10-23-2005, 09:08 PM
Garrin,Oct 23 2005, 03:34 PM Wrote:says it all in the heading. I'm thinking of respeccing garrin to either holy or protection, we just have way too many ret pali's in the end game right now, and it could help the whole team if a few of us converted. Plus in pvp i'm hardly ever actually engaging the enemy, just followin around a warrior keepin him alive.
So what are some good holy or protection builds? Thoughts?
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In general, there's no such thing as a "holy build" because the late talents in holy are absolute junk. Sanctity, Divine Strength, and Holy Shock are all kind of weak, as is Improved Seal of Light. Repentance is somewhat weak too, meaning that there aren't really heavy protection builds either.
Paladin builds are either 31 retribution with a minor in either prot or holy, or some protection/holy variant. Since you seem to want to get out of retribution, you're basically looking to spec into something prot/holy.
Which prot/holy build you pick depends on how often you PvP/solo/raid. Which of these things are you doing more? If you PvP a lot, yeah, heavy protection builds with Reckoning and Repentance make sense. If you solo a lot, you're going to find prot/holy really hard to deal with, but you should probably pick up Holy Shield and Reckoning. If you raid a lot, you'll be speccing into a fairly focused build that may skip some solo utility skills.
Here's a raiding prot/holy spec that maximizes the paladin's healing role along with picking up Improved Blessing of Salvation for DPS types.
Holy: 24
5 Spiritual Focus
3 Improved Holy Light
5 Illumination
1 Divine Favor
5 Improved Blessing of Wisdom
5 Divine Wisdom
Protection: 27
5 Improved Devotion Aura
5 Toughness
2 Improved Blessing of Protection
5 Improved Seal of Fury
1 Blessing of Sanctuary
2 Shield Specialization
5 Reckoning
2 Improved Blessing of Salvation
Now, it's important that someone have IBoS in a raid, if only because fights will sometimes last longer than 5 minutes and not having to rebless mid-fight is a huge advantage. If there already are enough paladins with IBoS, however, there's a three-tree build which retains some soloing power as well as good healing.
Holy: 24
5 Spiritual Focus
3 Improved Holy Light
5 Illumination
1 Divine Favor
5 Improved Blessing of Wisdom
5 Divine Wisdom
Protection: 16
5 Redoubt
5 Toughness
1 Blessing of Sanctuary
5 Improved Seal of Fury (or 2 IBoP and 3 here or Shield Specialization)
Retribution: 11
5 Improved Blessing of Might
5 Two-handed Weapon Specialization
1 Seal of Command
The paladin review in 1.9 should make the talent trees a lot more compelling, but until then, here are a couple of decent options.