I loved my paladin.... Going full protection mode would let you solo ANYTHING other than raids. Would it take you an hour to kill it? Yes... but that is beside the point.

People who complain that paladins got a free mount at 40 don't realize that it was Blizzard's way of making up for our dogshit leveling speed.

@politicallycorrectredskin796

5 жыл бұрын

You still had to do that awful quest for it anyway, so I never complained. As long as it isn't a freebie, like the entire game after BC has been, I don't mind.

@kaizouttv

5 жыл бұрын

Avionic Then warriors should’ve gotten a mount too. Leveling a warrior in vanilla is absolutely mortifying

@etaxalo

5 жыл бұрын

@@kaizouttv true but you can actually do something with a warrior at max level besides auto attack + buffing and healing.

@kallouttv5233

4 жыл бұрын

@@politicallycorrectredskin796 There was no quest for the level 40 mount, and the level 60 mount was a quest tied in with a LOT of material grinding.

@politicallycorrectredskin796

4 жыл бұрын

@@@kallouttv5233 Yes that is what I thought too. I have helped both sorts of paladins with the last step of this at least once. I remember both of those fights. But I actually did the warlock one on a private server. The end of that was really hard. Just a PuG of below 60s was not giaranteed to do it for you. I went there with a group of 54-55ish characters and we failed, so I think it was meant for 60s.

”Paladins make others shine” *breaks sheep*

Auto attack: The class.

@Avrelivs_Gold

5 жыл бұрын

yeah if you don't have money for pots/water or can't play this class at all

@hhhgggds

5 жыл бұрын

@@Avrelivs_Gold you dont need keyboard really to raid vanilla. 2 side buttons and middle mouse is enough so "cant play class" is not an argument for pve

@Avrelivs_Gold

5 жыл бұрын

@@hhhgggds yeah like keeping judgments up and seals in regards to efficiency, adding stuns and aoe things. also stacking mana potions and water to speed up things if you can't play, please don't choose paladin, please.

@hhhgggds

5 жыл бұрын

@@Avrelivs_Gold 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Warwipf

5 жыл бұрын

@@Avrelivs_Gold lmao

Most mana efficient healer in the entire game. Reduced threat of party/raid too. In vanilla, if you could heal, you specced healer, and they were one of the best MT healers in the game.

@willt3223

4 жыл бұрын

Ah yes... The holy light warrior regulated to a healer. How laughable.

@joshuaray7706

4 жыл бұрын

@@willt3223 - Priests, druids and pallys/shaman were the only classes that Could heal. Druids were, by far, the lowest rolled class. So, yes, if you could spec into the most mana efficient main tank healer build, you did. Ret dps was laughable til T3, and prot palys had limited utility outside of a few specific encounters.

@420PraiseIt

4 жыл бұрын

@@joshuaray7706 let me correct you, ret dps is laughable. Even in t3 i'd prefer having a warrior over a pala or that pala as a healer to bring a warrior/mage over. Ret dps is nothing but a meme don't give false hopes to anyone

@joshuaray7706

4 жыл бұрын

@@420PraiseIt - T3 Ret paly "DPS" wasn't meant for raids. It was, iirc, for BG or PvP server 1shot montages. Ret is Burst damage, which is king in PvP. Sry if that wasn't clear. No one takes ret palys in a raid.

@henriquebitencourt4280

4 жыл бұрын

@@joshuaray7706 even in mop the druid type that I have seen were tanks

It may not be the strongest class, but it might be the easiest one to find friends and groups as. That's worth something.

I will always remember my noob ass choosing to roll a holy paladin in vanilla because I wanted to be a undead smiting badass champion of the light... I stuck with Holy through the end of WotLK. I will always love my little dwarf pally.

@theatfshotmydog8224

4 жыл бұрын

I started in 2007 and I couldn't decide what class to play so i was browsing KZread and came across WoW Hobbs Scarlet Monastery speed leveling video, made a Paladin and have been playing him to this day.

@aleksadmitrovic6347

4 жыл бұрын

@Roshea Wotlk is best state for paladins for sure,Ret pala in mop pvp sucks 😁 But yea i understand you bro,but i tried to play other classes,and you know what i always miss that judgment prock. Once you chose your main that is your main for the rest of the life 😁

@henriquebitencourt4280

4 жыл бұрын

@@aleksadmitrovic6347 enhancement shamans in mop also sucked at least in low levels

@stickyglue8083

4 жыл бұрын

I started a protection paladin because I wanted to be a... Tank! Silly me, in the end I was using cloth gear in MC and BWL, healing my friends 😂😂😂

I played a rogue in vanilla, and a friend of mine played a paladin. He was all about the pala pvp, getting to grand marshal. And he'd always want duels (ofc only with his cds). Every time he'd just stand there, waiting for me to crit him four times, which would happen eventually. Then he'd bubble to avoid stuns, stun me, and reckoning bomb me. Every single time.... making me wish i had lower crit rate.

@chrisk1458

5 жыл бұрын

Ok

@WillEmmo

5 жыл бұрын

Big brain strats lol

@miracleman.0126

4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful. Though if you /sit you will be auto crit’d. Much easier to build up the reck stacks

@adriansmith5241

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed it takes a skilled rogue to beat a decent pally in 1vs1, my friend also used to play rogue in vanilla and i always would win in duels. In classic also I was on my way through hillsbrad to get to dungeon and was jumped by 2 rogues and I wiped the floor with both of them.

Excellent video. I remember playing a human ret pally during the burning crusade. I was only 11 years old mind, so i wasn't very good. I think i got to level 47 (after a long, long journey) and that's where i stopped. Came back to wow a few years ago and it's great reliving old memories :)

@WillEmmo

5 жыл бұрын

It will be!

@Jimmy_TV

5 жыл бұрын

@@WillEmmo 👍

@Urporuhtinas

5 жыл бұрын

nice ags

The funny thing about paladin was that while the leveling might be slow, but if you played it right. A paladin would almost never die. Like those vids of paladins pretty much soloing scarlet monastery.

