I’m reinstalling warcraft as speak (er, as I type and you read, if you read this…). My goal it to start back with my pally, dps-ing it up till I get some new tanking/healing gear and then I’ll be in your pugs, noobing it up for ya!

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 [...]

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 [...]

I don’t have a lot of time to comment on these changes at the moment, but here they are, from mmo-champion.
All paladins auras had their range extended from 30 yards to 40 yards.
Holy

Sacred Shield now cannot be on more than one target at any one time.
Infusion of Light no longer has a chance to reduce [...]

I just saw this on mmo-champion tonight:
Protection

Divine Protection: Cooldown reduced to 3 min.

The current CD is 5 minutes! This can be talented down to (2 points in Sacred Duty) 4 minutes but down to 3 and I’m assuming talented, it will be down to two minutes? That’s a HUGE change and very welcome!

The PTR has patch 3.1 on it. You can copy your character over and start your testing now. Now for patch note greatness (source)…
General
Players at maximum level will now be able to visit their trainer to pay a one-time fee and access the dual talent specialization feature. (1000 gold)
A new Gear Manager feature has been [...]

Is crazy high, not as high as some deathknight tanks I’ve run with before, but it’s pretty damn high.
A few nights ago, I set a personal best, in Heroic Utgarde Keep with 1776 dps, as a tank.

Then last night, UK was the heroic daily again! So I found  a group, let them know that I [...]

Here are the gems and enchants that are relevant to tanking. This is from my limited prot pally point of view. I don’t know what gems or enchants the other tanks need but I’m sure that most are the same.
Enchants
Head

Arcanum of the Stalwart Protector revered with Argent Crusade

Shoulders

Greater Inscription of the Pinnacle exalted with Son’s [...]

The announced changes seem to be prot-pally related, for the most part (source).

Blessing of Kings – this spell is now a base ability trainable by all paladins.

Blessing of Kings being a baseline talent is AWESOME. This is something the pally community has been raving about for ages.

Exorcism – this spell now causes damage to [...]

Last night, I was a part of a 25-man OS pug. I was uber-buffed – over 5k AP and just over 36% crit. Here is a screen shot I took just before were going to attempt Sarth.
Here are some other screenies of Dessara in her prot gear, with the Red Sword of Courage and it’s [...]