Another hotfix has been applied to the game, this time to the paladin spell Holy Wrath which does AoE holy damage and provides a stun if the targets are Undead or Demon. The hotfix will apply diminishing returns to the stun effect so that Undead or Demon targets cannot be permanently stunned. It’s a pretty curious change on its own since it doesn’t really provide a drastic effect on first glance.
Lead Encounter Designer Daelo’s words pretty much provides the context of this change. He mentioned that this change will affect the difficulty of the Anub’arak encounter in the Trial of …read more

Everyone who’s quested in Zul’drak probably knows Thrym, especially since he’s part of a quest where you’re supposed to kill him while riding on the back of a Storm Giant. Even if you’ve decided to skip this quest, his size means you’ve probably seen him anyway. He’s a lot like a Fel Reaver in that he seems to come out from nowhere to gank you while you’re questing around that area where he patrols.
A few days ago, I was in Crystalsong Forest doing one of those Argent Tournament daily quests involving that zone. As I was peacefully roaming around …read more

A thought just dawned on me last week as I was being convinced to level a priest as an alt to accompany some of my guild mates as they level their lowbies. If you were to ask me in the Vanilla WoW days about playing a healer class, my response would be anywhere between “never!” and “probably not”. In those days, my mage was my main character and had a few now deleted alts that were also dps classes or hybrids that were sort of a dps spec. But since these alts were so low level, the spec didn’t really …read more

Every now and then I come up with a post ranting about something. This is one of them. Ever since I realized that jousting in the Argent Tournament was easy when you know how, the notion of gaining access to their rewards that you get from Champion’s Seals especially for my alts became something to look forward to. I already benefited from getting two of the epic weapons from them on two of my characters and am also looking forward to it on my warlock since he’s working his up up the tourney.
I already marked my holy paladin as the …read more

The Class Q&A feature in the WoW website was been rolling smoothly with quite a number already done. We’ve seen the ones for Shaman, Mage, Death Knight, and Warlock come out already. Now it’s time for us to see what Ghostcrawler and the development team has to say about the Paladin class moving forward. A lot of what they said in this Q&A aren’t really new if you’ve been following the PTR patch notes for patch 3.2 but I guess it’s nice to be able to hear straight from them why some changes were made.
For Holy Paladins, they talked about …read more

Finally the missing piece of the new Ret pally puzzle has been released. The new Seal of Blood glyph has been reworked. If you’ve been following this issue, the removal of Spiritual Attunement as a baseline ability caused some stir in the Ret pally community since Spiritual Attunement served a pretty important purpose for them. It gave healers more reason to heal through the recoil damage of Seal of Blood at the same time it gave them mana back from the heals they receive. Now that SA will no longer be at their disposal, Ret pallies needed some sort …read more

After all the ruckus about the removal of Spiritual Attunement as a baseline ability, which affects a Retribution paladin’s mana regeneration very erratically, the talk has shifted a bit towards their low damage output. Fortunately for all Retribution paladins out there, Ghostcrawler admitted that such just might be the case and he offered a possible solution too!

When all that is said and done, Ret’s PvE damage is still probably a little low. Buffing Divine Storm or allowing RV to benefit from Crusader Strike are two possible places to add more damage.
Note that I made no promises. These …read more