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Welcome to my second WoW spec – Conviction, a Discipline Priest DPS spec for leveling and PvP.

Click the link to open Wowhead and see the talents & Glyphs –

http://www.wowhead.com/talent#bfGorRsrcRbo0hZh:cmqdVaMzc

ROTATION

Shield > Holy Fire > Smite (until your Holy Fire debuff dissolves) > Penance.

If you want to throw in some more damage or a heal, then I recommend doing so after the Smite, and before the Penance, that way, you get the fullest effect from your Glyph of Smite. Keep your shield up at all times.

OTHER

You will need a good amount of spirit, because this spec can be a bit of a mana hog.

If you want to do some healing, remember that your Smite heals a friendly target within 15 yards of your enemy target, for 100% of its damage (even more if you have just Holy Fired your enemy target!).

TESTS

This is a spec that can prevent and deal damage very well. It has been tested for PvP as well as leveling, and soon to be tested in a few instances. The rotations are very simple, and can be improvised on the stop with little DPS loss.

The PvP test have gone very well, with the only complaint being mana replenishment. That aside, the healing and the damage have been above par, since after all, when this spec deals damage, it heals, and when it’s preventing damage, it deals it too.

UPDATE: I originally thought that this spec would run out of steam too easily for instances to really be of any use. However, contrary to my thoughts, this spec actually was never mana starved. Even with a disc priest as the healer, since that healers shields were better than mine thus preventing the talent that returns mana when the shield breaks, I only ran out of mana one time, which my shadow fiend promptly corrected. The specs damage was very nice, and also made “topping off” possible due to all of the damage spell’s healing potential. All in all…I wish I had made this spec sooner because the supposed benefits for the Shadow spec in Cataclysm were actually extremely contradictory and made leveling from 80 to 85 a chore, whereas I leveled from 83 to 85 with Conviction very smoothly.

Episode #1 features:

Popcorn Junkie: Source Code

Dust Jacket: The Dispossessed

From the Racks: Action Comics #900

War Room: NCP’s Top 5 Villains

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UPDATE: It has been confirmed that this is indeed fake.

Is this the first teaser poster for the upcoming Spider-man reboot ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’, or a not so clever fake?

Well, the jury is still out online, but I for one am siding with the majority screaming ‘Fake!’.

Let’s look at the evidence:

1. Spelling/Grammar:

– ‘IN JULY 3’ – instead of ON JULY 3

– ‘For future info fo to filmratings.com’ – ‘fo’ instead of ‘go’

– ‘In selected theatres’ – a bit weird using the English spelling of theatre, instead of the American ‘theater’

2. Billing:

Marvel Studios billed over Sony – It didn’t happen with the first 3 films, why now?

3. The font is awful

On the plus side, it does have it does have a pretty cool graphic, with what appears to Spider-man’s torn and bloody suit blending into the Lizard’s scales.

Fake or real, it has got me damn excited!

Well, not only is today Towel Day, but it is also Geek Pride Day! That’s right folks, Nerds & Geeks are taking over the world!

May 25^th just may be the most important day of the year – Towel Day, Geek Pride Day, release date of Star Wars (in 1977), JFK announces his goal put a “man on the Moon” before the end of the decade (in 1961) and the first recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet (in 240 BC)!

Geek Pride Day started in 2006 in Spain when 300 people showed their pride by creating a human “Pac-Man” game. In 2008 US bloggers heralded it as a holiday and yet another reason to celebrate Nerdism was born.

So put on your favourite comic character T-shirt and carry around your sack of multi-sided dice – for today is the day Geeks and Nerds unite. And for all those who may mock your right to be the lovable nerd you are, ‘I say thee nay!’

A reminder to all Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fans that tomorrow, May 25^th, is Towel Day. So remember the genius of Douglas Adams and take a towel with you to work or school, because ‘A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.’