This was very interesting, definitely checking out the other videos in this series!

@WillEmmo

4 жыл бұрын

Cheers

Dude your videos deserve so much love, fantastic job and please keep it going.

I loved retribution paladin, but MAN how their vanilla-design sucked when I think back. Short blessing duration, low mana, Consecration which would just tickle enemies for the cost of A LOT of mana, Seal of Command which could either destroy someone in seconds, or leave you tearing your hair out as your character lamely nudged his mace without effect for the 8th time. When we finally got Crusader Strike I was amazed by the simple fact that I could press a button and solid damage would happen instantly. In groups or raids I had so many hard times because of my retribution spec and was often forced to go Holy or Protection - which again gave me a hard time getting the gear I actually wanted, which was the damage gear, because the damage classes (understandably) didn't want to roll against their healer or tank for better equipment. This meant that I usually had to search for groups in which the damage roles either weren't warriors, or they already had better gear than they would get in the dungeon/raid anyway. And finding any group back then could easily take an hour. Yet still, I stayed with my retribution paladin all the way from classic to Cataclysm. I guess I didn't want to let the "Holy Warrior" idea go.

@kuhaku9587

4 жыл бұрын

You really need to understand how Paladin works to make it work. Seal of command proc 7 time per minute. You want the slowest weapon when using seal of command, if your weapon is fast then you should use the one you get right when you start. Attack scale with att power and spell power so using both pots and consumable make their dps increase significantly which make them a good dps in raid. Actually you can see well played dps be in the top 10 dps meter in 40 raid group. In there is no holy resistance thus your holy damage will always hit for maximum damage. Frost mage? eh no issue. Paladin is much more OP than people realise. Because most people were utter retards in 2004.

I always thought the PvP set looked the best on paladins followed by tier 2.

There is one huge aspect of a paladin in pvp that you surprisingly missed. Holy paladins were the God healers of classic. A geared paladin couldn't be killed, never ran out of Mana and enabled classes like warriors to be unstoppable(couldn't kill or stop the warrior, nor the paladin). Paladin and warrior could 2v8 a big group. As holy, paladins were an absolute TERROR in pvp.

@adriansmith5241

3 жыл бұрын

can be easly countered by some good mages on outher team though tbh

@ProfessorThinker-zv5vt

11 ай бұрын

Shaman ended up being better.

What's up with your resolution? You running a 4:3 resolution on a 16:9?

I did not know how wille improved so much in his channel. I love this guy.

If only Ret spec started with a Crusader strike ability at lvl40 talent mark, that would have been a game changer. Doesn't even need to be some big damage, just something that breaks the auto attack monotony.

@WillEmmo

5 жыл бұрын

could have been interesting instead of repentance

@Geraduss

5 жыл бұрын

@@WillEmmo I would have loved if they did some rebalancing like that for the Vanilla servers. But then the purists who fought for the legacy servers would have gone mental.

@devincampbell5007

5 жыл бұрын

@@Geraduss they should have already gone metal with all of the minor changes

@TheHed94

5 жыл бұрын

@@Geraduss I agree it would be great to change some things that got better with time. Like debuff slots, blood lust or complete rework of paladins.

@Geraduss

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheHed94 Maybe if they go overtime in the Vanilla+ route instead of expansion routs for it, then we could see some much needed class changes while staying in the "spirit" of vanilla. Since there is a slippery slope that we've seen how it ends.. *cough*.. BfA.

I love this series! It throws me off every time i see factions mixed in BGs lol

I started playing WoW roughly a month after launch, and my first character was a dwarf paladin. I stopped playing pally at level 32, and switch to warlock. I can still remember where I gave up on the class, Dun Modr. It felt incredibly slow, and clunky. I ended up hitting 60 on the warlock, and it was my first toon to 60.

@HighmageDerin

5 жыл бұрын

SAME!!! took fucking forever to kill just ONE mob, ya you were never in any danger of dying to anything not elite, but still, 5 minute fights were aggravating as hell

@JumpingJacksism

5 жыл бұрын

@@HighmageDerin how the heck did you spend 5 minutes to kill anything? Pick any item "of the gorilla" and you were good to go.

@HighmageDerin

5 жыл бұрын

@@JumpingJacksism I was new to the game thing didn't understand the mechanics. Or the stat build for my character. Just went into combat and popped all of my abilities and I thought were needed, oh to be naive and new to the game again. Those were the days.

@HighmageDerin

5 жыл бұрын

PS we didn't have Wowhead then so I had to figure it all out of my own. Things changed once I joined a guild. Met some people that really helped me with my game. And showed me that Paladin really wasn't the class for me. I've always been a druid Main ever since they convinced me that was a better class for my play style and personality. Tell my second is a hunter and my third is a warlock I love pet classes.

@MrLegovas

5 жыл бұрын

I did exactly the opposite. Started a warlock and dropped him at 36 in STV. Rolled to paladin and was very happy with him. I think its more personal preferences than which class is better imo

so thats why i auto-attacked back in wrath until lvl 60 and i thought the whole time "i have to be doing something wrong here"

@joshuaroe1402

4 жыл бұрын

If you were only auto attacking in Wrath then you were doing something wrong.

@Cleansingflames

4 жыл бұрын

@@joshuaroe1402 Crusader strike and such were unlocked later than they are now. Until around level 51 when you get crusader strike and hammer of wrath, you would get single target damage from judgments, exorcism, and autoattack (and notably your taunt!) Most of your leveling until that point would be two abilities with about 10 seconds cooldown, so it is quite autoattack heavy, and that would be the majority of your damage. So while yes, wrath paladin was not an autoattack machine at higher levels, the earlier leveling was. Oh, and since holy shock unlocked earlier, holy actually did much more damage than ret in earlier leveling, starting at about level 31, with the damage staying fairly competitive for a long time.

