Archive for May, 2009

Arena Healing Tips for Holy Paladins

I’ve been doing arenas quite a lot lately, so I thought I’d post some of the basics to healing arenas that will help you succeed as you first start out.  Keep in mind that I normally do 2v2 and 3v3 arenas with melee dps (Arms Warriors, Ret Pallies, Rogues, and Death Knights) and a 49/2/20 spec, but a [...]

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Patch 3.2: New Battleground, new 25-man Content!

Blizzard has made an update to their Under Development page.
The Argent Tournament Expands: With the help of Azeroth’s heroes, the Argent Crusade will finish the Argent Coliseum just in time to call for all brave citizens to prepare for battle with the Lich King. New dailies, rewards, and more will be available at the Argent Tournament [...]

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The future of Holy Paladin Gear - Mp5, Spirit, Strength?

The Holy Paladin community has been up in arms over Ulduar gear itemization ever since we saw the first pieces of gear drop on the PTR.  The problem is that most of our Ulduar gear is full of Mp5, which is mostly worthless for a Holy Paladin.  In fact, its very worthless.  Zabery has a couple [...]

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Achieving a WOW/Life Balance

In the professional world you’ll often hear the term Work/Life balance.  Companies will go through great efforts to help their employees achieve this balance.  This is because so many people today get their balance out of whack (usually in the too much work direction) and this can be harmful for the company and its people.  It’s [...]

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Blizzard Quote - Paladins Can’t Heal

Haha, I found this funny.  It comes straight from Blizzard’s official website:
Get a Healer
“It’s difficult to play in dungeons without a healer. Preferably, you want to bring at least one Priest for healing and resurrection in a single role. Priests find themselves constantly private messaged for groups because their healing abilities are in high demand. [...]

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Making Gold in WOW

I bought the Traveler’s Tundra Mammoth this weekend for 16,000 gold.  I was putting off buying it for a long time, because of the high cost (of course).  There was always something better to use my money on.  However, a loan got paid back to me so I decided it was time to take the plunge and I’m glad I [...]

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Tank Stats - Mitigation, Avoidance and Stamina

As a healer, you’re going to be running with a number of different kinds of tanks.  Druids, paladins, warriors and death knights each have their own flavor to tanking  and you can even find a big difference in tanking styles between tanks of the same class, depending on their gear, spec, and skill.  Its always good as [...]

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Holy Paladin Haste Cap

The other day I made a post about haste rating and how it compares to crit.  Today I thought I’d go into some more detail about haste with some math to help you understand what the cap is and how much haste you actually need.
How much affect does haste actually have?
Haste only has any affect on two [...]

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Holy Paladin Gear - Haste or Crit?

Note:  With the changes to Patch 3.2, haste has become better when compared to crit to the point where they’re probably both about even.  The numbers in this post have been updated for Patch 3.2.
Haste and Crit are both very useful stats for a Holy Paladin.  However, if given the choice, which one should you [...]

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