Blessing of Kings

Tobold is sure that the raiding population is in decline . I am not sure I agree with his assessment, and he does not really provide any so...

There are a lot of posts on blogs and forums--including this one--arguing for "fixes" to the paladin class, and changes to the var...

It's interesting how much difference your choice of spec makes. Not just in terms of effectiveness, but also in terms of playstyle and ...

Patch 2.1 apparently changed how conditionals are handled, so here is an updated version of the focus macro I posted a while back: #showtool...

Or the alternate title: Why Coriel Will Never Get an Epic Flying Mount. So with patch 2.1 out, I decided to respec. I was having a really ha...

First, let's make the assumption that there is a warrior or druid MT, and the paladin is the OT. Would a build like 0/19/42 be better th...

Something about the way +spell damage and healing works has always struck me as wrong. In the current system, the amount of bonus an individ...

In light of the current discussions about hybrids, I'd like to point to a couple of my older posts. These were written back in December...

Kaziel posts a response to my previous post about fluid and modal hybrids: Fluid hybrids cannot be equal power to single purpose classes, f...

This post is inspired by a thread on the WoW forums. Unfortunately, I can't find that thread anymore. I really should start bookmarking...

This is in response to a couple of comments to earlier posts. It's a quick, simple explanation of how the hit table works in WoW. It sho...

From Sylan of Gilneas, on the WoW paladin forums: Lore changes. Evolves. After Uther died Paladins lost their confidence. Paladins realized ...

There are four essential tanking stats, or groups of stats: Avoidance Mitigation Health Threat Of these, the top three are the most importan...

I've been working my way towards uncrushability, and it's pretty hard going. I'm currently 13.44% away. And it's not like I...

I came across a good focus macro for crowd control on the forums, and I can't find the post again. So I'm recording it here so I can...

I've been inspecting people outside of Karazhan, and I have noticed that there appear to be three types of raiders. At least, three typ...

There are basically two philosophies of loot that determines a lot of guild attitudes, rules and restrictions. I find that you can generall...

I decided to check out the open beta (World Tour) of Lord of the Rings Online. Here are some thoughts. Keep in mind that I didn't get v...

I saw a post on the Paladin boards discussing what would happen if Crushing Blows could not be pushed off the table. The obvious answer is ...

The discussion about Illumination has me thinking about mana regeneration in WoW. Paladins have spell crit, Warlocks have Lifetap, but what ...