Delphwind

I am not worried about not knowing out classes, I just have no desire to group with the jack-holes that swarm around Deadmines LFG while spewing vile hatred (and no, I am not exaggerating). I would rather run dungeons with 5 people, once we find a couple more folks willing to take it a bit slower as we enjoy the runs we have not seen in a decade. Thanks for the response though, I likely would have said something similar if I had come across this post, however in this instance, it's just not the case.

Myself and a couple friends have decided to play on the PvE server, as we all played together in classic (and every live expansion thereafter). I have always hated how rage generation works while tanking (I know it works, it's just a personal preference), and have been playing Prot Paladin since TBC, and raid healed on my paladin in vanilla. We decided to go Tank/Healer/DPS, but let each person decide which one was most appealing to them instead of min/maxing. We ended up with a Prot Paladin, Holy Paladin, and a Rogue. I know prot paladins are not in the best space right now, and recall vividly how they were nearly spat upon back in the day. Is the general feel of the server about the same today? Am I setting myself up for failure? I do not expect to be a main tank in a raid, I know we lack the basic tools to do that (long defensive CDs, and a taunt) but I know the game well, and have put together a decent leveling gear guide for myself and have most of a pre-made group ready to grind dungeons. So my questions: Will our Trio of Prot Paladin, Holy Paladin, and Rogue be able to 3 man dungeons if we go into them 1-2 levels above? I would like us to become more acclimated to our classes and the vanilla server before starting to pug groups. If the time is spent to properly gear up my prot paladin, and I follow the spec guides here on the forums, will I be able to get through all the dungeons, and maybe even act as an AoE raid tank? We do not plan on rushing, and will be running each dungeon many times for gear as we level up. We are planning on doing Deadmines at level 22 as our trio. I was thinking of going 11.2.0 for Consecrate, but I was not sure if maybe picking up Improves Righteous Fury would be better (0.13.0) to begin with, thoughts? We're going to be in quest greens and cheap AH gear, with the basic consumables that we can make for ourselves until we really get going in our 20s and can start farming dungeons for loot/gold. Is there anything we should actively seek out before starting? Our Holy Paladin will be in mostly cloth and leather to boost her mana pool, as we have not found any mail yet with int. Is there a guide, or could someone shoot me a link that might have cloth/leather/mail/plate that is decent for a Holy Paladin? We're slowing putting together a set of +int greens ... I know this is the wrong forum to be asking this, but what spec do you think the Rogue should go in this trio? So far he's been CCing a lot for us, but he is also our main source of damage. Thanks for all your help!