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World of Warcraft Paladin PvE Guide
For starters here are the characteristics of a Paladin in PvE! I will lay out the Pros and Cons!

Pros

“1. Able to heal.
2. Strong and durable enough to tank for a group.
3. Not dependent on rage like a warrior is or has to switch forms like a druid.
4. Gets the ability to summon a mount at level 40.
5. Has abilities that allow the Paladin to be immune to attacks for a short period of time.
6. Can resurrect other players.
7. Can be very mana efficient if played right.” – Source: Gameogre

Cons

“1. Lacks the overall damage of other classes.
2. Both healing and tanking need to be focused on instead of trying to do both at once.
3. Need to constantly manage blessings, seals, and auras.
4. Has a negative image on the Horde side due largely to “bubble and hearthing” (become immune to attacks and then using a hearthstone to leave the battlefield).”  -Source: Gameogre

Now with all that being said, I will get into the different types of gameplay you can have with a Paladin for PvE. So pretty much Paladin’s have three different types of gameplay. You can either be a Tank (someone who holds aggro and makes enemies attack them. In turn Tank’s can take hits from these mobs and stay alive because they have so much armor and health, hence the word tank) The next thing you can be is a Healer. Paladin healers are always wanted in groups to do dungeons and raids. As a healer you focus on healing the tank that takes the damage from enemies, but you don’t only heal the tank, sometimes you have to heal the rest of the people in the group who take area of effect damage. And last but not least, you can be a dps. Paladins do insane bursts of Holy and Physical Damage. In some situations they are preferred because sometimes when groups engage in combat with the undead paladins can put out more dps because holy damage itself hurts undead more.

How To Spec
Here I will list out the best & most popular specs used for each type of gameplay. Tanking, Healing, Dpsing!

Healing = Holy Talent Tree

Tanking = Protection Talent Tree

Dpsing = Retribution Talent Tree

Holy
Holy is the most commonly used spec to go for healing. To be a good healer and use paladins abilities to it’s maximum healing capacity it would be a good idea to spend most of your talent points in the Holy Tree. Now as a healer people always get an add-on called Healbot. Healbot allows healers to just look at a little box to heal, and instead of having to click every single target one by one and clicking heal you have faster healing powers by hovering over the characters name in the small addon box and just using clicks on the mouse for certain heals. For example Healing player A, you hover over Player A’s name, left click, and it casts Flash heal or whatever you set left click to.

Now finnaly here is how to Spec into your Holy talent tree along with using some points in other talent trees to help. Here is the most commonly used best Holy Spec for a Healing Paladin!
51/5/15 – Holy Paladin Healing Spec

Protection
Protection spec is mainly used for Tanking. To be a viable tank and take the damage from mob’s you honestly can only spec in Protection lol. Any other spec you go, you will not be able to tank raids. So with that being said spend most of your talents in the protection tree. As far as tanking addons go you should get just the general tanking addons. Nothing specific for Paladins. So make sure to get a threat meter, I would recommend Omen Threat Meter, also Deadly Boss Mods to make it easier for you to know what’s going on in Boss fights.

Now with all that being said here is the Spec that is most commonly used for tanking.
2/57/12 – Tanking Spec for Protection Paladin

Retribution
Ahhhh good old Retribution Paladins. Paladin’s are a major part of the history of World of Warcraft, so you can expect for Paladin’s to be a little OP during some patches. Especially the Wrath of Lich King expansion lol. People argue that they are Overpowered. Because Pre-Wotlk Paladins were very weak PvE dps. But now they are considered one of the top Dps classes. Especially now that Lich King dungeons are out, Paladin’s can use their holy abilities to cause extra damage to undead targets. There aren’t really any addons Paladin’s should get for Dps. Only thing I can think of is Recount Dps Meter just to test out your Dps and get better rotations.

With that being said here is the best & most commonly used spec for Paladin DPS
5/11/55 – Best spec for Retribution DPS Paladins

Gearing Up!
List of Activities
Following these list of activities will get you the fastest way to be ready for epic raiding experiences!

5-man Heroic Dungeons
With patch 3.3 comes the new system of LFD! Looking for dungeon system. For each random dungeon you que for you get rewards of two extra badges. And now the minimum standard badge is the Triumph badge. Now with that being said you can pretty much get Full tier 9 from vendors. Every 5-Man is necessary to do. To get you all the Pre-Epic blues and some epics to get you ready for raids. But now Blizzard has made it easier to get geared so what I would recommend doing is 5-Man Trial Of Champions. All the gear that drops is Epic. Even in normal mode! So just Farm Normal mode then do heroic mode with a couple semi-geared people and you’ll get geared enough for most raids to continue from there.

Both 10 & 25 Man Raids
Mandatory raid to complete every week is Vault of Archevon. Always a mandatory. It drops the best epic’s that you could roll on and win from doing easy bosses. The next raid’s I would suggest is Onyxia and Obsidian Sanctum.

Find a Good raiding Guild
Finding a raiding guild could possibly be your key to getting into every raid you need and getting down bosses easily. It could possibly be the quickest fastest way to get geared because you have people dedicated to helping you =)

Build Reputation with Factions
Buying Tabards from each reputation faction and building up rep by doing Heroics will get you revered then exalted to get epic gear with gold!

As far as Specs and actual PVE guides go. I would encourage any viewer to send me their Spec and how they play so I can post it for them! Or leave a comment. More info will be coming soon. You can e-mail me your specs and guides or ideas to webmaster@hordelife.com