Hello Guys/Girls this is Csin from Bloodscalp (US). Today I am posting this amongst Pallies to discuss about the next WoW expansion Wrath of the Lich King (WotLK) and share ideas about your observation as well as sharing my own.
As many (if not all) of you already know, there are alot of discussions about the next expansion WotLK amongst many WoW players. Of all the major changes, the level 80 cap is probably the utmost topic of all. Currently, not all the talents and skill trees have not been announced for every class so it may be little bit too early for talking about which spec'd paladin will be the best to level up when WotLK is released but let`s get this going.
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The Topic of this post will be what spec should we choose to level up quickly until 80 when WotLK come out :)
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Question comes up here, every other class other than paladins got a pretty much an "obvious" leveling spec. See below.
Mage - Any should be fine
Hunter - Beast Master
Warrior - Arms / Fury
Priest - Shadow
Shaman - Elemental / Enhancement
Warlock - Demonology (?) they are sick anyway
Rogue - Never raised one...
For paladins there are alot of discussions about Holy vs. Retribution for leveling up [Based on TBC]
[Holy Paladin]
Those who vote for Holy Paladins, the ways of killing was same as shockadins other than the fact we dps less but last longer with great mana pool.
Pro: Decent amout of spell crit, great mana stability and of course nice healing which allows you to kill multiple mobs before drinking.
Con: Cannot really kill things "fast"
[Retribution Paladin]
Those who vote for Retribution Paladins, the critical and spike damage is amazing.
Pro: Very nice crit, huge spike damages allowing you to 2-3 shot mobs.
Con: Relie huge on gear i.e. with bad gear and luck, you could stay on one mob for over a minute. Also rather small mana pull making you drink quite often.
[Protection Paladin]
Those who vote for Protection Paladins to AoE mobs, GG that's for farming not leveling.
Pro: can take like 20 mobs at a time
Con: killing that 20 mob takes long time + you will drink right after. Also if you run out of mana ewww...+ WTB healer
Having full sets of each gear, it's difficult to decide which one of the two (ret vs holy) are better for leveling up. As a Holy spec i kill slower than Retribution but it ain`t much difference, but i drink less with Holy paladin.
Anyway let's share ideas :)
To be honest with everyone, I think they'll be lots and lots of people in the new areas after the exsansion so there will most likely be alot of ganking going on.
In my opinion I really don't think it will matter what spec you are as you will most likely be in a group anyways. Because if you're not, you will get ganked over and over, due to the amount of people that will be there. This will at least have some truth for the first couple of months shortly after the release of the exspansion.
I have a lvl 70 prot paladin with 16,7k hp and nice gear over all even though I eger to get my hands on the new areas as soon as posible I dont intend to respecc just because of that. Even though there will be many quest that help you leveling up we have desaided with friends to farm xp in easy instances as shattered hals on normal mode etc. Runing one shattered hals takes about 20 mins only and it will give nice amount of xp with minimal effort. so we are planing to use our regular 5 men group and farm xp there for 2-3 first leveles before going to do quest's wich will be at that point wery easy since we all have alternative qears only.
