This has been done a great many times I know, but to be frank, I don't touch my UI very often unless one of my friends beats me with the verbal sticks and yells "BAD PEDRAN!"  (aka, not having PallyPower by accident one raid b/c kids turned it off)

So since I'm re-setting up and re-designing my UI next time I login, I figured I'd see what ya'll think I might be missing, or what you prefer instead of one that I have.

• BugGrabber - Not a UI thing, but there......
• DF Raid-Pack
• FuBar
  • I usually put Dominos, SmartRes, a UI-Restart Button, RatingBuster, Omen, and Grid in my FuBar
• LuckyCharms
• Outfitter - Never used it before, but with Dual-Spec.......
• Bartender4 / Dominos - Personally I can't tell much difference between the two though Bartender is a little more 'tech'.  I've always used Dominos, but I'll be getting Bartender4 b/c Dominos hasn't updated for 3.1 yet.
• QuestHelper- I'm a lazy SOB
• Talented - Ghli recently introduced me to this WONDERFUL addon for exporting wowhead talent-sets directly into wow.  No more screwups for me.
• Pitbull - Yes, yes, I know.  I hate myself too.

I'll also be using the following:

 /console SET mouseSpeed "xx" (I usually play around till I find a good number, but it's been almost two years... I believe the safe zone is either 0-10 or 0-50)  This is mouse-dependant since each mouse has it's own DPI.

 /console SET cameraDistanceSmoothSpeed "14"

 /console SET cameraDistanceMax "36"

Just a few specs I've come up with, let me know what you guys think.

DPS

Blood - http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#jfVMqh0IcfofostZf0hhxc:pGLMmV

Frost - http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#jfVMVZG0xxAbckf0Vostc:ksaMmV

Unholy - http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#jf0MZG0xZf0hhxcbxcqMcsut:MprMmV

TANKING

Blood - http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#jbEGoIhcofRfssZhxZcxh:GhiMmV

Frost - http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#j0xhZhgx0IbI0f0iostcxh:GwpMmV

Unholy - http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#j0xGZhxZcxhhxczxIVocoux:GrMMmV

Ok, its a well known fact that I have 2 paladins (3 if you count my level 40ish BE Pally waiting for exorcism to be usable on everything), however I can't deny my love of a good rage bar.

Thus I am creating myself a fun little challenge and I figured I'd post it here in case anyone else wanted to try it.

First of all, it requires a LOT of Emblems of Heroism to pull off. In fact it's going to require you in total 335 badges for the setup I am looking for.

(Badge Breakdown):
Polished Spaulders of Valor (40 badges) http://www.wowhead.com/?item=42949

Bloodied Arcanite Reaper x2 (65 badges each) http://www.wowhead.com/?item=42943

Swift Hand of Justice x2 (50 badges each) http://www.wowhead.com/?item=42991

Charmed Ancient Bone Bow (65 badges) http://www.wowhead.com/?item=42946

The 2h axe allows you to stay with a specific weapon type the entire way that you level up so that you do not have to worry about leveling said weapon skill.

The Shoulders are obvious for the 10% more xp

The trinkets give the warrior much needed self healing after kills

The bow is a way to easily get hit/crit/AP (and use an awesome bow graphic)

Now with those the plan is to then level a warrior (best pick is a draenei, I will probably pick gnome)

The professions to level with:
1. Herbalism - Warriors always need healing, this gives it to them once every 3 minutes

2. Skinning - Extra crit helps while leveling

The reasons for these professions is to make stupid amounts of money while leveling and picking up good bonuses for both.

So far the plan is to level Arms 1-60 and once you pick up Titan's Grip to level fury from 60-80.

I will try to post sample talent trees later for leveling

Anyway that is my grand plan after I finish my human warrior to 80. I only have 295 badges left to aquire >.>

Edit: You could also do this with a rogue where you substitute the 1h Sword and 1h dagger for leveling and level up a combat spec. (Or 2 daggers if you really wanted to level assassination)

I will be in Vancouver, BC from Monday April 20 to Friday April 24 for work training.  