@olfan92

4 жыл бұрын

@@Cleansingflames ret pally still had hand of reckoning, judgement and exorcism before they got crusader strike in wotlk tho. and in wotlk hand of reckoning does a lot of damage :P

@Cleansingflames

4 жыл бұрын

@@olfan92 I've recently leveled a paladin in a WotLK private server, so it's quite fresh in my mind. The damage is alright, but it's not amazing and you only get to do it once. Basically one free autoattack, and holy had every one of those spells in their full glory as well as holy shock which was on a shorter cooldown and did a LOT more damage than any of the above.

@Cleansingflames

4 жыл бұрын

@Sal Marcano Nope, Warmane. They just opened a new progression server yesterday as well so you can do the whole expansion from Naxx to ICC as they unlock.

...You could just mix Ret and Holy together. That way when Holy was on downtime they could switch out to auto-attacks with a Two-Hander instead of having them sitting in the back twiddling their thumbs until it was the opportune time to heal/buff again.

I started in WotLK with a Ret Paladin. I love Paladin lore in the game and in history as well. I am not sure how many times I re-speced back then. I just have to figure out which way to go and stick with in classic.

@joshuadonnelly1978

5 жыл бұрын

My first (and still main) character was a Paladin in Burning Crusade. My spec was a mess until max level, but I loved every second of it. I forget if Seal of Command was still a thing in WotLK, but if you decide to go Ret Pally in Classic, all you really need to know is to use Judgement of Command whenever it's available, especially if the target is stunned (extra damage that way), and keep re-applying Seal of Command immediately after. The RNG of the Command procs can be unreliable, but it's a simple, fun way to DPS, I think.

I remember in WOTLK being a ret paladin in a raid and having topped the healing chart because of "Seal of Light"

@sherrix6881

4 жыл бұрын

The wotlk pala had been heavily tweaked

I was thinking about rolling a NE Rogue, but after this video, I am beggining to think about rolling a Pally. Nice video!

@WillEmmo

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@Asmodi16

5 жыл бұрын

Did something hit your head while watching the video? Or why do you want to be the buff vending machine for the raid? XD

@Zhade99

5 жыл бұрын

@@Asmodi16 I am always thinkin about what to play in Classic, and even if I like Rogues in general, I think that a support class is better for getting groups, plus I love bein that one guy in the group that says "Gotchu homie"

@Asmodi16

5 жыл бұрын

@@Zhade99 Nothing against the rogue. It is viable in classic, but be careful about the paladin. It can be really frustating not being able to do dmg. Moreover some raidleaders can be quite "rough" to paladins, because there are a lot of them.

@Lorexbg

5 жыл бұрын

Holy is the best healer in classic , in this days and age there gonna be place for ret pallys in the raids but you gotta be one of of the top 10% to get a spot

Prot paladin farming level 20-56 instances are the best one for sure. You can pull 4-5 packs and 10 seconds later not even warlocks hellfire can steal ur agro. Private server players will be confused (if they didnt play the classic beta) in "classic" cuz the mobs does almost 40% less damage.

@adriansmith5241

3 жыл бұрын

wait untill tbc, my prot pally used to be on last boss in heroic SH while healer and dps are half way through dungeon drinking to refill mana

What's the music at 1:05 and 2:38?

I played a pally in vanilla. In raids, I was usually the only pally. My job was generally just a buff bot who focused on healing the cloth classes and stealing any aggro they got so the warrior could pull it off of me. I quit shortly after the big pally change (I think it was 1.9) so I don't really remember how the gameplay changed.

@WillEmmo

5 жыл бұрын

Thats it! Pally buffs are super good - should have at least 3 really

One important thing you forgot to mention for leveling, prot paladin's can AOE farm safely and effectively with the right seals and reckoning talent from lvl 36 on

I wish this video got the 15 minute treatment like the other class videos. Very enjoyable.

You deserve more subscribers. You take your time, cover everything, and I guess this might sound mean to others, but your voice is not annoying to listen to. Thanks.

@WillEmmo

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I need a new mic tbh

@modE_n

5 жыл бұрын

@@WillEmmo I like your videos, but here I do not think you covered everything. Holy Paladins were PvP gods, every time as horde we saw 3 Holy Palas on the opposite team in AB f.ex. We knew we stood no chance. They were extremely powerful and godmode at healing PvP, especially paired with warriors. In AQ40 and Naxx Holy Palas were insanely good healers that literally never went out of mana. This video should have been 80% about how good Holy Palas were.

So the question is can a paladin tank adds in boss fights in 40men raids?

Subbed, well done sir!

@WillEmmo

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Ret is actually good when played with dedication (read: consumables). And besides, fun to play. Good in solo pvp due to all the great utility.

@xTreyray

4 жыл бұрын

I roll everyone in solo PvP on my paladin. Agreed.

@doksam5532

4 жыл бұрын

yeah you can fight if ganked you, be sure you have a lay on hands.

@adriansmith5241

3 жыл бұрын

My opinion is ret pally make one of the best 39 twink class in vanilla, get yourself full scarlet set, Ravenger and top enchants and you will one shot those twink clothys.

Played a Ret Paladin from 1-60 in vanilla and 60-70 in BC. It took so long and I had nothing but time back then. I even got full PVP gear. A very kind guild took me in. They called me Banana Man (Pali PvP set was kindda awful). They helped gear me for raiding and I changed to being a healer. Completely changed the game. Karazhan man... What a trip. Some of my fondest memories in Vanilla was spamming concercration in the duskwood graveyards; convincing people I was useful in dungeons and using bubble to infuriate just about everyone. This time I'm going either 'lock or Rogue. Can't decide. My Paladin still sits on my account, untouched since BC with all his raid healing gear. Good times.

I still have the holy mightstone I was given back in TBC.

My first class. not going that route again. stuck between Lock and Hunter as my choice for Classic but leaning lock because of the mount.

