WoW Insider http://wow.joystiq.com WoW Insider http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/wow.joystiq.com/media/feedlogobig.gif WoW Insider http://wow.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2015 AOL, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. View our terms of service here: http://legal.aol.com/terms-of-service/full-terms/ Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/ <![CDATA[The Light and How to Swing It: Cataclysm 101 for protection paladins]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/12/15/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-cataclysm-101-for-protection-pala/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/12/15/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-cataclysm-101-for-protection-pala/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/12/15/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-cataclysm-101-for-protection-pala/#comments Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Light and How to Swing It for holy, protection and retribution paladins. Please send screenshots as well as any comments to my email at gregg@wow.com.

We're doing a quick series on what it means to be a paladin in Cataclysm for people either coming back to the game after an absence or trying out the class for the first time. If you missed last week, we covered retribution paladins and some beginner info for them, and hopefully we'll finish them up next week. But first, we're talking about protection paladins and their 101 introduction.

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Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Light and How to Swing It for holy, protection and retribution paladins. Please send screenshots as well as any comments to my email at gregg@wow.com.

Earlier this year, I wrote up a little article on what you need to know about retribution paladins. The problem with this is that when Deathwing decided to break the world, he also changed how every class in the game played in some way. Paladins were one of the ones that changed the most in this shift. We got an additional resource bar, new talents, new mechanics, new abilities -- and now we're getting new levels.

As retribution paladins, this doesn't faze us that much. This happens every expansion to our spec, and we're used to it at this point. Anyway, we're going to spend two weeks on this and move over to protection. Let's get to the good stuff.

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]]> class-helpfeaturedguideguide-to-paladinsguide-to-palliesguide-to-pallyspaladin-guidepaladin-infopaladin-retribution-the-light-and-how-to-swing-itpaladin-talentspally-guidepally-infopally-talentsretribution-paladin-the-light-and-how-to-swing-ittalenttalentsworld-of-warcraft-class-guideworld-of-warcraft-guidewow-class-guidewow-class-helpwow-guidewow-paladinwow-paladin-infowow-paladinswow-pallywow-pally-infowow-talent-guide (Gregg Reece) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Light and How to Swing It: Prot and ret paladin addons]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/12/01/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-prot-and-ret-paladin-addons/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/12/01/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-prot-and-ret-paladin-addons/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/12/01/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-prot-and-ret-paladin-addons/#comments Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Light and How to Swing It for holy, protection and retribution paladins. Please send screenshots as well as any comments to my email at gregg@wow.com.

In recent news, yet another Sanctuary talent bug has been hotfixed. I'm really starting to get annoyed at this wonderful talent that keeps us crit-immune. This time, the issue was that it would de-talent itself for players under level 30 when they logged off, zoned, changed continents, etc. This should now be fixed, for those of you who've been leveling new tauren paladins as protection.

As far as the column this week goes, we're talking about addons. From holy power tracking to gear swapping to buff reminders (like the one shown above), there are a lot of things that can make our day-to-day dungeon running a lot easier. These aren't the only addons for each solution (and I hope our commenters will point out any good ones I missed), but they're a few of the more popular, and each has its own features and limitations.

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Hey there, paladins. Sorry I missed you all last week, but I caught something after visiting family for the weekend. Traveling hundreds of miles just to catch the flu. Ugh.

In other news, the world has shattered with patch 4.0.3a. The good news is that we should have some tauren paladins at this point on the live realms, or people who are about to either race/faction-change to them or roll up new ones. The bad news is that there still aren't going to be worgen paladins in Cataclysm. I had thought Blizzard would have reconsidered its poor decision by this point, but Blizzard's devs still haven't accepted the fact that werewolves with glowing wings are cool. Oh, well.

Today, we're talking retribution glyphs. A lot of you probably have your glyphs set up at this point but might be unsure of what you ended up picking. Others of you might be looking for alternatives that match up better with how you're playing the spec. And others are here because you read all of the articles on the site or are interested in rolling one of those cowadins I mentioned earlier.

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]]> (Gregg Reece) Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Light and How to Swing It: No more avoidance caps]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/11/10/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-no-more-avoidance-caps/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/11/10/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-no-more-avoidance-caps/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/11/10/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-no-more-avoidance-caps/#comments
Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Light and How to Swing It for holy, protection and retribution paladins. Please send screenshots as well as any comments to my email at gregg@wow.com. Oh, and I still love the Grand Crusader proc graphics even though they're unrelated to today's article.

One thing that we've been taught as tanks throughout most of World of Warcraft is that you had to be capped at something in order to not be insta-killed by bosses. Back when I started playing, this was referred to as reaching uncrushable. You would have to stack up 102.4 percent avoidance in order to push the dreaded crushing blows off of the boss's list of possible attacks he could hit you with. This also meant that all incoming hits were avoided or mitigated in some way, shape or form. That primary form was blocks, and abilities like Shield Block and Holy Shield at that time were custom tailored to this environment.

With the release of Wrath of the Lich King, crushing blows were deemed a thing of the past and bosses would no longer be employing them against tanks. However, we quickly had a new cap to deal with instead of that called the defense cap, aka reaching uncrittable. This meant accumulating 540 defense skill against raid bosses in order to remove bosses of being able to hit us with a critical melee attack. In early raiding tiers, this was a constant balance between gems, enchants and trinkets, as each piece of gear we accumulated could change how the scales tipped.

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Civilization Fanatics forum-goer Maze has designed a map pack for the recently released Civilization 5 that looks very familiar, and for good reason: the map mimics that of classic World of Warcraft, with the two main continents and the Maelstrom in the center.

The map is actually very accurate, with precisely placed bodies of water and coastlines and small details like purple creep in Silithus. There are also details like Thoradin's Wall and the Deeprun Tram pointed out.

Maze has created two versions of the map, with differing sizes for faster- or slower-paced games. Even if you aren't a fan of the game and don't plan on playing it, the graphics and attention to detail are pretty awesome. Check out some shots of the map in our gallery below.

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Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Light and How to Swing It for holy, protection and retribution paladins. Please send screenshots as well as any comments to my email at gregg@wow.com.

We've recently looked at builds for protection and retribution, so let's continue that trend and take a look at glyphs. I'm going to review all of them, as we're getting pretty close to Cataclysm, and I'm going to also review them in a more global context instead of talking about what is going to help you on hard-mode Lich King.

The way I've set it up is that everything that you're likely going to want without question has an asterisk next to it; those are pretty much things you'll want to take. If you look through the major and minor glyphs, you'll notice that there aren't very many marked as such. There's a reason for that. We just don't have that many spectacular glyphs that are useful in all situations for those types. That's not to say the other glyphs are bad (well, some are, but we'll get to that), but they're more situational and require some choice on your part.

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Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Light and How to Swing It for holy, protection and retribution paladins. Please send screenshots as well as any comments to my email at gregg@wow.com.

So this is pretty much going to be a collection of blurbs from the BlizzCon 2010 class Q&A panel. Some questions that were asked throughout the day were things that have come up in the past, but others had new information that hadn't even hit the beta servers yet. The panel members from left to right consisted of Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street (WoW lead systems designer), Kris Zierhut (WoW senior technical game designer), Owen Landgren (WoW game designer), Ion Hazzikostas (WoW game designer) and Chris Kaleiki (WoW associate game designer).

