some guidance please?Follow

I'm somewhat slowly working on my paladin, inbetween having too much fun with my hunter usually.
Currently I'm questing in Feralas, mostly because I skipped that zone while leveling the hunter. I'm almost 43 now, and looking for some guidance on how to push things a bit quicker. I'm a ret spec right now, and can take 2 mobs3-4 levels higher than me most of the time, but I've read here that AOE'ing mobs would be a better method (combined with questing). For my current level range, what would be a better spec to change to for something like this?

Heres my armory link for your viewing pleasure: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Dalvengyr&n=T%C3%A9q


I'm thinking I'd eventually like to be a tank for end game.

I don't think you need to spec prot till you hit outlands, you will probably level fastest as retri and outlands is a bit of a "reset button" on your character, so you may as well get there asap. Once you are in outland you'll get good enough solo gear to solo as prot and in between you should try and tank as many instances as you can to learn your trade, regular instances in the 60-69 range are very forgiving, but once you reach 70 people will expect you do know what you are doing, which you wouldn't if you went retri all the way to 70.

Being a melee class I would recommend leaving outland till you hit lvl 59, I did that when I levelled my first character (my pally) and did fine, but about a year later I hit outland with my feral druid and despite being much wiser in the ways of wow I suffered quite badly till I got to 59, I think ranged classes have a much easier time of it.

Edited, May 29th 2008 8:03pm by Tinyknight

I have done 6 different class chars through Hellfire to 70. At this point I would go there starting at about level 56 instead of staying in Winterspring/?? doing 57-59 mobs. Just get a port to Shatt, set your hearth there, fly to Hellfire and start getting double exp for about the same HP mobs. Easy single pulls, nice green drops. Just don't try it solo as a healing spec. I found melee was easier than caster as the spell resists seemed more annoying (3 level difference) than the melee miss increase though that is just my opinion. Feral druid, combat rogue, demo/aff lock, BM hunter all very easy. Sh priest and enh shaman seemed tougher but not bad. Ret pally should be fine though watch the pulls.

This was discussed at length on the main forum a couple weeks ago. It was quite angry so I'm not going to search it out, but the bottom line was clear.

Actual experience shows that Outland mobs provide infinitesimally more XP than mobs in WPL/EPL/Winterspring. In the absence of quest rewards, you'll level faster in Azeroth.

id go ret 1-70 if i were you unless you plan to grind, in which case prot is better.

what's faster? i dunno anymore, all i know is i can stand grinding for 10 minutes max.