Hi all,
I just started playing WoW a couple months ago, and now I've got my holy (41/20/0) Paladin to level 70 yesterday (yay!). While leveling I started out ret until about level 35 when I switched to holy because I was doing more instances. Eventually, I just got used to it, and stuck with it the whole way. I love being holy and healing in instances and when I play with my friends (warrior and hunter) we make a great team for questing. I definitely want to stay holy as an end-game build, and I'm starting to figure out what gear I'll need and where to get it for heroics, and possibly raiding (the sticky has been a great help for that).
My one problem, however, is that I've realized that now that I'm at 70 I need to do a LOT of grinding for rep, items (for instance, I'd like to farm the mats for blessed bracers), gold, etc. I've rarely had problems solo questing, I just had to take things a little slower and kill mobs 1 or 2 at a time. But, that's just not an appealing approach for grinding. So, I'm wondering what your suggestions are. I've never really played much prot, but I've read about it being great for killing large groups. Would you recommend switching to a prot build for grinding, and if I did so, would I need to get a new set of gear? Or will my +int/healing gear be sufficient as long as I'm fighting standard world mobs? Or, should I reconfigure my holy build to be more of the shockadin type and hope that I can output enough holy damage to grind effectively?
Any and all suggestions would be much appreciated.