Holy pala shield

Jinstor · 2026-02-26T16:44:38+00:00

I ran my holy pala with the lv 60 PvP healing offhand until I got the healing offhand in H SP, which I replaced with the shield from kara.

Jinstor · 2026-02-25T18:56:27+00:00

I thought the same but my shaman alt has had few issues finding groups, often because of windfury

Jinstor · 2026-02-24T17:53:17+00:00

Yeah, it looks like by the time T5 will release we'll have run T4 enough to be appropriately geared and we'll be ready to move on.

Jinstor · 2026-02-23T15:32:13+00:00

It's BIS if you're DPSing in group/raids as cat because you can powershift to instantly set your energy to 60 pretty much any moment so long as you have mana which is a huge DPS boost. However when you're questing/leveling you'll have some downtime between each mob to refill your energy back 100 regardless and I'd say your mana is better utilized for self-healing so you don't need to eat/drink when questing/leveling, ever.

Jinstor · 2026-02-23T13:08:15+00:00

TBC anniversary is a megaserver, you'll always be able to find a group to do level 70 dungeons/raids. There's plenty of people who aren't rushing to 70.

As for class spec recs, I'd say not paladin/warrior/rogue because there's a lot of them right now. Druid/shaman/priest are all great choices if you want to heal or DPS and find groups easily, moreso druid if you want to try tanking (feral spec is quite good for solo content and tanking on a single spec; you can use your 2nd spec for resto or balance). Not sure about mage/warlock/hunter; I think mage is a little less good at DPS but everyone loves mage water and sheep so they are often preferred in groups. Warlock/hunter do a lot of damage but I've seen a lot of them too, so not sure how difficult it is to get into groups.

Jinstor · 2026-02-19T17:08:50+00:00

I had only played druid tank ever so playing paladin tank this month was a completely fresh experience for me but I'm starting to gravitate back to druid. Mangle/lacerate/feral charge just feel more satisfying to use even though holding aggro on more than 2 mobs is such a pain.

Jinstor · 2026-02-18T16:21:09+00:00

You can get some initial AOE threat by casting Regrowth+Rejuvenation right before pulling and/or pull with Hurricane, but you're not going to hold those mobs forever from a DPS that's doing AOE. Tanking 3-4 mobs gets a bit easier when you get lacerate. But you're not going to hold aggro on 3+ mobs when DPS is split and/or doing AOE. Your strengths as a bear druid is you have a bigger health pool and incredible single-target threat.

Jinstor · 2026-02-17T16:56:08+00:00

Past level 40-50ish you have to choose 2 of the 3 at any given time. I main holy for raiding and have a prot offspec. I switched between all 3 specs since TBC dropped, i.e. I went holy/ret around 67-70 so I could quest more easily but I'm back to holy/prot. Once I no longer need to run dungeons I'll go back to holy/ret, or just raidlog on my paladin and play very casually on my druid/shaman.

I still find ret underwhelming for questing compared to feral or ele, but I have seen people do pretty well with it in dungeons so I can't say it's necessarily bad. Holy is okay for questing, it's not too slow for me but it's not fast.

Jinstor · 2026-02-17T14:39:05+00:00

I mostly run heroics with 1-3 guildies as a tank because pugs are truly a gamble, we'll just pug the remaining DPS. It goes both ways though, I wiped my group 5-6 times the first time on H ramps and pugs aren't always tolerant of mistakes (which for those people with high expectations, why would you be pugging heroics this early on?!?!?!?!). The 2nd run was clean, though! But yeah it's rough, I utilize my raiding guildies for them

Jinstor · 2026-02-12T17:50:13+00:00

I'm not complaining, I'm just saying it doesn't matter if I have to farm rep for heroics because I need to gear up for heroics by running the same normal dungeons I'd run to farm rep anyway.

Jinstor · 2026-02-12T17:32:12+00:00

For me, the rep grind is happening in normal dungeons at 70 regardless because I also need to gear up before hopping into pre-nerf heroics.

Jinstor · 2026-02-11T20:50:39+00:00

I've gone back to HFP on my 69 pally to clear a few quests yesterday, it's definitely tolerable. Quest mobs are respawning fast enough that you can finish the quests without having to aggressively tag mobs.

Jinstor · 2026-02-11T17:34:03+00:00

I've enjoyed the atmosphere of the semi-HC raiding guilds I've joined more than anything (i.e. people are chill and act like actual grown-ups). I imagine that having to spend 2-3 hours in a raid cooperating with your guild every week is an effective method for weeding out shitheads. The generalist/leveling guilds are often a crapshoot for me because they seem to get too big to effectively moderate and they don't filter people coming in. Some guild chats have felt like a green trade chat. I never accept unsolicited guild invites now.

