New blue post

Here is how Prot paladins are working in our current beta build. You might not see these changes in the next beta build, but in the one after that. Things are still in a high degree of flux however.

Shield of the Righteous -- Now consumes Holy Power to cause damage.

Holy Shield -- Now a passive ability that causes your Shield of the Righteous to provide 5% block per stack of Holy Power consumed. In other words, you never click Holy Shield. You just click Shield of the Righteous and buff yourself.

Hammer of the Righteous -- Now generates Holy Power but shares a cooldown with Crusader Strike. Almost all talents that affect one or the other will affect both. The intention is you use Crusader Strike -> Shield of the Righteous for single target and Hammer of the Righteous -> Shield of the Righteous for multitarget.

Avenger's Shield -- No real change, but it still hits pretty hard. Both CS and HotR can proc Grand Crusader to lower the Avenger's Shield cooldown.

Vindication -- can be caused only by Crusader Strike or Hammer of the Righteous.

Holy Wrath -- With the above changes, we think Prot paladins have enough rotational buttons to hit, so we are downplaying Holy Wrath. Holy Wrath is really intended as a Ret filler spell (for when other attacks are on cooldown). Prot could technically use Holy Wrath, but we aren't providing any talent hooks.

Consecration -- Now on a 10 sec duration with a 30 sec cooldown. The Hallowed Ground talent makes it cheaper and hit harder -- it does not affect duration. Use Consecration when you need it, but you can't spam it. This is consistent with the AE changes we are making to all tanks.

With these changes in mind, Prot will be thinking about buttons such as these:

Single Target: Judgement, Crusader Strike, Shield of the Righteous, Avenger's Shield.
Multi-target: Judgement, Consecration, Hammer of the Righteous, Shield of the Righteous, Avenger's Shield, possibly Exorcism.

None of this includes things like Seals, Inquisition, defensive cooldowns, Word of Glory, etc.


This was a blue post I took from the front page of MMO champion. Id have to see how this actually works mechanicwise before I can really start QQing but im not sure how I feel about these changes. Nothings set in stone just yet though. I can see pros and cons about this playstyle.. though I do like the fact that they are trying to keep ShoR. I dont see the reason to add avengers shield to a constant rotation.. it just seems abit... well.. the way I view AS, is the paladins trademark pickup spell, dont piss a paladin off unless you wanna get captain america'd but it seems like it will lose abit of its epicness if we are using it so often even on close range targets.
I can live with the consecration changes IF they really do manage to get rid of aoe... paladins in my mind have always been the tank that drops their consecration, picks up everything, and blocks alot, cata seems to be just turning them into a generic warrior clone. Oh well I could be wrong, only time will tell. I will still love my pala either way.

ELWYNN FOREST WAS MERELY A SETBACK !

Thats right. Stormwind Stockades in cataclysm is now the home to the most terrifying, challenging, daunting boss ever to be confronted in wow;

Hogger.

This is even more reason for me to level an alliance paladin alt in cataclysm, Im looking forward to it.

 

Image from the front page of http://www.mmo-champion.com/

keybindings and UI

Heya.

In just 2 weeks im gonna be going back to usa and will be able to raid again with my guild, so Im preparing in advance :>

For the first time ever, Im going to be using a very very basic UI, with the standard blizzard interface, only with a bossmod, pally power, skada, grid, and omen. This will hopefully improve my framerates and allow me to perform optimally. I just hope the extra information from the addons that I will be missing out on wont hurt me too badly.

Ive redone my keybindings to fit better with the standard UI, still may need some work but we will see.

Birthday

Today was a pretty good day, spent time with my friend, ate cake, talked with my mom.

This morning I logged onto wow to see the guild message displayed above, followed by what seemed like half the online population of my realm spamming me with "HAPPY BDAY!" and "HAVE A GREAT BIRTHDAY M8"

Im not so much into my birthday, or alot of attention, but it was pretty amazingly cool nonetheless.

Im thinking about making instructional videos, to teach the proper way to play a paladin tank, and teach abit about tanking in general. Hopefully by the time cataclysm comes around I will use the video to give my ideas on 4.0 tanking and the cataclysm mechanic changes. Im pretty excited for it. I really wish i had a beta key :P

y hai thar.

Hello internet!

I have been reading blogs like this for awhile now so I decided to finally chip in and make my own.
warning: this blog is mostly gonna be about the game World of Warcraft, anyone uninterested in the game has probably stumbled across this blog by some freak accident and should probably navigate themselves away =).

So let me introduce myself. Hi, I'm Shieldie, a blood elf paladin tank on the US server of Runetotem. Im 21 years old, well.. actually 22 by the time I finish writing this post (birthdays ftw)
Im gonna start blogging in hopes to boost my productivity, Im pretty lazy what can I say, I figure writing stuff down will help keep me on track, as well as to write guides / info / whatever someone out there may find useful, or at the very least to entertain myself. I will probably put some IRL stuff in here too but nothing too much. Excuse the poorly  put together writings, Im not really an english major and I tend to fail at communicating whats on my mind >.<

Anyways, as I was gonna say..
In wow I tank for the guild on the Runetotem realm. We arent a bleeding edge guild, hell we arent even in icc hardmodes but we are getting there. Its not anywhere near a hardcore guild, but we are all a pretty close bunch. They picked me up after I had to sadly leave my previous guild, My computer isnt the greatest and I kept freezing during hardmodes and it was becoming too much of a problem.

Currently Im in Norway, visiting a good friend of mine, So my play time has been very limited, but in 2 weeks Im going back to the states and will start raiding again. Before I left off, we were working on 10man regular Lich King, constantly getting to the 3rd phase. Now they have implimented the 30% buff though, Im sure that will give us the last push we need, as I promised Soundwave, our GM that id do all I can to help get the guild their Kingslayer titles =)

Anyways ive been sitting with this open for over an hour now and im sure its probably not that interesting to read so I will end this post now :P