Alright, on topic of the accusations against these two retribution paladins: the fact is that alot of things are broken on Warmane. That's just a fact, but weapon and trinket proccing are some of the more evident ones. Items such as
http://cata.openwow.com/item=78478,
http://cata.openwow.com/item=78000,
http://cata.openwow.com/item=78475 are the most popular due to the massive increase in damage that they give due to their broken chance to procc.
http://cata.openwow.com/item=78478 however is the most noticable one, considering that it doesn't just deal instant damage to all players within a certain perimeter surrounding the player - it spawns massive tentacles of death and sexual violation.
Now, I don't know what the exact procc chance for
http://cata.openwow.com/item=78478 is on Warmane, but I know it's the same regardless of which class uses it - mathematically. The reason why it proccs more by paladins is just because the spells they have are more consistent than any other class. As far as I know
http://cata.openwow.com/item=78478 should not procc from spells, it should only procc by melee attacks i.e. the actual hits the player lands on the enemy rather than say DoTs and magic attacks. But it doesn't, on Warmane it proccs from mostly any damage the player deals rather than the singular connecting hits. So, with this in mind - it makes sense that AoE spells have a higher chance of causing
http://cata.openwow.com/item=78478 to procc since it has a higher amount of damaging attacks/"procc triggers". This is how it is on Warmane, just as how it is with
http://cata.openwow.com/item=78000 and
http://cata.openwow.com/item=78475 (and a whole bunch of other items that I won't bother linking here.) It has been this way for a long time, and yes; it should not be this way.
But they should not be banned for this - it is not their fault. Flaunting about killing a multiboxer with 50 tentacles is obvious intention for abuse, but in a 40v40 raid it is not the same. It is not. In a 40v40 clash the obvious choice for a retribution paladin is to use AoE damaging spells to deal as much damage as possible, and said spells are
http://cata.openwow.com/spell=25742 (for some reason the open-wow spell won't display the
aura effect),
http://cata.openwow.com/spell=53385 and
http://cata.openwow.com/spell=71122. Regardless of the broken procc chance by
http://cata.openwow.com/item=78478 this is still the optimal damage output in this specific scenario for a retribution paladin, so up until this point there is nothing wrong with what they have been doing. Now, the fact that they have
http://cata.openwow.com/item=78478 equipped, well, I think that is needless to debate since practically every melee DPS uses it.
So, ultimately - what you're saying is that paladins should be banned for using spells their class is intended to use in a clash-combat situation. Even with a weapon such as
http://cata.openwow.com/item=73475 a paladin would use AoE spells to deal the optimal amount of damage. The fact that they use
http://cata.openwow.com/item=78478 is because of the overall stat and damage increase it yields regardless of the procc, as is the case with every other melee DPS that uses 2H weapons. To quote and summarize:
Regardless of being aware of this bug or not has nothing to do with the fact that it simply intrudes on the basic rotation of a retribution paladin. So no; they should not be banned, they did nothing wrong. The bug however should be fixed, and you can upvote the report on the bug tracker here:
https://www.warmane.com/bugtracker/report/4086
Banned
