Insane threat leadFollow

I will say that I am only level 78, and I have only done about 5 of the instances in Northrend so far. However, I assume that my experiences so far won't really change a whole lot once I hit 80 until I get into heroics/raids/difficult content.

Most Paladin Librams now seem to be ones that give a crit bonus after a successful judgement. I believe that mine raises my crit rating by 61 for 5 seconds after a judgement (that does not miss).

In order to build a huge threat lead, I am finding that rather than throwing my shield and allowing the mobs to come to me, in MOST situations, I am putting up HS, running up close enough to judge wisdom on the main target, AS'ing the main mob and 2 others right in their faces, using HoR, SoR slam the main target, and consecrate. This takes less than 10 seconds, and everything I do after the judgement (except the consecrate which is outside of the 5-second window because of GCDs) has a higher chance to crit because of my libram.

Just by doing this opening rotation I have such a huge threat lead that the DPS has no chance to pull anything off of me unless they are DPS'ing targets which I haven't even marked.

The bad part of this is in many cases I have gotten out of the habit of marking targets alltogether or I might only mark the one target that I know I want to see go down first. I realize that soon I will probably have to get back into better habits, but for now it works fine.

The exception to this is if there are several groups of mobs in relatively close proximity and I don't want to chain-aggro everything by getting too close. In that case, I will still throw my shield and wait for one pack of mobs to come to me.

Edited, Dec 4th 2008 2:10pm by jeromesimina

Trust me it only gets better, once you hit 80, I started running straight heroics. It won't matter which target your party is attacking. I open with AS, consecrate, put HS up and just let go with all the other instant casts. Hell judging on mobs is almost not happening with me anymore. I have been with mages, hunters doing over 2500 dps and they can't even come close to stealing my threat. I like the improvements for tanking pallies, not so much on keeping up with warriors for health, but hey what else can we do.

I'm also finding that my opener stacks an enormous amount of threat. (I'm glad I saw this thread though...going to run as many heroics as I can over the weekend and I was unaware of the new librams until now). My block value is low compared to some others here...currently around 750 or so, but that Libram makes me drool.

I peaked out at about 4.7k tps on Loken tonight in reg Halls of Lightning (and he dropped the trinket ;D). Group was me, 3 guildie dps, and a PUG healer who was simply fantastic so I started the fight with AW and just went bawls out...it was great fun.

That was my second HoL run for the evening. My first HoL run, I came out at 950 dps on the run having done 36% of the group's overall damage for the run. Unfortunately, I forgot to reset the damage meter before the second run, but I'm astounded at how deadly protadins are.

It makes me look forward to the upcoming pally changes. Putting AW on a 30 second cooldown with Divine Shield means I can start more boss fights with an enormous threat lead and still have an ******* button 30 seconds later if I need it.

Not bad. I haven't been under 1200 dps for any dungeon since I got SotR. Of course I run with a more dps oriented spec as i'll be maxing out crusade in 700k more xp. Only been out dpsed once in running 15+ instances up to and including HoL(trinket dropped for me too). Nothing like carrying a grp of 80s at lvl 78 thru HoL and beating them all in damage done, good thing the healer was decent because i have no idea how a lvl 80 mage does only 800dps.

Actually perhaps I should stop posting late in the evening, I miss the obvious. Apologies to you Losie. My quoted figures are solo unbuffed figures without Libram of Obstruction up. I'd falsely assumed you were quoting a 2k block value from gear unbuffed. I'll take a look at my stats after tonight's raid to see how I'm comparing in full raid buffs, though with it being the Four Horseman first up I'll probably spend more time crying than checking stats ;P