Hello Tuesdaygoers! In this post you will find everything you need to know to get you up to date on all of the Paladin changes happening, as well as any other changes implemented that are sure to be things that directly impact your daily routine. Cheers and have fun reading!
Quote from: Blizzard (Source)
World of Warcraft PTR Patch 3.3.3!
Dungeons and Raids
Culling of Stratholme
* Players may now skip the initial introduction dialog to this dungeon once they have completed it at least once.
Paladin :
Dungeons and Raids
Culling of Stratholme
* Players may now skip the initial introduction dialog to this dungeon once they have completed it at least once.
Paladin :
Fascinating.
Since there is not a single thing to cover for Paladins, I’ve decided to make this post more of a 3.3.3 general discussion post. Talk about anything you might want – the new Battleground system and how Honor is going to be far more easier to obtain, the new toys in the toy shop of Dalaran, the sky is your limit here!
- Megaphone
March 23rd, 2010 - 4:38 am
Clearly this is one of the best paladin changes we’ve seen all expansion.
/endloadedanswer8D
I’ll tell you one change I’m happy to see, though. They changed “Roleplay” to “initial dialogue” to not offend the roleplayers. And those that understand that a cutscene is not roleplaying. I’m pretty sure everyone’s happy to see that change.
March 23rd, 2010 - 5:37 am
I see, take away all the talk in CoS but what about the first Boss in UP. all that talk is to OP for me.. its in serious need of a nerf.
March 23rd, 2010 - 6:31 am
Don’t forget about the BG changes im excited for it and will defiantly be testing it out later today when I have time.
March 23rd, 2010 - 8:40 am
New toys in Dal
? But in al seriousness your link is broken 
[http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html] I collect pets so The Pet Bombling and Lil’ Smoky non-combat pets are no longer Bind-on-Pickup. is a yay, But now I need to change my profession 
as Titansteel Bar: Creating this item no longer results in a cooldown. which was the only thing making it worth good money, I like that Frozo the Renowned has moved into the Dalaran Magus Commerce Exchange and will be trading your Frozen Orbs for various other trade goods. since I have been saviving around 40 of them, as far as I can tl they gave all the other classes minor buffs, so paladins and slightly weaker IMO, and thats about all I have to say.
March 23rd, 2010 - 9:51 am
“* Players may now skip the initial introduction dialog to this dungeon once they have completed it at least once.”
Another reason to hate on fresh 80s.
March 23rd, 2010 - 10:23 am
Whats this about not being able to cleanse anything off of dk’s while unholy blight is on? Did i read that correctly? no more kiting dk’s while being a cleanse whore. On a lighter note, love the idea of more honor from bgs!
March 23rd, 2010 - 11:17 am
I like how honor is more easily obtained.
Alliance never wins WG on my server and the BG is fairly horde-dominant, so having to worry less about time invested is a good thing.
March 23rd, 2010 - 3:04 pm
Yeah, getting honor easier now is definitely nice. It’s not going to impact the players who pride themselves day and night by doing arena since they get their gear in a few hours, but it’ll help people keep sane with the constant losing that Alliance loves to do.
Hopefully we’ll see more of those idiots with 12k life at level 80 get some gear finally.
March 23rd, 2010 - 3:34 pm
I like how everyone talks about alliance losing bg’s. Some of ya’ll should come to Vindication to see horde constantly fail at most of the bg’s…Wait a minute Bad you are on my BG you of all people should know that Vindication Horde is a bunch of bads. I always end up queing into pals for life kids or DV folks. Just today I had to lose a SotA, AB, AB and a WSG before we finally won a EotS to get my random in today. /hurumph
March 23rd, 2010 - 6:46 pm
I won t blame Blizz for the honnor thing . With my 6/7 raid per week i could barely build a decent pvp stuff
March 24th, 2010 - 12:57 am
From MMO-champion:
# Repentance: This ability now clears Righteous Vengeance from its target when cast.
This was in the patch 3.3.3 patchnotes….another nerf hits the struggling Arena retribution paladin. :/
March 24th, 2010 - 2:42 am
Pfft, it may technically be a nerf, but it’s not much of one. Yay for the new honour grinding system though (and guess who has 600 Marks of Honour to cash in when Cata hits
).
