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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 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. [...]

I logged in this morning to do my Isle dailies and noticed after the first few fights that I was out of mana! I’ve never had this problem before on my paladin, since the 3.0.2 patch anyways. I ate/drank and got all of my health and mana back and started paying attention to the numbers [...]

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 [...]