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Hey….
I would like to take the time to make a quick update on the status of this blog. I have been pretty busy lately, I have found not much time to continue working on the blog in the past week. Does this mean I am dropping the project? hell no. As always, I am searching for contributors. I believe that it will be vital in the goal to make this a top guide to all mele DPS on WoW. I have posted up a lot of retri paladin information, but my knowledge on other classes/specs is limited.
I am currently working on leveling an arms warrior (one reason I have been pretty busy). This should be one of my first “serious” alts, besides my “pvp only” disc priest.
I am just posting to let you know that I am indeed still alive, I plan to be making another boss kill video soon (Rotface and Blood Princes are next on my list). And will continue to funnel the Weekly Marmot’s weekly as Lore publishes them.
I have said it many times, and I will say so again….
Anyone that has anything they wish to contribute with regards to mele DPS on WoW, don’t hesitate to let me know.

Also, I have changed the name of the blog. The current name is the one I will most likely be settling with. I also plan to work on the layout and graphics of the site at some point.

Thanks for reading.

I would like to take this time to quickly give an update. I started this blog a couple of weeks ago now, and I believe its going well. A few things tho (somewhat expected as this is a new blog):
(1) Not much traffic
(2) Not much input/comments/suggestions

Please tell all your friends about this blog (anyone that actually does read it). I will love you long time.

It’s Ok though, I plan to still keep on with this project (where I just gave up in the past) and plan to try and grow this in to something very interesting and useful. But a few vast changes I want to make and a few future plans/goals:

(1) I plan to no longer post the “Friday Funnys”. They where kinda useless and really unrelated anyways (a bit of a time waste to post)

(2) I plan to Try and clean up the formatting, grammar and spelling of my current ret guides and take more time. I am unsure If I am going to post a new guide every week (at least not at the moment)

(3) I would like to diversify this blog in to more of a “mele dps” in general. I believe this will open the door for more topics and discussion, but some serious problems being that I am not entirely familiar with other mele dps besides ret pallys. For this to work I need assistance from anyone interested (even if its just a couple of “one off” guides you want to throw my way)

(4) I will be posting a couple of my favorite video blogs: “The Weekly Marmot (lore)” and maybe “The BFF report”

(5) I plan to work on the theme/skin to be a little more “formatting friendly”. The current theme does not format very well at all, and something a little more fresh wouldn’t hurt

So yeah, I got ideas. I will be slowing down my posting a lot, I need to take this easy and then I can produce much better content. Again I welcome any ideas/suggestions and would really be grateful to anyone (Any mele DPS) that wishes to help post.

Thanks,
~Dega

Note: Starting with this weeks episode I am going to start posting The Weekly Marmot. I am a huge fan of Lore (a fellow ret paladin) and naturally his commentary is from a ret/mele dps perspective and he talks about a lot of interesting and useful topics. Enjoy

Ok, it’s Monday again already, time to continue the juicy retadin topics. I hope y’all had a good weekend. This week we will be talking about one of my favorite professions Engineering. We will talk about how to best use this profession that is arguably better than blacksmithing  coupled with Jewlcrafting for raiding ret paladins.  Full guide after the break.

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So… Blizzcon is just around the corner. I just managed to snag my tickets the other night and now I am eagerly awaiting October. I figured I would quickly chat about what I am looking forward to for the convention and maybe ramble a little. (don’t be surprised if there are more posts like this one)

First off, its no secret that our class is very “under construction” for Cataclysm although a lot of information has been released from announcements and alpha (see the changelog on this site). I am hoping that we get a lot more information on the paladin class during the convention. I would assume that by October things should really be getting close and thus I believe that we should have a more defined talent trees, etc.

So far I do like the direction that blizzard want to take us paladins. They want to make us a class that CAN mess up our rotation. My fears are that they push things too far to the point we end up being “tedious” much like I find an enhancement shaman. Refresh this, refresh that, hit this proc, hit that proc. My reason for this fear is mainly due to the change to Consecration, where they want to make it like a totem that can be dropped and then picked up. I find this rather strange for a skill that has a 10 second glyphed duration (8 without) and I am realy not fond of that change. But on that note it leads me to believe there are a LOT more changes incoming.

An Idea that I believe could be useful would be playing around with our Art of War proc to have certain ability’s do much less damage without the Art of War buff (putting other skills ahead in priority when no AoW is up). Maybe playing around with our Exorcism ability.  Being that Exorcism is a skill we only use when it is instant cast, putting it at a higher priority would definitely mean we would need to watch AoW much more.

Blizzard did state that they like our 2pc T10. So I would predict that Blizzard maybe push a more proc like setup being talented (or just future tier sets with similar bonuses to the t10). I also love our 2pc T10.

I look forward to the class discussions, but I really hope they dont play the “no  ret pally questions” card this time round because I think we gots lots of  questions to ask.

I will definitely most likely be glued to the PvP tournements as I was last year for a few reasons:
-I have recently started fooling around on my “pvp-only” toon priest. And would definitely like to see some priestly pvp goodness.
-Well, quite honestly watching competitive WoW pvp live can be pretty intense and was definitely one of my highlights last year. Especially the finals (USA beat Korea for once)
-Want to see this years flavour of comps (even though I haven’t seen much pally action in MLG matches I have been watching lately)

Besides that, I would like to see more information on the finalizations of our professions.  As an engineer I would like to see what exactly they have in store and with crossed fingers be anticipating that it still remains a viable raiding dps spec along with Jewlcrafting.

Defintely cant wait for Blizzcon, and also look forward to meeting up with some new people and meeting fellow ret paladins to share ideas knowledge etc, Hell a ret paladin meeting of sorts could make for interesting time huh?.  I also look forward to meeting with several guild members.

So what do you guys look forward to? Are you even going to Blizzcon? Are you gonna meet up with some buddies?
What other plans do you have during Blizzcon?

~Dega

Ok, it’s Monday, time to start this blog digging in to some juicy retadin topics. On that note time for a weekly segment of paladin guides with the intention of giving tips that will prepare you for your weekly raid resets. We shall call this “Monday Madness”.

This week, I figured I would start off chatting about our famed FCFS (First Come First Serve) rotation also known as “Faceroll”. In specific I want to talk about ways that we can “adjust” our “rotation” during the course of a fight so to speak in order to squeeze out a little more dps. Will this advice alone make you pull massively more dps? probably not. It’s a little known fact that the difference between a great ret dps and a decent ret dps is not very high. The goal here though is to help you be that “great” dps instead of that “decent” dps. This guide assumes a knowledge of the basic FCFS rotation. This guide does also not talk about cooldowns etc. I believe these can be vast topics to cover some other time. So introduction aside, read more after the break….

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