I Didn't Have A Problem Leveling Paladin - Until Dungeons

As someone that played a prot pally exclusively in classic, it is doable and is actually very simple. Mark your primary target and tell the dps if they want to live they focus on that target. Concentration is enough to hold aggro on AOE. Threat was just as much a responsibility on dps as it was for a tank in classic.

Yeah best to just ignore him. It’s clear that he’s a very very sad human being and probably very miserable to be around in real life so he comes on the forums and starts posting cringe on main. He was harassing me on a different character of his in another thread. This is the 3rd thread he’s followed me into. Not sure how many reports this dude wants to eat.

Paladins aren’t tanks. That is where you messed up. You should have gone healer like god intended for paladin.

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Paladins can tank just fine on the leveling journey. You’ll struggle a bit with mana but you’re the bottleneck so your group can just wait :slight_smile:

If you find going full prot annoying because you have a hard time doing other things, google “wow classic pretadin” to find a post I wrote up about a hybrid spec that works as a nice mix between tank and dps.

People are always gonna scream meta. Ignore them and build the group yourself and advertise for chill, non-meta runs. I promise you, you’ll have no trouble filling :slight_smile:

Paladins can not tank since they lack a taunt which is required to tank.

The only tanks in classic are bears and warriors.

You are living proof that classic community has always been garbage and retail gets bad rep for nothing by classic andys.

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A taunt is not required to tank, threat is, and Paladins do just fine in that department. Better than warriors and druids in certain applications, actually.

I beg to differ…it’s only decent when your dps is slacking. Also I’ve found decently geared Ret to be better tanks.

This appears to be a l2p issue as protest pallies are excellent tanks in Classic. There are several guides online that outline how to play the spec, check those out. Best of luck

I’ll admit my opinion of prot pally might be wrong. When I wrote this my Paladin on classic fresh only had enough points to make it to consecrate, he wasn’t able to go down the prot tree far enough to get improved RF or anything of that sort. I’ve ran some dungeons since with level 40 prot paladins and as long as everyone in the group has salv on they seem to hold aggro pretty well. Of course I haven’t witnessed it in action in a group with 3 mages, but I’d imagine the prot pally is there for an entirely different reason at that point.

I had a year played on my Naxx geared character in 2006…

I invite literally anybody into my 5 man groups…

I find it fun to have random skill levels in my groups because that gives me an opportunity to do fun plays that allow the group to succeed anyway.

Maybe its because I already experienced all of the hardcore endgame back in the day that I know that that chase to the top is unfulfilling in the end. Enjoy the journey and carry people of all skill levels if you really know the game in and out like many people claim to.

Yes it is.

boohoo
go play sod

Alright dude you know what? Eat yet another report. You’re such an unbearably toxic person and I bet you’re sitting behind your monitor smiling as you type all that stuff because you’re actually proud of the way you act. I sincerely hope they ban you from the forums for a while and you use that time to grow as an individual, because aside from other toxic individuals nobody likes you.

Grow up, get reported, move on.

didn’t ask

Cool. Because it wasn’t advice. Goodbye. Maybe one day you’ll stop hating on people online for your real life failures.

still didn’t ask

imagine rolling one of the most OP classes in classic and complain about it.

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it’s the way of the paladin to complain. the code of the silver hand is to be a little whingy cry baby, i assume it’s written in there somewhere

I mean, have you met classic Tyrion? “Boo-hoo, my son joined the OP Scarlets and was made a Highlord. I’m jelly so I have to get him killed. It’s my fault? Boo-hoo, pity me more.”

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