There have been a few patches to the Cataclysm beta this month, and last week saw the release of patch 12803.  This patch pushed some major changes to the game and how it plays. Byron “Messiah” Mudry walks you through some of the critical changes to the game, the effect they will likely have on the game, and explains why you should care about them.

Paladins now have a new resource bar. - Blizzard has been playing with the addition of Holy Power as a resource for Paladins.  At first it simply showed up as a stacking buff for them, now however they have a cool new fancy resource bar that shows up under their character bars.  The graphic itself is pretty good looking and lights up in three sections to represent the fact that you can have up to three holy power.

You can read all about it here: What’s New in the Beta? A look at Beta Build 12803.