The (Horde Only) Paladin Quiz - Can You Swing It?
Introduction
Paladins have come a long way since classic WoW. The orignal Paladin was a hybrid support class that could neither MT a raid boss as well as a Warrior nor DPS as well as other DPS classes. Even as healers they played a limited role as single point target (while useful in many situations, a Holy Paladin would never be seriously asked to group heal compared to other healers.) Despite their original design limitations to excel in a specific role (due to their hybrid nature), Paladins did bring a lot of utility to raids in Classic WoW, with blessings and auras and back up healing.
These days, after the WotLK expansion, we see that Paladins fulfilling all roles admirably and effectively. Paladins can Main tank all raid bosses [including Vezax :P] (although they may need to rely on trinkets instead of abilities for a few [especially Vezax :P]). They can also dish out amazing DPS in raid situtations, as evidenced by many of our fellow eraps. And they still fulfill an important role as a single point healer, (although they have some splash heals now available to them through glyphs and a talent.)
Despite Blizzard's redesign of the Paladin after WotLK, Blizzard did not nerf (to any considerable degree) the utility a Paladins can bring to raids. So currently, not only do Paladins hold their own for their designated role in a raid, they can also bring tremendous support to the raid.
Paladin Healing Macros (and for others as well)
Here's a healing macro for Holy Light which can be adopted for Holy Shock and Flash of Light:
#showtooltip Holy Light
/cast [mod:alt] Divine Favor
/use 13
/use 14
/cast [mod:shift,target=player] Holy Light
/cast [help,target=target] Holy Light
/cast [nohelp,nodead,nomod:shift,target=targettarget,help,nodead] Holy Light
/cast Holy Light
Prerequisite:
- Set focus on your healing target.
Usage:
0) Automatic usage of trinkets.
1) Without key modifiers, and target is friendly, heal target.
2) Without key modifiers, and target is alive and hostile, and target's target is alive and friendly, heal target's target.
3) With key modifier ALT, cast Divine Favour and apply targeting rules (1) and (2).
4) With key modifier SHIFT, cast on heal self regardless of target.
5) With key modifers SHIFT + ALT, cast Divine Favour and heal self regardless of target.
Tweaks:
1) Replace every instance of "Holy Light" with another healing spell, like "Flash of Light" or "Holy Shock"
2) For none paladin healers, do (1) with your healing spells and replace every instance of "Divine Favour" with an equivalent meta spell with no Global Cooldown. (E.g. "Nature's Swiftness" for Shamans or "Inner Focus" for priests.)
Please test this macro and understand it before using in a raid.
Are you Ulduar-ready?
More and more people are leveling to 80 and are already graduating from Normal Naxxramas/OS/EOE. We have attempted to have two 10-man groups that can raid Ulduar during weeknights and Ulduar 25-man during weekends. So, I thought it would be best to write an article on this and sort of debrief people of what lies ahead. I would be sharing my experience in our 10-man raids and in a DPS player perspective.
What to expect?
Ulduar is designed to have a significant increase in difficulty than Naxxramas. As many hard core players bashed Blizzard because of “extreme easiness” of the earlier content of WOLTK, Blizz responded by giving us the bosses of Ulduar. It is intended to be more challenging hence it is imperative that players prepare for this raid.
As of press time, the progression raiding team has only killed Vezax and has yet to clear Decent into Madness (/throw fierce looks at Yoggy). But based on the 3 wings that we have cleared (Siege, Antechamber, and Keepers), I can definitely say that Ulduar is set to pose a challenge to the players especially once you get to the Keepers of Ulduar.
Everyone will be on its toes and stretch what they have to offer to the team:
Eraption Guildspot is here
We have noticed that peeps like to record videos of the fights and share them, well we created a special section just for that, Guildspot. We are placing all videos of how-to's, raids, runs or anything under the sun. if you want to post videos there, please let us know so we can give you permission