How to decide who’s getting Val’anyr

With Ulduar due to hit in the near future, Tales of a Priest addressed a pretty timely subject for 25-man raiders yesterday with a blog post on Val’anyr and how you’re going to assign it. As it’s a constructed Legendary like Atiesh rather than being a dropped item like the Warglaives and Thori’dal (sudden thought: [...]

Spiritual Guidance: Easy pre-Naxx gear for Holy priests

Every Sunday (usually), Spiritual Guidance will offer practical insight for priests of the holy profession. Eliah is filling in for Matt Low today. This week we’ll take a look at some easy gear to help get you started at 80.
Naxxramas and heroic dungeons are where a lot of the players are spending their time nowadays. [...]

Spiritual Guidance: 3.0.8 for Priests

Every Sunday (usually), Spiritual Guidance will offer practical insight for priests of the holy profession. Your host is Matt Low, the grand poobah of World of Matticus and a founder of PlusHeal, a new healing community for all restorative classes. Today Matticus looks at the upcoming 3.08 patch.
I thought we’d be getting the 3.0.8 patch [...]

The Light and How to Swing It: Shine on! A 2008 review

What a great year 2008 has been for Paladins. While 3.0 overhauled the game in general, the class was retooled throughout the year, particularly Retribution, and became one of the most fun classes to play. In fact, Paladin popularity, while never a problem, rose incredibly. Even as I mourn the decline of Warlocks, I shudder at all the Paladins [...]

The Queue: Plate, plate and more plate

Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider’s daily Q&A column where the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft.
Good afternoon, WoW Insider! I have nothing useful to say in my preface today, because I need to go put my new power supply and video card in my PC so I can [...]

The Queue: Trial and error

Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider’s daily Q&A column where the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft.
Hello, everyone! Did you all grieve for me yesterday when The Queue never showed up? Yes, I apologize. My internet connection going down for 14 hours sort of caused some problems. But I’m [...]

The Light and How to Swing It: Gearing up your Holy Paladin for Haste

At around this time, a good bunch of us should have hit 80 by now. A fortunate few will already be raiding, while others will slowly be gearing up for them. I’ve put together a quick guide to the gear that Paladins of all specs should be looking forward to. With blue, or rare, gear [...]

The Queue: Mystery of the missing goggles

Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider’s daily Q&A column where the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft.
It’s Friday, the second best day of the week, in stark contrast to Wednesday which was the worst day of the week. What is the number one best day of the week? Well, [...]

Some Paladin changes announced for patch 3.0.4

A lot of hints and news on the upcoming patch 3.0.4 have been dropped on the forums recently, so like other WoW Insider writers have mentioned on and off, I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw it on the PTR in the coming weeks. Before we get ahead of ourselves too much though, there was [...]

Spiritual Guidance: Wrath Priest leveling guide from 70 to 75

Every Sunday (usually), Spiritual Guidance will offer practical insight for priests of the holy profession. Your host is Matt Low, the grand poobah of World of Matticus and a founder of PlusHeal, a new healing community for all restorative classes. This week Matticus is going to look the introductory zones of 70 to 75.!
Welcome to [...]

The Light and How to Swing It: Starting zone upgrades in Northrend

Did you pack well enough for the cold? Allie gave great advice on some basic things we need while we’re in Northrend, like food and other consumables. Depending on your level of progression or gear, your approach to questing or leveling out here will vary quite a bit. For well-geared players, it’ll be a breeze [...]

Wrath of the Lich King class changes roundup

Over the last two days, the WoW Insider team has been busy reviewing and gathering all of the still-current class information to bring you up to speed for your first steps into Northrend. You’ve probably had a chance to get a handle on your class since most of the changes were pushed through in patch [...]

Spiritual Guidance: The 60-70 Finale

Every Sunday (usually), Spiritual Guidance will offer practical insight for priests of the holy profession. Your host is Matt Low, the grand poobah of World of Matticus and a founder of PlusHeal, a new healing community for all restorative classes. This week Matticus is finishing off the 60 – 70 aspect of Priest leveling!
Welcome to [...]

Wow: The Light and How to Swing It: Something’s gone terribly wrong

So, having fun yet? I know I am. The changes to the class are great and I don’t think I’ve had a more enjoyable time playing the game. Of course, it has a lot to do with the new, cool stuff brought about by Patch 3.0.2, most notably the Achievements system. I know I complained [...]

Patch 3.0.2 primer for Holy Paladins con’t

Anyway, back to our regular programming. Where were we? Ah, right, tier six. Five points in Holy Power because we love our crits. Then we skip Purifying Power because the only thing we’re really getting out of that is a 10% discount on Cleanse.
On tier seven we have mandatory four points for Light’s Grace and [...]

WOW: Patch 3.0.2 primer for Holy Paladins

This was supposed to go up before the servers did, but as you probably already know, Patch 3.0.2 wasn’t quite what we all expected. Now that servers are starting to go back up online, I can better write up this handy guide for the brave new world. Let’s try to get as much of this [...]

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