The bat comes a-swinging again.

You know it, folks. Another overnight "hotfix". This time to Vindication which has been fine all the way through TBC and all the PTRs in WotLK up until 6 months in when BAM! The nerf-bat smacked it around with a vengeance.

Honestly, this is just stupid now. Why are Paladins the only class getting "overnight hotfixes" without even a word prior to it? This stinks of WotLK early days where JotW got nerfed from 33 to 15%.

Everything is starting to feel more and more like it's the badly thought out idea of Kalgan who is notorious for his hate towards Paladins back in the EverQuest days. And by the looks of it, Ghostcrawler jumped on that bandwagon.

A quote from Bornakk:
"Increasingly it felt like someone playing against a Ret-Pally really only had 60% of their health bar because Vindication took away 20% from the start and then Hammer of Wrath kicked in when they had 20% left. This change was something we could confidently hotfix and would have a minimal to no impact on the PvE side of things."

Protip: Hammer of Wrath does NOT kill a high-resilience target.

A quote from Ghostcrawler:
" The point was that Retribution's representation is at a pretty good place for the highest rated players. Maybe it's even balanced. But as you drop down 100 points, its percentage grows. The deeper you drop, the more it grows. We feel like we owe the lower rated players, who still might be good at PvP and just not world-class, as balanced a game as we can."

So you balance around sub-par playing in hopes that it will level out the playing field? Nice going, idiots. But I suppose it's all good as long as the Rogue/Mage/Priest teams continue to dominate the seasons and 3vs3 brackets. Don't see much "overnight hotfixes" to those.

But, do go on and destroy the paladin class. Bit by bit.

Scrub company catering scrub players. That's what Blizzard has become.

It's no wonder the original WoW dev-team left...