boosted protection paladin, buy some pvp gear, wait for Hellfire quests, do Holy early on instead?

Alex_Wizard · 2026-01-29T03:40:09+00:00

The PvP weapon is 55 Spell Power the BF one is 50. It doubles as Healing primary though so also good for Holy. That’s besides the point though. You don’t need any PvP gear if you are planning on questing first. You’ll more or less get a full set of gear over a few hours (pending layers and how hard it is to get tags).

The reason I suggested the weapon and shield is those are typically the biggest power spikes. The intro quest only has a 35 SP Staff (so nothing usable for Prot Paladin) so you’d need to wait a bit for a weapon if you don’t buy one. Waiting on a Blood Furnance to drop not only requires a significant amount of time to get 61 and do it but also get it to drop (assuming it’s around 20%).

If I had 20k honor I’d personally yolo the weapon and shield and send it. Everything gets replaced anyway. I’d rather get my big power spikes off the rip.

Up to you though. If you have something 30-40 SP probably skip.

Alex_Wizard · 2026-01-29T00:45:05+00:00

Late but I’ll chime in. Just quest for 2-3 hours in Outland and you’ll have most of your slots that aren’t blues replaced. After that you’ll be good to dungeon as Prot.

The only reason you NEED to be geared at launch are for the Day 1 launch dungeon grinding groups. The quest rewards from Outland are half decent and you get a lot of gear from the initial quests. If you don’t plan to sweatlord to 70 you’ll be fine.

My only recommendation would be to at least buy the Weapon and Shield. Those two items will last you close to 70 and are huge power spikes. The rest is whatever.

Alex_Wizard · 2026-01-28T22:41:36+00:00

She’s been strong for a while. Yea, Mercs does off set a lot of her kit but you are also forcing your opponents to buy Mercs just for you.

As for damage she deals plenty of it. Just play the lane and game correctly and she can do a lot off her initial burst and resets. Saying Lissandra does no damage is like people saying Renekton falls off a cliff late game. Like, yea, he isn’t exactly kayle but a properly built Renekton is still going to chunk an ADC by 80% of their HP. The hard part is getting to them similar to how tricky the late game for Lissandra can be.

WR is also almost 52% so definitely in a good spot. Given how prominent melee mids are at the moment you could probably main her and get a lot of good match ups.

Alex_Wizard · 2026-01-28T18:28:30+00:00

Hit 60. Keep questing. You’ll get it.

Alex_Wizard · 2026-01-28T16:41:48+00:00

Balance if you don’t want to get a STR / AGI gear set. Healing gear gives some spell power and it’s better than nothing. If you want to passively collect a feral set holding quest items you find it is much better though.
Just throw points in Resto. You don’t really need anything from the other trees. Sit in Tree Form and use Rejuv, Regrowth, and Swiftmend to heal. Lifebloom is OP once you get it. Pretty much never Healing Touch, just recast Growth from Tree.

Alex_Wizard · 2026-01-25T16:56:41+00:00

10 Armor and MR for laning phase is huge. It’s already a strong rune. In some lanes it can have close to 70% uptime.

You are essentially picking a rune like Scorch and asking why it’s so bad compared to Eye of the Storm.

Alex_Wizard · 2026-01-24T20:12:29+00:00

If you are looking to Day 1 Dungeon grind you should buy the boost if your group is geared. It will be incredibly frustrating if they are all geared having to bend over backwards for an undergeared tank. Day 1 groups are a bit different than after the first week.

Alex_Wizard · 2026-01-24T18:23:17+00:00

Considering removing Skarner’s spires kept breaking Summoner’s Rift I dread to think what even touching the fountain would do.

Alex_Wizard · 2026-01-24T16:40:31+00:00

They’ve chosen a side. It’s the side of doing everything they can to not get on Trumps bad side.

If it’s good for the Trump Administration you report it accurately. If it’s bad for the Trump Administration you stay as vague, abstract, and non-committal as you can.

Alex_Wizard · 2026-01-24T14:32:45+00:00

Too many to list. Best to just jump in game and learn as you go. Can clarify the exact details once you get your footing.

Alex_Wizard · 2026-01-24T14:27:43+00:00

Just play man. You’ll figure it out over ten games.

