Posts Tagged ‘protection paladin’

12
Sep

Advancing The Lowbie Paladin

   Posted by: WoWGrrl    in Adventures In Azeroth, Adventures While Tanking, Adventures in PUGs

As a healer, I’ve grown to love the Pally Tank in my level 70 5-man instances. While they may be difficult to heal at times because of the sheer armount of healing they need as everything in the room beats on them, I’m happy being confident that unless people try REALLY HARD, they’re not going to pull aggro and I’m not going to get healing aggro.

So, with that thought, I seek to level my Paladin to be one of those awesome tank-type people.

But, right now she’s only level 25 and thus barely has the spellbook skills to be that awesome Pally Tank I know she’ll be in the future. And of course, she hasn’t had much in the way of tanking experience yet either.

But that’s changing.

About My Pally

My Pally is actually spec’d mostly in the Retribution tree right now, but I’m gearing myself towards the “tank” end of the scale (favoring stamina and intellect for now) instead of the melee DPS (favoring agility and strength) end. I’ve also picked up a helpful tanking-specific addon to go with the fact that I’ll have to lead the kill order and pacing of dungeon instances as a part of that “tanking” job.

For this toon, I’ve opted to attempt to completely avoid healing, having a Priest, Druid and Shammy already doing heals duties… but I HAVE healed a BFD run when the other Paladin in the group only had the mindset to tank and I wasn’t interested in an argument of any type.

In time I’ll get more points into the actual Protection tree, but right now from what I’ve read, Retribution is the way to go for my spec, despite the fact that I behave and gear like someone others might expect to be geared Protection.

I’m going on the thought, largely, that in Azeroth things have been nerfed so far and are so forgiving for quick leveling that it’s more gearing and behavior than spec that determines how well one plays their role in a group situation.

Professional Aspirations

With my family of toons, I have all of the professions covered, so for now with this one I’ve just gone completely “Gathering”: Mining and Skinning.

When the expansion comes out, one of my toons needs to take up Inscription, but I’m not sure whether it will be this Paladin or another of my toons, so for now I’m just gathering and processing and collecting.

Immediate Dungeon Goals

At 25, I’m not really high enough to properly tank an RFK run, so I guess that means I’ll be doing a couple more in BFD.

Also, there’s a mess of guildmates who have alts at the 18-20 level, so maybe I’ll tank an SFK run or three for my friends so the clothies can get the Robes of Arugal, etc, and all look the same. ;)

While the number of instances I can tank and get benefit from are few right now, soon I’ll be getting into a range with a number of choices and a lot of demand on the LFG channel. Sure, the groups may be chaotic, but there should be a lot of them.

I’ll be sure to write about my tanking adventures as they happen!

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31
May

What I Look Forward To Doing

   Posted by: WoWGrrl    in Adventures In Azeroth, Adventures In Outland

World of Warcraft is a great game - I’m sure I’m preaching to the converted here… even those who have been disillusioned and left for some reason can still likely say that the game is pretty great, but some of the game’s aspects or followers, perhaps, weren’t.

At any rate, despite holing myself up in a Guild of One recently, I want to say that Yes, I still think World of Warcraft is a pretty great game, and I have no real intention of being completely devoid of social contact in this Massively Multiplayer Online game.

But I can definitely say that what I looked forward to a month ago is different than what I look forward to today, and today I feel much happier about the future than I did a month ago.

Looking Towards The Future

I’ve always enjoyed the life of a Casual player, so getting into Raiding was an interestying foray, but not ultimately what I’ve wanted to do with my time.

Now that I have my free time back, I’m looking towards the future and making some plans.

I’m kind of, but not really, looking at setting some goals that I can have done by the time The Lich King expansion pack comes out, whenever that may be. I haven’t clearly defined my goals yet, however, nor do I keep up on the latest of when it’s coming out.

Heck, I’m still entertained plenty in the Azeroth areas and dungeons - getting the expansion pack isn’t a huge goal of its own, other than the fact that everyone will have it and I might as well get it too.

Some Goals For Before LK Releases

Priest
My first Toon Family goal is to get my 63 Priest to 70 through a combination of reputation-specific quests and healing in PUGs.

As a Jewelcrafter, I’ll be focusing on The Consortium reputation for this toon, and will probably dive into the Shattered Sun dailies once I hit 70 so I can get all of those recipes as well.

While I’m levelling through dungeons or questing for specific reputation gain, I plan to be making recordings with the intent of making various videos. I’d really love feedback on these things once I start posting them, to help me improve both in my healing and in my video-making.

Like my thoughts, I’m sure the topics will range far and wide, venturing even into the ridiculous.

Druid
I’ve got a level 30 Druid who has been level 30 for a number of months. I’d like to get her to at least 60, because I’m sure with the expansion pack there’ll be a large number of Death Knights looking to party their way through the Outland instances even when Northrend is up and going.

I’m looking forward to putting some real time and love into the Druid - it’ll be my first truly Hybrid toon of any level, and I intend to practice all of its aspects so I’m good at switching around between DPS, Healing and Tanking as the group requires.

And I’m sure a lot of PUGs will give me a lot of opportunity to hone and improve those skills… only to have “what works and what’s needed” change all around when the expansion comes out ;)

Shaman and Paladin

I have teen-level Shaman and Paladin characters that have been sitting for a bit while I got caught up in raiding - I’m thinking if I can get them both to 58 or so for the expansion and situate the Shaman as a healer and the Pally as a tank, these in combination with the Druid will give me awesome angles of others playing their DeathKnights when the expansion hits. (can you tell I don’t plan to roll one right away?)

Mage
I love my Mage but would rather advance up my plethora of other toons because with the gear level my Mage is at, raiding and heroics are the only “real” challenges, and I don’t want to get back into raiding. I ponder on PUGging Karazhan for the badges, hoping to find a group each week that can accomplish a fast run (ie: under 3 hours would be nifty), but know that would just lead to invites to other things on my Mage, who I largely don’t want to invest time in anymore.

I’ll probably mainly bring him out to run my lowbie Shaman and Pally through quests or dungeons once in a while, and to help out friends who I trade favors with.

Hunter
No real goals, aside from respec’ing to a solid pet-centric solo spec and using this toon to help my friends and lower toons (on the other WoW account) complete quests or obtain gear from Azeroth dungeons.

But For Now…

But for now, it’s time to head outside into the sunshine and take advantage of the warmth that is springtime.

Yet another wonderful thing I can do with my time, less committed!

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