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 [...]
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
Crafted, BS
or
Helm [...]
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.
The Spiked [...]
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 myself! [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]