{"id":374,"date":"2010-12-20T11:40:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T19:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/15minutesofwow.wordpress.com\/?p=374"},"modified":"2010-12-20T11:40:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T19:40:39","slug":"daily-thoughts-the-cataclysm-paladin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternateimage.net\/gaming\/2010\/12\/20\/daily-thoughts-the-cataclysm-paladin\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Thoughts: The Cataclysm Paladin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent a lot of <a title=\"Daily Thoughts:\u00a0Hyjal\" href=\"http:\/\/15minutesofwow.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/08\/daily-thoughts-hyjal\/\">posts <\/a>recently <a title=\"Daily Thoughts: Deepholm Impressions and Screen\u00a0Shots\" href=\"http:\/\/15minutesofwow.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/09\/daily-thoughts-deepholm-impressions-and-screen-shots\/\">talking <\/a>about <a title=\"Daily Thoughts: Uldum Thoughts and Screen\u00a0Shots\" href=\"http:\/\/15minutesofwow.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/14\/daily-thoughts-uldum-thoughts-and-screen-shots\/\">zones <\/a>(and yes I&#8217;m still going to do that Twilight Highlands review at some point), <a title=\"Cataclysm Faction Reputation\u00a0Guide\" href=\"http:\/\/15minutesofwow.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/19\/cataclysm-faction-reputation-guide\/\">factions<\/a>, and other such <a title=\"Daily Thoughts: Work in\u00a0Progress\" href=\"http:\/\/15minutesofwow.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/15\/daily-thoughts-work-in-progress\/\">things <\/a>and not much time on the actual playing my class. The big changes specifically to Paladins in cataclysm (if you don&#8217;t count Holy Power from 4.0.3) are the new spells:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowhead.com\/spell=84963\">Inquisition<\/a> (81)<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowhead.com\/spell=82327\">Holy Radiance<\/a> (83)<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowhead.com\/spell=86150\">Guardian of Ancient Kings<\/a> (85)<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Inquisition is our new self buff. It increases all holy damage by 30%. Retribution gets a talent that extends the duration of this buff to 10 seconds per Holy Power used to trigger it. This is meant to be kept up\u00a0as much as possible\u00a0similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowhead.com\/spell=5171\/slice-and-dice\" target=\"_blank\">Slice and Dice<\/a>\u00a0for combat rogues and is a pretty significant DPS loss if not used.. Holy Radiance is pretty much making us a moving healing stream totem, and does an AOE\u00a0heal\u00a0to nearby targets. I haven&#8217;t got much play testing with this spell, as I&#8217;m running ret main now, but I really haven&#8217;t heard anything too exciting about from those doing Holy main spec. Finally, Guardian of Ancient Kings is amazing. This buff has a long (5m) cooldown, but skyrockets\u00a0a ret paladins DPS when used. From what I hear from the other specs, it seems it&#8217;s a better friend to ret than the other uses. Each spec gets a specific purpose, one for taking, extra heals for holy and more damage for ret. Follow me after the break for some more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The new abilities are pretty easy to fit into our playstyle, especially if you kept playing between 4.0.3 and cataclysm. For Holy, we can actually go OOM\u00a0if we aren&#8217;t\u00a0careful because the cost of the spells has gone up dramatically and regen isn&#8217;t as ridiculous as it was in Wrath.<\/p>\n<p>Bigger even (and more similar across dps specs) Paladins have an equally important role when dpsing\u00a0than just doing DPS. This is of course crowd control and interrupting. Quite often I&#8217;m helping out the group by repentancing\u00a0a target on heroics (regular dungeons didn&#8217;t need much CC). I have mixed feelings about how the need for CC. Most of the time having harder dungeons is more fun, though in some ways I miss the funpile\u00a0times of Wrath heroics. I do expect, though, that after we&#8217;re geared out in shiny raid purples heroics will go back to the mad rush they were before. Of course, we&#8217;ve had repentance\u00a0for a while, Rebuke though is our sparkly new interrupt. On some boss fights, ret paladins can end up having a job *other* than just dps. If you said &#8220;Woh&#8221;, you&#8217;d be right. If you&#8217;re wondering how a ret paladin can CC while smashing their face against their keyboard to dps, I&#8217;d say you haven&#8217;t played ret since 4.0.3 and especially since cataclysm. Of course, we still don&#8217;t have it as hard as a feral cat dps, but there is a lot more to pay attention to. Ret has to maintain Inq, watch for exorcism procs, watch for our Mastery procs\u00a0with 3 free charges of holy power, and make sure not to hit crusader strike when we already have 3 hp and should be using TV or inq. A good ret paladin will find himself helping out with healing during some of the more hairy moments in heroics. I often use Zealotry (each CS grants 3 HP for a time) in order to get a bunch of\u00a03 HP word of glory heals to help out a pressured healer. And my lay on hands has saved the tank at least a dozen times since cataclysm launched.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, while I&#8217;m sure some will still accuse us of face-rolling, it&#8217;s a pretty interesting time to be a ret paladin. Holy has been brought down from its high perch of its wrath days, and prot&#8230; well, I don&#8217;t tank on my paladin. Maybe some comments from a prot\u00a0pally?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent a lot of posts recently talking about zones (and yes I&#8217;m still going to do that Twilight Highlands review at some point), factions,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,11,25],"tags":[67,199,272,285,404,423,440,441,476,590,619,664,721,802,958,973],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-0-3a","category-cataclysm-2","category-daily","category-paladin-class","tag-4-0-3","tag-cataclysm","tag-dps","tag-dungeons","tag-guardian-of-ancient-kings","tag-healing","tag-holy","tag-holy-radiance","tag-inquisition","tag-new","tag-paladin","tag-prot","tag-ret","tag-spells","tag-wow","tag-wrath"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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