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• • Paladin.. hardest class to level?

  • My thread wasn't pointed out to the people who are aware of it but prefer not to AOE -- that is understandable, the leveling changes make that point moreso. It was to the mass influx of people who don't know or aren't aware.

    There's also multiple hot-spot lists that will take you from 30-70 with relative ease, avoiding casters/ranged mobs as much as possible.

  • Posted: 7/17/08 5:46 PM
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• • Paladin.. hardest class to level?

  • A guy recently posted a thread asking what the most difficult class to level was. Most of the answers concluded that Paladin was one of the most time consuming and boring classes to level.

    Leveling multiple paladins, both factions, and two as protection, I'd like to inform you all how completely retarded you all are. Maybe you haven't heard about it, maybe you're just terribad, whatever your excuse is, can you tell me what you know about Paladin AOE Grinding? Oh, you can't? Don't fear, Synthetick has a few videos for you idiots out there that are so extremely misinformed it's painful.

    
    

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOIq-UQ9WHk
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWN5eVXG1ps&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lONnyXnVXQ&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IojKJLFylg&feature=related

     

    Just google or youtube "Paladin AOE"

  • Posted: 7/17/08 5:12 PM
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• • Hardest class to level?

  • It amazes me on how many people replying are completely clueless. I mean seriously, do you guys not play the game? Honestly, I'd be surprised if half of these people replying never had a character above 40.

    Paladins hard to level? You guys are completely clueless. Paladin AOE Grinding. Google it, you morons. Anyone who single-target grinds as retribution is a complete moron and you deserve all the boredom you got out of leveling that way. Spec protection, kill 20 mobs by the time your rogue friend kills 3-4.

     

  • Posted: 7/17/08 5:05 PM
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• • Hardest class to level?

  • Originally posted by mbd1968
    

    Originally posted by Bonusbabe
    

    The AoE paladin everyone is talking about... would it be possible to get a spec suggestion i have a lvl 25 which i'm finding a bit boring to lvl but with AoE i might get more fun :D

    
     

    Stay Ret until level 35 then respec to something like http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=sZV0tIh0zx get a fast 1 hander and a shield with a spike, Ret Aura, Blessing of Light, Rightious Fury up at all times and just let them pound away on you. Try to have at least 3 or 4 mobs on you at a time at lower levels (increase as you get higher), if they run off let them bring friends, more the merrier.

    It's great for multi-mob pulls but sucks for single mob pulls. I was on the beach in Swamp of Sorrows once and Murlocs kept attacking, there were about 20 dead by the end and I was down to about half health.

     

    Blessing of light? I might be wrong, but it doesn't seem you've done this really before. You can respec @ level 30, no need to wait for 35?

    Basically, you want to get 5/5 Reckoning before you respec to protection and try AOE grinding. Once you have 5/5, you'll be good. You also do not use Blessing of Light. You use Blessing of Sanctuary (reduces damage you take and does holy damage to anyone that attacks and you block). Also, those murlocs on the beach are full of casters -- the good murlocs to grind in Dustwallow are gone with the zone revamp. There's a few on the beach, on an island, that are all melee, but you can clear them in one pull.

    Your bread and butter as this is to get as many mobs as you can, have a shield spike, keep improved righteous fury up as well as blessing of santuary. Slowly judge of light all the mobs you have, you can throw judgement of wisdom if you have problems conserving mana. I'd advise you not to spam consecrate, most pulls I wouldn't even use it. For the mana cost it just isn't worth it unless you want downtime.

    Once you get Holy Shield and you use it when redoubt procs, you'll notice how fast the mobs health bar starts to go down. You're doing damage every block from 3-4 sources: shield spike, blessing of sanctuary, retribution aura, your reckoning, etc.

    4 mobs at a time just isn't worth it, tho, really. You could be doing so much more with relative ease, never having to manually heal. Reckoning will proc with judgement of light up and the heals are just insane.

     

    If anyone is curious on how this works, what build to go, where to do it at, there's a pretty good thread on the WoW forums someone posted that is a complete guide; has videos, talents, all that:

    forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html

  • Posted: 7/15/08 9:08 AM
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• • Hardest class to level?

  • Originally posted by ValaraukoGR
    

    Both warriors and paladins are gear depended classes, hence their hard level up.

    Warrior’s levelup is hard because... they die a lot . Just a bad pull and you are dead.

    Tauren / Gnome warriors have an extra chance to survive (warstomp /escape artist), but that’s not much.

    On the other hand, paladins have no “dieing” problems (compare to warriors) but their dps is crappy.

     

    
    Kind of funny how Paladins can AOE grind 10 mobs by the time most classes kill 2-3 mobs, right? And that's the reason my ret paladin topped DPS meters all the way to 70, right? My DPS was fine until I hit 70 and the itemization for retribution paladins started lacking while everyone else shot ahead. Hell, even my paladin I leveled 30-70 protection killed everyone else's DPS while I was tanking instances through Shadow Labs on Recount just because of consecrate. Just watch a few Paladin AOE videos:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9-3TquLnsI

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reP8JL8nhcA&feature=related

    And for all the people saying shaman die a lot leveling, lewl, like the post above me said (or, the one above the one above mine) they have multiple escape techniques. I've leveled one to 50 and focused back on my paladin, but honestly, very, very smooth leveling.

     Also, I'd have to throw in that really any class other than casters (warlock, priest, mage) are gear dependent while leveling up. This goes for rogue, warrior, paladin, hunter, druid, all of them. But they're only gear dependent if you're in your 40s with greens. With all the drop upgrades in instances coupled with the leveling changes is it REALLY that hard to outfit your character into the gear it needs? Casters aren't extremely gear dependent until you get a little higher.

    The only reason any class should pose any reasonable challenge while leveling is if you're outfitted in gear 20-30 levels under you (which, I actually did on one character. hit OL in SM gear on my warlock and was fine) or if you're leveling as a support/healing spec. Even then, it's not hard, it's not difficult, it's a little more time consuming.

  • Posted: 7/12/08 7:56 PM
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