Lots and lots of changes coming in 3.2 as seen in the patch notes for the public test realm.

Tons of class abilities and talents are being redesigned.  Gameplay changes and one big change that will affect all our gear gathering ability (and sourse.. *cough* grind for gear) are the changes coming to the emblem system.

• Both the 10 and 25 player instances of the Crusaders’ Coliseum drop a new Emblem of Triumph.
• Any dungeons that previously dropped Emblems of Heroism or Valor, such as Naxxramas or Heroic Halls of Stone, will now drop Emblems of Conquest instead. Emblems of Conquest can still be converted to Valor or Heroism.
• The heroic dungeon daily quest will now reward 2 Emblems of Triumph and the normal daily dungeon quest will reward 1 Emblem of Triumph.
• The existing achievements to collect 1, 25, 50, etc. Emblems of Heroism, Valor, and Conquest have been converted to Feats of Strength since Heroism and Valor Emblems are no longer attainable.

New achievements have been added to collect various amounts of any combination of emblems.

What I’m curious about is what will happen to the emblems of Heroism and Valor that we already have.  Will they be transformed into Conquests?  Doubtful since the Conquests can be converted into Heroism or Valor.. so the items that are purchased with them currently will still require official Hero or Valor emblems and you’ll have to convert your new Conquest if you want to buy those items.  Make sense?  I did to me in my brain.. not sure if it came out that way on “paper” though.

Not all classes have as huge of changes coming as paladins do.. (just wow).. like rogues only have 2 changes, so far.  Can use axes (and sword specialization talent changed to include those axes) and a change to Shadow Dance in subtlety.  Paladins have .. well I can’t even begin.  Check out your class.

One of the funniest replies to the rants and QQ about the incoming Paladin nerf (or nerf of any class) I’ve ever read:

from wowinsider.com comments about ret pally arcticle..

“Go ahead, enjoy your days of OPness. Just remember, though, that they will come to an end. The nerf bat may swing slowly, but it hits hard, my friend. And then? Even after you are nerfed into safety-padded, foam-rubber oblivion, you will still have to deal with the world’s hate and resentment. You will be Target Number Uno in every BG and Arena, long after the days that you represented some disproportionate threat are gone. And when, despite being nerfed to a shadow of your former OP self, you do actually manage to kill someone, you will get neither credit nor glory. You will hear the mutterings of “Oh, a ret pally killed me? Figures. Stupid OP class…” even when the devs have left you with nothing but Crusader Aura and your hammer. So enjoy, young OP ret pally. While you can….

Love,
The Warlocks.”

You can tell he’s lived it.  Problem is, I don’t think the warlock’s low’s on their roller coaster ride were as big a drop as ret paladin’s are.  Retrbution is gonna go from the nothing it was to this exalted high that it has been for a couple weeks since 3.0.2 back down to next to nothing (hopefully not).  All of the perceptions and way they are treated could very well be generalized as he says.. you can tell he’s felt and experienced the perceived OP’ness of his class in such that people won’t grant him recognition of skill playing it.  Problem is.. warlock’s never got nerfed into the ground.  Ret could very well go from nothing to The King right back to nothing.

That’s a much wilder ride than warlock’s ever had.. even if they suffered like he said, warlocks still rank pretty high on the power scale.  We’ll see what kind of a plunge the retadin takes.

I better duel Systine soon if I wanna have any chance of winning..