I went back and tried to do a much more thorough job at transcribing the information than we do in our live blogs (because none of us can type as fast as Ghostcrawler speaks). Also, I've added a "too long didn't read" (TLDR) version of each question at the beginning for those of you who don't read the whole post before commenting. For the rest of you, there is a full transcript as well as links I've found to videos of the panel on YouTube and linked directly to where the question is asked, if you want to actually see what was happening. This isn't official video, so it might get pulled for copyright issues, but until then, it's a great reference.

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For those of you keeping score at home, the female worgen model has been delayed, put in, pulled out and generally not finished for most of the beta. It appears Blizzard is starting to get things ready for Cataclysm's ship date. Now, if only it would fix the really strange way her jaws sit.
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm will destroy Azeroth as we know it; nothing will be the same! In WoW Insider's Guide to Cataclysm, you can find out everything you need to know about WoW's third expansion (available Dec. 7, 2010), from brand new races to revamped quests and zones. Visit our Cataclysm news category for the most recent posts having to do with the Cataclysm expansion.

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]]> breakingfacebookfeedfemale-worgenfemale-worgen-animationfemale-worgen-dancefemale-worgen-modelworgenworgen-danceworgen-femaleworgen-female-dancewowheadwowhead.com (Gregg Reece) Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:43:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[New Blizzard community website, forums begin testing in November]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/27/new-blizzard-community-website-forums-begin-testing-in-november/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/27/new-blizzard-community-website-forums-begin-testing-in-november/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/27/new-blizzard-community-website-forums-begin-testing-in-november/#comments
The announcement came out this morning on the EU forums that Blizzard is getting ready to roll out its new community website and forums for World of Warcraft some time in early November. Anyone who has been to the community site for StarCraft 2 will already be aware of some of the new features including a more advanced forum system than what we have now. Features will include the ability to report a post for trolling or spam without changing pages, being able to see a quick summary of the thread by mousing over and letting players up- and down-rate responses.

The current forums will be set as locked during the beginning of the transition and then will be completely removed toward the end. This means that if there are any old guides, posts or fun things from days of old that you want to see moved to the new forums, you should copy them to your own computer now.

One thing that is curiously missing from the announcement is what alternative Blizzard has developed to its original Real ID forums concept since it was thrown out. StarCraft 2 has a centralized handle that is associated with your Battle.net login, and it is the same handle/avatar that's used for multiplayer games. Hopefully, they'll provide more details on issues like this as things start to lead up to the changeover.

The full blue post is after the break.

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]]> activision-blizzardbattle-netbattle.netblizzard-forumsblue-postblue-posterblue-postersblue-postscommunity-siteforumsnew-community-sitenew-forumsreal-idreal-id-forumsrealidstarcraft-2starcraft-forumsTakraluswow-forumswow-real-id (Gregg Reece) Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[BlizzCon 2010: Closing ceremonies]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/23/blizzcon-2010-closing-ceremonies/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/23/blizzcon-2010-closing-ceremonies/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/23/blizzcon-2010-closing-ceremonies/#comments As BlizzCon 2010 comes to an end, Paul Sams (chief operating officer of Blizzard) started out the ceremonies. A series of intentionally bad gamer jokes followed as he got the crowd ready. He then took it to a serious note and thanked attendees both attending in person and at home.

Blizzard used this opportunity to bring out the tournament winners. Warcraft 3 winner Remind (night elf) from South Korea and StarCraft 2 winner NEXGenius (protoss), also from South Korea, were presented with $25,000 for being grand prize winners. They will also be getting an eSports ring customized to their game that's the size of Superbowl rings. The WoW Arena tournament was still going on at this point (*aAa* vs compLexity.Red), so there was no winner to announce for it yet.

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]]> blizzconblizzcon-2010blizzcon-2010-closing-ceremoniesblizzcon2010diablo-3diablo-3-beta-keypaul-samsstarcraft-2starcraft-2-tournamentstarcraft-iitenacious-dwarcraft-3warcraft-iiiwarcraft-iii-tournament (Gregg Reece) Sat, 23 Oct 2010 22:45:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[BlizzCon 2010: Emerald Dream and/or Nightmare in the future]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/23/blizzcon-2010-emerald-dream-and-or-nightmare-in-the-future/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/23/blizzcon-2010-emerald-dream-and-or-nightmare-in-the-future/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/23/blizzcon-2010-emerald-dream-and-or-nightmare-in-the-future/#comments There are a lot of questions that come up from the WoW community at events like BlizzCon. Will we ever have player or guild housing? Why doesn't Blink work right? Where's my moose? One question that keeps coming up is will we ever see the Emerald Dream or its corrupted version, the Emerald Nightmare?

While there is no announcement for an exact date or even which expansion it will appear, Alex "Valnoth" Afrasiabi (lead world designer for World of Warcraft) has finally answered this for us, and that answer is yes. The problem comes down to a matter of finding the right place to fit it in. This might mean something in patch 4.2 or all the way in patch 6.2. It really comes down to when it will fit in the game storyline.

At least we now know that it is something they will do.
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]]> alex-afrasiabiblizzcon-2010emerald-dreamemerald-nightmarevalnoth (Gregg Reece) Sat, 23 Oct 2010 18:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[BlizzCon 2010: DirecTV Ghostcrawler interview]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/23/blizzcon-2010-directv-ghostcrawler-interview/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/23/blizzcon-2010-directv-ghostcrawler-interview/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/23/blizzcon-2010-directv-ghostcrawler-interview/#comments Between panels, the DirecTV folks had an interview with Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street (lead systems designer for WoW) on some various aspects of both Cataclysm and the recent 4.0.1 patch.

Just a warning, this is essentially a live blog and a lot of things will get paraphrased to get it out. We'll try to clean it up a little bit on a second pass, but just think of it as a live blog and you should be golden.

Everyone wants to know where their moose is.
They can't handle the moose.

Are wintersabers still available or should we get them before the sundering happens?
No, they'll still be available. We're not doing anything with them.

What about the mounts in AQ that we use in the instance? Now that it's going to be a zone, can we use them there?
AQ or ZG? AQ mounts will still be there. So you can still get them.

What is getting ready to happen with the sundering? Are we going to be able to watch it happening or are the servers going to go down and when the come back up it's all done?
Pretty much that assuming all goes well. The two old continents will go away and the new ones will just appear almost over night. Players will experience that and then shortly after that Cataclysm will go on the shelves and people will be able to level their goblin, worgen, or go up to 85.

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]]> blizzcon-2010blizzcon2010cataclysmdirectv-blizzconghostcrawlerghostcrawler-interviewghostcrawler-promised-me-a-moosemasterypatch-4.0.1wintersabers (Gregg Reece) Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Breakfast Topic: BlizzCon Day 2 -- just wait, there's more]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/23/breakfast-topic-blizzcon-day-2-just-wait-theres-more/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/23/breakfast-topic-blizzcon-day-2-just-wait-theres-more/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/23/breakfast-topic-blizzcon-day-2-just-wait-theres-more/#comments
First off, the Cataclysm: Cinematics panel is today. The cinematic for the expansion is awesome and I'm not sure we really need to talk about anything else. Wait, yes we do. There are other panels ... what were they again? Oh, the class Q&A and some other stuff. Let's take a closer look and see what all is going on.

