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A Letter to Blizzard about Holy Paladins

Note:  I wrote this post before the recent announcement that Blizzard made about paladins doing more raid healing in Cataclysm.
 Dear Paladin Class Designers:
The paladin class has come a long way since the days of Molten Core.  Each new expansion has brought new talents, abilities and play-styles that have made playing a paladin a truly enjoyable [...]

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Fall of the Hero

This was written by a fellow guild member while bored in class one day.  He gave me permission to post it here.  Enjoy!
So here’s a story
that has no moral at all.
It’s about a paladin
and the path that lead to his fall.
It all started quite innocently
and you may have guessed it, your probably right.
This starts with [...]

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Would you cancel your subscription if Ensidia got perma-banned?

So, Ensidia got suspended for 72 hours for exploiting a bug in the Lich King encounter.  That probably means that another guild will get the world first kill on the Lich King and maybe on the hard mode content as well.  Ensidia isn’t happy about it and is not happy with Blizzard either.  One particular [...]

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Adding Interactivity to Holy Paladins

GyphonHeart has a great post up over at the Lion Guard about how Blizzard can make healing on a Holy Paladin more fun.  He makes some great points.  Holy Paladins really don’t have very much interactivity, although it has been getting better over time.
Button spam anyone?
The only talent or ability we have that adds any interactivity [...]

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Updated Epic 5-man Gear for Patch 3.3

This is just a quick FYI that I’ve updated my post listing all the epic Holy Paladin gear you can get outside of raids for Patch 3.3.  I believe I’ve got everything in there.  If you see any piece of gear that I’ve missed, please let me know!  You can view the post below:
Epic 5-man Holy Paladin [...]

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Techland Interviews Jeff Kaplan on 5 Years of WoW

I just wanted to post a shout-out to the World of Warcraft.  Happy Birthday!  You’re older than most of my kids!  The game has been going strong for 5 years and has been only getting better each year.
Techland posted a nice article today of an interview they had with Jeff Kaplan.  He mentions some of the [...]

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Is Gear Inflation Bad?

Ghostcrawler made a post yesterday about how the stats on gear are continuously increasing with each expansion and with each new tier.  Will we eventually be running around with 10,000 Spell Power and 100,000 health?  Is this a problem?
According to Ghostcrawler, it isn’t a problem.  Numbers are arbitrary no matter what size they are and they’re only really [...]

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The Holy Paladin Blog List

I’ve created a new page on the sidebar to the right to list all of the Holy Paladin blogs and resources I’ve found throughout the Internet.  You’ll find a huge amount of great information in the links provided.  The page will pull in the latest post from each blog and sort those to the top, [...]

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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
However, despite what appears [...]

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Cataclysm - Slower Fights, Better Decisions

Ghostcrawler made a comment last week telling us about what future encounters and healing specifically will probably be like in the next expansion - Cataclysm.  Here’s the quote:
Ghostcrawler:
“I predict health pools of all players will go way up in Cataclysm relative to player damage and healing. Everything (meaning PvP too) would be slowed down just [...]

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