Joel’s Scattered Thoughts

Here’s another description of how to tank as a paladin.
Maintankadin: Tankadin 101 - Gestalt

Excerpt:

Putting it together: A typical pull
1. Prep Seal of Righteousness
2. Avenger’s Shield, break line of sight/ have other players counter if the pull involves casters.
2a. If CC is necessary (and it usually won’t be), apply it after the AS pull.
3. Judgement of Righteousness on the first kill target.
4. Consecrate, Holy Shield, up a Seal, in this order (to insure timers are appropriately staggered).
4a. If more threat is needed, Seal of Righteousness
4b. For more threat on a longer fight, Seal of the Crusader (Judged immediately, then up another seal).
4c. If more mitigation is needed, Seal of Light (Judged immediately, then up another seal).
4d. If the mobs are runners, Seal of Justice (judged, up another).
4e. If it’s going to be a long fight, Seal of Wisdom (Judged, up another).
5. Keep Consecrate and Holy Shield up, rotating seals and Judgements as necessary. Try to maintain active judgements on as many targets as possible, rotating weapon swings between judged targets to maintain them.
6. Throughout the fight try to move your targets a little bit as they die. It can be difficult to loot 12 corpses stacked directly on top of each other.

Note that the links on the site are pretty much all broken. Follow the advice, not the links!

This also has a nice breakdown of paladin protection talents. Unfortunately it hasn’t been updated in the last 6 months and will likely be very broken with the next patch.

Found via EgoTank - Lern2Tank which has some very good general tanking advice and links to more resources.

If ever I play a mage again, Girl Meets WoW: The Zen of Mage Macros is an article I’ll definitely have to look at. I was thinking of something along the lines of her

Self Buff in a Can
This macro creates a single button you can hit to apply all of your self buffs. Note that Molten Armor can be replaced with Ice Armor, according to your preferences.

/castsequence [target=player] reset=60 Dampen Magic, Arcane Intellect, Molten Armor;

for my paladin.

Tobold wrote up a Dofus review. I may well check Dofus out if I get tired of playing WoW again and there isn’t anything else that appeals to me.