Protection in Northrend

Post by ShellyBelly

I want to be a protection paladin at level 80. Tankin' shtuff is mah thang. However, I'm afraid if I level as prot, it will move at too slow a pace because I won't be able to AOE grind since there will be so many playing. If I level as ret, by the time I get to 80, I'll have a nice ret set, but I'll be building from the ground up to compete with other tanks who I group with for gear, which in the end just doesn't work.

Thoughts? (my question is really do you think it will be difficult to build a prot set from the ground up as a level 80 ret paladin?)

Post by Boeck

It depends on how you want to level. If you want to level up through instances, there will be a great need for tanks. You'll have all the DPS you could want, just need to find a healer, the difficulty of which depends on your server.

I agree there will probably be too many people to AoE grind, but did you mean level up exclusively that way? Maybe it is just because I'm a quest-fiend, but I level up through quests faster than I could grind. On my Prot Paladin, I think my playtime was 5 days when I hit 70. I was Protection all the way (at the time I didn't want to think about Ret). Not to mention I could not stand to level up that way solely (grinding I mean), I'd put pencils through my eyes lol.