March 24th, 2010 - 5:20 am
@Bacon
What’s Horde for LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEROY! ?
Interestingly enough though, I did play on Vindication as Alliance for a little bit, courtesy of a server Xfer. I didn’t really find Alliance being all that much better than when I had played on the fail Whirlwind BG.
March 24th, 2010 - 9:07 am
Vindi change might be a nerf, but really, i think it’s better than getting repent off and instantly having it drop from RV ticks. (unless of course you were only using it as an interrupt… then it sucks), not like its hard to crit once and get it back up.
Repent is also ignored by avengers shield again…. nice quality of life thing i guess.
March 24th, 2010 - 11:54 am
I don’t exactly see how Repentance taking off Righteous Vengeance is a nerf. If you’re going to be CCing something, is there an honest reason as to why you need that extra 1500 (random number) damage on them over the course of 5 seconds?
A fix is a fix, and if your game relies on you dealing damage to people who are cc’d by repet and polymoprh, there’s something going wrong!
March 24th, 2010 - 12:06 pm
UNDOCUMENTED BUFF TO PALADINS!
Righteous Fury mana cost has been reduced by 100%.
Okay so it’s not much, but I figure everything counts in PvP
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March 24th, 2010 - 6:42 pm
Overwieght
Repent was changed to not break on RV damage last patch so if RV was on a target you repented it would still tick and they would still be repented. Really I don’t think anyone switched points around to take advantage of it anyways so it is really just a meh change.
Total bonus about RF though, I think that make imp RF something actually worth taking if it doesn’t cost shit to reapply other then the gcd.
March 25th, 2010 - 12:56 am
Well I didn’t claim that it was a *huge* dps nerf, but I really don’t see as to *why* RV has to be removed from targets under Repentance?? What was the point with that change in the first place?
March 25th, 2010 - 6:20 am
bah 3.3.3 was disappointing, even the bg mark thing was odd, except for the fact when my warrior hits 60 hes going to be running around in full epics. And im glad Blizz is taking their time with the 5% bonus in ICC, not buffing it to 10% this early, WoW is getting too easy anways.
March 25th, 2010 - 7:42 am
Blizzard lieks to not announce those stealthy nerfs.
March 25th, 2010 - 1:22 pm
Probably because they couldn’t actually make Repentance stick with RV on – I can only imagine that a large percentage of the time it would still fall off and they couldn’t have that. ’tis just a guess though.
March 26th, 2010 - 12:43 pm
I thought it was related to the bug of repentinced paladins still taking sac damage without it breaking.
March 28th, 2010 - 4:08 am
Probably, I noticed in ICC recently that HoReck will now break Repentance*
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* No, I didn’t die. No, we didn’t wipe.
March 29th, 2010 - 9:22 am
The new battleground system is a double edged sword (for my guild at least).
We LOVE BGs since we are a classic PVP guild, get together and join a BG with 15 – 40 of us (<33′ed preform AV enabler).
The new BG system only lets 5 people que at once and PUNISHES them for doing so since the quest can last up to 10 minutes queing with 5 people whereas queing alone is almost instant.
My guild now has to wait for Cata to do any guild based BGs… again… and it is extremely sad to see that go the wayside at the moment, even if we don’t often play other premades, even when we try to.
On the positive side, the common PUG actually tries to win a bit more instead of just yelling at his teammates for doing things they think are smart as they backpedal into oblivion. Now PUGs seem to listen to the players that look like they know what they’re doing (it’s a start). Also who can get mad at the honor now? gearing out an alt for PVP is finally easy and fun instead of forcing yourself to grind heroics and make yourself less of a player in doing so (yes PVE is easier i don’t care who you are or what content you’re on). Sadly this means alot more players are gearing their alts now in BGs (myself included) so one geared player can sway a battle. On my ret i carried all 3 WSG flags from one side to the other with 6+ players hitting me at one time with no healers… and i didn’t break 50% HP…
They should have a level req. for BGs like they do dungeons so the undergeared players only play themselves and vice versa (obviously exceptions for when not enough players are queing).
Good patch overall, just sucks for any guild like mine (if they still exist)
March 29th, 2010 - 1:45 pm
i love the non changes… but i have a suspicion that just means we are going to have to go down to the police station and pick out which nerf bat viciously assaulted and violated us next patch….