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News
Patch 2.1 is out and will has an impact for Paladins
Holy
- "Illumination": This talent now only gives 60% of the mana cost of the critical heal. (It was 100%)
Protection
- New Protection Talent added: "Improved Holy Shield", 2 ranks: Increases damage caused by "Holy Shield" by 10/20% and increases the number of charges of "Holy Shield" by 2/4.
- "Avenger's Shield" no longer has a minimum range. It may be used on any target within 30 yards.
- "Ardent Defender" now reduces damage taken by 6-30% when below 35% health (was 10-50% below 20% health)
- "One-Handed Weapon Specialization" now increases all damage caused by the paladin by 1-5% while a one-handed weapon is equipped. (was 2-10% but only for damage from the weapon)
- "Spiritual Attunement": Mana is no longer healed if the paladin is at full health.
Retribution
- "Vengeance" now increases Holy and Physical damage by 1/2/3/4/5% for 15 seconds following a critical hit, but the effect now stacks up to 3 times. (Was 10% but no Stacking)
- "Hammer of Wrath": Rank 4, damage increased.
The Burning Crusade
New Spells
Spell upgrades from 60 to 70 now occur every level, unfortunately there are no Trainers in the Outlands but if you Portal to Ironforge from Shattrath City you will end up right next to a Trainer.
New Spells to look out for:
- 14, Righteous Defence, Come to the defense of a friendly target, commanding up to 3 enemies attacking the target to attack the Paladin instead.
- 18, Spiritual Attunement, A passive ability, gives mana equal to 8% of the amount healed when healed by other friendly targets.
- 62, Crusader Aura, Increases the mounted speed by 20% for all party members within 30 yards
- 64, Seal of Vengeance, each melee attack a chance to cause 120 Holy damage over 12 sec. Can stack up to 5 times. Judging instantly causes 120 Holy damage per application of Holy Vengeance.
- 66, Seal of Blood, All melee attacks deal additional Holy damage equal to 35% of normal weapon damage, but the Paladin loses health equal to 10% of the total damage inflicted. Judging instantly causes 295 to 325 Holy damage at the cost of health equal to 33% of the damage caused.
Righteous Defence is a superb Tanking ability which allows you to take the Aggro off someone very easily.
Seal of Vengeance is an interesting new spell allowing you to Dot the target. This seems to be a very good Seal for long fights (elites/bosses) or Tanking and when you have built up enough Dots you can do some really serious Judging damage.
For a full list of Paladin spells (0 to 70) look Here
Changes
Consecration was changed from a 33% to 76% Spell Co-efficient (the co-efficient is the amount of Spell Damage applied so if you have +100 Spell Damage you now get +76 on your Consecration spell).
The Seal of Righteousness Co-efficient was increased from 10% to about 10% per 1.0 weapon speed.
The Judgement of Righteousness Co-efficient was increased from 50% to 73%.
This increases in Spell Co-efficients are also even more relevant because Spell Damage gear in TBC seems to be dropping off the trees.
You can quite easily get +200 Spell Damage and Healing just from Quests in Hellfire Peninsula and remember If you Judge Seal of Crusader you get a big Boost in +Spell Damage (190) which is further increased by Talents (up to 15%) and Libram of Fervor (+33) or Libram of Zeal (+47). That's approaching +500 Spell damage in total.
Librams
There seem to be a few new Librams in TBC and the Saints Departed one seems like an easy one for 60's to go for dropping off the first Boss in the Blood Furnace.
For a full list of Librams check Here
Here are a selection to whet your appetite:
Libram of Saints Departed (requireLvl61) - Causes your Judgements to heal you for 41 to 49.
This drops off The Maker in The Blood Furnace Instance (lvl61-63)
Libram of Zeal (requireLvl62) - Increases the melee attack power bonus of your Seal of the Crusader by 68 and the Holy damage increase of your Judgement of the Crusader by 47.
Bought at Vendor - 15 Honor Hold Marks
Libram of the Eternal Rest (requireLvl68) - Increases the damage of your Consecration spell by up to 47.
Drops off Darkweaver Syth in Sethekk Halls instance (lvl67-69)
Libram of Avengement Libram of Avengement (requireLvl70) - Causes your Judgements to increase your Critical Strike rating by 53 for 5 sec.
Currently the Drop is unknown
Libram of the Lightbringer (requireLvl70) - Increases healing done by Holy Light by up to 87.
Drops off Commander Sarannis in Botanica Instance (lvl70)
Raids
Here are links to a couple of addons that we have requested all paladins should use in Raids:
Note that as of V2 the latest Decursive does work however there is no more intelligence meaning that it will inform you who is affected but you now have to manually cleanse the infected person.
Pally Power allows you to Buff the Raid easily and see what other Pallys are buffing with if they are using it.
- All pallys must carry at least 300 symbol of kings and 5 symbol of divinity on all raids
- In Raids Paladins will do a lot more Healing than they are probably used to (compared to Instances). Paladins are useful to provide Auras and regular Buffs. They will also need to Cleanse a lot. Sometimes the Consecration AoE will be useful to gain aggro of multiple mobs.
Talents
Are you going for the new Crusader Strike or for Holy Healing/Shocking or Protection?
