World of warcraft paladin guide - the Holy Warrior Of WoW

By Kit Saunders

Let me begin by saying this is certainly not a full World of Warcraft guide on Paladins. There is no way you could cram everything this most versatile of classes is able to do in a few paragraphs. It is merely an overview that will hopefully give you a small window in the world of the paladin, the holy warrior of WoW.

Paladins are a unique class that could be described as being a hybrid mix of warriors, priests and other dps classes like warlocks and mages.

Even if they borrow these specialist traits from classes who are better recognized for having them, the Paladin's use of them is so powerful that they are probably one of the most difficult classes in WoW to kill and get the better of in PvP (player versus player combat). As a warrior myself I tend to really steer away from them as they are the equivalent of fighting another equally well armoured warrior that not only can heal him or herself but can also cast spells. That is awesome power and imo quite unfair.

So Paladins specialize as tanks by having in one of their abilities tree called the "Protection Tree" spells and learned talents which enables them to both take and give enormous damage to and from several enemies at once. Special spells here include "Holy Shield", "Retribution", and "Consecration" which all add up to give the Paladin well sought after tanking abilities which for some raids and instances are far superior to that of any other class.

The "Retribution" tree allows the paladin to have the pick of spells and abilities that allow them to deal out lots of DPS and close combat/melee damage against their enemies. From this tree they have spell such as "Seal of Command" and "Crusader Strike" which allows paladins to be of a key role during raids.

Holy Warrior is the third tree and is the tree where paladins can attain abilities to increase their healing power. Their healing speciality is to heal different players in their group. The fact that they can also fight as warriors and can heal makes them very useful as back up to tanks and since they can heal they can also back up priests. Any good group should have a paladin not only because of the fact that they can back up priests or warriors but also because they can do the same job just as well but with added abilities on top.

So if you see yourself as a healer or tank or dps expert but don't want to start up three different characters there is no need to start a warrior to tank, priest to heal, or Mage to do dps. A paladin can do all these three things at once. For this reason the paladin is a class that is almost indispensable in groups and more than ideal in end of game action like raids or large instances where paladins are highly sought after.

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Using the following killer World of Warcraft Paladin Guide, you will learn how to: dominate PvP, source the best gear, find places to farm for gold how to reach lvl 70 in less than a week and much, much more