#0 - Sept. 23, 2006, 7:07 p.m.
NOTE ABOUT BUILDS:All builds can have minor changes made to them with no superirior effect to the overall effectiveness. Ones that delve into holy Divine strength OR divine intellect is fine, go on what you want, more dmg or more mana, in the long run it will not hamper you whichever you decide to take. In the ret trees you cannot go wrong really, IMP CRUSADER IMP RETRI AURA POJ are all good choices, and chosing imp crusader over deflection will again not hinder you too much, unless you are really concerned about parrying attacks. The one thing i still havent made my mind up on is if taking IMP BoM over benediction is a bad choice, but then i reach the dilema 'imagine if i took imp BoM, i would have hit X amount more'
have fun ^^
Common Paladin talent specs
The Retadin (31 ret / 20 holy)
http://www.wowhead.com/talent/?sExuzZZVbItMcqo
This build is highly damage-oriented. It is frequently refered to as the PvP build for a paladin. It also offers enough from the holy tree to allow the paladin’s survivability to shine. Building 30 points in to retribution is also the preferred paladin leveling spec. The most common adjustment to this spec is to put 21 points into holy and 30 into ret, allowing the paladin to receive Divine Favor and use Illumination when raiding.
The Reckadin (25 prot, 15 ret, 11 holy)
http://www.wowhead.com/talent/?qVxZVGp0cbxZV0xt
This talent spec allows use of the ability “Reckoning” while maintaining the PvP power of the ability “spiritual focus,” “Consecration,” and the access to “Seal of Command.”
Reckoning is an extremely difficult build to start out with and understand, so don’t start out trying to play this way, and be very patient: the learning curve is steep. The basic idea of reckoning is to charge up reckoning “bombs” by being struck by critical strikes when you are unable to auto-attack or auto-attack is disabled, then unload huge sums of damage on a single target instantly. I’m not going to delve too deeply into this here.
The Healadin (31 holy / 20 prot)
http://www.wowhead.com/talent/?aVxudgotVGp0Mh
This is the single most durable combat healer in the game. It is extremely powerful, both PvE and PvP, for keeping its team alive and long-lasting healing. Nothing is more annoying then a paladin who knows how to heal and who wears a shield. The flaw? This build could hardly have lower damage output, so you had best find an ally to kill things for you.
The Holydin (31 holy / 20 ret)
http://www.wowhead.com/talent/?qVxuRgotZVbxtM
[This if my first attempt at building a Holydin]
The Holydin is a holy-specced paladin with an eye turned towards damage output. The advantage of this build is that it gives you all the tools of a powerful healer as well as a source of extremely controllable damage. You need a good deal of +Spell Damage gear to make great use of this build.
The Tankadin (33 prot / 11 holy, 7 ret)
http://www.wowhead.com/talent/?aVVzZVGtG0zEoVb
The Tankadin is a paladin acting as a tank, plain and simple. There’s a huge argument always waged over how effective a tank a paladin can be, and the answer is simple: you can tank. How well / poorly you tank in relation to a warrior? Irrelevant, you tank in different ways that should not be compared. For instance, a paladin can AoE tank multiple trash mobs, something a warrior has a great deal of trouble doing. This build also allows for single-target damage return tanking (with Retribution Aura, Blessing of Sanctuary, Holy Shield, and a shield spike your holy damage return is pretty high). Holy damage is the threat generation source for a Tankadin, so moves like Consecration and Seal of Righteousness are extremely powerful for it. Improved Judgment and Benediction allow the Tankadin to fire out even more holy damage and still conserve as much mana as possible.
The Allrounder. (Contributed by doomhamma)
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=sVEzMxkZVRthczx
Healadin Raiding+: Divine Favor, Illumination, Divine Intellect, Blessing of Kings and Salvation, Guadian's Favor, lasting judgement and Spiritual Focus.
Tankadin+: Reckoning, Toughness, Imp. Righteous Fury, Redoubt, Imp. Seal of Righteousness, Consecration, Blessing of Sanctuary.
PvP+: Reckoning, Precision, Toughness, Guadrian's Favor, Spiritual Focus, Divine Intellect, Improved Seal of Righteousness, Unyielding Faith, Divine Favor.
This is my Allrounder.
the WSG Build (Contributed by Lotharemas)
13/7/31
http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/basics/talents/paladin/talents.html?05502100000000500200000000000051050512203151
The WSG Build gives Consecration to scout out Stealthed players going for the flag if your on defence
it gives Guardians Favor for an extra 6 seconds on Blessing of Freedom also reduces the CD on BoP by 2mins
Repentance the best talent for WSG, extremely useful to stop Rogues sprinting away with the flag
Death Reckoning
http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/basics/talents/paladin/talents.html?00000000000000503241000320500052040512203110
Retri/Holy Build - Good damage output, and survivablity.
http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/basics/talents/paladin/talents.html?50503122020000000000000000000052040512203151
Spell damage build
http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/basics/talents/paladin/talents.html?05503121521051000000000000000052300512200000
Kensai's PVP build
My build when i did PvP,very deady with PvP gear :
http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/basics/talents/paladin/talents.html?00000000000000053251000300000052050512203151
Raidadin
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=qVxuogstxMuhZx
This build gives you the oppertunity to fill in for whatever blessing is required (except sanctuary) to it's fullest potential.
It maximizes your healing ability and manapool.
Gives you lasting judgement to make it easier to judge ligth and wisdom.
Gives you the opportunity to grab some AoE agro in ZG spiders/AQ20 scarabs, allowing mages to stay alive longer, or maybe not even dying, if they dont go in too early.
Guardian favor, must say that I haven't utilised this too much lately, was of more use when we strugled at spider in ZG, but can still be a mage lifesaver if used correctly.
I must however warn people, this spec is put together for raiding purpose only, and focusing on that your main role in raiding will be healing/supporting other classes. I don't consider this very viable for people who like PvP or grinding a lot inbetween raids.
Please feel free to add your own builds in the same layout and i will do my best to get it on the list, please try and get this stickied.
EDIT:spellings!