For WoW panels we're just going to be sitting at the main stage for the first half of the day. We have the Cataclysm: Cinematics panel at 10:30 a.m., WoW Class Q&A at 12 p.m., and the WoW Open Q&A at 1:30 p.m. After that, we swap to the development stage for the WoW art panel at 3 p.m. If you keep watching the development stage you'll see -- or rather, hear -- a panel called Blizzard Sound that should touch on the making of the cool sound effects we're going to be hearing in Cataclysm as well as other Blizzard games.

The night will be finished off with a performance by Tenacious D at 6:30 p.m. As Mike Morhaime warned us during the opening ceremonies yesterday, this band isn't not suitable for some audiences ... and possibly all audiences, but they should be a fun act to watch.

Remember that all times and chai are Pacific. No, I wasn't mainlining caffeine when I wrote this last night. Well, maybe just a little.
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]]> blizzcon-2010caffeinefacebookfeedgame-discussiongamer-discussiontenacious-dworld-of-warcraft-discussionworld-of-warcraft-topicswow-discussionwow-hot-topicswow-issueswow-topics (Gregg Reece) Sat, 23 Oct 2010 08:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[BlizzCon 2010: Outland and Northrend revamps eventually planned]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/22/blizzcon-2010-outland-and-northrend-revamps-eventually-planned/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/22/blizzcon-2010-outland-and-northrend-revamps-eventually-planned/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/22/blizzcon-2010-outland-and-northrend-revamps-eventually-planned/#comments One of the problems with changing the world in Cataclysm to bring all of the classic storylines up to date is that you suddenly go to Outland for an event that happened in the past. You also follow this up with going to Northrend and fighting back the undead which were already shown to have fallen back in the content before you ever went to Outland.

Chris Metzen discussed the fact that this really doesn't mesh well and the internal Blizzard lore folks aren't really happy with it. They plan to eventually go back and make Outland and Northrend fit with the revised storyline. The problem they ran into is purely a lack of time. As an example, Wrath of the Lich King had around 1000 quests in Northrend. Cataclysm has 3500 quests without touching either Outland or Northrend.

So, these changes to make the lore line up are planned, but there is absolutely no schedule as to when they will be implemented.

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]]> blizzcon-2010blizzcon-quests-and-lore-panelcataclysmchris-metzenlorenorthrendoutlandquests-and-lore-panel (Gregg Reece) Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:30:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Headless Horseman and cogwheel crash workaround]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/22/headless-horseman-and-cogwheel-crash-workaround/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/22/headless-horseman-and-cogwheel-crash-workaround/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/22/headless-horseman-and-cogwheel-crash-workaround/#comments If you're one of the many players who is having issues with the Headless Horseman pumpkin locking up your game client or any other cogwheel type item doing the same sort of thing, there is now a workaround while they look into fixing this bug. Kill your tooltips.

That's right, tooltips are the cause behind this rash of client crashes. There are two ways you can get around this particular issue. One is to just disable tooltips. You can do this by setting up a single macro and putting it on your action bars.

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/script GameTooltip.Temphide = function() GameTooltip:Hide() end; GameTooltip:SetScript("OnShow", GameTooltip.Temphide)
/stopmacro [btn:1]
/script GameTooltip:SetScript("OnShow", GameTooltip.Show);


This will disable tooltips when you left-click the button and re-enable them when you right-click the button.

An alternative is a simple addon called CogFix which disables the simple addons which are causing this issue, but will allow complex tooltips (like when you mouse over a player or NPC) still remain visible. Any custom tooltip addon could possibly protect you from this bug, but your mileage may vary.

The developers are working on permanent a fix for this issue, but have to test things to make sure that the fix doesn't cause issues elsewhere.

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]]> cogfixcogwheel-bugcogwheel-crashcogwheel-fixcogwheel-fix-macrohallows-endhallows-end-2010headless-horsemanheadless-horseman-crashtooltip-addontooltip-bugtooltip-crashtooltip-diable-macrotooltip-macrotooltip-mod (Gregg Reece) Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[BlizzCon 2010: Patch 4.1.0 brings enhanced dungeon maps]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/22/blizzcon-2010-patch-4-1-0-brings-enhanced-dungeon-maps/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/22/blizzcon-2010-patch-4-1-0-brings-enhanced-dungeon-maps/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/22/blizzcon-2010-patch-4-1-0-brings-enhanced-dungeon-maps/#comments Cory Stockton (World of Warcraft lead content designer) announced an unexpected feature that will be coming in patch 4.1.0. It has been revealed that Blizzard is adding maps for all dungeons from Burning Crusade all the way back to classic in order to match the features that the current Wrath of the Lich King and Cataclysm dungeons bring with them.

The new information is that they're planning on taking those maps up a notch. Instead of just a stylized skull icon marking where the bosses are on the map, we'll be getting enhanced information about each boss encounter.

This will include a 3D portrait of the boss, a brief bit of lore about why exactly you're fighting them and a list of what all loot drops. While all that is all well and good, this is not where the new features end.

The interface will also give you a listing of what abilities each boss uses. That doesn't mean that you are given the strategy, but instead you'll be able to find out what things to look for during the encounter and react a little faster. You'll know if a debuff will be something that you must cleanse immediately or something that you'll be able to ignore for a moment while healing and then get to when you have a moment. These features will not only be for 5-man content, but will also be available in 10/25-man raids as well as heroic content.

Their reasoning behind this is two-fold. First, a lot of players already tab out to check sites like Wowhead to find out loot and boss abilities. Secondly, when presented with a new dungeon a player doesn't have to have as many things explained by the dungeon guide. We'll see how this develops when 4.1.0 starts to get closer.
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]]> blizzcon-2010blizzcon-dungeons-and-raids-panelbreakingdungeon-mapsdungeons-and-raidsdungeons-and-raids-panelenhanced-mapsfacebookfeedpatch-4.1.0 (Gregg Reece) Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:24:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[BlizzCon 2010: Moonkin Hatchling mini-pet going on sale in November]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/22/blizzcon-2010-moonkin-hatchling-mini-pet-going-on-sale-in-novem/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/22/blizzcon-2010-moonkin-hatchling-mini-pet-going-on-sale-in-novem/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/22/blizzcon-2010-moonkin-hatchling-mini-pet-going-on-sale-in-novem/#comments There has been some data-mining in the past couple weeks which found mention of a Moonkin Hatchling in the beta game files. During the BlizzCon opening ceremonies, Mike Morhaime (Blizzard CEO) announced that this new vanity pet will be available for sale from the Blizzard store coming in November. We still don't have any idea how adorable this pet will look, but if it's anything like the other hatchling pets the cuteness will be epic.

They also announced that their Pandaren Monk pet when it donated all proceeds to charity when it was first available made $1.1 million for the Make-a-Wish Foundation. We're curious if this is a sign of more charity vanity pets to come in the future as that will make a serious impact for almost any cause.

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Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Light and How to Swing It for holy, protection and retribution paladins. Please send screenshots as well as any comments to my email at gregg@wow.com.

