Greater Blessings design. Only 3 blessings can exist per Ret Paladin? Bah. The way it sounds right now, in group settings Greater Blessing of Might is going to be all we use/ we're wanted to use.

I don't like losing Seals, but I didn't like losing auras either. It added something unique to the class, but whatever. Some of the new stuff seems interesting, like when an ally dies the Ret Pally gets a damage boost.

I don't like that I lost most of my ranged abilities, particularly Exorcism. If you're going for class fantasy, you don't take away from your Holy Warrior class a spell that's all about purging evil. All that's left is Judgement, and that makes it slow doing fights like the swarming dragons in the fourth fight of Dragon Soul.

All that said, I don't feel like I've lost any power. I seem to do about as well as I did prior to the patch.


2.) Talents:
Some are interesting, some I'm undecided about. It's nice to be able to get consecration again, but I don't like much that it's a talent when other specs get it baseline. On one hand it feels like a cheat on Blizzard's part, on the other there can be a sort of fantasy justification for it.


3.) The Wardrobe:
I like it. Get gear to get appearances. See all the appearances you have. Transmog those appearances. Saving wardrobe looks as an outfit is useful to be able to save them and quick-transmog it over new gear is nice.

I'll leave it there.

Take care :}