Originally Posted by Kiyone

take your current SEP adn multiply by 0.88

Originally Posted by Goatsey

Go to cell E86, the armor penetration rating required for 1% cell. Simply change the 1.25 at the end for 1.1.

Basically the cell reads before: and after the change:

Originally Posted by Maje

That is not what I meant, the scenario is: he casts Masive Crash, you Ice Block, he charges someone else, you run near him will you get hit even if you aren't near the wall?

Icehowl -----you--------->target

Originally Posted by seanrich

From what I understand, his charge has a "bubble" near the wall where if characters are found inside that bubble by the time he reaches the wall then he will be flagged as enraged. Otherwise you're safe. So theoretically, you could blink into him and not be affected by the charge. I have not tested this, nor do I expect anyone to, just TC-ing.

Originally Posted by Zaroua

You have no idea what you're talking about.

You seem to be under the impression that stacking Spell Power means removing Holy Light from the spell bar and mindlessly spamming Flash of Light all encounter long. Even with a heavy focus on Spell Power, a Paladin will still want to use Holy Light when the fight calls for more throughput but will resume using Flash once the big-bad-damage period is over. Spell Power + FoL trades a little bit of throughput (most of it through the Holy Light glyph) for a lot more consistency (not having to Plea/Judge/melee).


And the changes to Replenishment and Illumination changed the balance from crit barely being better than MP5 under optimal conditions to being worthless as a regen stat compared to the MP5 alternative. The throughput gained from crit rating has always been minimal at best: odds are you gained about 10% chance to crit with 3.1 gearing from crit rating.

And as far as being able to use "the highest ilvl piece you can get for each slot": there are 3 pieces of 258 gear that are well itemized for Int stacking Holy Paladins: T9 gloves, mail legs from faction champions and the ring. Going down to 245 gear and you get to use the crafted bracers. Outside of that you're stuck with either using 239 Ulduar loot or using badly itemized (SP/Crit/Haste or SP/Crit/MP5) but higher ilvl pieces of gear, that choice then boils down to getting more Int from the higher ilvl pieces at the cost of throughput from the well itemized Haste/MP5 Ulduar pieces.