Level 80 Paladin Tank Spec

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Fast Paladin Leveling - How To Level Up Fast

Author: Blaz Valentinuzzi

Paladin is an awesome class. It is very self-sufficient. With high survivability it is a very fast leveler. What I enjoy the most with my Paladin is the fact that whenever I get bored with playing specific roll I always can change to other. As you know Paladin can be a DPS (damage dealer), healer or tank. And he is good in every one of them. When it comes to the leveling from my experience, only the two of the builds are viable.

Fast Paladin leveling - Protection or Retribution?

First of all, let me say this to you. If you want to level up fast, than avoid Holy talent build. It is purely for healing, not for any damage dealing. The main thing when fast Paladin leveling is damage output. So Holy is just NOT for leveling.

Leveling as Retribution is a very good choice. This talent build has very good burst damage. When leveling this is a very good "utility" so the mob falls very quickly. It is a kind of leveling when you kill one mob at a time. And it is very efficient and quick. Oh and I almost forgot. The best weapon for this spec is a slow two-handed.

Protection build is also good for fast Paladin leveling. But it requires a different approach. Using one handed weapon and a shield you become a very tough character, very hard to kill. So the point with leveling as protection is to attack as many mobs at a time you can handle. With AoE (area of effect) killing this kind of leveling is sometimes even faster than Retribution (one mob at a time). There are many quests like "go there, kill a certain amount of mobs, come back". For this kind of quests, leveling as Protection is the best choice.

Fast Paladin leveling - Questing?

Absolutely! Questing is the best way of getting XP (experience points) for fast Paladin leveling. But you must be aware of one thing. A lot of quests (I mean A LOT!) are designed to just slow you down. This kind of quests reward you with very little XPs and take you a lot of time to complete.

So do yourself a favor and avoid them.

To know exactly which quests to pick up, get yourself a WoW Leveling Guide. With this guide I reached level 80 in little less than 7 days: http://www.kreativaonline.com/zygorguides

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  1. Level 80 Ret/Prot Paladin.?
    Okay I have a level 80 paladin in World Of Warcraft. He has dual spec. Its Ret/Prot. He is raid geared, has full deadly for pvp, He also has 5k gold on him. I`d just like to know how much he would sell for? Im bored of playing and want to sell him. He is geared for Raid tanking or DPSing.

    • Hey man i would buy it for 50 but that is just me im a poor so i cant buy it those can sel around 235-400 just go search google for good website that will sell it for you but unless you want to sell it for 50

  2. What should I roll a paladin or druid?
    I have a warrior level 80 spec arms but i get bored of him. I want to heal will be main spec and tank sometimes and dps sometimes. I also want to know from your opinions what is more fun at the end game. Hopefully this will help me decide which to make to 80 and only choosing one to level to 80.

    • Definitely go druid. Dual spec Restoration and Feral (Balance can’t tank). Paladins can heal, but they can’t do tank AND healer AND dps as alternatives at the same time, even with dual-spec. Druids, though, the main difference between Feral tank and Feral DPS, is the gear…the talents are the same.

  3. Warcraft 80 paladin.?
    I am currently looking to sell my level 80 paladin on world of warcraft. She comes with very good gear ( all epics ) and a few good alts. The paladin is holy specced. The alts on the account are a 43 priest, a 33 hunter and a 72 warlock all with great gear, the hunter contains some of the gear that levels with him ( the bow and shoulders) . I am looking for around $500 – $600. Considering the paladin contains 13’000 gold and had 2 or 3 T7 set pieces (can’t remember now) in the heroes set. The paladin also has a very nice ret set with almost all epics and the start of a tank set. Paladin is geared with naxx 10 / 25 and some badges mainly. I know this is not where i should be offering it , this is more for someone to just tell me where i can sell it . =] thanks in advance guys, oh and if you want to ask me about the account mro67957@bigpond.net.au .

    • Well just for curiosity… what is the paladins name?

      And I think you are selling it way to cheeply. In my opinion, go to all of your characters and do a /played. For every hour that you played, charge $10. That makes all your time worthwhile :) . The price is honestly up to you but I thing $500 is a bit cheap to sell away all that invested time.

  4. What is a strong Moonkin dps?
    I am an 80 Moonkin Druid and deal out about 2.5k in 5-mans and about 3k in raids. I do have two T-8 pieces and a T-7, but most of my other gear is ilevel 200, with some a couple of 213′s and a 245. I know when I started the druid I read numerous times that since druids are a hybrid they are not dominate in any role, but also not necessarily weak neither. I do do better in 5-mans with our Fire Mage who’s sits over 4500 GS(Gear Score), while I’m little over 4100. I try and tell him to spec as Arcane, but he already switched from Frost to Fire and didn’t want to switch again(another Mage in guild switched to Arcane and increased her dps from 2.2k to about 2.8k in 5-mans) Since I feel like I’m keeping up with one Mage and close to another, who both are better geared than me I must be playing a decent rotation.

    I have been using my Druid more and more lately( I also have an 80 Paladin tank) and I’m wanting to start gearing him up for new raid and would like to know if I need to improve my playing style or just that I need better gear. Is my dps in line with Moonkin players at that gear level?

    • On your druid your GS is relatively low but that doesn’t mean its hard to improve its so easy to gear now with the new patch so i just think its your gear your DPSing average for your gear score.. :)

  5. What toon should I level to 80 next? ?
    Ok I have an 80 shammy who is elemental/enhancement, and my other 80 is a protection paladin. I have a 73 lock, 72 hunter, 73 priest (disc), and a 73 druid (feral tank). I dont know what to take to 80 next. and i am willing to change spec’s and whatever. i also have a 51 mage and rogue. lol. i have been playing for a while. lawl. so yea no flaming cause i have no life. i do have a life.

    • Of that set of characters, my suggestion for next 80 would be the disc priest. That will give you 80s who can do all four roles: ranged dps, melee dps, tank, and healing.

      As for spec, Disc works just fine for leveling through quests and Dungeon Finder random dungeons, though a Holy offspec might make group healing slightly easier. If you get burned out on the Dungeon Finder, run AV instead. Tons of XP plus honor, and all you have to do is heal people.

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