Exorcised

A minor patch hit the realms today, 3.1.1

The patch was only small, around 8mb, designed to fix a few bugs mostly. However, included in the patch was an undocumented change to Exorcism. Just last week in the huge 3.1 patch, Exorcism was given the ability to be used on all targets in an attempt to add some sustainability to Retribution after some tweaks to their burst were made.

Just this morning we've been told this is no longer usable on players. Apparently it was causing "too much burst" for, what we believe, were Retribution paladins talented and glyphed for it. As Holy, and Protection in my secondary spec, it's not a huge issue. It was nice bonus for when some punk tried to gank me.

The thing that gets me is that how did it only last for a week? 3.1 was in testing for months. Players are reporting crits with this spell from 3k anywhere to 5k. The higher of the scale presumably from a Ret pally aimed at a low resilience target. As Holy with 2k+ spell power mine barely crittically striked for 2.7k even with my 3 points in Sanctity of Battle. There were no Arenas last week so it can't have possibly come from whiney Arena players.

While I'll miss having a 30y damaging spell in my arsenal, it's not the end of the world for us, especially my Holy brethren but I'm just lost by the reasoning of the nerf. It just boggles my mind that his was only learned to be "too much" during the first week of the patch and changed with no warning and presumably no real info regarding the necessity.