Wizardry<\/a>, which exists solely to allow cloth-wearers to not be penalized for only being able to wear cloth.<\/p>\nObviously, they never had problems with tanks wanting lower armor class gear. But hunters would use rogue leather, moonkins and resto druids would use priest cloth, holy paladins would constantly use resto shammy mail and such like.<\/p>\n
So they fixed it. Add the specializations, bam, problem fixed, because there is NO WAY that any amount of lower armor class gear would ever trump 5% bonus strength, stamina, agility or intellect.<\/p>\n
Seriously, think about that. 5% bonus to whatever your most-desired stat is.<\/p>\n
So why am I, and others, still seeing holy paladins running around wearing CLOTH and LEATHER and MAIL?!<\/p>\n
Stop it.<\/p>\n
Right now.<\/p>\n
I mean it.<\/p>\n
You would be better off wearing three pieces of ret or prot gear, so long as they’re plate, than three well-itemized healing pieces that are cloth, leather or mail.<\/em> That’s how good the bonus is. 5% intellect not only gets buffed by Blessing of Kings and Mark of the Wild, but also adds to your spellpower and crit. It’s not just adding to your mana pool. Intellect is what we’re made of, people. Take anything you can to add to your intellect. It is your primary stat. And being dressed all in plate? Well, that’s part of what a paladin should be doing.<\/p>\nThe same goes for anyone else who isn’t wearing their max armor class in all their slots. Why are you purposely gimping yourself? Why are you losing out on 5% of your best stat?<\/p>\n
Sadly, it seems rampant among uneducated holy paladins, though. We can equip all armor classes, so it’s not horribly unusual to see one sporting mail AND plate AND cloth. Which is sad. And tragic.<\/p>\n
Like I said before, STOP IT<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\nThank you. That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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