Heroic fun

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

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 the [...]

Judgement bug fix is live

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

The judgement bug has apparently been fixed, according to Ghostcrawler(Source).
This is awesome news for all paladins!

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 [...]

Personal (easily obtainable) gear wishlist for my ret pally

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

This is my gear wishlist. Most of the gearĀ  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
Crafted, BS
or

Helm [...]

Paladins get a baseline ranged taunt!

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

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 able to [...]

Stamina oriented Jewelcrafter only trinkets

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

For JC’s only,  Solid Dragon’s Eye = 41 stam gem.  JCs can use 3 of these and they are prismatic gems, meaning they match whatever color gem slot they are placed in, so they can be used to meet the socket bonus of the item.
Solid Majestic Zircon = 30 stam blue gem, epic quality.
Solid Sky [...]

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 [...]

Paladin hotfixed (again)

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

So the paladin’s were hot-nerfed again. This time, the developers made Avenging Wrath cause Forbearance again. The forbearence debuff was removed in patch 3.0.2 (and now re-added). I don’t feel that this was a horrible nerf though. The was another PvP nerf.
Paladins were able to use Divine Shield and then pop their wings (i.e. cast [...]

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