Respecced to prot and achieving 540 defense, dual spec, glyph changes in 3.0.8

Monday, December 15th, 2008

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 [...]

3.0.8 Paladin changes on the PTR

Friday, December 12th, 2008

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 [...]

My opinion on the upcoming paladin changes

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Divine Shield: Penalty changed so that all damage done is reduced by 50% instead of a attack speed penalty.
1) Divine Protection no longer causes an attack penalty. Divine Shield’s penalty was changed to 50% less damage done by the paladin.
This is fine in my opinion. I’ve always thought it was too OP to bubble and [...]

Upcoming paladin changes

Monday, November 24th, 2008

Ghostcrawler has provided a list of the upcoming paladin changes, due out with the next content patch (source):
We have already announced or suggested all of these changes would be forthcoming in the next minor content patch. I thought I would list them all in one place for ease of use.
Divine Shield: Penalty changed so that [...]

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 [...]

Pally is 61 and holy atm

Friday, September 26th, 2008

I’ve managed to level my pally up to 61. I wanted to do some instances as ret but I got booted after it was determined that our warrior tank would be better as dps and a new tank was found…
So I bit the bullet and went holy since I had some +healing gear already. I [...]

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