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11-14-2010, 05:31 PM
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Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Light and How to Swing It (http://wow.joystiq.com/category/paladin-the-light-and-how-to-swing-it) for holy (http://wow.joystiq.com/tag/holy-paladin-the-light-and-how-to-swing-it), protection (http://wow.joystiq.com/tag/protection-paladin-the-light-and-how-to-swing-it) and retribution (http://wow.joystiq.com/tag/retribution-paladin-the-light-and-how-to-swing-it) paladins. Every Sunday, Chase Christian (http://wow.joystiq.com/bloggers/chase-christian/) invites you to discuss the finer side of the paladin class: the holy specialization. Feel free to email me (javascript:void(location.href='mailto:'+String.fromCharCode(99,104,97,115,101,64,119,111,119,46,99,111,109)+'?subject=so%20I%20have%20some%20paladin%20questions...')) with any questions you want answered, like how to pull off an awesome dive heal, as pictured above.
Gregg, my fellow paladin columnist (http://wow.joystiq.com/bloggers/gregg-reece), and I like to make jokes about Blizzard's strategy for naming paladin abilities. Holy This, Something Retribution, and Divine That. Their creativity can only stretch so far, as paladins have a very defined set of lore, and there are only so many words that relate to their holy upbringing. Paladins have the additional downside of being a hybrid class, and so this means that the number of available ability names depletes faster than ever.
Blizzard changed Healing Hands' name to Holy Radiance (http://cata.wowhead.com/spell=82327), which is probably a great move, considering that we already had a heal named Lay on Hands (http://cata.wowhead.com/spell=633). Duplicate names didn't stop Blizzard's team from christening our second AoE heal with the same name as one of the game's most prestigious achievements (http://cata.wowhead.com/achievement=4584) and a title (http://cata.wowhead.com/title=173), Light of Dawn (http://cata.wowhead.com/spell=85222). Light of Dawn itself isn't safe from the instability, either. Its function went from a simple heal that was boosted by holy power, to a regular AoE heal that had no target cap, and it has even been changed again. The new version of Light of Dawn is a smart heal that consumes only holy power, which completely changes its functionality and usefulness.Continue reading The Light and How to Swing It: Light of Dawn's latest rebirth (http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/11/14/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-light-of-dawns-latest-rebirth/)
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Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Light and How to Swing It (http://wow.joystiq.com/category/paladin-the-light-and-how-to-swing-it) for holy (http://wow.joystiq.com/tag/holy-paladin-the-light-and-how-to-swing-it), protection (http://wow.joystiq.com/tag/protection-paladin-the-light-and-how-to-swing-it) and retribution (http://wow.joystiq.com/tag/retribution-paladin-the-light-and-how-to-swing-it) paladins. Every Sunday, Chase Christian (http://wow.joystiq.com/bloggers/chase-christian/) invites you to discuss the finer side of the paladin class: the holy specialization. Feel free to email me (javascript:void(location.href='mailto:'+String.fromCharCode(99,104,97,115,101,64,119,111,119,46,99,111,109)+'?subject=so%20I%20have%20some%20paladin%20questions...')) with any questions you want answered, like how to pull off an awesome dive heal, as pictured above.
Gregg, my fellow paladin columnist (http://wow.joystiq.com/bloggers/gregg-reece), and I like to make jokes about Blizzard's strategy for naming paladin abilities. Holy This, Something Retribution, and Divine That. Their creativity can only stretch so far, as paladins have a very defined set of lore, and there are only so many words that relate to their holy upbringing. Paladins have the additional downside of being a hybrid class, and so this means that the number of available ability names depletes faster than ever.
Blizzard changed Healing Hands' name to Holy Radiance (http://cata.wowhead.com/spell=82327), which is probably a great move, considering that we already had a heal named Lay on Hands (http://cata.wowhead.com/spell=633). Duplicate names didn't stop Blizzard's team from christening our second AoE heal with the same name as one of the game's most prestigious achievements (http://cata.wowhead.com/achievement=4584) and a title (http://cata.wowhead.com/title=173), Light of Dawn (http://cata.wowhead.com/spell=85222). Light of Dawn itself isn't safe from the instability, either. Its function went from a simple heal that was boosted by holy power, to a regular AoE heal that had no target cap, and it has even been changed again. The new version of Light of Dawn is a smart heal that consumes only holy power, which completely changes its functionality and usefulness.Continue reading The Light and How to Swing It: Light of Dawn's latest rebirth (http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/11/14/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-light-of-dawns-latest-rebirth/)
Filed under: Paladin (http://wow.joystiq.com/category/paladin/), (Paladin) The Light and How to Swing It (http://wow.joystiq.com/category/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it/)
The Light and How to Swing It: Light of Dawn's latest rebirth (http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/11/14/the-light-and-how-to-swing-it-light-of-dawns-latest-rebirth/) originally appeared on WoW Insider (http://wow.joystiq.com) on Sun, 14 Nov 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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