Originally Posted by
azrael4h
Why, exactly? Clerics do not have the feats to burn on 5 middling AC on live, and in fact would get more with a Monk level. Likewise with Favored Souls. Both are feat-starved classes. Wizards do not have the AC to make it matter. Nor do Sorcerers. So they won't be taking CE either.
So in the end, the only classes that are actually affected by CE's nerfing of spell cooldowns or cost are... Paladins and Rangers, who both can achieve viable AC more easily and have sp-based healing. So the change, in fact, nerfs Paladins and Rangers' already limited self healing. While Clerics, FvS, Wizards, and Sorcerers will continue to never take that feat anyway. PA at least you have the thought of Clerics and FvS being built for melee and using that. Of course, this simply further removes viability from a class variant, one that's already marginal. Of course, it also affects Bards, who are far more likely to be a melee-focused build. But those are buff-bots only, and no one plays them anyway. /sarcasm