Learning to tank - Plz go easy...Follow

to above post. Personally, I really do not believe that pally tanking shines until 70 level content. To be honest, spell damage plate gear doesn't even start dropping till u hit outlands.

When i rolled a pally tank, I rolled it cuz i thought it would be cool to 1 pull the ship in deadmines or the SM armory or stockades etc. honestly, any 70 could do that probably. It takes much more focus to become an effective tank tho.


Gearing/speccing for that and for regular tanking in higher level content is much different. at lower levels, righteous fury and salv on dps is more than enough to help u hold aggro. i think blessing of sanctuary is actually a better choice for those lower level instances as well. Until 10% more life becomes a necessity.

to answer your question since i have strayed, i dont think B of crusader is worth it. if you are leveling in prot spec, might as well stick to that talent tree or get up to Seal of Command in ret tree just in case u decide its faster to kill mobs with a 2hander imo.

Although, every level has an area where u can easily farm multiple melee mobs ^^

Quoted cause, well, I liked it :) Going into a place like the Armory of SM it takes me longer to loot the bodies then it does to run to the end of the instance and kill everything all at once. Bout a 10-15 minute run or so with looting.

And I agree about it taking more focus to effectively tank. Not mass genocide on a lowbie instance, but actual tanking. It may be easier than with a Warrior or Druid because we have fewer buttons to worry about, and don't have to cycle our targets, but it still requires focus and knowledge.

To the last post by the OP: by "B of Crusader" do you mean "Seal of the Crusader"? In that case, I would say it depends. Most of the time you probably wont' need to use it at all at those low levels, and this is even without having Holy Shield yet.

I am leveling a new Paladin on another realm, and got to go tank in BFD. I was 5-6 levels lower then 2 of the DPS we brought (the third being my gf's Shaman who I am leveling beside) and I never lost aggro once just putting up Seal of Righteousness and Consecrating. I don't have Blessing of Salvation yet either, and since I'm leveling Ret, I don't have Improved Righteous Fury.

So to sum up: Ret spec, using 1H+shield and SoR, no JotC, lower level then DPS, held aggro more than sufficiently.

If you find DPS IS pulling off you, won't hurt to try using JotC, but you shouldn't really need it yet.