@revenxyo4241

5 жыл бұрын

Hunt better, lock is boring

@FuckYoutubeHandles

5 жыл бұрын

lock mount is kickable it cost mana and it starts your 5 second mana regen rule

Something about Holy Paladin is just still so nice, love being able to do big dps while healing and supporting teammates on CD

bru this guy sounds abit like the guy from river monsters liked and subbed lol

Had a char of every class back in vanilla, but my Prot Paladin was the only one I ever got to 60 before BC. Early game leveling was certainly painfully slow of course, but I often paired up with my brother who played a Hunter at the time which helped. Though combining Consecration, Reckoning and Holy Shield did speed up solo leveling especially when pulling multiple mobs. Not to mention Rogues in PvP absolutely hated me for that combo. XD Dungeons were an interesting challenge, but doable as long as you paid attention to your group and knew what you were doing. All dungeons too, not just undead-heavy ones. Probably varies for other Prot Paladins, but it always gave me a good feeling when my healers told me things ran smoother than with a lot of Warriors they'd previously run with. Not to mention the amusement I got from certain DPS players who would go out of their way to try and screw things up for me only to either fail to reliably pull aggro from me, or for me to let them have their aggro, get squished and helplessly watch the rest of us continue to finish the fight without them (was especially funny how often I came across healers who were actually on board with the latter). Never had any illusions about raid tanking though. I knew well before I hit 60 that wasn't going to happen. However, the few times I did raid I usually ended up filling a bit of a niche roll by having both Greater Blessings of Kings and Sanctuary to choose from and gave a little bit of support healing. Not to mention I was a little more durable and a little more expendable than the main healers so if an add got loose from one of the tanks for whatever reason I could usually take a couple hits for the other healers before someone got control of it again. Overall it was a fun experience. Sure I didn't feel like the powerful holy warrior the lore made the class sound like early on, but once you get that AoE going on 6+ mobs at once and shrug them all off you certainly feel a bit powerful.

@WillEmmo

4 жыл бұрын

Great info there! The aoe benefits of prot were really solid stacking all the different damage reflects. Cheers!

"Players will be able to see how much you've 'no life'd"...I lol'd so hard at that cause I am soooo guilty of it. I ran BWL for years trying to get one or two missing pieces of my Judgement set. :)

Little mention as a horde raider during Vanilla. Raiding without an equivalent to blessing of salvation in a time when threat was everything in group content was a nightmare. To gain anywhere near the same effect as 1 paladin buffing salv on a raid, horde would require 8 shamans, one for each group, limited to 20 yard range of the totem and would have to sacrifice windfury totem for tranquil air, to rub the salt in the wound even harder tranquil air totem only did -20% threat compared to blessing of salvation's 30%! Plus horde didn't even have this totem at the start of vanilla, raiders complained hard until it was eventually added, still Blizzard really wanted Horde to be hard mode for raids. I rerolled belf pally in BC and the power of the pally was very evident, unlimited single target healing with crits heals that refunded themselves, massive armor with parry and block, permanent auras you could easily change, so many powerful blessings for all sorts of classes, aoe tanking for easy dungeons, seal of casino crits for the lulz, going immune at the push of a button for 10 seconds was huge back then too. Some of the best support skills in the game like blessing of protection, blessing of sacrifice and blessing of freedom gave incredible power to your group, plus min maxing in raids with seal of wisdom/light really unleashed raidwide free regen. It was a good time to be a paladin back then, despite how many times you had to rebuff blessings, their strengths far outweight the inconveniences.

@WillEmmo

5 жыл бұрын

Good point, salvation was really the underappreicated hero for ally raiding. Its such a massive, easy to get bonus

@rudy1999

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah it does sound like insanely good ability to put on rogues or mages who do tons of dps.

I mained a pally from 2005 on and loved it. And I played it as Ret. I was mainly interested in questing and such, though eventually I joined a guild and healed with him quite a bit. Never tanked with him, we always had a warrior tank. All in all, I found it quite enjoyable to play over the years. For BC I gave him a rest though and switched to a shadow priest and in Wrath a mage (arcane, one button, LOL). It's definitely a great class to level with, I solo'd Hogger and Princess with him. With the free mount and the right professions, you could use him to earn some gold for other characters. There was a ring you could get which would freeze everything that made farming easier as well.

@WillEmmo

4 жыл бұрын

Nice one, good choice of characters there. Paladins could certainly farm well - I may of overlooked this! As for the rings that can freeze I can think of Deadman's Hand or Freezing Band Both pretty hard to get as World Drops!

@NeilRoy

4 жыл бұрын

@@WillEmmo That sounds like it. You got it from... one of the Scarlett dungeons, I forget the name. Scarlett monastery? I can picture the area in my head. Was THE farming ring to get. Also, someone else suggested that when Classic drops, a good profession to take early on is skinning as you won't be selling much on the AH as nobody will have the gold and I guess leather that you skin can vendor quite nicely. I may try this out.

selfless class. that is helping me decide to stick with it as a main.

@Jake-xn4tr

4 жыл бұрын

Insanity it’s the most boring class

@onioncultistlordoftheonion8315

4 жыл бұрын

@@Jake-xn4tr I'm sorry you dont find helping others fun.

I remember doing seal of command and stacking agility for crit chances. This resulted in one shot cloths and leathers in PVP and pretty decent dmg in PVE

@actionjackson7020

5 жыл бұрын

i'll be playing ret in classic, they may not be at the level of damage as say wotlk pallies but the are still able to contribute. Although you have to work harder to min/max it is still able to be done if you want it bad enough

@Alexandros.Mograine

5 жыл бұрын

@@actionjackson7020 reason wy people dont want ret pallies is because they take warrior/rogue/hunter gear for worse dps. mediocre dps isnt contributing, theres nothing you bring to the raid, holy paladins bring more and thats just the truth, but theres always some casual guilds that will take a ret paladin.

