{"id":1254,"date":"2010-08-14T08:40:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T12:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurn.apotheosis-now.com\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2010-08-14T08:40:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T12:40:26","slug":"update-from-the-north-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/update-from-the-north-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Update from the North 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course I go out of town and they drop a new beta build. Awesome. I&#8217;m on 24Kbps dialup, so I simply cannot share breaking news with you right now. This makes me sad.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmo-champion.com\/content\/1924-Cataclysm-Beta-Build-12759\" target=\"_blank\">MMO-Champion<\/a> has a great round-up AND has this awesome image of the new Holy Power interface for paladins which is, in my opinion, FREAKING <strong>BADASS<\/strong>. :)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1255\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1255\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/holypower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1255\" title=\"holypower\" src=\"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/holypower-300x136.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holy Power interface, courtesy of MMO-Champion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Also, Kody from <a href=\"http:\/\/worldofraids.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">World of Raids<\/a>\/the Curse network says on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/cursenetwork\/status\/21141071510\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> that Divine Favor has been redesigned to provide 20% haste AND 20% crit for 20 seconds, with a three-minute cooldown.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure I like that our forced crit button is gone, but I can&#8217;t really complain about the talent that they&#8217;ve come up with. Then again, I&#8217;m a haste fanatic, soooo&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Also, MMO is saying that Armor and Mastery specialties are in. Basically, our days of wanting to wear mail, leather or cloth are essentially over:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmo-champion.com\/content\/1883-Cataclysm-Beta-Build-12604\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Increases your Intellect by 5% while wearing only Plate armor.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And our mastery:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmo-champion.com\/content\/1898-Cataclysm-Masteries-Tol-vir-Blue-Posts\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Holy &#8211; Your healing spells also place an absorb shield on your target for 8% of the amount healed lasting 6 sec. Absorb increased further by mastery rating.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Technically, these were both in the game in previous builds, but these are <em>apparently<\/em> going to work, this time. ;)<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, that&#8217;s all from the cottage for now. I&#8217;ll check in again later.<\/p>\n<p>(Dammit, I really want to play with Holy Power now!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course I go out of town and they drop a new beta build. Awesome. I&#8217;m on 24Kbps dialup, so I simply cannot share breaking news with you right now. This makes me sad. However, MMO-Champion has a great round-up AND has this awesome image of the new Holy Power interface for paladins which is, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,70,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beta","category-cataclysm","category-paladins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}