It looks like Blizzard finally got a paladin player on their dev team. Yes, after nearly four years, we finally get the talents and abilities we've been dying for.

I dub today: Happy Day. A day we will all remember as the day that end game raiding for holy pallies changed drastically. We're no longer flash of light bots. Yep, we now are being actively encouraged (through a LOT of talents) to get in there and judge our fucking brains out. Blizzard wants us to judge EVERYTHING we've got. Even non-offensive judgements like light and wisdom will now be able to put up the 3% raid crit bonus.

Instead of the usual holy/prot build that most of us holy pallys use, come Wrath we'll mostly be Holy/Ret. And this is a good thing. Here is what looks like will be a typical OMGAOE holy build:

http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?talent=sxAztGzhVuzxRtZVf0xh

This gets us into Beacon of Light, which looks to be the Circle of Healing of Wrath. It's a gimmick and will probably have the hell nerfed out of it, but for now, rejoice my faithful. This also puts us into some serious haste territory through Judgement of the Pure that encourages us to JUDGE JUDGE JUDGE. Since Conviction in the ret tree now gives us 5% spell crit and we can also pick up Heart of the Crusader (3% raid crit for ANY judgement), the ret tree really looks like fun :)

Another spec that will be popular, and the one I'm particularly excited about is this:

http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?talent=sxAzthzhVuzxRhZif0xh00h

That's the paladin HoT spec. No, really. We get a muthafucking HOT when we crit. And since we pick up about 16% holy crit JUST FROM TALENTS we're going to be HoT'ing a LOT. I love this spec because we pick up Pursuit of Justice (run speed) and a little Imp Might.

With some synchronization between pallies, it's possible to drop points in some auras and other buffs to really maximize your talent point spending. I'm excited as hell, to say the least.

Well, it has been a long time with very little input on my Tankadin Series.

Eventually I intend to move these to book pages, but that will be after some serious revamps in the content, direction, diction, grammar, and narration of my Tankadin blogs.

For now, let's discuss why I decided after this hiatus to create another Tankadin blog. It involves Craftable Items. What can I buy/have crafted that will give me an edge for Raiding at level 70? What materials should I gather on the way to 70? What materials should I just buy, because it's faster to farm Netherweave to sell bandages at 6g a stack? These are questions I frankly would like answers to. On Thunderlord I was promised a pile of mats/crafted items by my co-workers that w0w-quit for AoC right as I hit 70. Didn't quite get what I was going for, ya know?

So now, even with Carno (my brother) promising me alot of things, I need to know what I NEED, how I can get it, and what to get on the way there. I'm halfway feeling that the [Primal Water] might be an item I should just buy from the AH. I'm going to need ALOT of them, but there just isn't a feasible way to AOE grind them. [Primal Life]s can be easily farmed by Pedran at level 63+ because I'm going to have ALL the necessary Bog Lord Tendrils/Glowcaps/etc to get him his [Petrified Lichen Guard] at 63 and put a [Felsteel Shield Spike] in it. Bog Lord's are easy-fun for AOE-grinding and good experience at that level from the Dead Mire. [Primal Fire] and [Primal Earth], these I should have enough of when I finish mining 240 [Adamantite Ore]. Should I mine that much though? Would it be more in my interest to mine 100, AH the ore, and buy crafted items with the gold I make?

So I've started to really mess with my Pally's UI. Well just starting. This is what I got so far. Any tips? Suggestions?

P.S. the doubling up of some bars is cause one is the target's and I targetted myself. lol

we have maiden and above to finish holla after mag/gruul tonight