The debate rages on. Should people leveling through BGs have to worry about BOA gear. Should randome quest, AH, and crafted greens give you a fair shot in low level BGs or should you need to do instances and find specific blue items and get the right enchants in order to compete?
A lot has changed in WoW and I now get xp for BGs and the BG daily quest. I like BGs much more than questing so it’s safe to say I’ll be doing some of this as I take my priest from 70-80.
Now my priest, Bakayoko, is funny. I’m a shadowweave tailor and was shadow in TBC when we were the awesome mana batteries everyone loved. So I’m pretty much all purple with the frozen shadoweave and spellstrike tailoring stuff.
My gloves, wrists, back, and belt (plus my staff) were blue though. The back I replaced with a 70 pvp epic Volanthius shroud.
Now I have to buy more pvp gear as I level up because I don’t want to hit the 75K honor cap. The question is when do I stop buying 70 pvp epics and start stocking up on items for level 80?
I don’t plan on hitting 80 all that soon so there may be upgrades in the gear I buy. I might buy something for honor points now only to find when I’m higher level that there’s a better one available.
I’ll also be able to craft the frostsavage pvp starter set (can’t wait to wear that in the 70-79 bracket at level 78 and kick some ass) – maybe I should be a 78-79 twink without the xp cap since it will take forever to level up doing a couple bgs a day anyway.
So my plan is to buy a few more 70 pvp items – belt might be next. But eventually I’ll do the 108 resilience medallion of the horde, another trinket, necklaces, and rings. And save up for level 80.
Your World of Warcraft paladin will start out with his weapon and one instant attack, Crusader’s Strike. To start a melee fight, you’ll target your enemy, either by using the tab button or by clicking on the NPC. You’ll know your enemy has been targeted if there’s a red circle around where he’s standing, and if you can see his picture and information on the top left side of your screen next to your own information.
Once you’re in range, use your Crusader’s Strike first. It will attack instantly, and then you’ll automatically keep attacking the enemy with your weapon. Watch that Crusader’s Strike button because you’ll be able to use it every four seconds. You might even want to continually click on it so that your character will use it as soon as it’s available.
At level three, you’ll get your first seal. You should keep one seal activated all the time on your pally, since they give you a better attack and will let you use judgments at level four. This first seal is the Seal of Righteousness. Just remember to click on it every time you start playing your World of Warcraft paladin and each time you die. This seal does extra damage with every attack, so you’ll be killing things more quickly by level three.
At level four, you get your Judgment ability. This ability releases the energy of the Seal you’re wearing to do damage to your opponent. Later on, you’ll wear different Seals to use different Judgments, but for now, you’ve just got one to worry about.
Once you have Judgment, you’ll want to start off a fight with it. This is a ranged attack, so you can start off further back from your enemy. When you get into melee range, hit him with the Crusader’s Strike again. Watch your Judgment now, too, because you’ll want to use it and your Strike as often as you can.
At level five, you’ll get your first Aura – the Devotion Aura. This gives you and all your nearby party members extra protection. You can only wear one Aura at a time, but until you get another one, make sure you put this one on each time you start playing or have died.
Your playing technique will stay about the same with a paladin until you get into your talent tree at level ten.
World of Warcraft Paladin Talent Trees
When you play a World of Warcraft paladin, you’ll have the option of becoming either a tank, a melee damage dealer, or a healer, depending on which talent tree you choose.
A holy paladin will be able to heal her friends and any friendly targets. Her spells will be ranged and will restore health through holy power.
A protection paladin will have protection on himself so that he can sustain himself under damage. This is the spec you want to use if you prefer to become a tank.
A retribution paladin will deal damage. This is mainly a melee spec, but you’ll also get a few spells so you can deal damage from a distance, as well
If you’re going to PvP in WoW, you’ve got to have WoW PvP gear to really make the best of your character. This gear is just a little different from what you need for raiding and general guide. Basically, it gives you resilience points.
Resilience is a stat that protects you from damage against other players only. You’ll still take the normal amount of damage from non-player characters (NPCs), which is why WoW PvP gear isn’t great for running raids and quests. Each resilience point reduces the amount of damage you take from other players, minions, and pets by a certain percentage. The more resilience you have, the less damage you’ll take from other players.
In a PvP situation where everything moves incredibly fast, this is important. You also want to make sure that your PvP gear includes your class stats too, though, or you’ll miss out on attack power and mana, among other things.
Another great thing about PvP gear is that PvP deaths don’t weaken its durability. Weapons made for Player vs. Player situations will take normal wear from using them, but this extra durability on your armor is really helpful. At first, you’ll probably die a lot in PvP, so wearing PvP gear rather than your regular gear means you’ll be running back to the armor repair shop less often!
At the lower levels, PvP gear doesn’t have that much resilience on it, so it isn’t a whole lot different from regular gear you can pick up in a dungeon or from completing quests. You might want to use Atlas Loot to compare this gear to other gear you can get for your level, though. On some pieces, the PvP gear is actually better, even for questing and dungeoneering.
Getting PvP Gear
Besides the different stats on PvP gear, actually getting this gear is different, too. You need honor points to buy it, and you get these by running battlegrounds, killing other players in PvP situations, etc. When you first start doing battlegrounds, you obviously won’t have any PvP gear. This is fine, though, because usually the other guys don’t either. Just keep running until you can build up your WoW PvP gear set.
You’ll need it more later on, especially if you decide to run super competitive arenas.
Once you’ve got enough honor points, you’ll need to buy your PvP gear from a vendor near the PvP area. You can actually get into battlegrounds using the battleground queue, which is like dungeon finder. However, to buy gear from PvP vendors, you’ll have to run to the actual battleground areas. Again, Atlas Loot can help you figure out where you need to buy which gear.
Organize Your Gear with Equipment Manager
When you start collecting WoW PvP gear, you’ll essentially end up with two different sets of armor. If you use a dual talent spec at level forty, you’ll probably end up with three separate sets of gear. Equipment Manager can help you keep it all straight. Here’s what you need to do:
1. Put on one complete set of gear. Start with your regular questing and dungeoneering gear. Then, open your Character Interface, and click on the Equipment Manager symbol at the top right corner of the interface.
2. Now, click on the “Save” button. This will cause a new window to pop up so you can name and choose a symbol for this gear set. Save it as “Regular” or “PvE” or whatever. On my character, I have a set saved for “Heal” and a set save for “DPS” so my character is ready for playing in either spec.
3. Once you’ve saved on gear set, you can equip your second set. Chances are likely that the entire set isn’t going to change, but just a few pieces will. Just right click on the pieces that you’re equipping for PvP (or your secondary spec), and then click “Save” again. Name this new set of gear, and choose a symbol for it.
4. When you want to switch gear sets from your regular to your WoW PvP gear, open your Character Interface, click Equipment Manager, and click on the set that you want to use. Then just click Equip. Everything will automatically switch out, and the replaced pieces will go into your bag wherever their counterparts were before.
5. Every time you get a new piece of gear for one of your sets, be sure to equip it and save over the old set. That way, you’ll always be using your latest set.
6. Set aside one of your bags just for your gear so that you don’t get rid of any pieces by accident. You can also keep some equipment in your bank. If you’re going to switch back and forth often, though, this just gets annoying.
