08 Jan
Posted by: petewood in: pally, raiding, retribution
Well, the 3% free hit from precision has been removed from all that were effected by it. Zharhym posted about it in the forums (source). During the transition from patch 2.4.3 to 3.0.3 the following talents were not unlearned properly by some players, resulting in those players still gaining the benefits despite the talents no [...]
23 Dec
Posted by: petewood in: drop, heroic, pally, retribution, utgarde keep, violet hold
I have been putting it off for a while now but I finally did it, I ran my first (and second) heroic dungeons over the weekend. It started out with a very fast run through regular Halls of Lightning (HoL). I got two very good dps upgrades, hands (Fists of Loken) and shoulders (Pauldrons of [...]
Woot!! This was one annoying ass bug!! Judgement bug fixed Okay, we think we have been able to isolate this bug and put in a fix that prevents Judgements from failing any longer. Assuming a little more testing supports this conclusion we plan on hotfixing this. Sorry you had to endure it for so long. [...]
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 [...]
10 Dec
Posted by: petewood in: pally, retribution
This is my gear wishlist. Most of the gear is easily obtainable. The ideas are coming from MaxDPS.com. This list does not include any badge gear, any heroic 5-man gear or any 10/25-man gear. Put another way, this is only 5-man regular dungeon/crafted/quest/drop gear. Slot Current New Source Head The Horseman’s Helm Spiked Titansteel Helm [...]
09 Dec
Posted by: petewood in: instance, jewelcrafting, pally, professions, raiding, retribution
I grabbed a few more points in jewelcrafting now, up to 280. It’s not nearly complete and has already cost me around 750g. I’ve sold off a lot of my Cobalt Ore and have another 1k gold to blow on mats. I’ve got quite a few gems to cut for skill-up points, when/if they are [...]
08 Dec
Posted by: petewood in: cooking, jewelcrafting, mining, pally, professions, retribution
My pally dinged 80 on Friday! Yay!! Now I get to start working on leveling up jewelcrafting and eventually cooking. I just got my mining to 450 this morning and that means that I can start to craft some Titansteel Bars! My first goal will be the Spiked Titansteel Helm, followed by the Titansteel Destroyer. [...]
25 Nov
Posted by: petewood in: holy, pally, patch, prot, retribution
Quoting Ghostcrawler (source – from blue.mmo-champion.com cuz I’m not going to dig through 25 pages of paladin QQ to find the original GC update): I made some clarifications to my initial post. You can use Hand of Protection during the internal cooldown, just not on yourself. The idea is to prevent the paladin from being [...]
25 Nov
Posted by: petewood in: azjol-nerub, borean tundra, ding, dragonblight, howling fjord, instance, leveling, nexus, pally, prot, retribution, tank, utgarde keep
Wrath of the Lich King leveling is insanely easy! I started out in Howling Fjord. After I finished that zone, I went to the other starting zone, Borean Tundra, to do the quests there, since I figured they would be easy XP for me. That was a great idea if I have to say so [...]