Paladin PVP(arena mostly) tips

[Mollymus]

So a friend of mine asked me if I had any tips for his paladin that he just started playing again, and I realised there is actually quite a few hints the inexperienced paladin might not know of or think of.

And in my struggle towards contributor I decided to try and post what I told him and share with the lot of you! Basicly I will just go through diffrent tips, that I found helpful and I hope they will help you too! The tips are pretty much only useful in arenas tho.

# When you are trapped by a hunter, you can still cast hand of freedom on your teammates - giving them a very easy job running behind a pillar and just LOSing the hunters damage.

# When you are cycloned by a druid, you can (like when trapped by a hunter) still cast freedom on your teammate so he can kite / LoS to avoid most damage!

# When you get scattershot by a hunter, it is almost always followd by a trap. Spam Divine Sacrifise or hand of sacrifice on your partner and you will find that quite frequently the sacrifice will go of and your trap will immediatly break!

# You can use Divine Sacrifice when you are hexxed, could sometimes save your partner!

# Aura Mastery in combination with sacrifice makes you immune to a lot of cc on the same time. Perfect against mages!

# Your Avenger's Shield not only stopps mages from casting offensive spells on your teammates it also stopps them from silencing you! Toss it on them and get an extra free heal in!

# If you have beacon of light on your partner, you can heal them from 60 yards away by spamhealing yourself. By doing this you will also get out of combat after 5 seconds, perfect if you want to drink! Heal self with holy light - crit warrior for 20k from 60 yards and immediatly sit down and drink!

# When a warlock fel domination summons a pet, or a hunter heart of the phoenix resses it, it will for a very short period of time be on ~5% health. Hit it with a hammer of wraith and watch them cry for wasting their cd! (Download the addon Spell Alerter to get a big warning when a warlock pops feldom, then just target the pet and oneshot it!)

# When you are up against a dispeller + dps, example priest rogue, stack seal of corruption proccs on the dps so you can get a full stun in without it getting dispelled!

# Against physical dps(ers) + healer, use Blessing of santuary on yourself, you will not be needing the 10% extra mana and mana back from blocks + 3% less dmg is nice!

# Hand of reckoning is a great way to get in combat before a sap or interupt a drinking player unless you are full holy and have 40yard judgements. (Tho it still is, since its of gcd and very cheap manawise.)

# Forbearance debuff at a crucial point? Do not forget about avenging wrath! It is a very powerful spell, especially in combination with sacrifice + auramastery!

# TAUNT PETS! Taunting a hunterpet after a scattershot will force it to attack you for like 3 sec, this will often be enough for it to break the trap! Also taunting a shadowfiend to kite it will stop the priest from getting quite some mana! You could also do this with frost elemental before a sheep to make him hit you and break it!

# When up against rogues and poping aura mastery, try to have your back towards them while healing - that way they can't gouge you! This is quite hard to pull of tho because of delay and they can just run around.

# Up against a warlock using succubus? Auramastery with shadow resistance aura could help! They wont be silencing you anyway! Same goes for survival hunters and fire resistance aura!

# If you have sacred shield on yourself while in sheep / seduce with sacrifice up - remove it and the cc will break sooner. It breaks on damage taken, not on damage absorbed. So again, remove it - have the cc break, and apply it to your teammate if he is under preasure, which he normally is when you are ccd!

# Up against a rogue priest? They trying to kill your teammate? Stay at range and when the rogue leaves your partner and runs for you, pop sacrifice - and you will often break the blind!

Other then that there are ofcourse a few even more basic things, like always keep sacred shield up (which is like the most important thing ever.), use divine plea early so you dont risk going oom if you have to cancel it, fear warlockpets when you need to stop them from silencing or seducing you if you have the glyph for it, If you used divine sacrifice, make sure your partner is within 30 yard range of you so damage is actually ransfered!

Also like x Royal x said, remember that hand of sacrifice and divine sacrifice is a very, very good way to break cc.

I hope this will help some of you!

[x Royal x]

As a Gladiator paladin myself, this was an excellent guide. It will help a ton of people. You really hit the nail on the head with this one +rep

PS. Don't forget to add that hand of Sacrifice is extremely important in breaking sheeps as well as other CCs (not just hunter traps)

[Mollymus]

Thank you! I am glad even a gladiator paladin felt so! I added what you suggested by the end by the more basic stuff and I also added a last thing with sacrificeing blinds.

[jimskill4]

Very, very nice! I don't play a paladin my self but all of my wow friends have one :3
I will be sharing this around.

[cooper101]

Look pretty good I play a disc priest in arenas but do have a pally in full furious just could never really get good with him like my 2.2k priest I'm stuck around 1800 with my pally thanks for the tips will use

[discobob]

also, to add to your shadowfiend part, as long as you have run speed enchant, judging them with justice is amazing for kiting if you do not have a snare for them (coi/etc).


also for hunter traps, when you get scattered, if you have no way to break it, a lot of hunters shoot the traps a bit away from your body and you run into it just because of the scatter pathing once it breaks, if they do that, as long as you really really mash divine sac/hos it will go up as you get trapped, thus breaking it.

[hocius]

Thanks for the advices!! good work! +rep

[whatever87]

Do you have a specific macro for taunting hunter pets? Or do you have to input the pets name into the macro for it to work properly (without having to target the pet manually)?

[Caniz]

First I was like "Ah, damn, time to go troll this thread" but after reading, I really approve you O.o You really do have knowledge about holy pala, I got to agree ;P Good job, really helpful for beginner/advanced paladins :P

[Mollymus]

Do you have a specific macro for taunting hunter pets? Or do you have to input the pets name into the macro for it to work properly (without having to target the pet manually)?

Not really, but I would recommend targeting your partner and using Righteous Defense if you want a macro like that - the pet will almost always be on him so that way you'll taunt it without targetting it!

First I was like "Ah, damn, time to go troll this thread" but after reading, I really approve you O.o You really do have knowledge about holy pala, I got to agree ;P Good job, really helpful for beginner/advanced paladins :P

Wow, thanks!^_^

[Numi2]

Thank you very much! +rep