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World of Warcraft Paladin Guide

Posted December 8th, 2004 by Messiah

Your ultimate source for Paladin info.

A Paladin is the Knight in shining armor in the World of Warcraft. The paladin is a hybrid class that was initially for the Alliance faction only that is a combination priest and warrior. With the release of the Burning Crusade, Horde gained access to the class through the Blood Elf race. While not strictly as good as either base class at doing either function, they are flexible and allow choices in their role in groups. If you like warriors but want the option to do something other than just combat, or like the priest but don't want to be just a supporting character, then the paladin may be for you. You will be able to change the paladin’s primary role as you play and switch between tanking, causing damage and healing.

We here at Ten Ton Hammer have gathered together as much possible information as we could about the Paladin class and compiled it together here in our massive guide. Tactics, loot, where to level, skills, talent builds, and more are contained in our "tome of knowledge" that is the Paladin guide. Everything you could possibly want to know about the Paladin class is just a few clicks away!

If you are seeking information that somehow isn't included in our Paladin Class Guide then join us in discussion at our Paladin forums! Here you can discuss the class in detail with the community! You can even submit information to be added to our Paladin guide and gain the fame of helping advance one of the best sources of Paladin information on the Internet.

Paladin Overview

Paladin Overview
  • A true hybrid class, can tank, heal, or DPS.
  • Limited ability to do anything, but can only do one thing well at a time.
  • Wields almost any type of weapon.
  • Wears tough plate armor, even when healing, once they reach level 40 and can use a shield.
  • Provides great party and raid buffs through auras and blessings.

Paladin Strengths

  • Probably the most survivable class, being in plate armor, can heal, and can "Bubble".
  • Gets a free normal mount.
  • Gets an epic mount through a quest chain.
  • The best Area of Effect (AoE) tank in the game, great at holding large numbers of creatures.
  • Can take a lot of damage even when healing or attacking due to heavy armor.
  • Can protect themselves or others through the use of "Bubbles"

Paladin Weaknesses

  • Very gear and spec dependant to do what they want.
  • Limited mobility.
  • Can be complicated to play.

mage in epics

Races: Human, Dwarf, Draenei, Blood Elf
Armor: Cloth, Leather, Mail, Shieds and Plate (with training)
Weapons: One- and Two-handed Maces, One- and Two-handed Swords (with training), One- and Two-handed Axes, Polearms (with training)

Melee Hybrid DPS/Tank/Healer

Paladin Guide Contents

Name Description
Basics All the basics to the Paladin.
Combat Our "Playing a Paladin" guide goes over Paladin combat and basic battle techniques to make sure justice is brought to your enemies.
Spells and Talents Go here to find out all about WotLK spells and talents for the Paladin. A very good article detailing what all the skills and abilities do.
Trainers Locations of all of the trainers. Need to train your skills? Look here.
Quests Need help doing Paladin quests? Here's your resource to knock out all of the Paladin quests.
Selecting Talents in 3.1 A good guide to talents from patch 3.1, still holds a lot of good information even if slightly dated.
Equipment A basic equipment guide to the Paladin.
PvP Basics The basics to PvP as Paladin. Retadins, look here, there is a lot of good stuff in it for you.
Macros Paladin Macros located here.
U.I. Mods What U.I. Mods rock for a Paladin? Look here.
Enhancements 3.1 Enhancements for the Paladin.

Paladin Leveling Guide

 The Paladin leveling guide goes over levels 1-80 as a Paladin. A good guide for new Paladins.

Spells

 A list of all the spells for the Paladin.
Gearing Up A Guide to gearing up in 3.1

Can you update for BE palidin Info

We sure will as one of us plays through a BE paladin or as we recieve updates from community members.

If you have one in progress we would love to hear about anything different from the Alliance Paladins.

Hi Everyone,

This is my first post. I've been reading up every guide I could find on pally tanking and pally guides in general and came across this one today, and there's a few question I'd like to ask.

Firstly, I find it weird that you mention the importance of INT to the pally. From every other guide that I've read (and please note, I've got lots of theoretical knowledge, but no real practical RAIDing experience with pallys - my pally is only lvl 50 now) the mention of Spiritual Attunemen...

Our Paladin guide received an update today to the equipment section to better outline what gear is best for each of the three different talent builds. Now, no matter your talent spec, we cover the type of gear you should be aiming to collect.

Quote:
As a Paladin the stats you require vary on your build. For a Retribution build you will be looking for Strength, Agility and Stamina as primary stats. For a Holy build, Intelligence and Stamina are key. Lastly a Protecti...

I like the new Talent guide - good work.
I have one question for Mister Messiah - do you like BoKings for casters or BoWisdom/Imp.BoW?
After years of automatically throwing BoW on casters, I think I've finally looked at the math and realized that while Kings gives the casters 10% to spirit which is nowhere near what Wisdom does (probably 6-7/tick with kings, and closer to 50 with Improved Wisdom or 41 with regular Wisdom) - Kings also gives them 10% more mana (around 600-1000 mana for end ga...

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