20 Apr
Posted by: petewood in: attack power, cooking, daily, enchanting, fishing, glyph, heroic, holy, pally, patch, spellpower
So due the greatness that is dual-speccing, I’m a new holy pally with better than average new holy pally gear. I have only one piece of blue gear (my shoulders) and no green gear at all. In the LFG channel, I nervously click the “I are healer” checkbox since it’s sort of a misnomer when [...]
15 Apr
Posted by: petewood in: enchants, glyph, heroic, holy, jewelcrafting, pally, patch, retribution
Patch 3.1 is finally live. The servers were down all day and most of the night (for me, on the east coast). I guessed the servers would come up around 10pm EST and from what I saw, I was mostly right. I checked at 9 and my server was down. I checked again at 11:30ish [...]
12 Feb
Posted by: petewood in: glyph, holy, patch, prot, retribution
This is truly awesome! The first we’ve officially heard about dual specs and positive confirmation that it will be in the next patch (3.1). All of the information is very new and will take some time to digest. Here is the Q&A source. Below is the quoted text.
Talent Dual Spec Q&A with Ghostcrawler
With the next [...]
20 Jan
Posted by: petewood in: defense, drop, glyph, heroic, holy, instance, jewelcrafting, pally, patch, professions, prot, raiding, retribution, tank, trinket
This past weekend was a great weekend for my pally. I got a quite a few achievements, raided Naxxramas as ret (I actually left with four drops) and I bit the bullet and respecced prot and tanked my first WotLK instance, a heroic one at that!
Naxx
I raided Naxx with my guild on Friday and Saturday [...]
15 Dec
Posted by: petewood in: glyph, holy, instance, pally, prot, retribution, tank
I respecced to prot over the weekend because I really liked tanking instances. I wanted to get to the 540 defense rating that makes you uncrittable by raid bosses 3 level over you (i.e. level 83). I was looking to get as close to that number as possible with the tanking gear that I’ve been [...]
12 Dec
Posted by: petewood in: glyph, holy, nerf, pally, patch, retribution
This is a big-time buff patch for ret pallys. Below are the patch notes. The only nerf I see is noted in red below. This change should really only effect Holy paladins since they are the only spec that should be stacking int (and therefore, their max mana is not the same and their base [...]
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 [...]