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The Light and How to Swing It: Choosing holy paladin major glyphs
Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Light and How to Swing It for holy, protection and retribution paladins. Every Sunday, Chase Christian invites you to discuss the finer side of the paladin class: the holy specialization. Feel free to email me with any questions you want answered, and you can catch me weekly on the Matticast. Prime glyphs have been designed by Blizzard to be no-brainers; they're powerful, and their purpose is clear. While there are four different prime glyphs that a holy paladin can choose from, most holy paladins will neglect the Glyph of Divine Favor and pick the other three. Some of the high-end paladins (such as Diamondtear) swear by the Divine Favor glyph, as they rely on their cooldowns heavily during the hardest heroic encounters. If you find yourself ignoring Word of Glory, you can sacrifice its glyph for Divine Favor as well. Minor glyphs are largely irrelevant for us, as they only cut down the mana cost of spells that we normally cast while out of combat. It's cool to save mana, but the minor glyphs are really automatic and almost pointless. The major glyph situation is quite different for holy paladins. We have a smorgasbord of major glyphs to choose from, with each offering unique benefits. I find myself changing my major glyphs quite often, as many of them are only valuable in certain situations.
The Light and How to Swing It: Hot talents and glyphs for holy paladins
Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Light and How to Swing It for holy, protection and retribution paladins. Every Sunday, Chase Christian invites you to discuss the finer side of the paladin class: the holy specialization. Feel free to email me with any questions you want answered. The holy paladin talent tree has historically had issues with its filler talents. While many of the talents and abilities were spec-defining, there were other talents that literally had no purpose and were never taken. I'm talking about Sacred Cleansing, which actually didn't work at all throughout most of Wrath. How could we forget Purifying Power, whose usefulness was completely negated by the Glyph of Holy Wrath, which itself was only used to exploit a difficult encounter? Even with all of these junk talents in the tree, we also had a distinct lack of DPS talents, leaving holy paladins nearly helpless when left to fend for themselves. Cataclysm's new truncated talent trees resolve many of the issues our previous talent tree had, as well as providing several DPS talents to give us some flexibility when we need to up our damage output. Exorcism has finally become the spammable attack we can use from range to nuke our targets, and Crusader Strike gives us some DPS presence while we're in melee range as well. The core focus of the holy paladin will always be healing, but it's nice to see that Blizzard created talents and glyphs to support both the healing paladin and the pseudo-shockadin that's emerging in Cataclysm.
Daily Quest: Of Unrelenting Assaults, Holy Paladin primers and the ABCs of being a Shadow Priest
We here at WoW Insider are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. The Tanking Tips goes where few Warriors dare to tread and explores the Unrelenting Assault tanking spec. The Fear.Win blog gives us the A-Z Shadow Priest list. The Pally Bubble blog has written a three part primer on raiding for Holy Paldins: Part 1 - Holy Paladin Raiding Specs Part 2 - Holy Paladin Glyph recommendations Part 3 - Holy Paladin Gearing for Raiding The Druid Main blog has written their own raiding primer also, this time preparing Restoration Druids: Part 1 - Enchants for Raiding Resto Druids Part 2 - Gemming for Raiding Resto Druids Part 3 - Consumables for Raiding Resto Druids All Things Azeroth has their latest podcast up covering the latest AddOn controversy, the iPhone Authenticator app, the sample chapter from the upcoming Arthas novel and more. Submit a guide, post, podcast or resource for inclusion in TDQ and we'll consider it for a future post. Click here to submit a link to TDQ
