Before i get started with the major changes that are going on around here, I’d like to point out a few things on why new content is so scarce around here:

• finished school;
• changed jobs (actually, got promoted);
• got bored of WoW and canceled my account(s) 6 months ago;
• didn’t get in the Beta (yet), but I guess you need to have an active account to even get invited;

Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, I’ll make a quick summary of the future of this blog:

World of Warcraft and especially Protection Paladins will stop being the central point I write about

Yep. I became increasingly disgruntled with every patch on how Protection Paladins were changing and soon became bored with the class. The only reason I started tanking with my Paladin back in the Karazhan days was because you had to be a good player to be able to tank successfully. This became less and less the case with every patch and content release, until it came to the point that every Paladin and their mother rolled Protection. And I wouldn’t be upset with that, but as with WoW in general, skill in playing your class became optional and every moron was able to tank as a Paladin.

Naturally, I turned to playing a different class. Tried hunter for a bit, found it not very interesting for my style of play and after several attempts stopped at priests. And I say priests (plural) because I leveled two priests to 80, each of the of different spec, class and purpose (Undead Shadow for raiding, Draenei then Troll Disc for PvP).

Those being cleared up, come Cataclysm I’ll definitely play more of my priests and less of my paladin and of course I’ll blog about it.

New games to write about: Heroes of Newerth and Football Manager

While not playing WoW, I kept myself occupied with other games.

Heroes of Newerth

I found Heroes of Newerth with the help of my brother. He was a fan of DOTA and started playing HoN when the beta started. Got an invite myself and even though I never even touched DOTA before, I was instantly attracted with the game play and action.

My main focus on writing will be guides and personal insights on strength heroes in HoN.

Football Manager

Another game I’ve played for a very long time is Football Manager. In fact, I’ve been playing it since it was named Championship Manager.

I will be focusing in my writing about Football Manager on my achievements as a manager and discovering players and tactics that work for specific teams.

Conclusion

Hopefully all these changes will be welcomed and will expand the reader base. Also, I hope it will reignite the spark I lost while writing only about WoW.

Oh, with new content comes a new design also. Still working on it, not yet satisfied.

Stay tuned, there are more things to come!

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A new beginning!

• Here we go!
• Paladins, Stop Sucking
• Visiting Old Content And Random Rants
• Fail of the Lich King. I’m also back
• Getting that inspiration — how do you do it?

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Best Protection Paladin Weapon Enchant – Updated for Patch 3.3

• Best WotLK Weapon Enchant for Protection Paladins
• A Guide to Protection Paladin Glyphs
• Useful professions for a Protection Paladin (IV): Enchanting
• Talent Build Dilemma
• Patch 3.1 Protection Paladin Specs and Glyphs

So to celebrate this great event, tonight I shall reinstall the game, since the updater refuses to work (something about not finding wow.exe and I cba to google it). After the reinstall, depending whether it will take me a few hours or my whole life, I shall reactivate my subscription and play the game once more.

Why quit in the first place? Well, I’ve been playing a Prot Pala for a very long time and I was tanking before it was cool (credits go here). I liked how being able to do a good job at tanking with a Paladin in TBC times was a challenge and not everyone and their mother could do it. But then came Wrath and all the bullshit changes made to the classes and I was like “meh, F-it, I want to be special and not like everyone else”. So I quit my Pala and started a few Priests (2 to be more exact, for PvP and the shizzle). Then that didn’t work out as I started a full time job and had to finish my studies and well, it all came down to me quitting the game. I had a post planned to explain the reasons on a much larger scale, but then I started reading Jong and was mesmerized so I forgot.

Long story short, if everything goes as planned, I’m back in the game and back into blogging about the game we all love.

Toodles!

PS: what really made me want to play the game again was the short movie introduced in the patch which you can see here.

PPS: when I first saw the following picture (click for full resolution), I read “Fail of the Lich King”. Anyone else in the same situation?

Fail of the Lich King

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Fail of the Lich King. I’m also back

• Welcome to Patch 3.0.2
• My evolution as a World of Warcraft player
• How I started tanking
• A new beginning!
• Patch 3.1 Protection Paladin Specs and Glyphs

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The Doodad is Back

• Protection Paladin soloing Stratholme Undead side — live blogging
• We’re back and we’re fresh
• Retarded and stupid persons should NOT play World of Warcraft
• WoW Bitch Slaps Me. Again
• The Dress Up game

I remember playing my first game on an old HC Spectrum, which needed a cassette player to load it’s games from tapes. Computers being a subject which started to interest me, I later started to get some courses on Informatics. I discovered the 286 and 386, on which I played Prince of Persia, Aladdin and some Formula 1 game. Then in 1994 I got my first personal computer, a 386 with 33 MHz processor and 1 MB of RAM. It was the moment that got my hooked to any gaming related activities.

Fast forward 15 years, I discovered MMOs. It started with EVE, continued with Word of Warcraft and with FML in-between. But lately I’ve been looking to widen my horizons and after reading Tobol’s review (and several others), I’m really thinking of giving Aion a shot.

