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I have to disagree about Holy Shield. It should be up as often as possible when you have multiple mobs. It's one of the main reflective damage spells.

Kiragan

If you only want to use half of your abilities, sure. I prefer not to gimp myself, judge one seal and reseal with another.




No, not with single, non-elite mobs and not with casters. With single non-elites the mana cost is not worth the damage return. With casters, well, same thing.

It makes more sense when you say it like that.

Kiragan

Actually, I'm 56 at the moment, and I find that when I block, more often than not, if it's not an elite mob, I'll block all or almost all of the damage. And my gear really isn't that good (why bother, I figure, when I'm going to replace it all in 2 levels?)

Haven't ready all replies, skimmed through them. I noticed someone saying how he uses jol on a mob while being banged on by 6 in total and when that mob is near death switches to the next with a new jugdement. I would like to add my own thoughts to this as it might help.

The strength of aoe tanking lies in the many mobs hitting the paladin. Many talents and on hits could help the paladin out in mashing down the many mobs hitting them, however the effectiveness of all these skills/talents and such will drop with every mob that dies. Because there is on less mob hitting you. It would be far more effective to either have your group of mobs die at the same time or always be pulling new mobs to the group when one or more die.

So, what i do is pull 6 or so mobs. And use JoW on 1 of them and Seal SoW straight away (only using other seals if context allows), near the end of my seal when there is a decent amount of health on the targeted mob left, i switch to the next one with a large amount of health and judge wisdom and reseal it. And when that one is getting low on health or my seal needs a refresh i pick the next mob in the group. And this continues, i will pick my seals and judgements and targets in such a way that they will all lose health at almost similar speeds and they will drop dead relativly close to eachother timewize.

Some areas allow you to pull a group and while moving backwards and kiting the pulled group, you get to kill them and body pull (as pull) new ones, this will only work if you can keep your mana up.

My last tip would be to value Seal of Wisdom and Jo Wisdom over SoL and JoL. although SoL and JoL will most surely keep you alive, it will only do that.. keep you alive. Running out of mana will still mean certain death at some point. Keeping up your mana however will allow you to keep up your health (heal/uninterupted heal perhaps) and the use of all your other spells..

choosing one hand spec over holy shield for aoe grinding? hmmmmmm.