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Divine Sacrifice, Divine Gaurdian Changes in Patch 3.3

Divine Sacrifice has been fixed in Patch 3.3 according to the most recently released patch notes.  The talent was not only fixed, but significantly changed.  In addition, the related talent, Divine Guardian has been changed as well.  This is a pretty significant nerf to the 51/20/0 build for PvE that I’ve been anticipating for awhile.Â
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Arena Season 6 Ends Tonight and Cataclysm

This is just a reminder to make sure to spend all your arena points before next Tuesday (September 1), as they’ll get wiped then.  You can convert your Arena Points to honor by purchasing Commendations of Bravery from the arena vendors in Dalaran (2000 honor for every 100 Arena Points).  If you’re at the honor [...]

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PvP Prot/Holy Paladins Going Away

Ghostcrawler made a post today about the future of prot paladins healing with Spell Power gear in PvP, saying that in the future (Season 7) they will not be able to heal for more than a paladin in the Holy tree.
I’ve seriously considered switching to full prot for PvP, but I’ve always held off.  I just [...]

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Comparing Healers in Patch 3.2

Many people are asking which healer got hit the most by the nerf bat in Patch 3.2 and whether they still stack up to each other.  There are complaints that Holy Paladins got hit the hardest, but a lot of the people making the complaints don’t play the other healing classes and may not even [...]

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Holy Paladins in Patch 3.2

Patch 3.2 is being released today!  Holy Paladins have been changed quite a bit by this patch.  Our talents and abilities have been changed a lot, although our exact spec still remains the same.  We’ll be able to pump out more healing in general at the expense of a much smaller mana pool.  This means we’ll need [...]

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Paladin Q&A with Ghostcrawler

Blizzard has been asking for questions from community members of each class on the forums for awhile now and lately they’ve been releasing their official Question and Answer sessions one at a time for each class.  Today was the paladin’s turn.  There was no surprises in the Q&A and we’ve talked about these questions on this blog before.  There was [...]

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Have any questions about Paladins?

Bornakk has posted his request for Paladin questions on the official Paladin forums.  They’ve been going through and doing the same thing for every class and now its our turn.  Once they’ve compiled all the questions they want to answer, they’ll post a thread with all the answers.  So, now’s your chance to ask 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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Ulduar Patch 3.1 Today

Today is the day.  Patch 3.1 will be upon us once the realms come back up again!
I’m looking forward to everything in the patch.  There’s so many new things to do and so little time to do it!  I’m looking forward to getting into PvP more as I dual-spec PvE and PvP Holy.  I’m also [...]

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Patch 3.1 - Sacred Shield and Infusion of Light Nerfs

Today Blizzard announced some new paladin changes that will affect Holy Paladins when the 3.1 Patch hits.  Most of them are nerfs.  In all, they’re not too bad for PvE paladins, they were more aimed at PvP paladin which are pretty OP in Arenas right now.

All paladins auras had their range extended from 30 yards [...]

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