Hi. I've got a quick thing to report on before we get to the meat of the article. If you were tanking those first couple days of patch 4.0.1 and you seemed to be taking extra damage, almost as if you weren't crit-immune, there is a reason for that. There was a bug that made us vulnerable to crits in 4.0.1. It should be fixed now, but I received a couple emails about it from people who were extremely concerned about their survivability. Try things again and see if you're still having issues.

We really need to talk about talent builds. I know we're a week after the patch at this point, but due to how much we've changed throughout the course of the beta, I've developed an innate fear of committing to talent builds. Part of this comes from having had talents moved between trees each build. Other parts of this come from seeing talents keep the same name yet be completely changed as far as what they do. I really wanted the patch to drop before doing this, because I didn't trust Blizzard to keep things the same from the PTR/beta build to the live build. However, that is in the past. Let's look toward the future.

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The Light and How to Swing It: Protection and retribution builds in 4.0.1 originally appeared on WoW Insider on Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]> acts-of-sacrificearbiter-of-the-lightavengers-shieldclass-helpconsecrationcrusadeDivine-Guardiandps-talentseternal-gloryeye-for-an-eyefeaturedgrand-crusaderGuarded-by-the-Lightguideguide-to-paladinsguide-to-palliesguide-to-pallyshallowed-groundHand-of-FreedomHand-of-SacrificeHand-of-Salvationimproved-judgementjudgements-of-the-purepaladin-guidepaladin-infopaladin-protection-the-light-and-how-to-swing-itpaladin-retribution-the-light-and-how-to-swing-itpaladin-talent-buildspaladin-talentspally-guidepally-infopally-talentsprotection-paladin-the-light-and-how-to-swing-itprotection-talent-buildsprotection-talentsprotector-of-the-innocentrebukereckoningrepentanceretribution-paladin-the-light-and-how-to-swing-itretribution-talent-buildsretribution-talentsretribution-treeseals-of-the-pureselfless-healertalenttalentstanking-talentsword-of-gloryword-of-glory-tankworld-of-warcraft-class-guideworld-of-warcraft-guidewow-class-guidewow-class-helpwow-guidewow-paladinwow-paladin-infowow-paladinswow-pallywow-pally-infowow-talent-guidezealotry (Gregg Reece) Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Headless Horseman pumpkin shrine crashes game]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/18/headless-horseman-pumpkin-shrine-crashes-game/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/18/headless-horseman-pumpkin-shrine-crashes-game/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/18/headless-horseman-pumpkin-shrine-crashes-game/#comments When the Hallow's End decorations went up, many people were excited about the possibilities of the rare Headless Horseman mount, finishing up What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been and just generally playing around with one of the favorite holidays in the game.

When the first players started doing the Headless Horseman event in hopes of Sinister Squashlings, they quickly noticed a rather harsh bug. There is about a 50/50 chance when mousing over the pumpkin to summon the Headless Horseman that the game client will lock up and/or disconnect you. Ever since patch 4.0.1 hit the live servers, there have been reports that world items that give the gear icon to let you know it is clickable have been causing a similar crash, and this is likely related to that.

One of the reasons this bug is especially hurting groups is that the people to usually click on the pumpkin are the tanks, who are then disconnected, leaving the groups to fend for themselves until they get back. As a precaution, have a DPSer be the one to click on the pumpkin and allow time to reconnect afterward so that the tank and healer can keep the rest of the group alive. If the fight is over by the time the DPSer gets back, the loot roll and bag of goodies should be ready and waiting.

Update: Orlyia (Blizzard customer service representative) posted a list of known issues and work-arounds for Hallow's End in the customer service forums. They've said that they're aware of the mouse-over issue and the developers are looking into what is causing it.

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]]> hallows-endhallows-end-2010hallows-end-achievementsheadless-horsemanheadless-horseman-achievementsheadless-horsemans-flying-mountsinister-squashlingwhat-a-long-strange-tripwhat-a-long-strange-trip-its-been (Gregg Reece) Mon, 18 Oct 2010 09:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[WoW Moviewatch: Hearts Nether Lie: Episode 1]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/15/wow-moviewatch-hearts-nether-lie-episode-1/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/15/wow-moviewatch-hearts-nether-lie-episode-1/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/15/wow-moviewatch-hearts-nether-lie-episode-1/#comments Michael Gray wasn't available today due to something involving a pathological fear of soap operas, so I'm filling in and bringing you the first episode of Hearts Nether Lie, a WoW-based soap opera. If you remember, the preview for the series came out in late September, promising romance, betrayal and good-natured satire of both World of Warcraft and the soap opera genre.

This comes from Nananea, who brought you WoW Addons: The Song, and does a good job of spoofing the Netherstorm quest line involving Archmage Vargoth. This was a great first episode, as it showed good production quality, fun gags and a certain campiness that the high elves call ... I don't know what. I'll definitely be looking forward to the next episode to see how the series develops.
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Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Light and How to Swing It for holy, protection and retribution paladins. Please send screenshots as well as any comments to my email at gregg@wow.com.

A couple of weeks back, I covered the basics of things that changed for retribution paladins. At the time, I was putting off any information about rotations, because our class has drastically changed and I wasn't sure if there were any more changes coming down along the lines. Now, 4.0.1 is here and locked in.

I'll be honest. Some of you might not like the direction the class has taken. I do ask you all to at least give it a try for a week before getting upset. A lot of classes have been revamped and I expect a lot of class-swapping before the expansion. However, those of you who are looking at these changes and drooling should find much more depth to the class.

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The Light and How to Swing It: Ret rotation and cooldowns in 4.0.1 originally appeared on WoW Insider on Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]> art-of-waravenging-wrathclass-helpconsecrationcrusader-strikedivine-purposedivine-stormexorcismfeaturedguideguide-to-paladinsguide-to-palliesguide-to-pallyshammer-of-wrathhand-of-lightHoly-Powerholy-power-barholy-power-cataclysmholy-power-gaugeholy-power-generatorholy-power-pointholy-power-releaseholy-wrathinquisitionjudgementmastery-hand-of-lightpaladin-cooldownspaladin-guidepaladin-infopaladin-masterypaladin-retribution-columnpaladin-retribution-the-light-and-how-to-swing-itpaladin-rotationpaladin-rotationspaladin-talentspally-guidepally-infopally-talentspatch-4.0patch-4.0.1patch-4.0.1-paladinpatch-4.0.1-retributionpatch-401retribution-paladin-columnretribution-paladin-masteryretribution-paladin-the-light-and-how-to-swing-itrotationrotationssanctified-wrathtalenttalentstemplars-verdictThe-Art-of-Warword-of-gloryworld-of-warcraft-class-guideworld-of-warcraft-guidewow-class-guidewow-class-helpwow-guidewow-paladinwow-paladin-infowow-paladinswow-pallywow-pally-infowow-talent-guidezealotry (Gregg Reece) Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Status update on current patch 4.0.1 issues]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/13/status-update-on-current-patch-4-0-1-issues/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/13/status-update-on-current-patch-4-0-1-issues/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/13/status-update-on-current-patch-4-0-1-issues/#comments
Vrakthris (Blizzard customer service representative) posted a list of major issues people are coming across in patch 4.0.1, along with updates and expected timetables on when some of them will be resolved. If you're having issues with any of the following topics, read on to find out what is currently being done about the situation.

