Blessing of Kings

There have been some interesting developments in hit rating theorycraft since I posted my list of caps. According to this Elitist Jerks th...

I think my ideal 25-man raid make-up would look like: Tanks (3) Prot Warrior x2 Feral Druid Healers (7) Holy Paladin x2 Holy Priest Resto Dr...

A couple of A'lar attempts last week got me thinking about paladin tanks again. Basically, if I were specced Protection, I would be a m...

Even though everyone says he's easy, keeping the melee DPS up with paladins was hard. My kingdom for a resto shaman or holy priest on t...

When looking at decisions a player makes in the game, there are two types: cosmetic decisions and impact decisions. Impact decisions actual...

I was playing around with a macro to keep Light's Grace up on me today. In general, Flash of Light is a superior spell to downranked Ho...

In comments to the last post , people are saying that the real problem is that there is a tank shortage. I think the tank shortage could be ...

Way back in 2005, in my third post ever written , I predicted that a 10-man would need 2 tanks, 5 dps, and 3 healers. And lo and behold, th...

Without resorting to game terms, or specific mechanics, each class can be summed up in an easy-to-understand sentence, which contains the ba...

"In Blizzard's view, where should paladins be in raids: in the melee zone with the rogues and warriors; or in the back with the pri...

Why have attunements? Attunements are useful when the answer to "Are we ready for X?" is not obvious. For example, you are ready ...

Attunements are an interesting topic of discussion. They are obvious "gates" to content. The benefit of attunements is that they ...

For some reason, Blogger is not saving the picture when I use it in the sidebar only. Hopefully adding a post with it will make it more perm...

Perhaps it is time that some spells and abilities got tagged as PvP-only or PvE-only. It seems a bit artificial, but it would make balancing...

We finally killed Gruul the Dragon-Slayer. For some reason, Gruul has stymied us for longer than any other boss so far. Tonight everyone st...

Note: This page used to have all the hit caps for level 70. Because it was still getting linked and visitors, I have deleted all the data fr...

One of the upcoming changes in the new patch is that Damage-Over-Time spells will now have their damage reduced by resilience. Some DoT clas...

I responded to this thread on the WoW Guild Relations Forums. In it, a paladin is complaining that he used to partner up with a shaman, an...

I was playing around with the damage meter mod Recount today. It's pretty slick actually, and even has pie charts. In any case, I fired ...

I like heal. I like to melee. Hence I rolled a paladin. It seemed so simple back then. But now, if I go Holy, I heal but I never melee. If I...