A Strange Disease has stricken the Alliance –
In interest of equal time, I bring you news of the great plague of the Alliance. It is fast sweeping the beta realm but it seems that the youth of Azeroth are immune. As you can see the Prince has not been infected.
Seriously, there is something going on here. There is no actual debuff to be seen on any of the infected NPCs. If I would hazard a guess as to whats going on here, I would have to say this will be part of the opening event for Cataclysm.
Update: Added a screenshot of a large brown orb that seems to be the source of the infection.
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I really wanted to have a decent discussion on the state of the Paladin tanking build. However, seeing as we are at least one Paladin talent build behind what is actively being developed and currently you can not choose Shield of the Righteous when talenting at the moment.
Not to say the current Protection Talents make the class impossible to play, but it just doesn’t feel adequate. Its not the class that it used to be. Without Consecration and Shield of the Righteous in the rotation and with a nerf-batted Hammer of the Righteous, its far from the same tanking class it currently is on Live.
Ghostcrawler has eluded to some big changes recently in a few posts.
The paradigm shift that Ghostcrawler is eluding to is quite nice. Shifting from their proposed Holy Power = Mitigation into a Holy Power = Threat First, Mitigation Second is a huge step in the right direction. Moving towards a system where we can use our Holy Power for multiple applications based on the situation is where the new resource system needs to move towards.
We can only hope that when they hit, there is still not the “You can not learn this talent” bug is fixed so we can actually do some testing.
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An interesting link for all you Achievement Whores out there. (You know who you are.) A Hunter Blogger by the name of Lyraat has created a decent little “Guide to 9000 Achievement Points“. Its not super indepth but it does give you a good idea on how and where you should be looking to gain those achievements the easiest way possible.
Tank That! 