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]]> authenitcatorbalance-druidbattlegroundbattlegroundsbgbreakingcharactersdruiddurabilityguildguild-authenticatorguild-rankguild-ranksguild-securityguildsinsect-swarmitem-durabilitymaster-ridingmissing-charactersmissing-enchantmentsVrakthriswarlockwarlock-pets (Gregg Reece) Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:45:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Patch 4.0.1 introduces reforging into the game]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/11/patch-4-0-1-introduces-reforging-into-the-game/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/11/patch-4-0-1-introduces-reforging-into-the-game/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/11/patch-4-0-1-introduces-reforging-into-the-game/#comments One of the features that is in patch 4.0.1 is the new reforging feature. This allows you to adjust armor, weapons and trinkets to better line up with the stats you need. The whole concept essentially allows more gear to be used instead of disenchanted. It also allows you to game your stats a little bit more by turning an item that would be providing way too much hit rating into something that provided some hit rating and critical strike rating.

There are a few restrictions:
  • You can only change secondary stats (hit, crit, haste, mana regen, dodge, etc.).
  • Only one stat may be changed.
  • You can't change one stat into a different stat the item already has.
  • You can't alter how much of the stat to change; it's always 40 percent(ish) of the original amount.
  • The item must have an item level of at least 200 (level 80 epics or higher).
Otherwise, the price of reforging is the same as the sell price of the item. You can always restore an item back to its original stats for free if you decide you don't like the new setup. This allows you to try out different setups (paying the full reforge cost each time) until you find the right fit.

Where can you find these reforging guys? They are usually found in major cities near the enchanting trainers. If you can't find them, be sure to ask a guard, who'll point you in the right direction.

All in all, the reforging system is pretty simple and provides the opportunity for us to start trying out the new mastery stat without waiting for Cataclysm itself to be released. If you'd like to take a look at how this works, here's a gallery walking you the process through step by step.

Gallery: Reforging

Local reforgerA brief historySome restrictions applyQuel'Delar, for exampleChoosing a stat

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]]> cataclysmcataclysm-betacataclysm-wowgallerypatch-4.0patch-4.0.1patch-401reforgereforgedreforging (Gregg Reece) Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Extended realm maintenance for Tuesday, October 12th; Patch 4.0.1 likely]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/11/extended-realm-maintenance-for-tuesday-oct-12/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/11/extended-realm-maintenance-for-tuesday-oct-12/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/11/extended-realm-maintenance-for-tuesday-oct-12/#comments I shook my Imp in a Ball and asked if the pre-Cataclysm patch 4.0.1 would be dropping on Tuesday and he said, "Yes, but if anyone asks ... It wasn't me who told you." Then Blizzard representative Rishgur announced on the forums that we would be having extended maintenance from midnight until noon on Tuesday, Oct. 12. Coincidence? I think not. It's so blatant that even Kaylee Switchgear, our maintenance graphic gnome, thinks we're having a patch.

Could some random bug crop up between now and then to crush the hopes and dreams of those of us preparing for a 4.0.1 Tuesday? Sure, but that could happen with just about any patch. What we do know is that realms will be down for 12 hours and Cataclysm is only a month and a half away.

Be sure to tune into WoW Insider during the downtime to brush up on your 4.0.1 patch information and all of the class-revamping, reforging, prime-glyphing, guild-member-capping, Azeroth-shattering information.

Rishgur
We will be performing extended maintenance on Tuesday, October 12th. Maintenance will begin at 12:00 AM PDT and conclude at approximately 12:00 PM PDT. During this time, all realms and many web services will be unavailable.

Thank you for your patience.

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]]> extended-maintenancemaintenancepatch-4.0patch-4.0.1patch-401pre-cataclysmrealm-maintenancerealm-statusRishgurwow-realm-maintenancewow-realm-status (Gregg Reece) Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Battle.net authenticators limited to one account]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/07/battle-net-authenticators-limited-to-one-account/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/07/battle-net-authenticators-limited-to-one-account/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/07/battle-net-authenticators-limited-to-one-account/#comments Blizzard is changing up the security on their authenticators a bit. This isn't a major change and shouldn't affect that many people. Starting now, if you happen to have multiple Battle.net accounts (not multiple WoW accounts under one Battle.net account), then each account must have its own authenticator. This means if you have separate Battle.net logins for zergrush@somedomain.com and taurenfever@example.com and you want to use an authenticator, you'll need to buy two. If you've just got taurenfever@example.com and all of your games are under that Battle.net login, then you're perfectly fine.

This is not retroactive. If you already have two accounts linked to a single authenticator, everything will still work as it does right now until you unlink that authenticator. The full blue post detailing the changes is behind the cut below.

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]]> account-safetyAccount-Securityaccount-sharingauthenticatorauthenticator-appauthenticator-iphoneauthenticatorsbattle-netbattle-net-accountbattle-net-account-creationbattle-net-authenticatorbattle-net-authenticator-iphone-appBattle-Net-Mergebattle.netBattle.net-2.0battle.net-accountlylirra (Gregg Reece) Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[BlizzCon store's 48-hour online pre-sale]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/07/blizzcon-stores-48-hour-online-pre-sale/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/07/blizzcon-stores-48-hour-online-pre-sale/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/07/blizzcon-stores-48-hour-online-pre-sale/#comments If you've ever been to a convention and seen all of that wonderful swag, you've also seen the lines to procure that wonderful swag. It's annoying to wait in a line for an hour just to buy a T-shirt that you can only get at that venue.

Blizzard is bypassing this issue by allowing anyone who has purchased a BlizzCon ticket to grab those unique merchandise items ahead of time and online. No fighting over the last murloc head can cozy or Raynor onesie for your child, just simple online transactions with the goods being shipped directly to your home.

This is only for people who have actual tickets to the event. Anyone with a virtual ticket will have to wait until the 13th to get in on their own 48-hour sale. If you don't fall into either of those groups and still want to get in on the swag, then you need to go buy your virtual ticket before 11:50 p.m. Pacific on Oct. 10 to qualify for the sale or you're out of luck.

Zarhym on the 48 hour sale
Heading to BlizzCon 2010? Planning to purchase some souvenirs at the show? From October 9 at 10 a.m. Pacific time until October 11 at 9:59 a.m., BlizzCon 2010 ticket holders will have the opportunity to purchase select BlizzCon 2010 store merchandise online (while supplies last). Items purchased through this sale will be shipped directly to your home, giving you more time to take in the panels, tournaments, and other events at the show. To participate, log in to the online Blizzard Store during the sale hours using the Battle.net account provided when you purchased your BlizzCon 2010 ticket (viewable in the buyer's Order History), and head to the More Products section. A second 48-hour sale for BlizzCon Virtual Ticket purchasers will be taking place beginning October 13 -- place your order by October 10 to participate.

http://us.blizzard.com/store/

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]]> blizzardblizzconblizzcon-2010blizzcon-2010-ticketsblizzcon-2010-virtual-ticketblizzcon-storeblizzcon-ticketsblizzcon-virtual-ticketblizzcon-wowbreakingstoreswag (Gregg Reece) Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:06:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Light and How to Swing It: Bringing utility in Cataclysm]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/06/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-bringing-utility-in-cataclysm/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/06/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-bringing-utility-in-cataclysm/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/06/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-bringing-utility-in-cataclysm/#comments With the Light as his strength, Gregg Reece of The Light and How to Swing It faces down the demons of the Burning Legion, the undead of the Scourge, and soon, an entire flight of black dragons. Please send screenshots as well as any comments to my email at gregg@wow.com.

