Archive for October, 2008

Paladin hotfixed, again

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

I logged in this morning to do my Isle dailies and noticed after the first few fights that I was out of mana! I’ve never had this problem before on my paladin, since the 3.0.2 patch anyways. I ate/drank and got all of my health and mana back and started paying attention to the numbers [...]

What’s the big deal with ret pally nerfs?!

Monday, October 27th, 2008

I won’t hit on them all, I’ll only do two that I think are the largest issues.
First off, rank 3 of Judgements of the Wise (JoTW) reads as:
Your Judgement spells have a 100% chance to grant the Replenishment effect to up to 10 party or raid members mana regeneration equal to 0.25% of their maximum [...]

More paladin nerfs incoming

Monday, October 27th, 2008

I normally don’t give a damn about incoming changes, so long as the class is still fun to play but this latest batch is a killer in my opinion.  From the forums, here is the nerf post (source).

I know many of you asked good questions before the posts hit their limit. I am not convinced [...]

My pally is level 70!

Monday, October 20th, 2008

I finally dinged level 70 on my paladin Sunday morning! I had a lot of spell upgrades, including Blessing of Might, Rank 8 and Avenging Wrath! My pally finally has her wings! It seems like I’ll have to wait for boss fights and/or soloing elites to use them though, since I seem to blow through [...]

Paladin overnight nerfs

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

I wrote a post about the paladin nerfs this morning. There was finally an official comment from a Blizzard employee, known as Ghostcrawler (source).
As I stated yesterday, we are happy with Ret’s PvE damage and sustatined damage in PvP, but were concerned that the burst damage in PvP could be too high. We discussed this [...]

3.0.2 Paladin - judging change

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

There are now three judgment spells, Judgement of Light, Judgement of Wisdom and Judgement of Justice.
The standard holy damage dealt by Judgement spells is 20% of attack power plus 32% of spell power; some seals may increase this amount (source).
Judgement of Light restores is 18% of the casting paladin’s current attack power plus 18% of [...]

3.0.2 Paladin - spellpower or attack power?

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

From what I’ve read around the internet, 3.0.2 prot and ret paladins should now be stacking strength. You gain spellpower from attack power (AP). You gain AP from strength.  If talented (Divine Strength, 5 talent points = +15% strength), you gain 2.3 attack power from every point of strength.  Ret pally’s should have been stacking [...]

Incoming nerf to ret paladins

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

So it looks as if all the crying by other classes that say that retribution paladins are OP (overpowered) have prevailed. One of the new spells, Divine Storm, and one of the reworked spells, Seal of Light, were nerfed.
Divine Storm was nerfed by making the damage physical whereas it was holy damage. The nerf in [...]

Glyphs for my ret paladin

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

At 70, you 2 major glyphs and 3 minor glyphs. At 80, you get 3 major and 3 minor glyphs.
The major glyphs that I plan to get at level 70 are Glyph of Judgment, which increases damage from judgments by 10% and the a Glyph of Seal of Command, which increases the chance of proccing [...]

Patch 3.0.2 and my pally

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Blizzard released patch 3.0.2 for WoW yesterday and am I glad that I finally started leveling my paladin again!!
The servers were all supposed to be up at 5pm EST yesterday but there were lots of issues from what I’ve read. I had family stuff to do so I didn’t notice any problems until I started [...]

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