Two weeks have passed since the 4.0.1 patch hit us. Changes are made to most classes, and paladins are not an exception.So... are we at a better state now than two weeks ago? Well, some of my initial concerns have been addressed atleast.Retribution:The
Last night, I was enjoying the calm before the storm, flying on my Icebound Frostbrood Vanquisher across the land, and contemplating what was about to come.Like everone else, I look forward to Cataclysm, albeit not as much as I looked forward to The Burning
More than a month has past since my last post. That is, of course, unfortunate, but I have had loads to do at work lately, and since that is what pays the bills, blogging has been down-prioritized to a level where it competes with mowing the lawn and
The paladin preview is upon us!Short version: "Holy paladins get a new big heal and Beacon of Light will be nerfed. Retribution and Protection will get more complicated rotations since they obviously are faceroll specs. Any exact details are not available
On the third day of previews, Blizzard gave to us: Hunters, Druids, and Mages.I don't play either of these classes, and couldn't care less....The short version is: Hunters won't use mana or ammo anymore. Resto druids won't be running around as giant broccolis
Tomorrow is the big day: we will get the Paladin preview. Fingers crossed for some goodies.This blue post worries me a little bit:The fact is we're just not as far along on paladins as we are the other classes.We haven't torn up the paladin talent trees
I know, I know. We paladins have to wait another week before we get to see what Blizzard has in store for us. But there are other classes to take a look at before then.Since I play quite a bit with my shaman and death knight as well, I'm eager to see
Well, that is a messy screenshot but we were all quite excited after the kill and standing still for a picture is hard when you are in that mood. I'm missing half the raid in that picture. I hope somebody got a better one made.Last week we got to phase
I'm writing this sitting at an airport waiting for my flight home. Work keeps sending me out-of-town, which was all good when I was young and single, but is becoming dull now when I'm married and have a kid. But I gotta pay that mortgage, right?(Oh noes,
The Lich King is dead.
Don't worry. I'm still here. I'm still playing the game. I've just had loads to do at work, which have made it almost impossible to do anything WoW-related (except raiding) lately.I've joined another guild, and we are currently working on Lich King on
Yesterday, I left the guild I have been in for three years. It was a hard decision to make, but I didn't really see any other options.The guild introduced me to raiding back when Karazhan was new. I had played the game since its release, but never really
Several paladins noted the other that their health suddenly dropped. I must admit I didn't notice it myself, but I can imagine the confusion it must have caused.Blizzard did an unannounced hotfix where they, in short, nerfed paladin stamina with 4%, while
Since the raid leader for the ICC10 raid I was in left the guild and did a faction change (he didn't like the state of raiding in the guild, and I don't really blame him), I decided to do some raid leading on my own.I've never been a raid leader before.
Festergut ain't good-looking, that's true. In fact, if you'd make his voice just a little bit more annoying, he'd be like a skinnier version of Roseanne Barr.Festergut is an orgy of farts and vomits. Blizzard really caters to its customer base: 5-year
Rotface ain't good-looking, that's true. In fact, if you'd throw on some plastic boobs on him, he'd look like a fat Amy Winehouse.Nevertheless, he has a friend; A not-so-cute puppy called Precious. Obviously, the first thing your raid will do is kill
Due to a nice long Christmas vacation, I've fallen way behind in my write-up on Icecrown Citadel. The next wing is already open, and I will of course write about that one in a later post.But first, I have to finish writing about the first wing.After killing
Merry Christmas everyone!I hope you all enjoy the Holidays.
It was finally time to enter Icecrown Citadel, the Lich King's cosy little home. During our visit, we will meet some of the King's friendly house mates, but instead of shaking their hands and small talk about the weather and the financial crisis, we will
I was prepared for the worst after hearing stories about crashing servers and immense latencies, but my patch day experience was only spoiled by one disconnect, and I wasn't lagging at all.The first thing I did was to respec. I moved my three "filler
Welcome to the Weekly Raid Rant. In this edition, we will look at the raids that my restoration shaman participated in this week.First off was a PUG trip to Vault of Archavon (25). The good thing was that we one-shotted all the bosses in there. The bad
To add some flair to my otherwise colorless blog, I'm posting the video of our Mad Skill kill of Anub (10-man). It was made by our mage Fjrebqll, who incidentally was not drunk that fight (but I'm sure he was when he made his character's name up)./salute
I've been a bit demoralized lately, for several reasons.Five of the members of our "Saturday Evening Heroic ToC 10 Fun Raid" left the guild last week. Not only were they five of the guild's best players, but also five of my best friends in the game. I
MMO Champion has listed the gear that we will be able to buy with the new badges, Emblems of Frost.The tanking stuff looks really nice, and all plate pieces have bonus armor on them. I assume the extra armor is there to compensate for the reduced avoidance
At least we are improving :)I was away on a business trip all week, and felt a bit rusty when we started ToC10 this Saturday. But it ended well, and we could all add another achievement to the list...
Sweet kill.Five minutes past raid end time, last attempt for the night called. We already knew there would be no follow-up raid this raid lock. And that's when we nail him.We screwed up totally and wiped more than ten times on Faction Champions. Our mage
The patch notes do not look good for paladins these days.First, we had the changes to Divine Sacrifice and Divine Guardian:Divine Sacrifice: Redesigned. The effect of Divine Sacrifice is now party-only and the maximum damage which can be transferred is
I missed our Ulduar hard mode raid yesterday due to migraine, which sucked. It's not really possible to raid when it feels like you have two enraged giants tap dancing on your brain, while a ravenous shark is gnawing away at the back of your head.So I
We finally downed Northrend Beasts on 25 man heroic yesterday, and it was a darn good feeling. Getting the heroic version of the tanking chestplate was also a good feeling (and adding the stamina trinket from normal Faction Champions just an hour before
Now you probably wonder what in the world I'm talking about. Why would a content patch like 3.2 kill serious raiding? We've gotten even more raid instances to raid! Have I lost my mind?Well, for our guild, the 3.2 patch killed serious raiding. With "serious