That's an entire week I'm out of raiding (and probably Ulduar) so get someone in my spot and keep moving.  I'll post the latest FR points file to the raid officer forums.  Keep moving.

So it's been a long while since I've posted my misadventures with Pally alt healing.

Levels 70-80

The first thing I did was messing with mods and UI.   With new tricks with Judgements, Beacon, and stuff the old one definitely couldn't do what I wanted.    The first thing I wanted was something to better track the Bacon, ClassTimers wasn't good enough for me.   I figure since it only tracks Focus, Target, and Self, the Bacon I may need to track more targets than that. 

The mod I found was SpellReminder, able to set up timer bars and audible warnings of debuffs/buffs you cast.   This allowed me to put a beacon on anyone, heal someone else, have a focus on another person, track judgement debuff on a boss without focusing/targetting it, track mutilple sacred shield casts, while still targetting a different guy, etc.    The bars are similar to boss mods, with a "short timer" warning you can move to somewhere more visible to you while having it audibly alert you.    And able to set up each buff/debuff to have diff audible warnings so you don't even have to look, just listen for what's falling off.

Anyways, after that was over with, I decided to try my hand at instancing, and it was quite interesting.    It usually only took a few mins for me to find a group for instance rested xp and loots!    By the time I was 80 the only quests I really did was Dungeon ones, Borean, and Fjord.     Well, exception to that is at level 77, I started up on the Hodir quest chain.    So I was doing dailies by level 78, and 3 weeks into 80, already exalted with them.

Week 1:

So being a noobie 80 my plan was to get a bunch of heroics under my belt.   I wanted the gear, experience, and knowledge that I can pull my weight in anything higher I'd do.    Though, I did get into a Salmon VoA25, couldn't do much though, slow and weak heals!    Same with a random OS25.

Sticking back to Heroics, chugged along what was approximately an increasing level of difficulty.  Nexus and UK were easy targets.   VH was sorta but a bit of a crapshoot if the Void Walker showed up, still managed through it, but definitely needed a lot of spamming.   Even did AN and OK, but those were shaky, well more cause the groups themselves were too.   Strath, Pinnacle, HoS, and even Occulus, were on the completed as well.

Week 2:

With the heroics, I took as much gear as possible, leather, cloth, mail, etc, all to boost stats, fuck the armor.  lol    Still wearing a leather helm to this day.    Also by this time there were of course some epics, heroic ones, heroism emblems ones.

So tried my luck with a pug Naxx10.   Partial pug maybe, a few of them did know/run with each other a bunch I believe.   Definitely an experience in noob healing.   Mistakes were made, I died, people died, Pudo lived, stuff took forever to die, etc, etc.   It did take a 2nd night, but did manage a full clear.

For the most part I think I did fine.  Mistakes on trying to heal during Heigan dance killed me.   Learning to time things on Loatheb took getting used to.   Sapphiron took some running around, but it wasn't much trouble.     It was Kel'thuzad that became something that forced me to learn more.

The trouble was Frost Blast.   First was the folly of not configuring Grid to properly show it, well I thought I did, but it didn't work, so had to look it up.    Second, really need better reaction time to handle it, clicking to target then casting heal was a bit slow, and of course the other healers probably fail at this too so when all 3 of us fail, fun times.   Especially when they don't have a mod to show em who has it and started relying on yell macros to read then find the person then heal.

Anyways, got the kill eventually, but it definitely forced me to look up another mod afterwards.   Clique.   Binding spells to mouse buttons basically.   Spent a day experiementing with it and mouseover macros with heals.   My first thought was to just bind heals to standard mouse clicks, only have a 3 button mouse.     But that quickly was a mistake, doing that no longer allowed me to target anyone, anything, or right click for stuff like inspections and stuff, it all got sent to heals.  

