Paladin for RaF Powerleveling - Issues with ZF

[imtakinusrs]

Hi,

I plan to use one of my pally toons as a powerleveling alt for future toons and guildies alike. This would be used in conjunction with RaF "couples", and will mostly instance-grind.

I basically want to run lower-level instances as efficiently as possible, and even at level 70, this toon's doing great... up until Zul'Farrak. It's just a mess!

I used to have the classic prot spec, with Avenger's Shield, and Hammer of the Righteous. However, I noticed that my Consecration ticks were doing around 140ish, while my Ret Aura damage was around 85-90 ish. Thing is, the casters in ZF just ran away when at low HP percents, they healed, then came back, and reran when low again. On top of that, I had to deal with being Hex'd, and when that happenned, runner mobs that happenned to be slightly within range of my RaFers would go and beat them. And since I was using a simple multi-client multibox setup, I only noticed it when the two RaFers were dead. Highly inefficient as it takes me forever to kill the mobs.

Even when killing 3 of them with the burst from Avenger's Shield and Hammer of the Righteous, the others would still go with the same "run-heal-come back-run-heal-come back" schtick.

After analyzing all of this, I figured I could improve this by:

- Optimizing Consecration ticks damage
- Optimizing Ret Aura damage
- Using the Sporegarr shield for extra block damage
- Adding a spike to that shield

So I thought I'd be creative and respecced in a way that I'd keep Blessing of Sactuary, while improving damage via the Ret tree. Big mistake there, as not only did I lose two burst damage sources (AS & HotR), but it actually made Consecration tick for less, and the boost from Ret Aura isn't all that good. So yeah, fail spec indeed.

I know that Consecration now scales using both AP and SP. But thus far, using AP as a substitute for SP did not yeild great results. I figured I might as well bring this toon to 80.

In the meantime, would there be any way to optimize Consecration ticks better than the 140 damage I used to have? And also, any tips with the "run-heal-come back-run-heal-come back" that ZF mobs have aside from running it with a mage?


Thanks in advance.

[T3h Sorrow]

you COULD! just run around in healer gear, i dunno if it would tick more or not
i use my frostmage to powerlevel people doing RAF, i dont use my paladin unless i do Strat+

[Severnaja]

Seriously i don't think you need higher cons ticks, what you have is sufficient.The important thing when it comes to ZF is to pull the mobs and then use corners to break the los and also get the casters to melee you.
Even if the mobs run away thats no big deal, unless one of your raf partners couldn't keep his fingers off keyboard (which is mostly the reason for aggro but people don't admit that) everything will be fine and mobs gonna come back to you.

If all doesn't help try a druid, cat for fast pulling, selfhealing, bear if it gets a bit tougher and swipe as a mob killing maschine.
I tried the druid of a friend of mine and was amazed, give it a shot, you won't regret it .