@actionjackson7020

5 жыл бұрын

@@Alexandros.Mograine fortunately i already found a guild that will. I am not apposed to switching to holy once i'm raiding though if we are short healers. I dont plan to be a hardcore raider though mainly because with my job and two young kids i will be very limited to when i can put that much time aside for it. Will mainly look to do some dungeons, pvping and just enjoying the game. This is why i hope for a tbc and even more a wotlk classic server in the future, bc as someone who loves ret i would love to play when they are good as well. But i know people's opinions will very on that

@Alexandros.Mograine

5 жыл бұрын

@@actionjackson7020 ret is only good as blood elf, also if you dont have much time, holy paladins are the best choice for you, they ahave very little consumables, so you dont need to farm much, you only need to be able to raid on a couple of evenings a week and play a few hours per day. tho when aq comes guilds usually start having more raid nights. i raided as holy paladin from mc to naxx on elysium/lights hope.

@actionjackson7020

5 жыл бұрын

@@Alexandros.Mograine thanks for the info

"Ret had some top ttier RP potential" - best one, I'm out xD

@Alex-im6or

4 жыл бұрын

hmm rets are pretty solid in pvp

@dertimofo7782

4 жыл бұрын

@@Alex-im6or sure if you're pvping against fucking idiots.

@loreaver3882

4 жыл бұрын

Being a ret paladin (lvl 59) in Arathi basin fighting low 50 is your best bet.

@gwendolynerosehand54

3 жыл бұрын

@@Alex-im6or Ret provides a lot of solo ability, yeah. Allows you to absolutely destroy classes you outgear in ways that Holy cannot. Basically, Ret is your only way to solo farm some kinds of mobs and resources.

If I plan to main Holy paladin, would it be worth for my 1st character? Was also tempted to try druid. Just want to mainly heal in classic

@MattinatorHax

5 жыл бұрын

Paladin is super solid, Holy always has a place in groups and raids. My advice would be to ignore Spirit (it won't help you much), grab a ton of MP/5 and Spellpower, and get used to downranking spells - with enough MP/5 and downranking Holy Light you can literally heal forever.

@Alexandros.Mograine

5 жыл бұрын

paladins are the best healers in pvp/pve, and you will always have a spot. you can also aoe farm very well with a paladin, second best aoe farming class after mage. you just need the right gear for that.

@WillEmmo

5 жыл бұрын

Like these guys have said, both are good options!

Not sure how you played this class back in the day but paladins in ovp was one of the toughest classes to kill. I ran ramped over fully epic players taking on 3 amd killing 3. Never had issues

Hi WillE! Been watching all of your "Was it any good though" videos now and you're hyping me up for classic so hard! You truly deserved a sub from me. Great work on the videos! :D

Wasn't there a Ret spec that brought magic vulnerability debuffs with a crafted weapon and was very good for raids? Can't quite remember

@WillEmmo

4 жыл бұрын

From an Axe called Nightfall, woulda been off tank warrs or Enhance shammies, ret couldnt use axes

@KyleGreenville

4 жыл бұрын

@@WillEmmo Ret can use axes.

@xTreyray

4 жыл бұрын

@@WillEmmo lol wut? Ret can use axes, lol wtf???

Paladin was my only char in vanilla. It was a horrible painful experience. I thought I was rolling s holy warrior. What I got was a priest in plate. Classic for me will be the chance to do it right. Play a real DPS /tank

@carlosparra9527

5 жыл бұрын

Druid hahahaha

@Avrelivs_Gold

5 жыл бұрын

lol imagine people playing warrior but can't dps for good because miss/dodge/block/parry their heroic strikes lol

@dertimofo7782

5 жыл бұрын

@@carlosparra9527 i seriously hope you're joking lol

@WilsonTexasRager

5 жыл бұрын

I paid someone to finish leveling from around 22-60 for and it was worth it. After that I went to hit rank 13 and had godly raid gear healing, but also damage drops. In pvp I was as dangerous as a warrior nearly. Good times

@bobjackson4287

4 жыл бұрын

@Tyler W. Truth, i raided as a paladin in 2005 onward and what the class came down to is spam blessings by watching pallypower non stop and healing with the cloth you steal from priests. Any tier sets and good 2 handers you got were due to the raid not needing them at all. you were dead last on gearing priority. And the gear you did get handed to you was to ensure you healed better. Paladin tanking was a absolute meme for more reasons than stated here. No taunt, no crush immunity, running oom fast, needing spell power on plate and hit and mp5, crappy tanking talents. They were a mess. It was not until BC and Wrath were they became something truly special. And then got crapped on again afterwords.

I have another issue though- how do you or can you even kill mobs at decent speed when max level and you are specced into raid/dungeon healing? Respec is incredbly expensive in Classic so that is huge issue.

@WillEmmo

4 жыл бұрын

umm you just kinda of dont really unless you have +spell damge gear not just healing gear, then you can aoe farm ok with a holy/prot spec

@rudy1999

4 жыл бұрын

Can you be in healing spec all the time and still farm something with 1h and shield? Though i have mining and it doesn't require any killing.

@CedricBassman

4 жыл бұрын

@@rudy1999 You can basically play the Paladin 21/0/30 and be fine for every PVE content and farm. I think people forgot that Hybrid builds where a huge thing back then.

Holy Paladin FTW

all those pictures of divine shield and hearthstone xD

this class didnt get fun until the ret pally rework in Burning crusade karazhan patch

@badprice842

5 жыл бұрын

Reck Ret was unbelievable Fun. Chilling in 10 sec rogue stun and then just oneshot them. PEW xD

@Ra1dMaX

5 жыл бұрын

wrath pre patch would be the correct patch dude

@conceitedxo

5 жыл бұрын

@Jules Juerez "too easy" they werent hard in classic either you just had to do way more to be close to being as good as everyone else xD

@conceitedxo

5 жыл бұрын

@Jules Juerez thats exactly what im saying it wasnt challenging it just required more work than for any other class at any other expansion. it had 0 to do with skill just with having to use more effort to get to what others can do easier and faster

Are you looking back at each class in TBC?

i remember leveling a dwarf paladin in wetlands on the murlocs...literally every 1 mob i had to drink for 30 seconds

@thepompf2049

5 жыл бұрын

Blessing of Wisdom saves you of that

@duderock10111

5 жыл бұрын

Then you didn't do DM at least once haha

@honeylongwood

5 жыл бұрын

Waaauuuuurrrrauuuuooooo

@honeylongwood

5 жыл бұрын

That's my best murlock impression......right there!