Sorry, the above graphic really has nothing to do with today's column, but I wanted to feature more of the new built-in "power auras" that Blizzard added to the game.

As for today's message, I know the following is going to raise some red flags for those long-time paladins out there, but don't freak out. I'm going to ask that you start stepping up and bringing a bit more utility.

Relax, I didn't mean it in a vanilla or BC sort of way when you were sometimes just brought for certain buffs and nothing to do with your damage, tanking or healing. I mean it in a real sense that we do have some utility available to us in addition to everything else that we do, much the same way that hunters' traps bring utility to their class.

The coming expansion is going to be harder than we're used to. We've been just nuking things for so long that a lot of our utility abilities have slowly worked their way off of our toolbars, or we're getting new abilities in the expansion to fill roles we haven't had before.

Let's take a look at what we're going to be expected to start doing once the Cataclysm gets into full swing.

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]]> cataclysmcatalcysmclass-helpcrowd-controlcrowd-control-abilitydivine-guardianfeaturedguideguide-to-paladinsguide-to-palliesguide-to-pallyshammer-of-justicehand-of-freedomhand-of-protectionhand-of-reckoninghand-of-sacrificehand-of-salvationpaladin-guidepaladin-infopaladin-protection-the-light-and-how-to-swing-itpaladin-retribution-the-light-and-how-to-swing-itpaladin-talentspally-guidepally-infopally-talentsprotection-paladin-the-light-and-how-to-swing-itrebukerepentanceretribution-paladin-the-light-and-how-to-swing-ittalenttalentsutilityworld-of-warcraft-class-guideworld-of-warcraft-guidewow-class-guidewow-class-helpwow-guidewow-paladinwow-paladin-infowow-paladinswow-pallywow-pally-infowow-talent-guide (Gregg Reece) Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Light and How to Swing It: Retribution in 4.0.1]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/29/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-retribution-in-4-0-1/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/29/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-retribution-in-4-0-1/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/29/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-retribution-in-4-0-1/#comments
With the Light as his strength, Gregg Reece of The Light and How to Swing It faces down the demons of the Burning Legion, the undead of the Scourge, and soon, an entire flight of black dragons. Please send screenshots as well as any comments to gregg@wow.com.

A couple weeks back, I covered the changes to protection for the 4.0.1 pre-Cataclysm patch that usually goes out a month(ish) or so before release. The point of those patches is so that everyone can play with the new class features and get everything figured out before the chaos that is the actual expansion release. Now it's time to do the same sort of coverage for ret pallies. If you haven't been following the changes thus far, it's going to look odd. There are new class concepts and skill/buff consolidations.

First off, picking your spec now has a lot more meaning from the get-go. You receive most of the passive buffs that you'd have to spend 40 talent points getting in the past for free at level 10 that are responsible for making your chosen spec usable. As an example, you get Sheath of Light, Two-Handed Weapon Specialization and Judgements of the Bold. That provides your attack power-to-spellpower conversion, your weapon damage bonus and your mana regeneration. All of this just for picking the spec. In addition, you get a new attack called Templar's Verdict that we'll get into later.

First off, let's talk about the biggest change to our class in the expansion: holy power.

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]]> blessing-of-kingsblessing-of-mightblessing-of-wisdomcataclysmcataclysm-betaclass-helpcrusader-strikedivine-purposedivine-sacrificedivine-stormexorcismfeaturedFire-Resistance-AuraFrost-Resistance-Auraguideguide-to-paladinsguide-to-palliesguide-to-pallyshand-of-lightholy-powerholy-power-barholy-power-cataclysmholy-power-gaugeholy-power-generatorholy-power-pointholy-power-releaseholy-wrathinquisitionjudgementjudgements-of-the-boldmark-of-the-wildmasterymastery-statmastery-systempaladin-guidepaladin-infopaladin-retribution-the-light-and-how-to-swing-itpaladin-talentspally-guidepally-infopally-talentspatch-4.0.1public-test-realmpublic-test-realmsresistance-auraretributionRetribution-paladinretribution-paladin-the-light-and-how-to-swing-itsacred-shieldsanctity-of-battleseal-of-commandSeal-of-Corruptionseal-of-insightseal-of-justiceseal-of-lightSeal-of-Righteousnessseal-of-truthseal-of-vengeanceseal-of-wisdomseals-of-commandShadow-Resistance-AuraSheath-of-Lighttalenttalentstemplars-verdictTwo-Handed-Weapon-Specializationword-of-gloryworld-of-warcraft-class-guideworld-of-warcraft-guidewow-class-guidewow-class-helpwow-guidewow-paladinwow-paladin-infowow-paladinswow-pallywow-pally-infowow-talent-guidezealotry (Gregg Reece) Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Light and How to Swing It: Guardian of Ancient Kings for prot and ret]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/22/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-guardian-of-ancient-kings-for-pro/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/22/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-guardian-of-ancient-kings-for-pro/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/22/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-guardian-of-ancient-kings-for-pro/#comments With the Light as his strength, Gregg Reece of The Light and How to Swing It faces down the demons of the Burning Legion, the undead of the Scourge -- and soon, an entire flight of black dragons. Please send screenshots as well as any comments to gregg@wow.com.

I've been holding off on talking about Guardian of Ancient Kings (which I'll abbreviate "GK" and pronounce "goak" because, frankly, why not?) for a few different reasons. One, it wasn't implemented, and two, even if it were implemented, we couldn't level to 85 to use it. Both of those have changed in the past couple builds.

So, we've got a warrior of the light who will stand by our side and do ... what was it again? Oh, right. Something completely different depending on what spec you are. If you're holy, it helps heal; prot, it helps you tank; and ret, it helps do damage. This is intended to be a major cooldown for whichever spec you've chosen and will adapt appropriately. It is the Batman of abilities, with something in its utility belt for everyone.

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]]> cat-betacata-betacataclysm-betaclass-helpfeaturedguardian-of-ancient-kingsguideguide-to-paladinsguide-to-palliesguide-to-pallysholy-paladin-the-light-and-how-to-swing-itpaladin-guidepaladin-holy-the-light-and-how-to-swing-itpaladin-infopaladin-protection-the-light-and-how-to-swing-itpaladin-retribution-the-light-and-how-to-swing-itpaladin-talentspally-guidepally-infopally-talentsprotection-paladin-the-light-and-how-to-swing-itretribution-paladin-the-light-and-how-to-swing-ittalenttalentsworld-of-warcraft-betaworld-of-warcraft-cataclysmworld-of-warcraft-cataclysm-betaworld-of-warcraft-class-guideworld-of-warcraft-guidewow-betawow-cataclysm-betawow-class-guidewow-class-helpwow-expansion-betawow-guidewow-paladinwow-paladin-infowow-paladinswow-pallywow-pally-infowow-talent-guide (Gregg Reece) Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Guild chat coming to the Mobile Armory app]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/21/guild-chat-coming-to-the-mobile-armory-app/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/21/guild-chat-coming-to-the-mobile-armory-app/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/21/guild-chat-coming-to-the-mobile-armory-app/#comments Wrocas (European community manager) announced on the WoW forums moments ago that a guild chat feature will be added to the Mobile Armory that's available on both the iPhone and Android. Players have been asking for this type of feature ever since the armory was introduced. This feature piggybacks off the same service that the remote auction house uses, which requires an additional monthly fee on top of your normal World of Warcraft subscription. One fee to rule them all (and by "all," I mean both the mobile auction house and the guild chat feature).

