Next patch, 1.9, is getting closer to Testing.

[sneek]

Check out this thread in the Raids and Dungeons US forum, by Tigole.

Highlights:
- Ahn'Qiraj design nearly completed and in heavy internal testing.
- Tier 2 set items were begin relooked and is being wrapped up. There might be some changes in stats (or set bonii).
- Public Test Realm will be up in the "coming weeks".

Ok. Fine. We'll see how horrendous Paladins will become with "control over their dps" in 1.9...

[Morlog]

they have said that with an increase in dps their survivability will go down aswell if that means less time on bubble or longer cooldown or higher manacosts or what remains to be seen

[Kiteshavara]

Well every class that has been "fixed" are so imba now and i don't think paladins will be an exception.

[Shataz]

Imo better to make all classes to good then to bad
shamans and rogues will be fixaed last, but im not worried, we are too good players to be bothered by that! pwnage ftw!

[Flintsmisk]

Imo better to make all classes to good then to bad

I dont really agree, soon people will go around 1shotting other people

[Eienne]

From Dark age of Camelot I can sure as hell tell you that I'd rather have ALL classes underpowered then overpowered...

[Fenz]

Eienne did you play a berserker first and then a Sorcerer?!

Cabalist/Scout/Wizard/Necro/Runemaster myself (+ some non L50 chars) Only the Cab made it to ML10)

[Late]

All I know is that it is far more fun, and more challenging, for your enemy to be able to kill you only in 20 seconds rather than 2 seconds, so yeah, I would prefer underpowered to overpowered.

As for pallies, if they're going to get a buff for PvP, then sure as hell either shamans should get PvE buffs or Pallies themselves should be cut in half in PvE.

[Eienne]

Not quite Fenz, I played a Spiritmaster while tanks ruled and rerolled Blademaster when casters ruled

[Mol]

I played a Paladin in DAoC :/ Yes even before they had endurance chant etc

[sudo]

mol has this cunning plan to stay level 49 forever, so he could always tell who the 50's were!

oh and I played an armsman, if you want to discuss gimp classes -_-

mentalist was <3 tho. overpowered as hell, but fun :]

[sneek]

Praise be to the Light! Hallalujah!

A holy tincan update thread in US general forum concerning 1.9.
Only a small part has been revealed, check below. More info coming in days to come.

- The range on 'Judgment' will be increased. In addition, both the cooldown and mana cost will be lowered.
- Both Exorcism and Holy Wrath will be usable on Demon targets in addition to Undead targets.
- The mana cost will be reduced for both the summoned Warhorse and Charger.
- The missile speed of the flying hammer for the spell 'Hammer of Wrath' will be increased.

- We're also adding raid versions for five of the Paladin's blessings. These new raid version blessings will last for fifteen minutes, and allow the Paladin the means to buff every player of a given class in the raid by selecting only one. These blessings will be available at your class trainer and the only prerequisite is the final rank (talent point where applicable) of the Blessing.
- Blessing of Sanctuary, Blessing of Kings, Blessing of Might, Blessing of Wisdom, Blessing of Salvation.

The spell "Judgement" is currently 5yd range (melee) and 15s cooldown at 11% base mana use. This one will get better in 1.9.
The spell "Stormstrike" (shaman, 31 tier enhancement) is currently 5yd range (melee) and 25s cooldown at 30% base mana use.

Oh and that Judge Dredd armor look that tier 2 paladin armor gets?
-It's 8 set bonus is ~125 Holy Damage inflicted with every judgement. That's 8.3 dps right now, today, going full out dps and judging when the cooldown's done. Equivalent damage to 58+ str for warriors. Cooldown and mana reduction on Judgement is Blizzards way of telling the paladins to learn to play their class. Tier2 8-set Judgement dps will go up, even more.

Well, looks like Paladins won't need to go to the AH or do Scholo, Strat or UBRS ad infinitum to get books to learn these skills.

Nice eh?

[xen]

The mana cost will be reduced for both the summoned Warhorse and Charger.

Need!