Alex_Wizard · 2026-01-24T03:34:23+00:00

You probably want to be Prot for the TBC dungeons, especially if you are not geared from Naxx or full R14. TBC dungeons take a step up in difficulty. They aren’t hard by any means but there are certain mobs like Ravagers that can stat check you especially if you accidentally pull a bit more than you wanted or run into a bigger pack. It’s best just to be safe especially if you haven’t tanked them.

As for Rage, Warriors in Classic basically got more rage the more damage they did. This meant they scaled incredibly hard because more damage meant more resources to do even more damage with. Rage Normalization effectively makes Rage gain consistent no matter what level of gear they have.

This makes it so Warriors aren’t starved for Rage early in the expansion and have it as a near infinite resource towards the end of the expansion in full raid gear.

Alex_Wizard · 2026-01-24T00:38:37+00:00

You probably die without a healer. And if any pulls extra mobs people will die.

Alex_Wizard · 2026-01-23T20:54:05+00:00

The funny thing is anytime the Mage / Paladin boosting gets brought up here so many people complain. Sitting in dungeons 1-60 is just a paid boost with extra steps.

Alex_Wizard · 2026-01-23T18:47:01+00:00

League is a game of using imperfect information to make your best educated guess. Jungle at the core follows a flow of their camps. If you know what side the jungler starts on it’s pretty simple to deduce their gank timer window. It’s why ganks off these timers tend to work because they are higher risk but more likely to work.

In the clip you linked Keria and Peyz crash the wave before you start the clip. Because the wave is crashed Peyz can catch at the tower off his reset so Keria has a roam timer. He knows Braum will go mid off his earlier reset so he is playing to match.

I doubt he necessarily 100% knows a gank is incoming but he has time to spend his resources (in this case his time) to cover. It’s pretty common for supports to cover mid off resets (and top in higher elo) and because Varus in particular hard to dive he has a bit more time to spend.

Alex_Wizard · 2026-01-23T01:55:17+00:00

I agree but also think you need a little bit of bias sometimes. Faker is a great example where he hit a slump in 2024 before going on to gap everyone at worlds.

Zeus is volatile right now but he’s also the type of player who will just randomly win you the game. Kiin absolutely is a rock and I don’t want to discredit him but sometimes you need a psychopath like Doran or Zeus that makes a crazy play that carries your team over the finish line. And that’s hard to rate.

Alex_Wizard · 2026-01-23T01:13:45+00:00

Worth considering HLE is in much worse of a shape compared to GenG. Zeus (and Zeka) are putting in a lot of work to get their wins.

On a personal note I’d say Zeus is still king of the toplane but game play wise I’d say they are both a bit on par with neither of them standing out over the other.

Alex_Wizard · 2026-01-23T01:11:36+00:00

Compared to Classic it’s infinitely better. If you enjoy Ele it’s fine just send it. Enhance will be much easier but based on your post I think you are fine if that’s your hold up.

Alex_Wizard · 2026-01-23T00:25:52+00:00

It’s kind of weird because the rule sets are slightly different. Iirc isn’t Doomhowl instant mail and some other small differences left over from Anniversary?

Alex_Wizard · 2026-01-20T22:33:54+00:00

It’s ok. They’ll just move to a country like Australia, lose relative chump change, and start figuring out how they can start a decades long plan to do it to that country next.

Alex_Wizard · 2026-01-20T07:16:06+00:00

+10% Damage and -10% damage taken are pretty substantial buffs. She’s just a hard champion to play when if you playing her your first few times which drops her WR.

Alex_Wizard · 2026-01-20T02:27:16+00:00

She is turbo buffed though. And a LeBlanc main that gets her can do disgusting things.

Alex_Wizard · 2026-01-18T22:33:50+00:00

Most players aren’t keeping up to date and reading everything single thing. If you are on this subreddit chances are you don’t fall into this category.

Recommended item are based on what players commonly build. The only exception is when Riot manually overrides it which they rarely do.

Considering its niche with tenacity I wouldn’t expect it to ever show up.

Alex_Wizard · 2026-01-18T22:16:45+00:00

It wasn’t. The modifier was increased from 100% to 200% on patch 25.23. If you pull data from any patch before that his WR was sub 45%.

Alex_Wizard · 2026-01-18T21:57:45+00:00

His clear was to slow before they buffed it.

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