by Normy » Tue Nov 25, 2008 2:23 pm
What you are digging into with all that is class balance. Debates like this rage forever.
I will give my humble opinion. With this expansion, I'm happy with where we are at the moment. No, we cannot AE agro, this has been called class-defining by the devs for SK's, so we are unlikely to get it any time soon. True, our DPS is lower than SK's on live content, which is most content.
Paladins are bastards of clerics and warriors. SK's are bastards of necro/warrior. Given that, they SHOULD be more DPS since nearly all their inherited spells are from a DPS class. Only recently have they been given a dot worth a damn at all. They have other cool abilities now as well, but I wouldn't want that DPS in exchange for our ability to heal.
I think we are more hindered by people coming out of the woodworks claiming fantastic numbers that happens whenever paladins begin to complain about our DPS being so low. I've seen people post, at level 80, they were pushing 3600 DPS frequently on undead content for over 3-5 minute fights. Of course, I've not seen parses that actually back this up, but for some reason those are the people taken as truth. I'll say right now, I have alot of my DPS AA's, and burning virtually everything I could stack (intensity, holyforge, trib, second spire, self weapon proc) using a solteris weapon with a damage aug, but not having any bard or shammy's in the group, I've maxed out around 2100 DPS on a 3 min fight at 85. /shrug, guess I'm not uber.
Yea, slay isn't as big of a boost as it appears over time. I don't know the exact number, but listening to those that want it nerfed, its decribed as a 400% increase, while in actuality its parsed over time as more of a 25-35% increase. But don't quote my numbers, I don't have it precise and I have no parses that I can link right now to support it.