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[WoW] -adin is a suffix for all occasions. [Paladins]
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Does SS stack with all of the priest shields? If it's a shared buff with Disc or whatever I could see what you mean.
It's possible in a ten man but still unlikely. Which ends up skewing the numbers. For every situation in which a prot paladin is the only paladin, you'll have a situation in which there is no prot paladin and a holy paladin. For mitigation tests you want least common denominators. It's why those migitation tests don't count druids as having MotW.
The goal with the tests is to create a baseline situation. Every boss fight is unique but you try to create a model that will apply fairly well to all fights.
And there are two more downsides to the idea of a Prot paladin self casting it. First is that they've indicated it will be scaling with spell power. As much as we will have, a Holy paladin will have more of it. Second is that we won't gain from the FoL crit bonus. So if a holy paladin is there, or even a ret paladin, they will be much, much better off casting it then we would.
This is also why you can't include Blessing of Sanctuary in the base paladin mitigation of 6%, unless you include it in the warrior base mitigation of 10%.
Oh, and just saw this from the Warrior forums:
I'm a Paladin, small and stout,
here's my mace and here's my mount,
when I see trouble I scream and shout,
pop my bubble and hearthstone out.
Actually mailed to me by my supervisor.
Anywho, actual paladin query! Any point in me even trying to get ret gear at the moment? I'd imagine come xpack its all going to be replaced..... and its just over a month and a half left.
And about ret gear, unless you got spare honor/marks to drop on a PvP weapon (one that's an upgrade), or have a guild that's still full-steam ahead on current raids, then yeah, probably not enough time.
I guess I mean, killing people faster = always better.
Basically this is what I want. Three large icons, or hell, even text:
'Judgement'
'Bladestorm'
'Crusader Strike'
I want them glowing at all times when they are ready to be used, and greyed out when they are on CD, because I find myself sitting on my pally constantly staring at my bottom bar waiting for the next ability to cool down. I'd love for it to just be like "HEY BLADESTORM IS READY NOW USE IT GODDAMNIT" on my screen so i'm not constantly staring at bars.
Also, I wish Art of War would notify you when it procs, even if you already procced it before. What I mean is, in its current state, if I proc Art of War and miss the popup, and then I crit again on a judgement and it procs again, it won't tell me that on my combat scrolling text because it's already showing as active. It's kind of annoying.
Other than that I have no complaints. Pure bliss.
Art of War: +20% damage on crits to all three
Fanaticism: +25% chance for Judgement to crit
Righteous Vengeance: +25% damage on crits to Judgement + DS, but not CS
Judgment just got its damage nerfed at a pretty hefty amount.
It was something like veng/corruption>SoR>SoB>SoC. But that was an old build, I don't know how it is now. SoC was still better for anything solo.
Pretty sure I saw it on that Cromfel site. I don't know if this is still accurate though.
The current math shows SoB at a slight advantage with the glyph for SoC factored in. It looks like they are trying for SoB is your PvE DPS seal and SoC is your PvP. Although if they keep up raid damage like they did in TBC, there most likely be some fights that favor SoC.
And seal twisting is out for all specs. The mana cost is too high.
On that note, I'm wondering what's the best way to maximize our FLs here. I'm thinking a really basic macro that will put my shield up on either the MT or the OT (or some healer on a crazy hog-wild fight) and setting FL to a mouseover macro. Then, with damage abilities on CD, I can use my crazy ass heals on people in my DPS group.
I'm also probably going to be using this build: http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?talent=sZoebusZVfMtbfufMsMzAo which is gonna be pretty shitty for PvE. I'm hoping to overcome this is by using hand of salvation liberally and Divine Shield popping quickly to sheath my minions from danger (and slow the steady progress of my mayhem).
Really though, I am curious how close I will be to the threat cap from the get-go without Fanaticism.
/castrandom Crusader Strike, Judgement, Divine Storm
Haha, yeah pretty much.
Not like theres much else to do as I don't think I'll get a look in on tanking in ZA. Although I did tank Prince last night. Fun times. Got a T4 head piece too. But I was tired and not thinking straight so I traded that in for the tanking piece. Got this feeling that I may have wanted the ret piece.
I'll log out in my Ret gear so you can all have a good ole laugh/look at what I've got so far. Its mainly blues and such.
Didn't see that coming right?
/sigh /facepalm
so rather than just change Judgements of the Wise, or make deep Holy more attractive to fix Holy/Ret, they fixed JotW and then nerfed deep Holy.
Also, a prot 11pt talent would be nice.
Infusion of light change is retarded.
Already said JotW is now super double special awesome.
SOMEONE EXPLAIN
e: speedy
Well fuck you blizzard then
Glyph of the Warhorse - Removed
Glyph of the Wise - Reduces the mana cost of your Seal of Wisdom spell by 50%.
eeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Slightly better than I figured it'd be.