This allows access to guild chat, officer chat (presuming you had access to start with) and whispers. It appears the whispers will only be allowed to and from guild members, at the moment. There is also no news about being able to chat with your Real ID friends. If you don't have a device that the Mobile Armory runs on, Blizzard will soon be adding this feature to the normal armory as well.

The full announcement is behind the break.

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]]> androidbreakingguildguild-chatiphonemobile-armoryremote-auction-houseremote-wowwow-armorywow-armory-iphonewrocas (Gregg Reece) Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:40:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Cataclysm beta: Paladins in build 12984]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/18/cataclysm-beta-paladins-in-build-12984/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/18/cataclysm-beta-paladins-in-build-12984/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/18/cataclysm-beta-paladins-in-build-12984/#comments In the middle of the night, a new build for the PTR and beta got pushed to the patch servers, but it hasn't been marked as ready for download at the time of this writing (it might be at the time of this reading, though). Several classes have received major changes (including six new talents scattered across druid specs), while others simply got a collection of damage tweaks. Paladins appear to be somewhere in between those.

Most of our changes are small tweaks and talent reorganizations, but a few are obvious balancing passes. While there is a new talent for holy, it's just another of the spirit-to-hit conversion talents that other classes have seen. This could, however, mean a possible comeback of the shockadin -- but I'll leave that for Chase to speculate on tomorrow when he covers the holy changes in more depth.

Some quick excerpts from the patch notes, with everything after the break:
  • The holy tree gets a spirit-to-hit conversion talent.
  • Holy Light's healing has decreased by 25% and mana cost has increased to 9%.
  • Divine Purpose proc rate has lowered to 20%.

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]]> cat-betacata-betacataclysm-betaclass-helpDayBreakdivine-purposeeternal-gloryfeaturedGuardians-Favorguideguide-to-paladinsguide-to-palliesguide-to-pallysHoly-Lightimproved-concentration-auraImproved-Hammer-of-Justicelight-of-dawnpaladin-guidepaladin-infopaladin-talentspally-guidepally-infopally-talentsspirit-to-hitspiritual-focustalenttalentstemplars-verdictword-of-gloryworld-of-warcraft-betaworld-of-warcraft-cataclysmworld-of-warcraft-cataclysm-betaworld-of-warcraft-class-guideworld-of-warcraft-guidewow-betawow-cataclysm-betawow-class-guidewow-class-helpwow-expansion-betawow-guidewow-paladinwow-paladin-infowow-paladinswow-pallywow-pally-infowow-talent-guidewrath-of-the-lightbringer (Gregg Reece) Sat, 18 Sep 2010 23:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Cataclysm Beta: Worgen are their own mounts? [Update: Confirmed!]]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/18/cataclysm-beta-worgen-are-their-own-mounts/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/18/cataclysm-beta-worgen-are-their-own-mounts/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/18/cataclysm-beta-worgen-are-their-own-mounts/#comments Update: Zarhym has confirmed Running Wild as the worgen "mount" in Cataclysm.

There have been a lot of people anxiously awaiting the arrival of worgen mounts on the beta. Goblins have had their mounts for a little while now, and most people are still curious what the worgen mounts will even look like. With some of the information mined out of the most recent beta build, it looks like a worgen mount will end up being the worgen themselves.

A new racial ability called Running Wild has been added for worgen, with a 1.5-second cast time that adds the "mounted" aura to the player. The description says, "Drop to all fours to run as fast as a wild animal." However, worgen already have their own version of Sprint called Darkflight, which gives them a temporary speed boost, but this new racial implies mounted speeds.

If this is true, then it will mean different things for different groups. For worgen druids, you never have a reason to buy a mount of any type now. For those Alliance players out there, this might mean a lack of worgen racial mounts, which will probably be compensated elsewhere to keep the number of mounts equal between Horde and Alliance. For tauren players, yes, someone else appears to be getting Plainsrunning before you.
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]]> alliancecat-betacata-betacataclysm-betacataclysm-gamecataclysm-guidecataclysm-newsdarkflightexpansionexpansion-threegoblingoblin-mountnext-xpacplainsrunningrunning-wildsprinttaurenthird-expansionworgenworgen-mountworld-of-warcraft-betaworld-of-warcraft-cataclysmworld-of-warcraft-cataclysm-betawow-4.0wow-4.0.2wow-betawow-cataclysmwow-cataclysm-betawow-expansionwow-expansion-betawow-guidewow-third-expansion (Gregg Reece) Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Light and How to Swing It: Protection in patch 4.0.1]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/15/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-protection-in-patch-4-0-1/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/15/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-protection-in-patch-4-0-1/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/15/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-protection-in-patch-4-0-1/#comments
With the Light as his strength, Gregg Reece of The Light and How to Swing It faces down the demons of the Burning Legion, the undead of the Scourge, and soon, an entire flight of black dragons. Please send screenshots as well as any comments to gregg@wow.com.

My fellow tankadins, I know we haven't talked in a while. I've been talking to the ret pallies lately, but I haven't forgotten about you. The main reason is that I kind of swapped over to retribution during that time period where the devs were mucking with Holy Shield so much, and it was a little more consistent to swap over to something else during that time period. I even had my newish tanking gear back on while playing on the beta lately.

However, a lot has changed since we last spoke, and it would behoove us all to get down to business. Tanking as you know it, with our fairly static rotation of 96969, is gone. Divine Plea's refreshing with melee hits is also gone. Also, we now have another resource bar to watch, in addition to mana. Be not afraid. There are answers beyond.