@Alexandros.Mograine

5 жыл бұрын

well understandable because you were a noob back then like the most of us. paladins have very little downtime actually.

Well... and then there is the most glorious meme of them all: the reckbomb! God is it satisfying to onehit clothies! Just takes a little bit of preparation, but since paladins aren't exactly made for the impatient that's not really that much of a problem.

@WillEmmo

5 жыл бұрын

I should have covered it :( mb there

It´s true paladins are a support class. That being said.. reckoning, shockadin and even deep ret with the right gear, would deal insane bursts. On my paladin with 50/50 r10 gear and t2 I´m shockadin specced and can deal 2.5-4k dmg every 2 minute in a controlled burst (stun, judgement, divine favour, holy shock). This burst combined with SoC procs and mby a crit here and there was like a huge execute that could be thrown away regardless of the enemy hp. Even in full pvp-healing gear I´d run up to some cocky lock with 50% hp left and just blow him out of existence before I resumed my healing. Reason why ret are so frowned upon in pvp settings is because people are retardedly gearing them as if they were a warrior. They´re thinking "white hits" instead of thinking "spellpower, int, stam and crit". A paladin with a low mana pool in vanilla is literally a grenade launcher. 2 big bursts then you´re out.

As a horde main il defiantly have a paladin alt on another server. Pretty cool and unique class.

@Euruk1

4 жыл бұрын

@metalfaust19 Yeah mine will be for PvP only most likely. Will make one around phase 3 when BGs drop.

Flash backs to when they were terrible lol last time I played a pally around 2012 was really good tho I loved leveling as protection doing big pulls no issue IDK how they are currently

@WillEmmo

5 жыл бұрын

in bfa? They good all around. Classic well they have some good points

@Vic-qp1gk

5 жыл бұрын

In bfa, they pop wings and your character is deleted basically. That's how rets are, holy heals like no other and prot, well prot is just OP as far as tanks go... lol

@KenjiAsakura09

4 жыл бұрын

*WING ME!!!*

unless this was in TBC i remember Holy paladins used to cap crit because each time their heals crit it gave them a 100% chance to get all their mana back for the spell. I remember as a Holy pally and being able to heal for 15 minutes straight over and over before running out of mana.

@WillEmmo

4 жыл бұрын

That's in Classic too, good point!

i was in a guild with a pro paladin he was doing 750 dps in raids matching warriors, but he had nearly every buff u could get in the game, must of cost him a fortune

@WillEmmo

4 жыл бұрын

Yep gotta put a whole lot of extra effort in!

Seriously ret Paladins were amazing pvp on later expansions being an almost go to class and speck after mists since Dk's and warlocks were arguably the best pvp classes in the game with the notable exception being rogue

@adriansmith5241

3 жыл бұрын

In TBC they good at all roles and become king of aoe tanking

In short: yes. In long: Yes but no Dps or Tank

@GRIMHOOD99

5 жыл бұрын

Even as healers they aren't top tier. They are good utility belts same as shamans.

@dlowe9133

5 жыл бұрын

@@GRIMHOOD99 they're top raid heals. what are u talking about.....

@lukaskonecny9992

5 жыл бұрын

@@GRIMHOOD99 they are the best mana batteries in the game dude, with high crit they never run oom, tf r u talking about.

@Alexandros.Mograine

5 жыл бұрын

i played in a semi hardcore guild on elysium/lightbringer and our top 5 heals always had atleast 3 paladins. also paladins are best tanks in high lvl dungeons if you have the right gear, expecially with a mage because then they can aoe better.

@GRIMHOOD99

5 жыл бұрын

They are A class healers they are good they are not the best you will still see them in every raid anyway.

Holy pallies are the best PvP healers, period. Especially when paired with a warrior.

@Jax_86

5 жыл бұрын

But healers dont do damage so the author ignores that.

@Industrious420

4 жыл бұрын

Especially when paired with a mage*. Blessing of Protection is garbage for a warrior.

@tychus8219

4 жыл бұрын

Ye and then u get ele sham 31/0/20 makin you disappear with 2 crits, and heal like a monster...

@henkarars

4 жыл бұрын

@@tychus8219 Ele shamans can't do that to more than 1 player.. because then they go OOM and get fast killed by anyone. Also shamans are shitty healers in pvp compared to paladins, because of paladins capabilities to save their teammates with Blessing of freedom, cleanse-spamming and never get OOM with their healing crits that gives mana back.

I don't care what anyone says about Paladins, I love my Retribution Paladin. I can solo things when solo leveling I can't solo with other classes. Also I love the class fantasy and thought they did a great job reflecting that in their kit, they are all about helping others. The auras, buffs, lay on hands, all reflect the service to others that a Paladin is all about. Take a bit of time to kill stuff? Yes, but our church says patience is a virtue, and we don't die, so there.

Tier 2.5 pallie here with ashkandi back in vanilla , have to say that i had so much fun in bgs as ret , yes helping the party is where pala shines , but i could kill easy 2-3 ppl alone defending stables or bs in ab , and even as ret if u had t2 t2,5 gear on u could switch on healing mace and shield and nothing could kill u or ur party :)

Paladin should have stayed a alliance only class

Also a paladin's free mount at 40 and cheaper mount at 60 was offset by having skills that cost more to buy.