Scrapping that idea, leaving the standard click alone, I went with modifer keys to combine with clicking to use this.   I set up CTRL-LEFT, CTRL-RIGHT, and CTRL-MIDDLE as my Flash of Light, Holy Shock, and Holy Light buttons.    CTRL being easy to just rest my palm on for standard healing scenarios.   The next set of buttons was Shift ones, putting the Hand of Salv, Prot, and Sac on those.   Lastly, the Alt handled my Sacred Shield and Beacon spamming.   Had one left over so I just slapped it on Hand of Freedom for that one.

Week 3:

This was also the first week I did heroic HoL, never want to go back.  lol

Anyways, Naxx10 this week was a fail pug.   Real pug, truly random bunch gathered together with no real organization.   Did 2 of the wings before falling apart.  lol

But the highlight this week would be Naxx25 partial pug, I guess, seems to be some guild hosted or something.   Went through that with minimal difficulty with all my new fanlged mod and macro set ups.   I did screw up on Thaddius charges, towards the end, failed to keep watch.

At this point, I've actually finished with Heroic gear.  Well, heroic emblem gear.   There are still a few upgrades I suppose in heroics themselves, but nothing major or it's an instance I'd like to block from memory.   lol

Week 4:

That would be this week.   Last night I did a pug Naxx10 again, semi-organized people though so good start there.   The problem was, they decided to just 2 healer it.    Scream in terror!

It was definitely the most ooming experience I've had.   I actually had to pot a few fights, and used Divine Plea quite a bit.   And, it was pulled off.    Only wipe was at 4H in which only cause the 2 handling the back fudged it up.

And by ooming I really meant ooming.   For Sapphiron though it was kinda close sometimes, there were enough breaks in the air phases that I could Divine Plea and stuff without much trouble.    For Kel'thuzad, it was very very close.   Especially coupled with the mana detonation, even with Divine Plea just ran out of mana for the Holy Lights.   Resorted to Flash spamming a bunch at the end barely keeping up both tanks, couldn't afford to keep bacon up, and started to ignore dps, cept for maybe a frost blast one heal to save em.

Anyways, stay tuned for more misadventures of the noob pally!

Some of you had girls.  Be thankful.  And for those of you with boys, beware:

1. A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 200 m² house to a depth of 10 cm.

2. If you spray hair spray on dust balls and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite.

3. A 3-year old Boy's voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant.

4. If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong enough to rotate a 20 Kg boy wearing Batman underwear and a Superman cape. It is strong enough, however, if tied to a paint can, to spread paint on all four walls of a 6m x 6m room.

5. You should not throw cricket balls up when the ceiling fan is on.... When using a ceiling fan as a bat, you have to throw the ball up a few times before you get a hit. A ceiling fan can hit a baseball a long way..

6. The glass in windows (even double-glazed) doesn't stop a baseball hit by a ceiling fan.

7. When you hear the toilet flush and the words 'uh oh', it's already too late.

8. Brake fluid mixed with bleach makes smoke, and lots of it.

9. A six-year old Boy can start a fire with a flint rock even though a 36-year old Man says they can only do it in the movies,

10.Certain Lego's will pass through the digestive tract of a 4- year old Boy.

11.Play dough and microwave should not be used in the same sentence.

12.Super glue is forever.

13.No matter how many jello crystals you put in a swimming pool you still can't walk on water.

14.Pool filters do not like jello crystals.

15.VCR's do not eject 'BL&T' sandwiches even though TV commercials show they do.

16.Garbage bags do not make good parachutes.

17.Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when driving.

18.You probably DO NOT want to know what that smell is.

19.Always look in the oven before you turn it on; plastic toys do not like ovens.

20.The fire department in Edmonton, AB, has a 5-minute response time.

21.The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earthworms dizzy.

22.It will, however, make cats dizzy.

23.Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy.

80% of Women will pass this on to almost all of their friends, with or without kids.

80% of Men who read this will try mixing the bleach and brake fluid.