The Fate-Cyntex Alliance Guild Forums - Paladin FAQ/TIPS

Tier 8 Paladin preview! (1 reply)

Anonymous User — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:33:26 -0600

My Ret Spec (1 reply)

Itovi — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:48:51 -0600

I have been using a 0/10/61 build lately.

0/10/61 talent spec

I like it but im not sure if it cant be fine tuned a bit. What do you guys think?

I hope that link works. if not its the same as.

[www.wowhead.com]

Joharis

Ret receives onslaught of nerfs again (3 replies)

Gokumusprime — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:01:55 -0500

[www.worldofraids.com]

Sorry guys but it seems with too much power, comes too much responsibility that Blizzard does not want to have with deaths of many players by Paladins.

Paladin's Destructive Force being nerfed already (3 replies)

Gokumusprime — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:02:11 -0500

Yes, it's true. The Paladin is slightly getting nerfed already in Burst damage on live servers. :(

healing macros (no replies)

Coralon — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:38:02 -0500

I use a combination of the Raid frames from X-Perl and set up my healing etc. with simple macros for quick and easy healing. (I hate healbot)

/cast [target=mouseover] Flash of Light

With this, you just put your mouse over someone's name in the raid frames and use your key for your spell to cast it. It's very fast, and very effective.

Coralon

(my pally is Greengold)

Notice to ALL Paladins. (no replies)

Anonymous User — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:40:42 -0500

As a formal request I would like to suggest that ALL paladins get the AddOn PallyPower.

This AddOn allows the head paladin for that raid to set-up blessings easily and efficiently without having to take up time in raid chat or in vent.

If you have any questions about the AddOn feel free to ask Menander and I will attempt to help you out to the best of my ability.

Avoidance/Crushability Macro (no replies)

Alathor — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:32:51 -0500

Use this to determine your crushability

/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Need 102.4 combined avoidance. Currently at:",0.8,0.8,1)
/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(GetDodgeChance()+GetBlockChance() + GetParryChance() +5+(GetCombatRatingBonus(CR_DEFENSE_SKILL) + 20)*0.04,1,0.5,0)

This assumes you have full talent points into Anticipation also ( for the +20 def )

Taunt Macro (4 replies)

Anonymous User — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:59:11 -0500

#showtooltip Righteous Defense
/cast [help, nodead] Righteous Defense; [target=targettarget, help, nodead] Righteous Defense

MUST READ FOR TANKS (1 reply)

Anonymous User — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:16:36 -0600

i posted a great site on tanking on the warrior FAQ page since thats where all the real tanks are anyway. lol j/k but it has great info for ALL tanks pallies and druids so check it out

How to: Build a Tankadin (1 reply)

Anonymous User — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:34:59 -0600

Alright I've been looking over other protection paladins specs and gear within this guild. From what I've seen make me feel most are close but still a bit off with their gear and their talents are close as well.

Most people know for tanking you need Health, Defense skill and Spell damage. These are the three main areas to increase to help maximize your tanking. After spell damage you are looking to increase your specific defense skills (mostly looking at blocking), Intellect, then Mana per 5 seconds and Strength are tied. But when When socketing don't just lock in on just stamina. I advise for blue sockets just going with the Solid Star of Elune (+12 Stamina). For the Yellow Sockets I would recommend the Enduring Talasite (+4 Defense and +6 Stamina). While for The Red sockets I suggest the Glowing Nightseye (+5 Spell damage and +6 Stamina). and for enchants I tend to lean more towards Stamina or Defense skills.

Now on to Talents. I have come the find that there are about 46 'Must have' talent points in The protection tree. They are as followed.

Redoubt (5/5), Toughness (5/5), Anticipation (5/5), Shield Specialization (3/3), Improved Righteous Fury (3/3), Blessing of Kings (1/1), Blessing of Sanctuary (1/1), Spell Warding (2/2), Sacred Duty (2/2), One-Handed Weapon Specialization (5/5), Ardent Defender (5/5), Holy Shield (1/1), Improved Holy shield (2/2), Combat Expertise (5/5), Avenger Shield (1/1).

After these 46 point it comes down to which way you want to hold aggression. First is the way is with Seal of command. This is an effective way BUT seal of Command is a proc attack meaning there are times when just your normal damage is doing the hate holding (This can cause problems). If you go that route you'll also will need to add Attack power into your Stats that you'll want to increase. With this path I would recommend Benediction (5/5) with Improved judgement (2/2) and Improved Seal of the Crusader (3/3). And then Seal of Command (1/1) This leaves 4 points left over I would recommend either Reckoning (4/5) or Conviction (4/5). There is Deflection (4/5) which can be helpful as a help for a lack of defense skill.

Then there is the path I took With Improved Seal of Righteousness. For This I recommend Divine Intellect (5/5) and then Improved Seal of Righteousness (5/5). Now you'll have 5 points left over really you can put these 5 point where ever you want. I though would recommend Precision (3/3) Benediction (5/5) again is a nice talent. There is Stoicism (2/2) and Unyielding Faith (2/2) both are helpful.

You keep hearing that the Bread and butter of a Tankadin is Them being hit. That is a misconception. True that paladins build hate from using Blessing of Sanctuary, holy shield and Retribution aura. But that isn't the how story for a Paladin tank more so about 50% of it. First thing you need to understand there is two types of tanking. Aoe/Speed tanking This is where the The pally needs to be hit theory comes from. Speed tanking allows a paladin to rush a group through an instance. But the other theory of paladin tanking is bash Tanking. This is primarily done for tougher fights. mostly meaning bosses or upper heroic instances. This requires the use of Devotion Aura, True at this point most tanks that will only add about .5% damage reduction but still at that point you are being hit for 4K+ so reducing a hit by 25 damage does help the healer. With this tanking style group needs to have the paladin as the Main assist. And you'll just use Consecration and Judgement of Righteousness and judge Crusader to improve you holy damage you are dealing. To give yourself a boost in the Threat use Avenging Wrath After you have Judgement of the Crusader applied to the monster.

I hope this will allow other Protection paladins to become better tanks.

Paladin Tanking (3 replies)

Anonymous User — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:14:40 -0600

Holy Pally Basics (no replies)

Anonymous User — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:08:02 -0500

Basically when you are starting off as a holy pally, the three basic things you need is...

Stamina

Healing

Intellect

prot pally guides (no replies)

SerManley — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:43:11 -0500

We have many pallies up and coming, some prot some not, but it got me interested heres some great info I found. The second link is shorter and should be read first. Too bad i found this one first, LOL, blah.

[forums.worldofwarcraft.com]

has all info about talents, stats, spells, weapons and basically all you need to know, a long read but youll be a prot pro afterwards. Skip the parts you dont need to know if its too long.

This is just about prot pallies, not about gear and everything else, much shorter, MUST READ for prot pallies.

[forums.worldofwarcraft.com]