Paladin

I was looking through the character select screen when I noticed a character I haven't played since before Burning Crusade.

Being one of the first classes to be covered in Blizzard’s Legion class preview series really threw me off.

Wow.

What changes we are receiving though will have repercussions for how our beloved spec plays and how we will be tanking with our characters in the next expansion. Some of these repercussions are good, some are concerning. It’s a little too early to begin worrying, considering nothing is finalized yet. However, a good tank is always prepared for whatever can be thrown at them, and this is nothing different.

We’ve been here before. The long content drought where you find yourself raiding the same fights and the same bosses over and over again. It’s slightly more bearable if the encounters are particularly interesting, but that really hasn’t been the pattern this expansion. What’s a tank to do when you find yourself repeating the same old dances moves? Is it possible to shake things up so you can slog through another dozen months of the same raid content without going completely off your rocker?

There are a lot of things in World of Warcraft that exist solely for game mechanic reasons: portals that traverse alternate universes, hearthstones, raid and dungeon finders, death knights.

Blizzard makes it sound like Legion is going to feature a real push at redesigning the specs to make them more fun and to better capture the class fantasy of each. This is a very excellent thing, and very long overdue. While Protection Paladins are in an ok place, they could be so much better. Our spell effects could be better looking and more impactful, our abilities could have more of a “pow” to them, and our rotation could be tweaked to make it more fun to execute. It’s time for the traditional pre-expansion wishlist – let’s plunk ourselves down on Great-father Winter’s lap and see what we can dream up.

I've recently begun running a new Dungeons & Dragons campaign, and one of my players is playing a cleric.

I’ve heard through my contacts at Blizzard that there’s a new WoW expansion coming out called Legion.

Now that Warlords of Draenor has entered its final months, players have begun searching for new goals to pursue in-game.