Paladins to receive some Blizzard love

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Reader VyseV1 took some time off from lurking on the official forums to point us in the direction of a post where Ghostcrawler <a href="http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=12065191999&amp;sid=1&amp;pageNo=15#286">responds to some Paladin concerns</a>... with love. Alright, I'm exaggerating, but at this point, after the class has been <a href="http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/11/01/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-uncle/">dealt some severe nerfs</a>, his responses are more than encouraging. In particular, he mentions that the <em>eventual</em> plan is to put <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=642">Divine Shield</a> and <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=31884">Avenging Wrath</a> on the same 30 second cooldown, indicating that the <a href="http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/10/31/invincible-vengeance-no-more/">Forbearance hotfix</a> was a mere band-aid.<br /><br />Ghostcrawler also mentions that Divine Shield's attack speed penalty -- a remnant of the days when Paladins largely got majority of damage from auto-attacks -- will be revised to a reduction in total damage done. This means that <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=31849">Sacred Duty</a> will likely be reworked to accommodate this change. One of the more interesting points that he brought up applies to all mana-based classes but is great news for Retribution Paladins who have paltry mana pools: Blizzard will be changing mana drain effects to take away a percentage of total mana instead of a flat number.<p><a href="http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/11/04/paladins-to-receive-some-blizzard-love/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Paladins to receive some Blizzard love</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.wowinsider.com"><img src="http://www.wowinsider.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="WoW Insider" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/11/04/paladins-to-receive-some-blizzard-love/">Paladins to receive some Blizzard love</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.wowinsider.com">WoW Insider</a> on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"> </p><p><a href=http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=12065191999&amp;sid=1&amp;pageNo=15#286>Read</a> | <a href="http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/11/04/paladins-to-receive-some-blizzard-love/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://www.wowinsider.com/forward/1361515/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a> | <a href="http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/11/04/paladins-to-receive-some-blizzard-love/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p>

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