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We figure it might be fun to run a pair of Paladin's as high as we can before we tear out our hair. Anyway, tha main reason I'm here is because she is undecided on which tree to go down. I plan on leveling protection so that I can be the tank of our little tank duo. She is unsure if she wants to do healing or retribution. More damage and better heals are both nice sounding options. She has no Allakhazam account so here I am to ask for her. Which do you think would work better with a Prot. Paladin?
Early on you're better off with ret so she can actually do some decent damage and finish up your quests better.
However, once prot starts coming into its own and you can really start AoEing/Tanking stuff and whatnot a healer would be ideal. If you have a healer with you you can wipe out entire camps in single pulls, as well as when you decide to do instances you just have to find 3 DPS and you're good to go.
But the final thing is, while a prot pally and a healer would mesh really well together, she should just choose whatever seems more enjoyable, and don't be afraid to respec and play around with it.
And finally, always always carry multiple gear sets, you'll never know when you want to change your play style.
However, once prot starts coming into its own and you can really start AoEing/Tanking stuff and whatnot a healer would be ideal. If you have a healer with you you can wipe out entire camps in single pulls, as well as when you decide to do instances you just have to find 3 DPS and you're good to go.
But the final thing is, while a prot pally and a healer would mesh really well together, she should just choose whatever seems more enjoyable, and don't be afraid to respec and play around with it.
And finally, always always carry multiple gear sets, you'll never know when you want to change your play style.
Thanks for the advice. What she finds enjoyable is both really. She plays classes from every spectrum from tank to dps to healer so she had no real opinion on healer vs dps for her Paladin, she just wanted to know what would mesh better.
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Paladin healing is the most boring healing class in the game. Flash of light, Holy light... It's efficient and easy but gets pretty boring after a while.
I've been soloing my first paladin as retribution spec. In the early levels, with two of you, healing/damage mitigation really wouldn't be an issue if you were both ret specced. The mobs will be dead long before they can hurt you. When the mobs start getting tougher, well, by that point you'll have so much crowd control (repentance*2 for humanoids, hammer of justice*2 for anything, seal of justice) you should breeze through whole camps of mobs.
Of course, specializing one paladin as protection, and the other as holy or ret could be fun too. I haven't tried a prot build yet, but i've heard AoE grinding is a whole lotta fun!
A fun advantage of having a holy and a prot paladin is that you have the essentials of a good 5 man group already. Just grab 3 dps, and you can blast through any instance. With all the practice in your given healer/tank role, you'll be amazing the pick up members by how pro you are!
Of course, specializing one paladin as protection, and the other as holy or ret could be fun too. I haven't tried a prot build yet, but i've heard AoE grinding is a whole lotta fun!
A fun advantage of having a holy and a prot paladin is that you have the essentials of a good 5 man group already. Just grab 3 dps, and you can blast through any instance. With all the practice in your given healer/tank role, you'll be amazing the pick up members by how pro you are!
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Paladin healing is the most boring healing class in the game. Flash of light, Holy light... It's efficient and easy but gets pretty boring after a while.
If you find being a Holy Paladin boring then you're doing the thing all wrong. Holy Paladin is more than Flash of Light/Holy Light. Its Cleansing debuffs, its throwing a blessing of protection on DPS that can't hold back. Its giving your party/raid members some of the best buffs in the game. Its resisting the urge to punch out the tank who blames you when he dies because he came to Heroic MgT completely undergeared.
But to the OP. Id say both of you go Ret until 35 and then you switch to Prot and your fiancee can decide if she wishes to stay Ret or switch to Holy. Unfortunately there is not much good plate healing gear at 40 so she might find herself wearing lesser armor pieces to boost her stats. But as an above poster had said, with you choosing to go Prot and if she decides to go Holy all you would need to find are 3 DPS which is quite easy to find in most cases.
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Well yea, the whole blessing of protection stuff... but how often do you actually use it? I meant to imply that there is a lack of variety when healing. For example, when you're using a priest or a druid, you have multiple spells that you can use... HoTs and direct heals whereas paladins, you don't really have much of a choice. It's either a big heal, or a fast tiny one. Sorry if I was misleading :p
Flash of light isn't really tiny though, if you throw blessing of light on the tank, flash should heal a decent amount. Holy light is more of a gigantic nuke heal, i don't use it very often. Of course i'm only in my 50's, instances haven't really been very challenging as a healer.
It *would* be useful to have a HoT though, a great way to start a tough fight. Maybe in the expansion, who knows. You could always roll draenei, but gift of the naaru is insignifigant. Free though, which is nice.
It *would* be useful to have a HoT though, a great way to start a tough fight. Maybe in the expansion, who knows. You could always roll draenei, but gift of the naaru is insignifigant. Free though, which is nice.
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