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• Re: PROT pally talent build
  Mon Apr 06, 2009 5:18 pm
  by Renoober
  Forum:  Paladin

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  No offense, some of you may think you need it, but Kings is one of the worst things you can put points to as a prot pally. You want it on you if another pally is in the grp over any other buff a pally can give, but NEVER at the cost of your BoSanct buff. Average tanks can improve their threat, survivablity and general raid viability with that instead of passing out kings. Obviously, with 3.1 coming soon, hopefully, Kings becomes trainable which will remove the need to debate this as far as builds go. I've not read a post yet that states why Blizz decided to do this (simply because I don't troll forums very much) but IMO, they have seen how no spec really WANTS to spec it. In fact, most QQ about being forced to spec into it. Personally, and I do this for my off build, I spec it as Ret. I don't pvp much on my pally so the few times I'm asked if I'd like a break from tanking, I use a pve Ret build. That leaves me free to get Kings for the raid, while the prot pally that i normally MT alongside handles the BoSanct and the Holy pally gets BoW/BoM (imp'd both since they want to get down to the extra crit from the ret tree anyway.)
  For those of you that feel the need to armory my character, go for it. http://www.wowarmory.com/character-talents.xml?r=Ner%27zhul&n=Renoober As for why I've pointed up my Benediction, it is for those times when i'm prot and not MT and not needing tons of heals. This lets me generate threat and dps yet w/o sending my mana supply down the shitter. I also use imp Hammer of Justice for interupts and pursuit of justice instead of getting 2 sets of boots, one with straight stam and the other with tuskar's vitality for the various bosses in current content. Your spec is up to you and there is not a cookie cutter build for prot pallies which is exactly how blizzard intends it. Don't assume your build is perfect no matter what. It is always dependant upon raid make-up and your specific role within it, not to mention what the raid/grp is intending to kill.