According to all the information that I have (eg, EJ paladin forum and MMOChamp), Blizz has not specifically announced the replacement of the ret paladin mastery, other than to comment that its likely to be tied into Templar's Verdict somehow.

(for the non-paladins, the current to-be-replaced mastery is +% holy damage, which they want to axe as it makes Exorcism a little too stupid powerful and scaling to the point where it'll actually be a dps upgrade to stand and spam the now no-CD Exo in preference to anything else).

edit: the relevant blue quote. Nothing more recent that I can find:

Retribution Mastery
We have actually changed Retribution's mastery. Having both it and Inquisition boost Holy damage was giving too much power to things like Exorcism (over which you have very little control) and not enough to things like Templar's Verdict (which is supposed to be the centerpiece of your rotation). The new mastery will emphasize Templar's Verdict more.

Its more than possible that either they just havent figured out what it is, or they have and it hasnt been pushed out to the beta realms yet.

Does anyone know of some website that has up-to-date information on Masteries in beta? I've heard rumblings in blue posts about changes to them (specifically prot and ret paladins), but I don't know what they've changed to.

Operation: Gnomeregan and the horde analog are live.  A mostly spoiler-free summary:

* You do some preparatory quests which take about ten minutes, followed by an event like Battle for the Undercity.  As with BftU, you'll have to wait for the event to reset when you get to that point.

* The event can be bugged out by killing certain NPCs before they're supposed to die in the script, forcing everyone to wait about five minutes for a reset and then do it again.  To avoid contributing to this, put a raid marker over High Tinker Mekkatorque and don't go past where he is.

* There are no epic gear rewards; you'll get a feat of strength, about 75g in quest gold (at level 80), a decorative cloak, and a reusable costume item.

The event is voice-acted and is reasonably amusing.

...Operation Gnomeregan.  What, you were going to do something else?  What do those mages in Dalaran know?  Gnomes need you!

Reminder to the people still finishing up Ulduar achievements with Seni not to get locked with that character by doing FL.  (There's no way to do both this week.)

we could band together and do a 25!

If you update the updater from the links above, the newest one is better at actually finishing patches.

To Lyonya, for tanking the fish boss in ZG -- Thanaomira now knows Polymorph: Turtle.

Of course, this just means I now get to tank for Danerys every ZG reset. 

For the nintendo fans out there, has anyone played the new Metroid: Other M? It looks cool and Team Ninja did some work on it. But was reluctant to pick it up yet.

Reminder to the people still finishing up Ulduar achievements with Seni not to get locked with that character by doing FL.  (There's no way to do both this week.)

[[Cord of the White Dawn]]

Last one for a while 

Looking for someone to do [Cord of the White Dawn].

Thanks.

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