
Let's look at Jon's current set up and what he, or any pre-Heroic L70 Protection Paladin, can do to achieve those goals.
Retaining his uncrittable status by keeping his Defense at least at 490. Regain his threat generation through +Spell damage. To attain uncrushability by equipping more avoidance gear (+Dodge,+Parry or +Block equipment). Jon's goals as a new level 70 Protection Paladin on the verge of tanking Heroics are: Big spell damage is essential to my ability to tank for my trigger happy friends whose 5 man instance approach is more akin to "Who's Line Is It Anyway" rather than the production of Shakespeare most people reading this think their guild regularly produces." I abandoned a 63 warrior in favor of my Pally tank and the teary eyed joy that comes with being able generate lots of agro quickly on multiple mobs. "I'm highly aware of needing to obtain the "uncrittable" defense numbers so far in order to get a defense anywhere near 490 I've found that I have to sacrifice too much spell damage which eats into my ability to hold agro.
Having played the class for only two months, he had a few questions and concerns. He had recently shelved his Warrior in favor or leveling a new Paladin to 70 to be the main tank for our casual group. We provide a Gear Check, Talent Tune Up, AddOn/Macro recommendations and more to help you reach your goals in the game.įor the inaugural column, I asked my long time friend Jon to submit his new Paladin for da pimpage. Readers submit their Armory profile to us and every two weeks we pick one to review. Welcome to the first edition of our new twice-monthly column, Pimp My Profile.