Evolved mode has zero failure states

[Bru_Tus]

This concerns me as well honestly. And something has felt missing with Paladin. The Atonement combo and Confiteor. It's just gonna feel comparatively dull. What has made Paladin so good for a long time has been its variety of things to press over 60s and it looks like they're truncating a bunch of it so that it's more like a barebones 40s rotation.

I don't know that a counter attack is quite enough appeal to lose what I currently find fun about it, especially when it seems there's nothing remotely challenging about achieving it.

In a similar way it feels like DRG will lose a lot of weaving and that's what I currently enjoy about it. It has positionals but it seems like they could probably all get nullified and I prefer the weaving part of it. I do like Elusive Jump but that also isn't enough and on that note they should bring back Spineshatter.

I currently play Paladin in PvP and even that feels more fun than what we are going to get with Evolved Paladin. I don't quite know how they got the same job and a similar task but ripped some of its attacks away for 8.0 and call it "Evolved".

I'm really worried that the way they designed Reborn mode is to double down on the idea that anything in this game that should engage your brain is quarantined into Savage and above content.

Counterattacks could be something incredibly important to optimize in Savage, maybe more than old Shield Swipe. If Shield Swipe is still a thing today, in just M12S there would be an incredible amount of optimization to be done to trigger shield swipes as an off-tank. But in casual content, like man, sometimes you can go through a boss with 1 raidwide every 2 minutes. Some bosses don't even have tankbusters. It would be the dullest thing ever to try to counterattack in casual content.

This bifurcation is horrible and I don't know how they think it's acceptable. Maybe because the playerbase has really changed and bifurcated itself.