More Complex Comparison of +Crit vs MP5 for Healadins
To follow up on yesterday’s post, here’s another short series of comparison in terms of item budgets, using a more complex casting pattern.
Paladin Healing: Comparing Crit vs MP5 as Item Budget
Several of my blogging peers have spent time pondering or explaining the difference between stacking +MP5 versus +spell crit for healadins. While I refer you to the two links for specifics, I decided to compare both stats in terms of Item Budget.
AFK BG Leeching now a Big Deal
After clinging to the “we want to remove the reason people AFK in BGs” line for way too long, Blizzard has revised their stance and will now crack down hard on the eternal leechers:
The Losing AV gives Zero Honour Fallacy
Every other month or so, there’s another common QQ theme, and the current one is about AV post 2.3 - the complaint that losing nets you next to no honour, making queuing up pointless.
Now I’m holding the opinion that AV needs fixes, both in its design and more generally through improvements with the AFK mechanism, [...]
Paladin Healing Spreadsheet Revision
I added two new columns to take crits into account, as well as the Healing Light talent. You can now play with these values accordingly, and if these don’t match the average heal value displayed by DrDamage, my formulas are definitely wrong somewhere.
I’m at work though so I can’t check it out right now [...]
Paladin Healing Spreadsheet
Following a message board post on alla’s paladin forums, I quickly put together a spreadsheet calculating the proper average heal values including spell bonus and downranking:
Since I tend to fail at maths, you are invited to review the spread sheet here. The downranking formulae have been taken from http://www.wowwiki.com/Downranking. If you wish to simply check [...]
A few Ideas to Improve Battlegrounds
As I have spent some time in the past railing about several flaws in raiding which were being exposed by the availability of arena and BG gear, I haven’t yet really written about where BGs in particular need work and improvement. Pretending all is fine in PvPland is of course blinding ourselves from reality, and [...]
No, Shorsha, Causing a Huntard to Leave doesn’t make you a Jerk
Often, PUGs are a lot better than what the constant barrage of horror stories suggest, and with the bad reputations such random gathering of people have, there’s ample opportunity to be pleasantly surprised when things work out well.
Sometimes, though, you do run into genuinely bad players, who do not just play subpar but will also [...]
Heads Up: Blessing of Kings on Priests as Hybrids
In case you haven’t already seen it, Rohan looks as Shadow Priests and where the class works as a hybrid, and contrasts it with the paladin (which fails at the same thing). While it is paladin-centric, I expect you can also draw a similar analysis for shamans.
A good write-up and assessment from one of the [...]
Fitting the Paladin Class to the Image, another Perspective
With his closing post of 2008, Rohan got me thinking for a while about my pallie, currently my main:
Do I really like playing my paladin, or do I just love the paladin archetype?
The paladin archetype, that of a holy warrior, is really, really strong. (…) WoW Paladins are healbots. The design of Flash of Light, [...]
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