"Excuse me, waiter. Another round of nerfs, please."

Yeah, this time it's Lay on Hands. 5 years it's been perfectly fine and suddenly the bat comes a-swinging again.

Why?

It can't be used in Arenas so it can't be for that reason it's nerfed.
It is a lifesaver in PvE if you are suddenly up shit creek. Both for you or for the tank or whoever might benefit from it.

The only thing that remains is duels and Battlegrounds. And honestly, if it is nerfed because of that, then we can safely say that Paladins are the only class to be ever nerfed because of 1vs1 and Battlegrounds where people with little to no resilience roam and get one-shotted because they're in full greens or quest blues or any combination there of.

The nerf? Ah, yes. If you use it on yourself you get 2 lovely minutes of juicy forbearance.

I know. It's fucking retarded.

Death Knights have access to far better instant self-heals than Paladins have. Even if you include Lay on Hands. And they aren't on an 11-20 minute cooldown either. Not to mention that Arms warriors - any who knows what the hell he/she is doing - can completely and utterly annihilate a holy paladin.

Lay on Hands is overpowered but a 75% healing reduction through Mortal Strike and Unrelenting Assault isn't?

Ghostcrawler (who else?) said that it wasn't "fair" that you have to kill a Paladin 3 times when you only have to kill another class 1 time. That only says that we've got fuck all offensive tools and the other class beating the living daylights out of us have all the necessary tools at their immediate disposal to lay down some serious hurt on us.

We can't have an MS effect because this is a unique Warrior/Rogue/Hunter/Mage/Shadow Priest/Warlock ability.

We can't have a gap closer because this is a unique Druid/Warrior/Rogue/Death Knight ability.

We can't have a slow effect because this is a unique Mage/Warlock/Rogue/Warrior/Death Knight/Shaman/Hunter ability.

We can't have a proper interrupt/silence because this is a unique Mage/Warlock/Priest/Warrior/Rogue/Death Knight/Shaman/Hunter ability.


"And that is called Balance." (name the quote and get a cookie.)