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Tanking, healing, farming as Retribution paladin?

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Light bless, never played Paladin before, really interested to roll one when Elysium opens. 

It is my understanding that deep Ret is the way to go for leveling and pvp due to the damage and extra cc it provides. However, I'm concerned how well would I be able to perform the other roles. Can a 31 Ret pally still tank 5mans, heal in MC and, perhaps, aoe farm undeadsies? Or am I really missing some key stuff from other trees that pretty much forces me spend gold on rerolls every time I feel like changing things up?

 

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For leveling if single target damage and pvp is priority then yes full ret is the way to go.

At max? I think you will struggle to tank upper end 5 mans, the extra block chance, armour, block dmg reduction and threat from the prot tree is really useful i think.

Ive never tried but many ppl say healing is fine in MC with ret talents and holy gear (you will miss out on like crit heals being free and stuff which i find fun for healing but..)

Ret isnt really an aoe farming spec, pally aoe dps comes from consc (holy tree), blessing of sanc (prot) and holy shield(prot) which also buffs your survive a lot so you can take all the hits. Need prot for good aoe farming in my opinion.

Reality is if you truely feel like "changing things up" in a meaningful way you WILL need to respec, but this is true of any class i suppose.

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IMHO

The best "bang for your buck" spec is going to be 21/0/30.

You'll be able to heal dungeons/raids just fine with it and solo grind/farm. You'll also be able to dps decently in 5mans.

For Aoe port farming you'll need to be a different spec 11/31/9. Although it can be fun/good to do. The other spec above will be fine for killing stuff. Maybe arguably better if you are against caster mobs.

For leveling you want to go ret

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On 1/12/2017 at 7:56 PM, Reyus said:

IMHO

The best "bang for your buck" spec is going to be 21/0/30.

You'll be able to heal dungeons/raids just fine with it and solo grind/farm. You'll also be able to dps decently in 5mans.

For Aoe port farming you'll need to be a different spec 11/31/9. Although it can be fun/good to do. The other spec above will be fine for killing stuff. Maybe arguably better if you are against caster mobs.

For leveling you want to go ret

Post your recommend Talent builds plz.

I recommend this site:
http://db.vanillagaming.org/?talent#s

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I am trying to find what feets better and just don't know. I did something wrong, but what exactly? Bad for trying to obtain Consecration? Or is it 2h specialization? Forgot to mention - I'll get Seal of Command on the next lvlup. Thoght it was buggy again and didn't take it.

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