We'll you forgot to say that they can one shot ppl with Reckoning :D

Ret palidan all the way. I know I'm basically support, but if all your friends are over leveled you look like a God lol. Also I've been secretly adding some points to the holy tree ;D

Two hand with reckoning skill is fire

Played holy paladin at nostalrius and early classic ... i think they are most mana efficient healers at vanilla wow , every warrior tank wants holy paladin friend, they are just awesome single target healers and pvp-wise is also best possible healer for wsg/arathi basin premades...

started in legion n palidan has been my main since 4 every expansion nd classic-woltk i like palidan as imo it doez fit w th lore th best but god i wish i played druid at high level never committed to lvling one tho

first 2 chars to 60 for me were warrior and paladin. Never again lol

@WillEmmo

5 жыл бұрын

Playing on max difficulty there lol

@etaxalo

5 жыл бұрын

truly a hardcore player,

Ret is the most fun spec in BGs imo (until like Cata era fire mage anyway). The clutch plays you can pull out, the ability to cockblock hunters & mages trying to burn your team... it's glorious.

You forgot the insanity you had to have for playing paladin. Refreshing the blessing every 10 or 5 minutes is something, I don´t want to remember ever again.

@socialcockroach3307

5 жыл бұрын

Also to add to that, the reagents that they needed use up in order to cast the greater versions. Most classes had reagents to use for buffs like this, but since paladins had such a short duration, they burned through them like crazy.

@honaker326

5 жыл бұрын

I'd make people do a /beg before I would rebuff them in my old guild. So they all made macro's to beg me for a buff every 5 minutes. It was very satisfying getting that from 40 people in a raid. I had leverage as a healer spec'd into blessing of santuary. lol

@Bartoc1988

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I had seen more paladins who used an emote for a rebuffing request. It was always fun too watch :D

@danlorett2184

4 жыл бұрын

Ooof I remember having to ask for small salvation every time because I was the only DPS warrior - if they did Greater than the tanks would have salv too lmao

@adriansmith5241

3 жыл бұрын

Healbot or pally power take away this burden

From what I remember you only had three paladins in a raid for each type of buff lol; warriors were Gods when they got geared properly.

@WillEmmo

5 жыл бұрын

Yep at least 3, salvation, might and kings are super good

@mrillis9259

4 жыл бұрын

Could bring 8 for MC for fire resistance.

@mihaa94sky

4 жыл бұрын

Might, Salvation, Wisdom, Kings, Sanctuary, Light You needed at least 6 to cover each buff for everyone in raid. It's not necessary to do so, but it's good to have.

@adriansmith5241

3 жыл бұрын

In early vanila pallys are always top of the heal chart in raids so why would you not bring

as for pvp Reck will be nerfed in the re-launch of vanilla but I loved half "twinking" a ret paladin for 29-35 world PvP. using engineer grenades you could stop people kiting you while getting a big burst from your judge with increased damage to incapacitated targets. they were actually pretty OP lower level pvp.. endgame requires too much gear.

@TardRepellent

5 жыл бұрын

@ShanKaneV you sound upset, not sure why. reckoning got nerfed around the same patch Vanilla will be and it's an abuse of game mechanics so yeah it would be a huge blunder to include it considering so many people know of it and how to exploit it. common sense, really. relax.

@TardRepellent

5 жыл бұрын

@ShanKaneV you're being extremely hostile for no reason at all so yeah you definitely come off as upset. it won't be in classic. you clearly don't know the history of why it was nerfed in the first place yet you're attacking me because I'm not posting you a link telling you why. it's common sense, which isn't all that common apparently. I'm not going to do your research for you, because that's ignorant. relax.

@TardRepellent

5 жыл бұрын

@ShanKaneV look how emotional you are over nothing. it's pathetic, honestly. "or are you just tooting your own horn" I'm convinced you don't even know what that means but I don't forgive stupidity.

It's kind of annoying how people are choosing what class is the best instead of choosing a class for its class fantasy.

@WillEmmo

4 жыл бұрын

I like a bit of both really, many people cant look past the actual journey to 60 though these days :(

@CTouO1

4 жыл бұрын

Well no offence but ... what class fantasy in Vanilla are you talking about ? Paladin is the supreme example of that, after playing Warcraft and you watch Uther swinging his hammer and undeads scattering in fear and beeing this amazing holy warrior whos selfless and rightheous only to pick in in WoW to realize your barely even using any of your holy abilities to actualy smite the undeads and are resserved early on to running arround buffing people in raids while your two other talents specs are basicaly down to chugging pots and afking half the time cause you were mostly out of mana, thats your idea of a Holy Warrior who is rightheous and the bane of every undead or demon who dares to threaten civilians ? Roleplaying yes but when you actualy want to play 80 % of what the game offers then your basicaly a buff bot till end game where you become the most broken healer in the game, so please educate us a little bit about class fantasy in Vanilla

@justabbygal4777

4 жыл бұрын

Who are you to gatekeep how to enjoy the game? How can this bother you in any way?

Love this

First time playing world of Warcraft I picked paladins gotta live up to my hero

AQ40 was where Paladins shone. In a place where OOM was the norm, Holydins would still have half a bar when Druids and Priests were guzzling pots.

Remember playing Holy PLD as it was the only thing you would be allowed. Terrible at keeping an entire group alive but at keeping a single target PLDs were gods thanks to the 100% MP return from crit heals... I have one fresh memory of a run through Stratholme Undead Wing... Baron Rivendare was the worst boss for a PLD healer... that fucking aura. As luck wanted it, I ended up running out of MP in what it seemed an eternal fight... and I got fucking blamed for not keeping people alive... Not my problem if you don't kill the boss faster!

that 200 damage auto attack in warsong gultch lol

If you want to main this in Vanilla, don't touch any damage class. You won't go back once you experience it. My main was pally, switched to mage when I rerolled Horde and I just couldn't stomach the class any more in BC when I tried to make a Belfadin. Also, you're not completely accurate about Ret: Also remember in classic your gear could still allow you to be decent at something even if you didn't spec it. I was ret but would heal 5 mans. It's not optimal but raid leaders and guild leaders should remember to test the players' individual skill before requiring a respec. And the value of those buffs just can't be stressed enough. Mana regen was on a 5 second cooldown after your last cast, so blessing of wisdom was a big deal.

