Trial of the Crusader

So now that the new patch and content has been seen by most people I am here to discuss my thoughts on the new 5-man dungeon.

A few days have passed and I have had my go at the new 5-man dungeon a few times, both on normal and heroic. Overall, I would say that I was a little unimpressed, a little. I like the idea and look of a coliseum battle. The whole dungeon takes place in one location, no interesting LoS pulls, pretty straight forward start to end. First appearances have some pretty famous characters from all factions staring at you from above with horses for the Allys and puppy dogs for the Horde. Grab your lance and saddle up!

Simply put, this place can be a gold mine for recently dinged 80s, or if your lacking gear. You can run the Reg version all day and gear yourself out pretty well. The Reg version is dropping ilvl200, so about the same as heroics. Running this over and over again will give you a good base of epics if your looking to gear up. Then run the heroics you want for the specific items.

As for the fights encountered, I give it a 5/10. As I said before, there really isn't as surprises or real hard parts. It seems like in the Heroic version the mobs have more HP and do more damage, duh! Other than that, they're pretty much identical.

I've already picked up quite a few tanking pieces, some Ret pieces (finally) and a pretty nice healing trinket. You can attempt to beat my personal record of 18:49sec start to finish. That's with the extremely long dialog to start the instance!

Good luck!

Patch 3.2 and the Paladin

As am I quite sure most of you know patch 3.2 dropped on Tuesday. Extended maintanance kept the servers down for quite some time. But that is besides the point and not going to be what I talk about. I want to share my own opinions and experiences I've see so far.

This patch brought so pretty big changes to the Holy tree for the Paladin. Some nerfs and some that are just sweet! I'll look at a few in particular.

Beacon of Light: A great spell that you should always be using. It's free heals to another person in your party! Free! This patch brought an interesting twist to the spell.

"Beacon of Light: The healing amount on the Beacon of Light target is now based on the total healing done (including over-healing) instead of the effective healing done. Radius increased to 60 yards. Multiple Paladins can now have this active on the same target. Buff indicating a player is within range of the Beacon target is no longer displayed."

Yes you did read it correctly, or atleast I hope you did! Now based on total healing! Even over healing counts towards this figure, no longer does it only count the amount of healing that was effective, but the whole amount! Awesome! Also the stacking and 60 yard radius is always nice. I've noticed some differences with this change and I like it.

Divine Intellect: A nerfage but managable.

Illumination: Pretty significant nerfage here. 50% less of a return. Have to think a little bit harder before using this.

Righteous Fury: Last forever! Even through death!

Judgement of Light: Heals for 2% of the attackers max health. Some pretty good returns here.

There is my round up of Patch 3.2 and how it will affect your Holy Pally. More to come on The Argent Tourney, just getting into that myself.

About Me

Hello all! This is my first blog, I have been reading other WoW blogs for awhile now and thought it might be time to start my own. I intend to make this blog about my new found love, my Draenei Paladin and WoW in general. I have been playing WoW from release on and off from the aspects of a casual player to a hardcore raider. I've seen most content the game has to offer at this point, but always learning new things. Along the way, I took a few breaks from the game, which isn't a bad idea for anyone. I'm back now and intend on staying casual and raid when I can. Hope you enjoy this blog!

Welcome!

This is my first blog about the adventures of my Draenei (Smurf) Paladin and WoW in general. Stick around as we discuss our experiences in the World, of Warcraft.