Pally Quests
- Lvl12 - The Tome of Divinity, Duthorian Rall, Stormwind Cathedral
This is to get the Redemption ability (Resurrection), you need to talk to lot's of people then Resurrect Henze Faulk in Elwynn and Retrieve the Defias Script in Elwynn
- Lvl20 - The Tome of Valor, Duthorian Rall, Stormwind Cathedral
This is to get Sense Undead and Verigan's Fist (best Pally Mace for lot's of levels). Defend Daphne Stilwell from the Defias attack, note there are 3 waves so its gonna be tough. The next bit involves Loch modan, Darkshore, Deadmines and Shadowfang Keep
- Lvl40 - The Tome of Nobility, Brandur Ironhammer, Stormwind Cathedral
Get your Mount!
- Lvl52 - Chillwind Point, Lord Grayson Shadowbreaker, Stormwind Cathedral
This involves collecting 20 Scourgestones in Western Plaguelands which leads to a quest to collect Feathers in The Sunken Temple Instance
Some great rewards listed Here
- Lvl60 - The Work of Grimand Elmore, Lord Grayson Shadowbreaker, Stormwind Cathedral
This is a long line involving spending lot's of money, killing Tendris Warpwood in Dire Maul West and then Death Knight Darkreaver in Scholomance (Rattlegore room) but leads to the Epic Mount
Level 60 Pally Gear
Tier Sets to go for
Paladin Sets
Remember you can buy the Lightforge Bracers, Gauntlets and Belt at the Auction House and easily upgrade them to the better Soulforge. See the quest chain starting with An Earnest Proposition from Deliana in Ironforge but also be prepared to spend a lot of money on these quests (but you will get epic Gauntlets).
Possible Buys at 60
Whitesoul Helm +15 INT, +15 SPI, +35 HEAL - Crafted AS - BOE
Hide of the Wild +8 STA, +10 INT, +42 HEAL - Crafted LW - BOE
Hydralick Armor +13 STR, +20 STM, +8 AGI, +10 FR - BOE
Lightforge Bracers +7 STR, +4 AGI, +10 STA, +8 SPI - Random Dungeon - BOE
Morlune's Bracer +7 STA, +12 INT, +11 SPI - Non-specific STRAT - BOE
Lightforge Belt +9 STA, +15 INT, +6 SPI, +10 STR - Non-secific Stratholme - BOE
Belt of the Ordained +9 STA, +8 INT, +42 HEAL - Non-specific Scholo - BOE
Girdle of Uther +9 STR, +10 STA, +10 SPI, +9 INT, +9 AGI - World drop - BOE
Lightforge Gauntlets +14 STR, +9 STM, +14 SPI - BOE
Abyssal Plate Legplatesof Restoration +15 STA, +33 HEAL, +6 MP5, CRIT 1% - Dukes Silithus - BOE
Abyssal Plate Legplates of Striking +15 STR, +15 STM, +15 AGI CRIT 1% - Dukes Silithus - BOE
Abyssal Plate Greaves of Restoration +11 STA, +22 HEALING, +4 MP5 - Dukes Silithus - BOE
Band of Piety +10 INT, +10 STM, +22 HEAL, +4 MP5 - Argent Dawn Insignia Hand in
Crystal Spiked Maul -Two-Hand Mace, 168 - 252 Damage, Speed 3.90, 53.8 damage per second, +16 STR, CRIT 2% - BOE
Enchants
Enchant Two Handed Weapon - Major Intellect (+9 Intellect)
Enchant Weapon - Healing Power (+55 Healing)
Enchant Weapon - Mighty Intellect (+22 Intellect)
Enchant Shield - Greater Spirit (+7 Spirit)
Enchant Chest - Major Mana (+100 Mana)
Enchant Chest - Greater Stats (+4 to all Stats)
Enchant Bracer - Greater Intellect (+7 to Intellect)
Enchant Bracer - Mana Regeneration (4mana/5)
Enchant Bracer - Greater Spirit (+7 Spirit)
Enchant Gloves - Healing Power (+30 to Healing)
Enchant Bracer - Healing (+24 to Healing)
Enchant Cloak - Greater Fire Resistance (+15 FR)
Enchant Cloak - Greater Resistance (+5 all resist)
Enchant Cloak - Greater Nature Resistance (+15 NR)
Brilliant Mana Oil (12mana/5, +25 HEAL for 30 minutes)
Macros (Patch 2+)
One Touch Judge and Seal
/cast Judgement
/stopcasting
/cast Seal of X
Divine Shock Divine Favor & Holy Shock Combo
/cast [combat] Divine Favor
/stopcasting
/cast Holy Shock
Divine Light Divine Favor & Holy Light Combo
/cast Divine Favor
/stopcasting
/cast [target=player] Holy Light
One touch Bubble-Bandage
/cast Divine Shield
/stopcasting
/use [target=player] Heavy Runecloth Bandage
Paladin’s Taunt Righteous Defense Cheat (Casts on Target if friendly and on Target's Target if enemy)
/cast [help] Righteous Defense; [target=targettarget] Righteous Defense
Installing AddOns
Step 1 extract files from the downloaded folder (file > extract all)
Step 2 place in addons folder
(my computer > c:\ drive > program files > wow > interface > addons)
All addons should activate when you next enter the game, but click the AddOns button prior to entering the game on yout character page to confirm this.
Paladin Levelling Guide
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