[Video] Leveling Prot

[d503]

Hey guys. I was a little bored tonight, so I thought I'd make a quick movie showing how quickly and efficiently I'm able to kill stuff in Wrath with my current spec and gear.

Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQM2C5yxdd8

F Vimeo, they took my Video down because it was "gaming" related...so, sorry, all you get is crappy quality youtube.

Here's my spec: Talent Spec - It's not the best, but respecs are a copper, so who cares

Let me know if you have any questions!

Tippo

[Ruex]

Very Cool.
You Beta weilding bastard... I keep checking my jumk mail box to see if blizz sent it there by accident.. so far no such luck...

[fiorina]

Well, prot.. but in retri gear.

In my opinion it's better to respec retri, find some decent place with insta mob respawn and enjoy 600k rested XP per hour(I will make a video if I have time). It would take just 1 port and 1 copper to respec prot for the instance. But indeed, some people enjoy 50k XP per hour grind :>

[d503]

Well, prot.. but in retri gear.

In my opinion it's better to respec retri, find some decent place with insta mob respawn and enjoy 600k rested XP per hour. It would take just 1 port and 1 copper to respec prot for the instance. But indeed, some people enjoy 50k XP per hour grind :>

I, for one, am not all about trivializing the content just to level as fast as possible. I'd rather go through the motions and enjoy the quests (for some reason, I like leveling...)

That being said, I'm trying to get a feel for what prot pallies are going to be like in Live, and speccing that way so I can better understand and plan for it.

I was never the type of person to sit in BM killing trash to gain levels...that's boring as shit, imho...

Also...I'm sure respecs will go back to their usual cost once beta is over, and I already hate having to respec for PvP. While blizz has mentioned the "two spec" thing, it's not in yet, so I'm not holding my breath...

[roosevelt]

Is that the old judgement of the crusader debuff that goes up on the mob with your judgement of wisdom? I had assumed when they said they took it out and incorporated its effects it just meant they buffed coefficients or spells to compensate. If that is the case then I take it your t5 ret 2 piece bonus (and the librams) will still increase that effect.

You certainly seem to be cutting through the mobs rather quickly, however thats some pretty nice ret gear you're in and the one was level 68. Just curious, but is there a reason you're using a shield other than to pull with? I leveled to 70 as prot with 5/5 reckoning and 2h. Depending on how well ret spec can tank I'm going to go for a spec that can solo without too much downtime and can tank equal level content without too much difficulty.

[fiorina]

nah, you are going to understand hows prot pallies will be in live by doing instances, not by killing crows in retri gear...

I was just trying to suggest, that for the moments like that, quests or solo grind a retri is much better choice. Indeed if someone enjoys leveling (read: spend double amount of time by it) I have no objection and go ahead

[Zonzede]

Is that the old judgement of the crusader debuff that goes up on the mob with your judgement of wisdom? I had assumed when they said they took it out and incorporated its effects it just meant they buffed coefficients or spells to compensate. If that is the case then I take it your t5 ret 2 piece bonus (and the librams) will still increase that effect.

You certainly seem to be cutting through the mobs rather quickly, however thats some pretty nice ret gear you're in and the one was level 68. Just curious, but is there a reason you're using a shield other than to pull with? I leveled to 70 as prot with 5/5 reckoning and 2h. Depending on how well ret spec can tank I'm going to go for a spec that can solo without too much downtime and can tank equal level content without too much difficulty.

Sanctified Crusader now applies a separate debuff to grant the 3% crit. This is to prevent stacking of the ability from multiple paladins, and to make the bonus a little more visible.

Hammer of the Righteous requires a 1 hand melee weapon to use.

[roosevelt]

Hammer of the Righteous requires a 1 hand melee weapon to use.

[Spiggless]

This excites me greatly how easy it was for you to kill him. My ret set is about t5 level so it should be great.

[d503]

You certainly seem to be cutting through the mobs rather quickly, however thats some pretty nice ret gear you're in and the one was level 68. Just curious, but is there a reason you're using a shield other than to pull with?

I'm primarily using a shield b/c of the, albeit trivial, damage mitigation. With the amount of strength I have in my Ret gear, if I manage to block anything (yes, it's rare) I negate the entire hit. I block for about 500 in this gear.

Not to mention that Corruption will stack way faster, and pulling is super easy, as well as HotR and AS.

[Macha]

I was just trying to suggest, that for the moments like that, quests or solo grind a retri is much better choice.

Hmm. I don't really think so. As Prot, you basically can't overpull. You usually just underpull. Additional adds don't matter. Soloing group quests too

On top of it, with beta-prot, we can farm about as fast as Retri can now(slower than Retri in beta, mind). So its definitely fast enough.

[Forlorn]

Ill try and make a video tomorrow of the same but from a 75+ perspective with Hammer and Shield going. Shield hits pretty damn hard in ret gear and while its still not as good as ret damage its certaintly not something to snicker at.

[Zumor]

thats on lvl 73, more damage than I thought it will be, at 75 you get the holy slap with the shield, and in a STR gear mixxed with some nice BV defgear from the BC it will push the DPS a bit more, nice

can you usualy keep a high manalevel or do you need to sit down often?

[d503]

thats on lvl 73, more damage than I thought it will be, at 75 you get the holy slap with the shield, and in a STR gear mixxed with some nice BV defgear from the BC it will push the DPS a bit more, nice

can you usualy keep a high manalevel or do you need to sit down often?

As I said, I rarely need to sit. If I do get low (below half) mana, I just use Divine Plea. If that's on cooldown, I toss on Seal of Wisdom for one fight and I'm at full in no time.

[Hammerjudge]

That looks a lot better than I had expected.
I am tempted to level as ret until L75; then go prot from there onward. I expect I would have replaced most of my gear by then, plus get a new spell, and still have 5 levels to learn the new tanking style.