made the jump to prot (level 41)Follow

Prot is freaking awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Taking on 5-6 mobs my same level is so much fun. I tried the AOE grind with my mage, didn't like it, but this is fun with a pally. I do miss seeing the big OMFG numbers pop up on my screen when I get a huge crit, but this is awesome.

Before I use to be calculated on my pulls trying to only get 1-2 at a time, now I just rush in and say, "na na na na na na, you can't hurt me"

People still grind in this game? Because i have found prot questing to be completely horrible. If you are grinding i guess it would work. Questing is so much more efficient now that every quest gives a crap ton more XP than it used to. And there are more quests entirely.

But ive been trying to finish my netherstorm quests as prot and its ridiculous. The only good thing i can say about it is if a melee class tries to gank me they will join my arc of dead bodies without me really noticing much.

oh I'm not grinding, but I'm quest AOE'ing. For instance, I needed 4 buzzard wings, which has a horrid drop rate. Collected 5-6 buzzards and with 2 pulls had my objective filled.

I totally agree with the new xp/quest, questing is best for leveling.

well I am still a prot newb, but I'd say level 40 so you can use your mount to round up the mobs and be able to use holy shield.

Well, I decided to flip over last night, so I put a thorium shield spike on that Pit Fighter's Shield and went as deep into Prot as I could. I'll have to wait a level for HS.

Decided to do the North Point Tower quest in Dustwallow, and I could hold three mobs well, but a fourth put the hurt on me and made me DP and heal. I found that with 2-3, it was actually a little better for me to Judge SoL and then put on SoW, so I could regen both. Maybe I'm doing something wrong...

Now, maybe I'm crazy, but was I proccing JoLs and SoWs on my shield spike and retribution aura? If so, would I benefit more from a slow 1h to get more top-end damage out of it and forget about proccing as much, or should I keep my nice quick 1.50 sword to maximize Reckoning hits?

Edited, Feb 14th 2008 9:47am by TheEngine

I'm not having the same experince and I think it's largely because my gear is horrible, I haven't done an instance since stocks.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Thrall&n=Nicthadragon

Basically I cast JoL gather up mobs like let's say 4 troll warriors or some axe throwers (but close enough that they attack me). Back up against a wall or make sure no one is behind me. Throw up Holy Shield, lay down a consecrate and make sure I keep Holy Shield up (over consecrate). When the first mob dies I judge JoL then cast JoW.

Typically I end up casting divine shield casting a heal and sometimes I've had to Lay on Hands.

This is what I have been doing. Have your ret aura on, blessing of sanctuary and your improved righteous fury. Mount up and collect 4-5 mobs around your level up to 2 levels higher. Judge a seal of wisdom on one mob and cast seal of light. Then just auto attack and you can use a holy shield if you like (I do). When you get that one mob down to ~10-15% health, swith to another target, judge seal of wisdom, cast seal of light and repeat.

You actually don't want the first mob to die too soon, becuase his beating on you can proc other things for you (like redoubt and reckoning)

That has been working well for me, I haven't played around too much yet on the different seals/judgements.


oh ya, this is my armory nothing special and I'm able to AOE them:

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Hydraxis&n=Zepally

Edited, Feb 14th 2008 12:19pm by zebug

My tankadin would be theoretically invincible - were it not for caster mobs.

We really need some kind of spell defence going on down nhah.

There was quite a discussion about this some time back, and the optimal weapon speed for reckoning is between 2 and 2.2. So I generally like to find a weapon somewhere in that range. Anything slower and you're more than likely going to waste at least one charge of reckoning, and with something faster, you don't get as much oomph out of those extra swings.

If you want to look at the discussion, it's somewhere back on page 34 or 35.

I'm not sure if I'm missing something in the script or what, but I judge all my mobs. Pull 5, judge 5 and use tab to cycle through them to refreash the judgement. This is why there is no down time.... but maybe a bandage.

I may be missing something, but why would you judge 5 different mobs, don't the judgements only proc if you attack that mob. So if you have 5 judgements running on 5 mobs the only one doing anything is the one you are beating on.

I'm with you 570%. I don't think I've "grinded" since FFXI... and grinding was the reason I left, just got to boring.

I've been having troubles in Netherstorm also >< one thing that comes to mind is when I had to quest in the cave under Manaforge Ara... figured "demons = cake walk" until the first fight. When they dropped 3+ mana bombs on me and drained all of my mana because I couldn't kill fast enough. There was no close-to-death times, but having to drink after EVERY fight was annoying...

Or in the cave under Manaforge Ultris; where the respawn rate is insane... and drove me nuts because I couldn't take 5 steps without fighting MOBs that had horrible drop tables >< nothing like spending 1hr+ to do a low-income quest -.-

An advantage though, I could solo alot of the elite quests (except the 5 mans).

...prot questing is NOT as fun as ret questing IMO.