Patch 3.1.2

Patch 3.1.2 should hit live servers this week. Not much of interest in this patch, except the Wintergrasp honor grind nerf (daily quests are changed to weekly quests) and the introduction of Equipment Manager.

It will be interesting to compare Equipment Manager with addons such as Outfitter, ItemRack, and ClosetGnome.

For paladins, there are only two minor changes:

• Blessing of Wisdom and Greater Blessing of Wisdom: Now grant 92 mana per 5 seconds to prevent being overwritten by Mana Spring Totem.
• Exorcism: Can no longer be used on player-controlled creatures.

The first one eliminates the very annoying situation where all the nicely buffed Blessings of Wisdom are removed as soon as one of the shammies drop their totem. Paladins rejoice! You will no longer have to waste reagents, mana, and time when buffing in a group with shammies who don't pay attention!

When Blizzard changed the mana totems to not stack with BoW, it was like going back a few patches to when Battle Shout removed Blessing of Might.

If I may ask: Why are things like these not caught during testing?

The second change is a down-right PvP nerf. Apparently, paladins were "one-shotting" hunter pets (I don't see that happening when I look at hunter pets' health pools and the damage I do with Exorcism with a loooooong cooldown, but whatever...).

Blizzard is constantly trying to nerf the burst damage of retribution paladins, a class that is designed around burst damage. It's an interesting dilemma.