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Im thinking of making a paladin but im not sure what are they really good for what can i do with them i plan to be on the alliance side what is the best race for them so many questions any answers or help would be appreciated thanks

Thats cool another question can pallies be used to farm a bit too im hoping to build up some money and hoping that i can set my pally up to do enough damage and take enough hits to farm

Sure, you can farm with them. The issue becomes your spec. The most efficient farming classes/specs are DPS, not defensive or healing specs. You *can* farm as a defensive or healing spec (my pally is healing specced, for example), but it takes longer to do things than it does for a straight DPS spec. A hunter, for example, will farm circles around most other classes, to be honest.

The problem with the straight DPS spec for Paladins (Retribution tree) is that it gets no respect from the playerbase in general ... well, that's an understatement .. from the playerbase in general it generates a lot of hate and ill-will because they think that Paladins should be healing (or at least tanking).



Very good information in the other posts here. I would just say that you should view the Paladin's primary characteristic as being a tough one to kill -- you have very nice survivability regardless of your spec, really, and in some specs you have truly sky high survivability once you master all of your options and houdini tricks. Having said that, you are a hyrbid, and Blizzard's philosophy on hyrbids is that they should be (*at least somewhat) less effective than a "pure" class in any one role. This clashes somewhat with Blizzard's instance design philosophy, which appears to encourage players to assemble a group made of the most effective classes for each type -- something that impacts all hybrid classes negatively, not just Paladins. In essence, it means that at the top level content, you will be expected to specialize deeply in one area and "mimic" the role of a pure class, even if you do what they do differently from how they do it. That's something you have to be aware of and willing to accept from the beginning when you roll *any* hybrid class, and being comfortable with it can help allevate frustrations on the back end of things once you have spent time leveling the character.

So, for example, Paladins are awesome healers with a single target, but lack the rounding that other healing classses have (HoTs, group heals, etc.). Paladins are great multi-target tanks, but are not the best tank against a single target (although they can certainly do it with good gear and a skilled player). Although you eventually specialize in one area (healing, tanking, DPSing) as a Paladin you are always a utility player, you have group buffs and always some healing abilities regardless of spec, and so it's very much a case of balancing your various abilities in any one setting, even though you are really focused on only one area for the most part.

It depends on what you're farming. Caster mobs are going to give you fits no matter what the spec. But I've made hunters cry while farming things like Naraxis Insignias (nothing like rounding up 6-10 mobs and mowing them down as the hunter tries to pick a couple off) as Prot.



Is this true? My impression is that they're fine with threat gen but it's lack the "special skills" (disarm, spell reflect, etc) and/or the raw health/armor (in the case of druids) that makes them less desirable.

I like to use LoH on myself as some minor Innervate. It'll allow for roughly 5 more FoL which amount to pretty much the same healing LoH would do, except they can crit and I can manage the healing done better. (ie I rarely need to do a 7k heal on the tank and most of it ends up as wasted overheal)

I haven't had to use it lately, but I've never found it was a great spell anyway.

The Protection-talented paladin is a great farmer on melee-enemies.

These days there is a lot of gold in pulling the entire SM cathedral (for example) in one pull and loot them all. It is done in less then 10 minutes, looting and running out included. If you take (dis)enchanting on the way, it nets you good cash through the AH. And it is completely safe too.

Besides the farming aspect, (in my experience protection-)paladins are VERY much fun to play. Versatile and tough to kill. Taking on many mobs at the same time can't be beaten, not even by rogue-ish or mage-ish big numbers.

Just an opinion though.

As a prot pally there is rarely anyone with more hp than me in a 5man it will heal most to max health. I havent started raiding though so I guess it would change there. Usually though I use it as the oh s^$t! button on myself, the healer or a hybrid that can possibly OH/OT, usually the druid if there is one in the group.

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Arthorius - Khaz'garoth