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!
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 [...]
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 [...]
05 Feb
Posted by: petewood in: heroic, obsidian sanctum, pally, prot, raiding, retribution, tank
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 [...]
27 Jan
Posted by: petewood in: azjol-nerub, defense, drop, heroic, jewelcrafting, pally, prot, raiding, tank, trinket, utgarde pinnacle
I’ve been very busy since my last post. Between the time 3.0.8 went live and now, I’ve been running heroics and leveling jewelcrafting and also doing somethings I never thought I would do – raid 25-man Naxx and 25-man Obsidian Sanctum.
The 25-man Naxx/OS runs were very fun. I was the 3rd tank or the off-tank [...]
20 Jan
Posted by: petewood in: heroic, instance, jewelcrafting, pally, patch, prot, tank
The only thing that I didn’t like about tanking H Gundrak was that I felt I has too little health. Then I remembered I could make one of the stamina-oriented trinkets that jewelcrafters can make, the Monarch Crab and I would still be above the raid crit cap of 540 defense!
I added a Solid Sky [...]
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 [...]
16 Jan
Posted by: petewood in: pally, patch, prot, retribution, tank
There was a sweet enchant on the PTR named Titanguard. In it’s original design it was a weapon enchant that gave 75 stamina. It was changed to be a 50 stam enchant. The mats were relatively cheap in my opinion, 4 dream shards and 1 titanium bar. Now it appears that Blizzard has removed it [...]
15 Jan
Posted by: petewood in: defense, heroic, jewelcrafting, pally, professions, prot, tank, trinket
I put on my prot gear this morning, got a Frosthide Leg Armor kit filled in the empty gems slots green gem slots I had and logged out before work. When I left home, I was sitting at just under 20k health.
I want my health to be 24,000 unbuffed. I’ve been looking over the spreadsheet [...]
I created a spreadsheet over at Google Docs so that I can just modify the spreadsheet as my situation changes and this post will be automatically updated as the spreadsheet is changed. Seems simple and efficient, right?
This is all pre-raid gear since who know when I’ll step foot in Naxx, if ever. There are also [...]