Spec Question (I know...I'm sorry)Follow

First off, so there are no illusions, quoted from the FAQ



I've only ever play prot. Started and lvled prot. That be said, here is a prot build for aoe tanking.

Reckoning being the key one here. Holy Shield too. It allows you to refresh and recharge faster with mulit mob pulls(Reckoning)and add more damage to when they hit you(Holy Shield).

For tanking instances and such see my pally.

I think that my build also works well for aoe grinding as I've really had no problems since I've ditched Reckoning. But try it as you build up. I hate casters as they stay put where as other mobs follow me around to hit me.

You'll get it.

Ok, sorry if i didn't make my delimma clear.

What I am looking for are:

1. A link to a leveling prot build.
2. A link to a leveling Ret build.
3. A list of what talents to AVOID in all 3 trees, just for reference.
4. A list of "must have" talents in all 3 trees, just for (future) reference.

I hope this makes my needs a little more clear.

I read through the Pally 101 guide, and he does an awesome job, but his section on talent builds is all for endgame only. I need a "leveling build". =)

Thanks in advance for any insights people will undoubtedly have.

Cheers

http://www.wowwiki.com/Paladin_builds

Should help, since you are 33 you almost have the aoe talents to allow you to try both, reckoning is fully filled at 35 and your basis for the AOE grind and prot in general until you get to end game and decide what you want to do.



lol

Ret build looks good, only thing with the prot I would forgo the concentration aura as you will primarily always have ret aura up, and blessing of kings is a filler talent towards the end, to me at least, as you will be using blessing of sanctuary mostly. Is great to have the buff for grouping and such, but I think right now to level, the points could be better spent in reckoning and grab that later on down the line.

To OP, the link I provided gives you a detailed breakdown on pretty much everything and how each one works, so you can decide based on your playstyle as I doubt we can keep coming back to provide the next talent, and the next and the next.

If you do go ret, once you get the talents to sanc aura and seal of command I would take divine intellect and spiritual focus in the holy tree, helps if things get out of hand and you can heal with almost no interrupt with a couple mobs hitting on you, which is probably why the other poster added conc aura, and the extra intellect will help in terms of your judgements and avoiding OOM issues which the ret tree can consumer quite a bit.

Rate up as I remember that discussion and a good one.

I think the wiki links I provided might detail that as well, not entirely certain

Great guys. Thx alot, those were all very helpful.

Specifically:

thx for the wowwiki link, i found the info there most helpful, ironically, i had found it just before checking for responses here... but very helpful none the less.

And an "es-specialle" thx to the link to the talents to avoid post, if i knew how ro rate up stuff, i would give both you and some of the posters in that thread all the points I could. =)

Cheers

Edited, Feb 7th 2008 1:06pm by voydangel

I did mention it. And the reason I still had these questions is because, as absolutely wonderful and helpful as that FAQ is, it doesn't mention "leveling builds" as far as I can see. It goes into great detail about "end game builds" and has a nice little "what other talents are there?" section. But it fails to talk about builds specifically for leveling. And often, the case is that talent points are spent differently while leveling than when you hit 70 - hence my inquiry.

Regardless, I'd still like to thank everyone (including the poster of the pally FAQ) for their help and input, such as it was.