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Argi

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The Hyjal Tanking ring is nothing great.

The Hyjal tanking ring is great for warriors given the limited choices available. In T6 and above content there's really just the TK trash drop, Supremus, and then Hyjal one to pick one. All the ones with +armor are pretty garbage (and it's stupid that they added yet another one to the new epic badge vendor).

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the evn show

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There's also the ring from the third chest in the ZA timed event (stam, block, and shield block). Plus, nobody said you have to get the tanking ring

If we ever get some blessed bands of karabor to drop (never seen one) or the Sunwell JC pattern I'll be swapping my Hyjal exalted ring for the lol-dps one to level with. It might not be ideal gear for your class or spec, but it's a great way to get reasonably high quality leveling/farming gear.

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Hi!

I made it to lvl 70 with my Paladin a few months ago and went into starting other characters right away. Now I've turned my focus back on my Paladin. At first I was a little lost as what to do. After doing some rep-reward research I have a gameplan to increase my rep with some factions to get better healing stats.

Is there a guide somewhere for what kind of healing stats are needed for a Paladin for each instance?

Here is my character:

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.x...e&n=Meshack

What level 70 instances should I be running with those stats, and which ones are out of my league? Is there any online reference for this? I have about 660 bonus to healing (my headpiece healing gear was not on when I logout last). Thanks!

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Is there a guide somewhere for what kind of healing stats are needed for a Paladin for each instance?

http://elitistjerks.com/f31/t16934-healadin_thread/

Heal, Crit, MP5: after 1.3k +heal and 20% crit you sould be fine to do any small-group content in the game.

What level 70 instances should I be running with those stats, and which ones are out of my league? Is there any online reference for this? I have about 660 bonus to healing (my headpiece healing gear was not on when I logout last). Thanks!

Your paladin has roughly the same quality of gear that my my priest did when he hit 70 (still mostly in Tier 2/2.5 with benediction). I was able to solo heal every normal instance and a few of the the "pre-nerf" heroic dungeons. You'd be well served by hitting the AH for a few "of the" healing items, tossing some green-quality gems into your gear, and picking up some of the cheap enchants ('6 mp5 chest, int to bracers) to help you go a little further. There are a handful of quest rewards worth picking up too: check wowhead.com.

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Ash

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can someone tell me if the 2.4 patch affected a lot of addons or was it just a few ones that it affected?

I stopped playing a week or 2 before the patch but I just started my vacation so I was thinking of playing again on my off time and wondered if I should be prepared to update a crap load of the addons or not.

Thanks.

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SMELTN

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DEFINATELY need to update all your addons.. 2.4 did change some stuff, especially combat log, and damage done things etc..

Alot of mods, (if you use ace2 mods) have changed their dogtags (which is the code that tells the mod what information to display) which means that alot of them don't work until you update them.

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can someone tell me if the 2.4 patch affected a lot of addons or was it just a few ones that it affected?

I stopped playing a week or 2 before the patch but I just started my vacation so I was thinking of playing again on my off time and wondered if I should be prepared to update a crap load of the addons or not.

Thanks.

Just get WUU - http://wuu.vagabonds.info/menu.php

It does all the updating for you, spanning over whatever sites you got your addons from!

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Lord Nite

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Can anyone tell me what the billing name is for paying on a debit card on the European servers?

Hopefully that makes sense :p

Mine normally shows up as BLIZZARD.COM BLIZZARD ENT*WOW. I hope that's what you were looking for.

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Slane

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So did my first raid last night with new guild and since GTAIV. Finished out kara, one shotting, spite/hoof/prince/nightbane, with 2 deaths on prince. Myself and another melee DPS turned around to run away from Enfeeble and infernal dropped in front of us, killing us instantly. Flying through making good time, learning the new people. We got to maiden and absolutly got destroyed by here. Bad positioning, is what really killed us, so had to two shot her. Got the breastplate off prince, so my 100 badges going to the legs first.

Then we jumped over to ZA to do Lynx boss. I was the OT sitting at 19.khp (highest ever). First shot healing assingments were wrong so I got no heals after cleave. Second time doing good, on the last spirit phase and I dced, came back in with him sitting at 10%, me at 1k health. So I popped Last Stand and Shield Wall, other tank still full health. No deaths. It was awesome. :)

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