Prot Pally PvP GearFollow

they get healing gear, then they respec holy

for PvP? stuff with +healing on it. Prot pallies can't kill anyone, so they're useless as dps, they can't bash things out of heals, they literally do nothing but heal in PvP. If you're going to heal anyway, you might as well be holy. He wasn't kidding.

Wow, I wish I knew as much as Sneaky about this topic. I mean hes lvl 20 and everything, he must know what he was talking about. I've only been a Paladin since the beta.

To be fair, playing prot against rogues and die hard kitty druids is really fun.

Sarcasm and hilarity aside, we aren't trying to be small minded here, we speak from experience.

A prot pally works off of "reactive damage". You may already know this, but I'll explain. When someone hits you with a melee attack, they automatically get hit with damage back. You won't see the majority of this dmg until you're level 40, but that's the way prot pallies work.

Now if you're in a big AV group and there are tons of people everywhere and a rogue starts bashing on you and they notice your health isn't moving and theirs is going down with each strike; a smart Rogue won't continue killing themselves on you. They go find a warlock to kill. Like I said previously, some people will let you "tank them" in PvP, but the smart ones won't.

Second, in every piece of Arena or HWL gear there is ZERO peices of gear for prot pallies as far as armor goes. Take a look at this:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/items/armorsets/

There is a set for Healing, Ret and Shockadin Pallies. Nothing for prot. Bear druids, prot pallies and prot warriors don't have much place in PvP.

Lastly, as a prot pally you're very vulnerable to magic. At 70, anyone who uses spells(unless they're completely horrible at PvP) will be able to beat you. When hit with melee, we do tons of dmg back, but when hit with spells we do ZERO dmg back. We lack movement, stuns, interrupts, silences, active dmg or anything that lets you pwn a caster. Killing a caster in a 1v1 fight is an uphill battle that ends with their wand up your pootooty.

We don't say this to discourage you(not that much anywayz), and we don't say this because we don't know any better. We say this because we know, and have been through the hoops.

Edited, Dec 29th 2007 3:59pm by TacticalRage

Sneaky, you're starting to get really cocky and immature for no good reason. Stop bumping your own posts, it's not funny and people like me don't and won't ever appreciate it, if we read your posts and don't reply, there's a reason for it.

People don't like being badmouthed. Grow up and learn something called sarcasm.

Edited, Dec 29th 2007 5:12pm by ShinnAsuka

I'm talking about in general. Your other post with the title "Awesome PvP Story", you keep bumping it, even with posts just saying "bump". Just because you have reached the 'Scholar' karma status doesn't mean you run the boards.

Here's another example:





You posted twice back to back, which means you are intentionally bumping your own thread. Once again, an annoying thing to do.



I should grow up? You're telling me to grow up meanwhile Sneaky is going around acting immature and bumping his own posts? Are you really going to try defending this guy?

Prot pallies have no place in PVP, unless they are in AV then I love them. But really even I have tanked Galv in my healing set.

I did run into a PvP Prot Pally in Arena though. I let him hit me for 2 minutes and cast one Holy Light on myself and was topped back off. He gave up.

All you really need is a shield spike (on a shield of course). Everything else is Sta, Str, Agi, and Int <constantly switching seals is a bit annoying>. But honestly, I didn't find the stats to be all that important as a prot in Azeroth.

Edited, Dec 29th 2007 8:38pm by ShinnAsuka