WotLK Paladin FAQFollow

changed. ty. and yes, i'm biased towards pally healers too lol.



by itself this may not seem super useful, but this combined with holy's talented pushback reduction = uninterruptable heals and since most other healing classes have some sort of pushback talents too this can allow most healers to have uninterruptible heals. The Silence reduction is obviously useful too. I love it in fights like the bear form of the bear boss in ZA. for a Holy pally in a 5 man you can choose which aura makes most sense (untalented none of the auras are very imporessive - devo aura is still weak baseline, and ret aura baseline is unnecessary now since all tanks have good aoe threat already). If you are in an instance with no silence and you are confident that your tank will keep all aggro off of you you can put of whichever of the other aura's you feel best. However, this aura is useful and worth improving. Especially for 25mans where you will likely have a prot pally for the improved Devotion Aura and a ret pally or 2 for the improvements to Retribution aura. for now i'll leave it as is in the FAQ and leave it up to either the holy FAQ to extrapolate or the healers discretion what to use.



with a 16 min cooldown this IS still an oh #&$^ button like a warrior or prot pally's shield wall/divine protection or a rogues vanish. Yes the cooldown is short enough now that it can be used much more freely, but it is still an emergency button. for now i will leave this as it is. a 16 min cooldown isn't a normal part of your healing cycle. i might at a later point consider elaborating on it though, but i think that again belongs more in the holy FAQ. unless i am mistaken this FAQ shouldn't be telling you completely how to do your job, but to give you a general overview of the paladin class.



um, i will go back and look at this. i think for now i'll leave the longer descriptions of how to heal to the holy FAQ, but i will try to make sure what i'm writing here isn't giving bad advice. I personally do use BoL on many different people dependong on the situation. 5 mans it goes on the tank for sure. 10 mans with 2 healers i often actually put it on the other healer if they are a priest because i've seen too many of them go down fast and this way they stay topped off all the time and i am less likely to have to work overtime as the only healer. ;) 25 mans i have used it on one tank while i heal another tank that will be taking more damage. I have also used it on a rogue to make sure he stays alive for interrupts, myself so i never have to worry about me, and several other uses. I figure out when to use BoL for every fight. I don't think this FAQ is the place to give a lesson on using BoL, and it is true that most of the time you won't go wrong to have BoL on your tank (or one of your tanks). I will take another look though either way. And last thing, i don't think BoL has too high a mana cost. I barely notice when i cast it to be honest. I've cast it a few times changing targets in one fight and not had it have a huge effect on my mana pool. also you say not to put it on your main tank. I find that sometimes my main tank is so well geared he isn't taking damage and the OT (at least on trash pulls) is taking more damage so i will put BoL on the MT and keep him up easily by healing the OT.



agreed. i'll go make this more strongly stated. it is a requirement for pallies in my guild lol.

One thing I would want to add is that you should probably make a clear distinction in the Retribution section between DPS-ing in five-man parties and DPS-ing in raids. In five-man parties, a good Retribution Paladin will put all his tools to use: off-healing with AoW procs, shielding, Cleansing, etc. In raids, a Retribution Paladin really should be focused 110% on his DPS. Even the mana you could spend on heals from AoW procs is simply better saved for DPS while the healers are trusted to do their jobs, and shielding might do more harm than good depending on where the aggro ends up.

I realize that all of the above is really no longer true with regards to current raids after the nerf, but at 80 that will likely again be the case for progression past Naxx.

True. And if HL crits too.....woo wee. It's a biggie :) Plus, you get some instant and upfront healing. Keeps you from those times where you are having a race between your casting bar and the target's health.

so, did anyone have any further ideas for this? it's been up for nearly a month and no comments and not stickied. if there's anything missing or that should be changed pls let me know.

I have a question about leveling ret, do you use Wisdom or Might?

I leveled to 70 a while back before all the ret changes which made it awesome. And just yesterday I decided to dust off my pally and level again.

First I'll say, leveling is indeed better then it was. But I was a prot pally at 70, with a little time spent as holy. I was only 70 a few months where I tanked alot, I managed to pick up a mediocre ret set to quest to 80 with, but it's not much.

I really don't feel like I have "endless mana" as ret. I use my instants every cooldown, grind with SoB and wind up healing myself a fair bit and running low on mana every 10-15 mobs. This might not seem bad, it's better then it was before, but compared to my feral druid or enhance shaman who *never* have to drink I'm just wondering if maybe I should use wisdom instead of might.

Very nice start for the new FAQ.


Under key spells don't forget Avenging Wrath.

[quoet]Divine Storm
-Hits up to 4 targets around you for your melee weapon damage as physical damage and heals up to 3 people in your party or raid for a total of 25% of the total damage done. 10 second cooldown.
[/quote]

Divine storm is the 51 point talent in retribution.



If demon or undead holy Wrath can be used also. Otherwise hammer of the righteous works on all targets.



With Judgements of the Pure, some additional haste and at least 30% critical strike mp5 will be outclassed with mana return from illumination.

Kudos to you sir.

ok, updated to 3.2.2 as best I can tell. If I missed anything or got anything wrong, please let me know.