This is my guide to Paladin Tanking. It’s written on an entry 101 kind of level. If you are new to Paladin tanking, this guide was written for you. For you grizzled veterans, look it over and see if you agree with my advice to our young Padawans. Feel …

A little bit of news before I get into last night’s raid. I’ve got a major post coming out on Monday. You don’t want to miss it!Now, last night was a strange night for Team Ellevis. We had killed every boss available in Coliseum on Tuesday, so we…

Classes and Starting Attributes

Starting Attributes
Base
Mage
Rogue
Warlock
Warrior

Strength
15
15
16
15
18

Agility
23
23
26
26
26

Stamina
19
19
20
20
21

Intellect
24
27
24
26
24

Spirit
20
22
20
22
20

Racial Traits
Escape Artist (Instant cast, 1.75 minute cooldown)
Escape the effects of any immobilization or movement speed reduction effect.
Expansive Mind (Passive)
Intellect increased by 5%.
Arcane Resistance (Passive)
Reduces the chance you will be hit by Arcane spells by 2%.
Engineering Specialist (Passive)
Engineering skill increased by 15.
General Assessment
Here [...]

Surely we all know that Blizzcon is in the works right now, as I write this. People are looking around for details on all of the little tidbits of information that we have received so far, and right now they have not actually given us much in the way of details.
There is going to [...]

Classes and Starting Attributes

Starting Attributes
Base
Mage
Priest
Rogue
Warlock
Warrior

Strength
19
19
19
20
19
22

Agility
18
18
18
21
18
18

Stamina
21
21
21
22
22
23

Intellect
18
21
20
18
20
18

Spirit
25
27
28
25
27
25

Racial Traits
Will of the Forsaken (Instant cast, 2 minute cooldown)
Activate to remove any fear, sleep, and charm effects.
Cannibalize (Instant cast, 2 minute cooldown)
Activate to regenerate 7% of total health every 2 seconds for 10 seconds. Only works on Humanoid or
Undead corpses within 5 yards.
Underwater Breathing (Passive)
Underwater breath [...]

My guild leader took the announcement of the new expansion to make a major announcement of his own.I know it’s still early and the xpac will not be out for awhile but it’s safe to assume that we will be switching to Horde for it. With this in mind I wa…

Here are some of the new details announced at Blizzcon 2009 about the new expansion Cataclysm

It’s official! Not just rumor anymore.

At Blizzcon Chris Metzen announces that Cataclysm is coming next and they debut the trailer at Blizzcon.

The old world is rocked by the cataclysm and is reformed. The maelstrom is churning between the continents.

The Goblins have found new allies with the horde.
The Worgen have found new allies with the alliance.

New Race/Class combinations are official!

Level Cap raised to 85.

New secondary skill Archeology!

Classic instances get Heroic mode – Deadmines and SFK

New Character Progression – Path of the Titans

New Battlegrounds with rated team play

Flying mounts in …

Tuesday night the team was really excited because a new Boss was opening up in the Coliseum.But first we had to take care of the previous two Bosses. We felt like we had Northrend Beasts ‘on farm’ as the saying goes. So we decided to try for the ac…

I have two post series in mind, one based on each race and an analysis of them as a whole, and another for each class. Starting with races feels sort of odd since people are usually more interested first in a class and then deciding which race to make them, but I’m going to switch [...]

Classes and Starting Attributes
Humans have seven different classes to choose from: Death Knight, Mage, Paladin, Priest, Rogue, Warlock, and Warrior.

Starting Attributes
Base
Mage
Paladin
Priest
Rogue
Warlock
Warrior

Strength
20
20
22
20
21
20
23

Agility
20
20
20
20
23
20
20

Stamina
20
20
22
20
21
21
22

Intellect
20
23
20
22
20
22
20

Spirit
21
23
22
24
23
23
21

Racial Traits
Perception (Passive)
Increases stealth detection by 5 points (equivalent of 1 level).
The Human Spirit (Passive)
Spirit increased by 3%.
Diplomacy (Passive)
Faction reputation gains increased by 10%.
Every Man for Himself (Instant [...]

With the recent mention of 31 bosses on the World of Warcraft forums by Ghostcrawler, it seems that this may truly be an epic battle.

I have been very pleased with the way Blizzard has been handling raiding in recent expansions and patches. I absolutely love how they have made raiding more accessible to all players and I also love the new changes to heroics so that they drop Emblems of Conquest to help everyone gear up. It’s no surprise they are doing this so that a larger percentage of …

When the rumor first broke about Goblins and Worgens coming to World of Warcraft as new playable races I was very skeptical. I saw this rumor as wild speculation by someone who was reading too much into the discovery of a couple masks.

As it turns out, they may have been right all along.

The rumors have popped up again with WoW.com announcing more leaked information regarding the goblin and worgen races.

I have to admit that I am not very excited about these being the new playable …

Everyone was excited as we put the raid together to go check out Trial of the Crusader. We had the normal ‘new instance’ logistics to figure out, like where the portals were, and which of the three portals was the right one for us to take.That sorted o…

Ever since we had rolling restarts instead of regular maintenance last week I’ve had a feeling the patch would be coming this week.

Why have I thought that? The first hint is that I’ve noticed around the time of the last few patches we have had a rolling restart Tuesday, almost like a gift from Blizzard, right before the patch drops.

That week is generally followed by an extended maintenance Tuesday, which we are having this week.

There are two major changes to gems that will require all players, and especially Jewelcrafters to rethink their gemming.The first change being made is that my lovely Dragonseyes, the Jewelcrafter only gems, will no longer be prismatic. They will match…