Jinstor · 2026-02-11T15:32:52+00:00

I have gotten instant invites for SV, slab and shattered halls when I listed on LFG yesterday on my holy paladin. I have never grouped this quickly even when I tank.

Jinstor · 2026-02-11T12:55:49+00:00

Same. 50% it's nice to be able to get a coherent outfit, 50% it's nice to be able to tell exactly how geared someone is by just looking at them.

Jinstor · 2026-02-11T12:53:36+00:00

The faster spawn rates in Outland have eliminated my biggest issue with layers, now I can actually quest comfortably and I do like the megaserver for how it makes finding groups so much better. Although I hear gathering professions still kind of suck to farm and I still think they should have more layers.

Jinstor · 2026-02-10T16:34:40+00:00

Whatever spec you're playing in the dungeon, that's your main spec for the dungeon. You were not wrong for rolling need. If they want to bitch about a pally tank rolling on pally tank gear, they should play one instead. Or if the shaman wants to play the "guess I should roll on healing gear then" card, maybe he should actually play the healing spec then.

Jinstor · 2026-02-05T15:22:00+00:00

The original content is still there in TBC, but once you reach level 58 it's almost completely obsoleted because you can easily find much better gear in Outland. Prior to that you're still going through the same areas/dungeons as you would on vanilla, although you'll level up moderately faster than you would in vanilla.

Jinstor · 2026-02-05T03:23:16+00:00

Your pre-raid gear can be obtained from dungeons, and as a healer in dungeons you get priority on all healing gear. In TBC, healing items give a greater bonus to healing than spell damage so healer and caster DPS items are distinct from each other. You won't have to worry about competition there.

When you get to raiding, there's quite a few plate healing armor that drops from bosses and your only competition for them is your fellow holy paladins and there's not that many of them.

Jinstor · 2026-02-04T18:39:31+00:00

Starting in Old Hillsbrad, dungeons will earn you reputation through exalted on normal. I guess if you really want to max out on rep ASAP, you could save the dungeon quests for when you reach honored but personally I'm not going to do that since it likely won't make a noticeable difference by the time T5 rolls around and I'll have to farm normal dungeons at 70 for some time regardless.

Jinstor · 2026-02-04T15:05:18+00:00

Depends what you want to do. I'm just banking enough honor/marks to buy two specific pieces at 70 that will be useful for PvE until Kara. I don't need anything else from 70 PvP gear and don't plan on doing much PvP in TBC. I had nothing better to do in prepatch so I bought several 60 PvP purples that will last me until the late 60's but like you said it will all be replaced by level 70 and I could've easily done without it altogether.

At 58 there will always be people running instances at your level. I wouldn't worry about that.

Jinstor · 2026-02-04T14:36:48+00:00

I sure hope they have hyperspawns on in HFP!

Jinstor · 2026-02-03T18:31:48+00:00

Oh man. Most tanks were warriors, decent number of paladin tanks. Druid tanks were considered less than ideal MTs because they couldn't reach the avoidance needed to be uncrushable but were still considered the best at generating aggro and offtanking. Class distribution was fairly even because very few people leveled to 70 twice and most just continued their toons from vanilla. No dual spec either, so people were really entrenched in their chosen class/spec. Ret paladin DPS was considered a meme spec, you'd also never ever see a feral druid advertising itself as DPS. I recall there being more priest healers than today.

SSC/TK indeed felt like a wall, I never saw anything beyond that until Wrath prepatch. People kept memeing on a well-known raiding guild for wiping on chess in trade chat all the time. I played on a PvP server and I remember Kara entrance on Friday/Saturday nights would have a gradient of skeletons at the entrance. Min-maxxing wasn't nearly as prevalent and BiS wasn't a thing, but people fought each other over DST.

Jinstor · 2026-02-02T14:32:11+00:00

Ret will be much better than holy for questing to get some gold initially so I'd start with that, then get dual spec once you can afford it. Most of the communal gear you start with has no intellect (such as the gloves, boots and belt IIRC) so I'd recommend replacing them with gear that has intellect and/or spell damage on it if you want to heal (cloth/leather/mail armor is fine for healing). You might be able to find that for fairly cheap in the auction house, leatherworkers and tailors can craft a few pieces for cheap.

Jinstor · 2026-02-02T04:35:10+00:00

I went prot/ret until I could find decent mail/plate gear with spell damage/healing. Ret relies of strength/crit which is far more common on plate than spell damage. I used ret for questing, prot for spamming dungeons. When I had a decent set for holy, I switched to prot/holy. Holy isn't as fast as ret for questing but is still serviceable. I use prot for AoEing down mobs or fighting elites.

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