The Worst Paladin Nerf Ever Conceived

Ahh yes...after several days, almost weeks of lack of stuff to talk about it all comes out in one burst. Something bad has come up: the list of new Priest spells. One of them is Mass Dispell:

Dispels magic in a 15 yard radius, removing 1 harmful spell from each friendly target and 1 beneficial spell from each enemy target. Affects a maximum of 5 friendly targets and 5 enemy targets. This dispel is potent enough to remove Magic effects that are normally undispellable.

(emphasis mine)

What does that mean? Hello Divine Shield nerf.

One person asks:

You designed the Paladin around Divine Shield. If it is now dispellable, you can adjust your design around that

And this is what Kalgan has to say about it:

This is actually true to some degree. It does allow us to adjust our designs accordingly. We felt that complete immunity with no viable counter has too significant an impact on group pvp.

At this point, we'll be better able to evaluate how much of an effect this counter has in group pvp during BC testing, and make other changes as necessary. Bear in mind that everything you see in the class/talent preview page is a reflection of what things are like in testing now, but not necessarily how things will be once the expansion is live.

And Kalgan continues with:

I don't know that you can necessarily call it negated
- It has a 1.5 second cast time, which means you have plenty of time to stun them as they cast Mass Dispel. It also means any other friendlies have an opportunity to interrupt it.
- Casting Divine Shield would still get you out of any form of crowd control and remove any debuffs, even if it got dispelled after the fact.
- You're talking about 1 of 9 classes that can counter it.
- Using your words, if it's "already on a 5 minute cooldown", then that implies to me that you've already learned to survive without it most of the time. :0
- It costs the priest a substantial chunk of mana, so it isn't something they can throw around carelessly.

Priests are just going to completely decimate us in 1 vs 1 now.