Archive for the 'Choosing Gear' Category

Best In Slot (BiS) Holy Paladin Gear (Holy Light focus)

Best in Slot lists are something you’ll notice that I have never included on this site.  The main reason for this is because I don’t believe there is always one best in slot for everyone for every encounter, every group, and every playstyle.  Also, it takes a lot of work to keep up to date and only [...]

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Flash of Light vs. Holy Light

Ferraro made a great post today (as usual for her posts) on the difference between a Flash of Light and a Holy Light build.  I recommend all of you to go read it now, then come back and read my comments on her article below.  After reading through her article I think I’ve realized I’m probably [...]

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Holy Paladin Tier 10 Set Bonuses

Edit:  The Tier 10 Bonuses has already been updated, and so has this post.
Blizzard has released the set bonsues for our final Tier gear of the expansion.

2 Piece Bonus - While your Divine Illumination talent is active, your healing spells are increased by 35%.

This is a pretty straight-forward bonus.  A 35% boost to healing is quite [...]

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Holy Paladin Season 7 Gear Quick Summary

Gear you can get Today!
This is just a quick reminder post.  Now that Season 7 has started and you’ve begun to earn your arena points, make sure to pick up your new Season 7 gear.  There’s a number of pieces you could theoretically get today.  The arena rating requirements in Season 7 have been reduced significantly for most pieces.  [...]

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Epic 5-man Holy Paladin Gear

Patch 3.3 introduces a number of new epic-quality pieces of gear we can get without having to step foot into a raid.  If you’re still trying to gear up your Holy Paladin for raiding or if you’re just not into raiding, check out the post below for a list of gear you can work toward without [...]

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Holy Paladin PvP Gear - Season 7, Patch 3.2

Patch 3.2 is being released today and the next Arena Season will follow in just a few weeks.  This new season usher’s in a slew of new changes for the PvP world, including a new Tier of PvP gear:  Relentless Gladiator’s Redemption.  Our arena points will be wiped when the next arena season starts so make [...]

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Holy Paladin Tier 9 Bonuses

Here are the bonuses that have been datamined for Holy Paladin Tier 9:

2 Piece Bonus — Increases the duration of your Judgements by 10 sec.
4 Piece Bonus  — Increases the critical strike chance of your Holy Light spell by 5%
Update: 4 Piece Bonus - Increases the heal over time effect from Flash of Light in [...]

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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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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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