Tanking Pally ?Follow

Ok I'm coming to source of knowlegde for pally. My son love to brag. He has a tanking 70 pally and like to pretend that he unbeatable and I know this not true but I am not sure which classes would give him hard time. Before I argue with him just want to have my facts correct. so I was hoping somebody could tell which classes would be hard for him to beat?

I would wager that pally Prot is the absolute worst PvP spec in the game. A skilled almost anything should be able to kill a prot pally 1v1, except MAYBE rogues and DW wars.

Priest - Mana Burn
Lock - DOT, DOT, DOT Fear "I win Button"
Hunter - Trap, Dispel all buffs, destroy


My prot paly always had trouble with those classes.

Thank for advises

I know rogue don't do good against tanking pally I seen my son beat a rogue that out gear he 4 duels to 1

A good Rogue won't lose to a Protection Paladin. It's very easy to just keep moving back and forth to and from the Paladin and getting the openers again and again until he is dead. A rogue that just stands there and tries to go toe to toe with the Paladin, yeah, he'll die from the Shield charges.

Its actually a lot harder for rogues to beat prot pallys now that we have HotR(that procs SoV on hit) and near infinite maana because of BoSanc procs due to them dw'ing. If you spec'ed 30sec stuns, you should win every time.



PvP prot spec isn't too bad atm, been in a couple bgs where i've lead kills and damage. I just wear a mix of pve tank gear and pvp ret gear, somewhere in the 450def/100res range. With a couple buffs i'm around 2k ap and 16k hp which is pretty good dam for HotR. Best thing to do is not to try and solo anything(except other melee), stay with a grp, preferably one with a healer. In general try to go with offensive grps as many times opposing defenders don't have time to recognize that you're not ret until its too late. As most of our damage abilities are AoE, try and make sure you hit 2-3 players whenever you can. Judge justice on kiters to help out other dps with you, nothing better than making sure a resto druid can't run away:) But like any melee class you can be focused down stupidly easily if multiple range target you.

One of the bigger liabilities as prot spec is that you won't be able to solo any healer. You can burst them down the last 20% if you have all you cds and enough mana to use them all, but in general you want to focus on doing as much dam to opposing dps, esp other melee.

Prot Pally is a LOT better in PvP than it was before the patch. We still have 0 resilience unless we mix gear as another poster stated, but we put out a lot more damage than we used to and and have even better ability to survive. The best way to beat a Prot Paladin is to drain his mana any way you can. Rogues used to be the bane of the Prot Paladin, but now if they have equal gear it is a fair fight since the Paladin can get out of stunlocks pretty easily with several different tricks now.

Warlocks are still tough, and shadow priests and hunters can be annoying, though they are beatable.

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Yeah, a good hunter should be able to dispel your buffs and effectively kite you to death. Yeah, there will be a "bubble+Heals" and the fight shouldn't be a zerg them to death fight, but without an ability to make up the distance - unless the hunter is a huntard - they *Should* be able to beat a protection paly. Now a Ret paly should have the burst damage to get the hunter on the ground, but a prot paly just don't have that kinda damage. Is it an impossible fight? - No. But it is one that the hunter should win.

Well, I'm a prot pally... and I can beat anything except a healer. I can even beat locks if they're dumb enough to not use Felhunter.

Case in point; I was attacked by an enhance shaman, a ret paladin and a rogue the other day and beat all 3, then ate and drank and stood up ready to beat them all again. Granted, they were crap, but Prot is not to be messed with by the unwary any more.