How is leveling as a Ret?

[arzi]

What is it like to level as a Retribution Paladin?

Recommendations/help are appreciated.

[Spluaks]

I'm Still lv36 with my pally but I leveled as retry, lv10-20 with Seal of Crussader, Fast AA, lv20+ Seal of Commander, if procs do high dmg, Think is easy level as retry if you have a good wep, thats all

[charly93]

Awesome signature dude

[Rhoen]

as ret leveling is the way to go on this server, there is to much competition to AOE grind mobs down as a paladin. So for ret Seal of Command's proc rate is Based on your weapons attack speed. Ideally you want 3.6-3.8 if you manage to find a 4.0 while levelling that thing practically has a 50% to proc Seal of command. However you can only proc seal of command 7 times per minute. Make sure you get the parry tallent because with you have a 10% chance to parry. When you parry 40% of your swing attack is carved off your next hit (without effecting the proc rate of SoC)

[DrearyYew]

However you can only proc seal of command 7 times per minute.

That's not true.

PPM in Vanilla is based on soft PPM, where over an extremely large sample size, you will see that SoC will proc 7 times per minute. But how it actually works is that there is a set % chance to proc based on your weapon speed. The formula for this % chance is (Weapon Speed * 7) / 60. It's entirely possible for you to get 20 procs in one minute. It's soft PPM, not the hard PPM that we have in retail today.

Anyways, Paladin is the second slowest leveling class. You'll be drinking after every mob or two up until about 50, just like a Mage. But, Mages actually kill shit really fast, whereas it's painfully slow to kill using SotC (which you will be using while leveling, SoC is unreliable unless you have 3.6 or higher, but they are pretty damn rare while leveling. I recommend going Prot at 40 since you will do more damage with Holy Shield to mobs that are attacking you than SotCing everything down.

[smilkovpetko]

go divine int,divine str,consecration and then start to build up retri spec.

this will help you lot on - mana issue + aoe farming + level faster

cheers.

[arzi]

Oh, I'd also like to add.. is there any room for rets in raids?

Or do we have to go holy?

[Rhoen]

However you can only proc seal of command 7 times per minute.

That's not true.

PPM in Vanilla is based on soft PPM, where over an extremely large sample size, you will see that SoC will proc 7 times per minute. But how it actually works is that there is a set % chance to proc based on your weapon speed. The formula for this % chance is (Weapon Speed * 7) / 60. It's entirely possible for you to get 20 procs in one minute. It's soft PPM, not the hard PPM that we have in retail today.

Anyways, Paladin is the second slowest leveling class. You'll be drinking after every mob or two up until about 50, just like a Mage. But, Mages actually kill shit really fast, whereas it's painfully slow to kill using SotC (which you will be using while leveling, SoC is unreliable unless you have 3.6 or higher, but they are pretty damn rare while leveling. I recommend going Prot at 40 since you will do more damage with Holy Shield to mobs that are attacking you than SotCing everything down.

Thank you for correcting me, I assumed SoC was on a hard PPM in vanilla (though I do know enchants and other procs dont have a PPM)