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What level are you? Generally you stop using Consecration (phase it out gradually) after you get Holy Shield. If you're in Outland, you probably shouldn't be Consecrating much at all unless you're taking BIG pulls.

lvl 55 right now not quite in outlands

hmm really i thought consec was the corner stone of this.. is salvation or kings better?

Use sanctuary since you do not need more HP from kings, losing the least amount per hit will keep you up longer. Dont use avengers shield, you will take a ton of damage while you do it since you cant block while casting. You can go on forever if you dont use consecration, but i generally gather up 8-10 or so and spam consecration, HS and use seal and judgment of light. Burn them down as fast as possible and just drink afterwards. Found it went faster than trying to just never stop.

I only judge wisdom, if i need the little health i would get from JoL then I'm in serious trouble. Basically you want to pull as many as you think you can handle, pick one and judge wisdom on it then use seal of wisdom so you have a pretty good chance of getting mana back every swing. Using BoSanc and Ret aura drop a consecrate to tag everything then if mana is an issue or you think you'll need to heal use a downranked consecrate and keep HS up. If you're getting really low on health, simply BoP or Divine Shield and bandage or if you have plenty of mana cast holy lightx2.

As to phasing out consecrate, I guess its a waste for anything less than 4 mobs once you hit decent lvl 70 gear, but anything more than that consecrate every time the cooldown is available. Obviously HS is better dam per mana but takes forever for a grp of mobs to kill themselves on it. I prefer to just burn em all down and drink for 20sec after the pull rather than have the pull take 2-3min longer.

Also want to stack a little Block value and block rating as well as keeping spell dam as high as you can. Often aoe grinding is done on lower lvl mobs so at lvl 70 i run with about 470def rating as lvl 68s still can't crit you at that def rating.
If you want to kill grps faster use your spell dam trinket cooldowns with your wings at the start. Shield spike also helps.

I switched to AoE grinding about 10 lvls ago (now i'm 60). I can easily take on 5-6 mobs my own level. 8-9 if they are a few levels lower. This is how i do it:

1. Gear up: gear of your own level with as much +stam/armor as possible. +spell dmg and defense are nice extra's.

2. spec right: exact talents are debatable but prot is the way to go

3. Ret aura
4. Imp Righteous Fury (6% dmg red)
5. Blessing of sactuary (this is a must)
6. Seal of Light
6. Mount, ride around and gather melee mobs.
7. judge seal of light
8. seal of light again
9. Holy shield (keep this up ALWAYS as long as you have 2 or more mobs)
10. Consecrate a few times
11. Switch to next mob (judge SoL) when first mob dies.
12. if health is ok, then put up Seal of wisdom
13. Conescrate if mana allows it.
14. judge wisdom on next mob
15. put op SoL / SoW
16 judge
17. ...

when things ge bad: bubble, heal heal, start again.

at first i underestimated the SoL and the judgement also but combined they have a good enough effect to keep you alive. Be easy on your mana (or you have to have only a few mobs on you, then you can burn yourself through). Make sure HS is up, don't be consecrating all the time if you have many mobs. Then you won't have mana to heal or put up your seal or HS.

just my 2c but it works for me ;-)


edit: and don't forget shield spikes!

Edited, May 29th 2008 9:35pm by Aesonus

Yeah that SH trinket will double your max pull amount. I pulled 46 zaxxis raiders at the Heap south of Area 52 the other day(I think that's all of em in the entire area). Just run around and drop rank 1 consecrate to keep em from running away, takes about 6-7min to round em all up, but its worth it to loot for 90sec after they're all dead:)