Gearing up your Paladin for heroics and beyond - a great guide
I mentioned recently that I was going to switch my paladin from retribution to protection for my mixed melee team.
I want to run heroics on him (although all of the team isn’t at that stage) and so I wanted to get to the 540 defense rating. For heroics 535 makes you uncrittable to the level 82 bosses, 540 is required for the level 83 bosses found in raids.
A quick search on the internet and I found this really good guide to initially gearing up a paladin.
This site is fantastic and contains everything you need to know about tanking as a paladin.
I was lucky enough to have the titansteel shield and at least 1 epic from Naxxramas 10 mans that had defense on it, but still only had just over 400 defense. Following this guide I was able to go from 400 defense to my target of 540 well within 2 days.
The rep items and crafted stuff that phase 1 suggested was relatively cheap.
I did have to gem for defense, using I thick autmn’s glow gems - or something like that.
Each of them adds 16 defense rating (or about 4 defense).
I also had to put a defense enchant on my chest and a titanweave enchant on my cloa to get to the magic 540.
I’ve only got about 19k health unbuffed so some of the harder heroics will be out, but it’s a great starting point.
Add comment April 28th, 2009