If you’re like me, maybe you would like to take a look at Killer Guides little contest. They are giving away 20 beta weekend passes for Aion. All you have to do is describe in a sentence why should you receive one of the passes. All winners will also get a copy of their Aion Strategy Guide.

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Other MMOs – EVE, WoW, FML and Aion?

• Fail of the Lich King. I’m also back
• A new beginning!
• Here we go!
• We’re back and we’re fresh
• Paladins, Stop Sucking

I’m always happy when people ask me questions and since I’ve started blogging there were quite a few that had something to tell me, not by leaving a comment, but by emailing me. I was always swift in responding, as I enjoy helping people. But now this happens, which saddens me greatly.

But alas, it is now fixed. I’ve put up a new contact form on the contact page and I’ve also set up a separate email account just for the blog. So from now on, when you want to contact me via email, you can do it from my contact form or directly at tepisor @itankstuff.com (without the space ofc).

Thanks and sorry again!

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My sincere apologies

• Tip: Improve yourself as a blogger
• Minor changes to the site
• My WoW Memories
• We’re back and we’re fresh
• Name the pet of my alt Hunter

Righteous Defense is a blog from a fellow tankadin that’s actively raiding Ulduar. He writes daily about his adventures and he does it very well.

Valor… Paladin… Palordin? is another great blog written by Aureilie and is an excellent stop for tanking resources.

Sacred Dutty is written by Galyan and has some good guides for your Protection Paladin.

Whichever you will chose to bookmark, I can assure you they are excellent reads that deserve your attention.

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Sharing the love

• Useful professions for a Protection Paladin (I): Blacksmithing
• Protection Paladin guide to Karazhan: a few words of introduction
• Motivation: Why blog?
• Useful professions for a Protection Paladin (IV): Enchanting
• 2.4 Shopping List

Prot Pala spec 1

Prot pala spec 2

Prot pala spec 3 (added 4/17)

Prot pala spec 4 (added 4/18, suggested by Gymal) — mana regen and mana conservation, improved heals, helping DPS out

Please feel free to discuss my choices. This post will be updated with future input or insights I might have.

Have fun and don’t forget to enjoy the game and the new content!

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Patch 3.1 Protection Paladin Specs and Glyphs

• Protection Paladin Glyphs Revamped
• Problem solved: Glyph of Divine Plea and BoSanc STACK
• A Guide to Protection Paladin Glyphs
• Fail of the Lich King. I’m also back
• Best Protection Paladin Weapon Enchant – Updated for Patch 3.3

Glyph of Divine Plea and BoSanc STACK as of today’s PTR build.

Saw this post from Galyan where he was talking about Protection Paladin Glyphs and in the comments the dilemma if the two of them stack.

I’ve decided to take the matter in my own hands. So I logged into the PTRs, found a Prot Pala with the Glyph and proceeded to test it.

The method I’ve used it pretty simple: I firstly Judged Wisdom with my helper having only BoSanc on him and did X amount of damage. Then he casted DP and I Judged again, making Y amount of damage. See pictures below for further explanations.

Damage with only BoSanc on himself: 598

Damage with BoSanc and Divine Plea: 580

3% of 598 is 17.94.

Thus, it leads me to firmly say that Glyph of Divine Plea and BoSanc stack.

(thank you Aratar for helping me!)

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Problem solved: Glyph of Divine Plea and BoSanc STACK

• Protection Paladin Glyphs Revamped
• Patch 3.1 Protection Paladin Specs and Glyphs
• A Guide to Protection Paladin Glyphs
• Readers ask, itankstuff.com answears (I)
• PvP dilemma

It’s not yet certain what kind of Glyphs these will be, but they look OK. Let’s take a look.

Glyph of Divine Plea: While Divine Plea is active, you take 3% reduced damage from all sources.

This might not look good in the first place, but Guarded by the Light talent is changed. Does that mean we’ll have 100% uptime on Divine Plea and thus take 3% less damage? Looks yummy. This will be _the_ Glyph to have (also because they are nerfing Spiritual Attunement — boooooooooooooo! and increasing the mana cost of our abilities).

Next Glyph.

Glyph of Hammer of the Righteous: Your Hammer of the Righteous hits 1 additional target.

One additional target is always good. Makes us even powerful in AoE tanking and trash.

So, until now, we get two excellent Glyphs, that might replace some of the useless ones. But what slot will they fit? Major or Minor? I tried to find an Inscriptor on the PTRs that can craft them, but with no success. They weren’t even on the AH. My best guess is that they will fit a Major slot. Please ignore that, I didn’t check wowhead before posting. They fit Major slots.

Right now I’m thinking I’ll run with DP, HotR/SoV and Judgement/Exorcism as Glyphs, depending on the fights. But things may change.

What about you?

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Protection Paladin Glyphs Revamped

• A Guide to Protection Paladin Glyphs
• Problem solved: Glyph of Divine Plea and BoSanc STACK
• Patch 3.1 Protection Paladin Specs and Glyphs
• Protection Paladin consumables and regents — getting ready for a raid
• Timbal’s Focusing Crystal for Protection Paladins