Today I spent some time on CharDev to help me gather my thoughts on my gear sets for my two specs: Prot and Holy. While it’s true that, this early in the game, it’s mostly a waste of time to be too concerned with “best in slot” or gear optimization, taking a look at the best possible items helps give a sense of whether or not you’re on the right track. So, I loaded up CharDev and WoWHead and decided to build a couple possible sets.

The thing I’ve been most excited about in anticipation of the release of Patch 3.1 had been dual specs for my paladin. I fully intend to continue leveling as prot for the foreseeable future, but more often than not I find myself healing in instances and it will be nice to be able to easily swap into an appropriate spec for the role. As such, I’ve been taking a look at WoWHead’s PTR talent calculators to help me come up with some possibilities.

I’ve been doing some research lately into WoW RP, hoping to take some of my own advice and also get back into the escapism that RP provides (which I used to thoroughly enjoy back in my table-top days). I’ve skimmed a lot of sites over the past couple days and many of them have provided a wealth of information for noobs to the WoW RP scene. I’d love to list them all here, but that would literally take all day, and suffering from information overload (as lore/RP research is often …

You’ve had the ability to wear plate now long enough that all your straggling mail pieces should be long gone, and you should be decked out in full plate. Even for leveling, prot is the way to go since it’s the most effective spec for AoE grinding and it’s particularly useful for those times when you’re sick of grinding and just want to run an instance or two. After all, most everyone levels as a DPS spec regardless of their class and tanks are at a premium. Keep in mind, …

Spending time working on my alts (my paladin in particular lately) has given me an opportunity to visit parts of the WoW Blogosphere and the greater internet at large that I don’t normally visit in the course of my work for THM, WoW Insider or The Azeroth Advisor, and lately I’ve found some absolutely wonderful resources that I wanted to share with all you other alt-aholics and WoW enthusiasts out there.