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]]> 4.0.1Ardent-Defenderavengers-shieldBlessing-of-Sanctuarycat-betacata-betacataclysm-betaclass-helpconsecrationcrusader-strikeDivine-Guardiandivine-pleadivine-protectionDivine-Sacrificefeaturedgrand-crusaderguideguide-to-paladinsguide-to-palliesguide-to-pallyshallowed-groundHoly-Powerholy-power-barholy-power-cataclysmholy-power-gaugeholy-power-generatorholy-power-pointholy-power-releaseholy-shieldHoly-WrathinquisitionJudgements-of-the-Wisepaladin-guidepaladin-infopaladin-protection-the-light-and-how-to-swing-itpaladin-talentspally-guidepally-infopally-talentspatch-4.0.1protection-paladin-the-light-and-how-to-swing-itsanctuaryShield-of-Righteousnessshield-of-the-righteoustalenttalentsword-of-gloryworld-of-warcraft-betaworld-of-warcraft-cataclysmworld-of-warcraft-cataclysm-betaworld-of-warcraft-class-guideworld-of-warcraft-guidewow-betawow-cataclysm-betawow-class-guidewow-class-helpwow-expansion-betawow-guidewow-paladinwow-paladin-infowow-paladinswow-pallywow-pally-infowow-talent-guide (Gregg Reece) Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Cataclysm Beta: Fishing and cooking dailies at level 10]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/14/cataclysm-beta-fishing-and-cooking-dailies-at-level-10/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/14/cataclysm-beta-fishing-and-cooking-dailies-at-level-10/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/14/cataclysm-beta-fishing-and-cooking-dailies-at-level-10/#comments With all of the leveling changes throughout Cataclysm, one that hasn't received much press is the availability of cooking and fishing dailies in your capitals starting at level 10. However, these currently give no experience or money for turning them in. They appear to be there strictly to both help you level your profession as well as give you faction tokens for purchasing additional supplies for cooking or yet another bag of random stuff for fishing. Yes, I said these are there to help you level up, as each daily gives you one additional skill point toward the appropriate profession for doing the quest.

These quests are still pretty early in development, as the tokens that the cooking quest gives you currently can't actually be spent on anything. This is either due to the vendor's not being implemented or that Blizzard just hasn't stocked that particular vendor with items yet. In either case, we'll have to wait a build or two to see what happens.

If you're looking to try out the cooking daily, then you can go see the quest-giver Marogg just outside the cooking trainer's place on the Drag in Orgrimmar for the Horde, or Robby Flay, just outside of the Stockades in Stormwind, if you're Alliance. For the fishing daily, you'll want Catherine Leland on a dock in the canals of Stormwind between the Stockades and the trade district, for Alliance, or Razgar, sitting on the shoreline of the little pond in The Valley of Honor in Orgrimmar, for Horde.
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]]> cat-betacata-betacataclysm-betacataclysm-gamecataclysm-guidecataclysm-newscatherine-lelandcookingcooking-dailiescooking-dailycooking-daily-questexpansionexpansion-threefishingfishing-dailiesfishing-dailyfishing-daily-questmaroggnext-xpacorgrimmarrazgarrobby-flaystormwindthird-expansionworld-of-warcraft-betaworld-of-warcraft-cataclysmworld-of-warcraft-cataclysm-betawow-4.0wow-4.0.2wow-betawow-cataclysmwow-cataclysm-betawow-expansionwow-expansion-betawow-guidewow-third-expansion (Gregg Reece) Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Cataclysm Beta: Mining and herbalism give experience]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/13/cataclysm-beta-mining-and-herbalism-gives-experience/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/13/cataclysm-beta-mining-and-herbalism-gives-experience/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/13/cataclysm-beta-mining-and-herbalism-gives-experience/#comments We've heard of people trying to play as pacifists in World of Warcraft, but there wasn't a lot of support for it in the game. A lot of the experience was earned from holiday events, battleground dailies, profession dailies, items with repeatable quests, and collection quests scattered across the game. If they played healers, this was much easier, as they could heal dungeons and battlegrounds without participating in the actual killing themselves.

Blizzard added another way to earn some experience with the latest patch for Cataclysm. You now earn experience when both gathering from mining and herbalism nodes. This is being reported about 4,000 experience for herb nodes in Wintergrasp at level 80. However, these do suffer from the same experience reduction that lower level quests are hit with. As an example, a level 83 player mining a copper node earns 5 experience but earns a couple of thousand from a titanium node.
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]]> cat-betacata-betacataclysm-betacataclysm-gamecataclysm-guidecataclysm-newsexpansionexpansion-threeherbalismminingnext-xpacpacifismpacifistthird-expansionworld-of-warcraft-betaworld-of-warcraft-cataclysmworld-of-warcraft-cataclysm-betawow-4.0wow-4.0.2wow-betawow-cataclysmwow-cataclysm-betawow-expansionwow-expansion-betawow-guidewow-third-expansion (Gregg Reece) Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Light and How to Swing It: Where did they go?]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/01/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-where-did-they-go/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/01/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-where-did-they-go/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/01/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-where-did-they-go/#comments With the Light as his strength, Gregg Reece of The Light and How to Swing It faces down the demons of the Burning Legion, the undead of the Scourge, and soon, an entire flight of black dragons. Please send screenshots as well as any comments to my email at gregg@wow.com.
Before we get on to business, I need another batch of screenshots for headers if anyone feels like tossing a couple my way.

A lot of abilities have been either renamed, revamped or removed in the Cataclysm beta. This is part of a consolidation process to remove a lot of buttons off of our bars. Other abilities were changed to remove durability and healing from retribution.

However, in the interest of explaining where things went, I decided it might be best to make a list of our lost and renamed abilities, for those of you who haven't been able to keep up with all of the changes.

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For a couple of weeks on the beta forums, PvP paladins were constantly asking for a gap-closer -- all of this in the middle of the new holy power implementation. The developers did listen to the requests, and with some of our hybridness cut out, our prayers have been answered somewhat in the recent beta builds.

On a completely unrelated note, not pressing buttons isn't fun. Having a global cooldown with absolutely nothing to do is so foreign to me as a paladin that when it's happening on the beta, I'm convinced I'm not seeing a button. We'll touch on that a bit later. Onto the article!

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]]> class-helpfeaturedguideguide-to-paladinsguide-to-palliesguide-to-pallysimproved-judgementimproved-judgementsjudgement-of-justicelong-arm-of-the-lawpaladin-guidepaladin-infopaladin-protection-the-light-and-how-to-swing-itpaladin-retribution-the-light-and-how-to-swing-itpaladin-talentspally-guidepally-infopally-talentsprotection-paladin-the-light-and-how-to-swing-itpursuit-of-justicerepentanceretribution-paladin-the-light-and-how-to-swing-itseal-of-justicetalenttalentsworld-of-warcraft-class-guideworld-of-warcraft-guidewow-class-guidewow-class-helpwow-guidewow-paladinwow-paladin-infowow-paladinswow-pallywow-pally-infowow-talent-guide (Gregg Reece) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The Light and How to Swing It: Prot talents in Cataclysm]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/08/18/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-prot-talents-in-cataclysm/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/08/18/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-prot-talents-in-cataclysm/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/08/18/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-prot-talents-in-cataclysm/#comments With the Light as his strength, Gregg Reece of The Light and How to Swing It faces down the demons of the Burning Legion, the undead of the Scourge, and soon, an entire flight of black dragons. Please send screenshots as well as any comments to gregg@wow.com.

If you saw my column last week, you'll notice that I've been less than thrilled with the way the protection tree had been progressing in the beta. Sure, things have been getting better, but it has felt as if the whole tree is fairly unsettled. With the latest build, we're finally starting to see things get a little smoother and the mechanics to make a little bit more sense. Keeping Holy Shield up is easier than in previous builds, and a lot of depth to the types of strategies we can have while tanking has greatly improved. Also, our mastery bonus has been official revealed.

I'm going to use the same type of disclaimer that I did on the ret talents article. These may not be the talents we'll end up seeing when the expansion hits, but they're getting there. Some talents will look pretty close to how they exist currently, while others have absolutely nothing to do with their current versions. Let's go take a look.

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