You all probably remember my hysterical, rant-filled, rage-fueled freak-outs over the Illumination nerf right after BC. You all told me "it will be alright" and then it went live and it wasn't alright. Paladins to this day are considered some of the weakest healers in the game and it's something I struggle with in raids nightly.

Then the first beta talents came out and I was... overjoyed. The talents were amazing, the abilities exactly what we'd begged for for years.

Then we got it all taken away.

This post pretty much sums it all up: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=10532600037&sid=20...

Read it and understand why being a Holy Paladin is about the shittiest role to play in WoW. At this point, playing Holy is nothing but a labor of love for me. It's fun in a "hit yourself with a hammer" sort of way, but I know that if I don't heal, we will lose one of the few remaining healers left in this fucking game.

A fundamental flaw of WoW is that it bases the entire success of a group of people on a set number of those people "taking one for the team" and rolling a tank or a healer. You've all heard this rant before, yes, I know. But at one point I was EXCITED for the paladin Holy changes in Wrath. And now they've all been pounded into the ground and we've been reverted right back to where we were.

In before the inevitable Shihli post stating "It's beta, nothing is set in stone".
In before the auto-shotting Hunter tells me to suck it up because "dps r hard 2".
In before the resto shammies emo out again.
In before the tanks tell me "you think YOU got it bad".
In before the resto druids realize they actually get an AoE HoT in Wrath. (Yarly: http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?spell=53251)

For five days WoWhead will be taking the first 5 entries in this contest:

http://www.wowhead.com/?contest=name-that-screenshot

and drowning them in insane WoW schwag. Get on that!

Heyo,

I just realized I can now make the [Sunblessed Breastplate] and wear it since I can keep my 4-piece T6 bonus.

So, I'm looking for [Primal Life]s and [Primal Water]s. Hit me tonight if you can spare them!

Downfall has every single one of these characters. For better or worse.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=8765779306&sid=1

From WoR:

Mages & Warlock DPS (src)
Warlocks got to crazy land with the % modifiers to their damage output (specifically with Demonic Sacrafice), that's been toned down. Warlocks should never be able to out DPS a Mage with no pet out. Alike a Hunter, their pet should factor into their total damage output. Warlocks that sacrifice pretty much all utility talents should come very close to Mage DPS, but those who invest in group/raid utility should be lower.

Looks like locks and mages will be back on par in Wrath.

http://www.blizzard.com/store/details.xml?id=1100000182

$6.50 is a small price to pay for absolute account security. I'll be buying a dozen as soon as they're not sold out.