@skitstorm5634

5 жыл бұрын

Nox Arbor BoK is 11pt in prot or am I missing something with your comment?

@fenikslied

5 жыл бұрын

@@skitstorm5634 Well it was a 31 pt talent in Vanilla. I don't know if it's changed because they decided to rework the trees completely or if it's because I'm not remembering the Paladin rework properly, but in any case, that's absolutely disappointing. Ret really offers you nothing in terms of support and you don't get enough damage to make up for it.

@fenikslied

5 жыл бұрын

web.archive.org/web/20041208193605/wowvault.ign.com:80/View.php?view=Talents.View&category_select_id=12

@fenikslied

5 жыл бұрын

I can't find the 1.8 calculator but I"m sure it was that way at least up until through that point.

I played Paladin back in vanilla. I basically played it as a true hybrid class fullfilling all three rolls to some degree at the same time. Mind you, back then I was new to the whole idea of characters being divided into three hard roles in games like this. I didn't think I was doing anything strange. I was a holy Paladin, but wielding a two handed weapon and armor with mixed stats (I chose armor pieces depending on what I felt like I need more of) with a bias towards wanting to deal more damage. So I played dungeons officially as a damage dealer. My dps output was, in hind sight, of course bad, but not useless. If more healing was needed, I could effectively help the healer with my own spells. If the main healer went oom, I could heal well enough to bridge the time until the healer was back to 100%. My own mana went down very quickly doing it, but it was enough for the job. If the tank lost aggro of some trash mops, I would pull them to me, because I was still tanky enough to survive that. Much better then mages, priests etc. I never raided in vanilla, but I don't feel like my playstyle would have been very useful there.

How on earth did blizzard make the paladin such a boring class. I mean a holy righteous warrior with massive two handers. And they give them a garbage rotation and no interesting attack spells. Why. Why not just make them epic and amazing

@MiraSubieGirl

5 жыл бұрын

I think they made them alternate healers and nothing more... No one wants Pally or any class to be OP like real WoW original launch haha

@fatalexception1269

5 жыл бұрын

Blizz saw them as a support class.

@Avrelivs_Gold

5 жыл бұрын

it's not boring at all if you play Retribution or Protection it's very challenging if you are pushing it and always some drama, because there are always some salty Warriors and Rogues around lol

@Ippiki9

5 жыл бұрын

Paladins had an instant attack and a Heroic Strike equivalent, called Crusader Strike and Holy Strike, both were removed right before beta ended in the 1.1.0 patch. I'm not sure why this happened, but it sure left a lasting impact on the class for vanilla.

@armorers_wrench

5 жыл бұрын

You know, the ret paladin is one of the few classes that they get right in modern WoW. It's ten times more fun than the original ret pally. It would have been A LOT better if classic ret had crusader strike but we didn't get that until TBC. The only thing I wish modern ret had a bit more of is heals. But it's really very very fun if you're looking for something to try in modern WoW.

Man I wish ret was good for raiding in classic

I was so sure I would roll paladin but this makes me reconsider.

@modE_n

5 жыл бұрын

Holy Paladins were PvP gods, every time as horde we saw 3 Holy Palas on the opposite team in AB f.ex. We knew we stood no chance. They were extremely powerful and godmode at healing PvP, especially paired with warriors. In AQ40 and Naxx Holy Palas were insanely good healers that literally never went out of mana. This video should have been 80% about how good Holy Palas were.

@Alexandros.Mograine

5 жыл бұрын

dont listen to this guy because he didnt main a paladin at 60 and missed so many things, like in most guides on youtube.

I wonder if alliance can mind control horde to buff them up before an important fight

@WillEmmo

5 жыл бұрын

I have heard mixed reviews on this from private servers. But can't find anything from Vanilla forums, so, maybe yes, maybe no!

@scdogg444

5 жыл бұрын

Even if you could, the buffs don't last long enough.

@sanji2158

5 жыл бұрын

@@scdogg444 15 minutes is more than enough to pull off an encounter with very few exceptions

Excellent. You made an entire video reviewing gameplay without confusing your subjective preference for objective quality. Depressing how rare that is.

Man being a ret in classic was the only way I could have fun with the class but good luck gettin a guild even for BG and arena focus you might as well of threw holy ice picks at them, Switching to holy a saving grace but also the fastest way to get yelled at if you didn’t BoP or LoH on time and god help you if didn’t have a good tank

I missed the part where you could mention that the first tier sets were stats wise pretty shitty. Every Pala heal I met on my Pserver walked around in better single items gear. In robes to be particular

@jamesbaggett3655

5 жыл бұрын

I like the way pallies look in dresses or on in plate that looked like a dress....shamans too.

@WillEmmo

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I missed some info on this for sure, first vid in series so I potatoed it a bit

Was there no Warlock soul shatter in Vanilla?

@toni1824

4 жыл бұрын

Nope

what about the reck bomb spec for Wpvp?!?! that shit was OP as fuck

It's a silly thought, but i've always wondered what the player perception for the class would be if it was called 'cleric' as opposed to 'paladin'? Because despite priest being a thing paladin is much closer to a D&D style cleric then a paladin in vanilla wow.

That cardio joke hurt, oh gods the running.

I still really preferred the old vanilla beta build of paladins before they had the seals/judgement stuff. Blessings were there, heals were there, but instead of seals and judgement, they had holy strike and crusader strike. Holy strike was basically heroic strike but it added holy damage (and costs mana), crusader strike was sunder armor but increased holy damage dealt to the target (and costs mana). Pretty much all of their vanilla healing/buffing abilities were there. I think they changed it because it was basically a holy melee version of warriors, so it didn't really feel unique, but I liked it more since you had more than just auto attacks and seal procs.