Search term time! Honestly, these amuse me a great deal.
1) holy paladin apotheosis
There are, doubtlessly, many other holy paladins in other guilds named Apotheosis. In fact, my holy paladin isn’t even in Apotheosis at the moment. But it’s still my guild and bunches of my peeps are still there. <3 I find it amusing that someone actually searched for “holy paladin apotheosis”. If they were searching for me, you’d think “kurn” would be easier to remember than “apotheosis”.
2) single abstract noun
Tam of Righteous Orbs and Miss Medicina of Miss Medicina have started up two blogging communities/guildies. Tam’s got Single Abstract Noun on Argent Dawn (EU – Horde) and MM has Single Abstract Noun on Argent Dawn (US – Alliance). I’ve got a toon on the US one (obviously) named Kurnmogh. I haven’t had a chance to hang out much, but hopefully I’ll be able to hang out a bit this week.
3) “blood queen” “defensive stance”
I don’t recommend actually DPSing in Defensive Stance, but right before her fears, this isn’t a horrible idea. My melee officer (gnome warrior/football extraordinaire) used to swap to Defensive Stance on Archimonde to lessen damage from various things.
4) 3.3 pally prot specs
My spec is weird. It’s primarily for heroic dungeons and I use Seal of Command for the extra AOE threat. I don’t really have mana issues, so I only have 1/2 in Spiritual Attunement and I have run speed to boots, so I skip out on Pursuit of Justice. (Also because I used to tease my gnome warrior that his pally was specced for “running faster” and even though it’s a viable talent now, it still feels wrong!)
Here’s what Rohan at Blessing of Kings suggests. And here’s the appropriate thread at MainTankadin.
5) 4 piece bonus tier 8 or 9 holy paladin
The only tier bonus you should be going for, in terms of PVE, at the moment is the 2pc T10 bonus, which is this.
If you can’t access T10, stick to 4pc T9 or break up your T9 if you find better non-set pieces. That said, I think the 4pc T9 bonus is much stronger than the 4pc T8.
6) darkmoon card greatness druid tank
I think there are probably (probably!) better tanking trinkets out there. What I’ve got these days are these two: The Black Heart (mmmm, stam and a proccing armor buff? Awesome!) and Glyph of Indomitability because of the extra armor (which means I’m less squishy) and an awesome on-use for those “holy CRAP!” moments. Also of note, Essence of Gossamer, which will, no doubt, be ninjaed from you by a hunter if it drops. Right, Maj? ;D (Did I mention I got the drop the other day? ’cause I did.)
7) dbm divine plea macro
I don’t use this, since I use OmniCC for my ability timers (and clcbpt for my paladin-specific buff timers like Sacred Shield, etc), but I imagine it’s:
/cast Divine Plea
/dbm timer 60 Divine Plea is now available!
Of course, you can add this in:
/cast Divine Illumination
/cast Divine Plea
/dbm timer 60 Divine Plea is now available!
Or even:
/use Talisman of Resurgence
/cast Divine Plea
/dbm timer 60 Divine Plea is now available!
8) does blessing of protection remove buffet on sindragosa
Okay, first of all, much love to an obviously old-school pally who still calls it Blessing of Protection instead of Hand of Protection. Second of all, sadly, no. Mystic Buffet is a non-dispellable magic effect that will only drop off if you’re out of line of sight of Sindragosa. Even Divine Shield doesn’t drop it.
[23:35:23.675] Madrana casts Divine Shield
[23:35:25.826] Madrana afflicted by Mystic Buffet (4) from Sindragosa
[23:35:31.989] Madrana afflicted by Mystic Buffet (5) from Sindragosa
[23:35:35.719] Madrana’s Divine Shield fades
BOP will only stop physical damage, but not damage from any school of magic.
9) does prayer of fortitue stack with runescroll of fortitude
Nope. Runescroll of Fortitude, Drums of Forgotten Kings and Drums of the Wild were all introduced so that 10-man raids wouldn’t be overly gimped by not having a priest, paladin or druid in them. The Runescroll is equivalent to level 80, unimproved Fortitude. Drums of the Wild is equivalent to level 80, untalented Gift of the Wild. And because there are no longer any talents to get Blessing of Kings, the drums are just slightly less effective, granting 8% to all stats instead of 10%.
No joke, with two paladins in the raids of late, my guild has been relying on the kings drums. I buff kings on warriors, rogues, DKs and wisdom on everyone else. The ret pally does might on everyone except for kings on priests, mages and warlocks. Then I hit the drums so that anyone without 10% kings gets at least 8% kings. So everyone has either good kings and good might or good wisdom or so-so kings and good wisdom/good might.
10) spell effect name for needle encrusted scorpion proc
That would be Fatal Flaws. Looks just like a hunter’s Rapid Killing.
And that’s it for the last week’s worth of searches that led people here.
If you have a question, feel free to leave a comment or shoot me an email at kurn [at] apotheosis-now [dot] com. :)
The “holy pally apotheosis” search was me. I was a new visitor to the blog, couldn’t remember the name, but the guild name had piqued my interest and I had to look it up. So I remembered the guild name, and that’s what I searched on. (And I searched on it again to get here from home, where I don’t have it bookmarked.)
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