[WoW] Great guide for gearing up your pally for Heroics in WotLK

I decided to change my pally from ret to prot for my melee group and wanted to gear him up as quickly as possible.

I found the following guide on maintankadin to be very helpful.
http://www.failsafedesign.com/mainta...ic.php?t=17179

I already had a nice shield and 1 or 2 epic items with defense from Naxx 10 but was able to go from just over 400 defense to 540 in about 2 days.
Overall spend was less than 1000 gold, as a lot of the crafted stuff was cheap. I also had enough rep with some of the factions to get some rep gear.

I did have to gem for defense (I think it's autumn's glow or something like that) and also had to put a defense enchant on my chest, and a titanweave enchant on my cloak to get to 540.

I know a heck of a lot of us already have heroic capable pallys, but thought I'd post this for those with respeccing paladins or fresh 80's.

Thanks for sharing, very nice guide indeed, and I am always looking for this kind of info...


My pally + 4 shammy group are in there 60ties now, but I have bookmarked this nice guide for later :)

Thank you, this is helpful and nice to see I was at least somewhat on track as far as the gear I've got so far.

Ya thanks for this, Ive been really lazy, my 80 pally is powerleveling my toons specced prot but in his epic holy gear lol.

That guide is missing a lot of boe epics that you can easily find on the AH now that you couldn't when it was written.

A list of BOE epics would definitely be nice for later on or for those for whom gold is plentiful, but my gold reserves have run low for now. :)

maintankadin was my bible back when i solo played my tankadin.

here are the reference posts I've been using so far for WOTLK:

WotLK Progression Gear (70-80 gear guide) - http://maintankadin.failsafedesign.c...ic.php?t=16825

Zamach's WoTLK Gear List - http://www.failsafedesign.com/mainta...ic.php?t=14979


and a snippet from another main Q & A thread:

I want more info!
A: Start here: Winchester's guide - we don't agree on everything, but it's an excellent guide. And second opinions are good.
A: My Advanced FAQ for more detailed info.
A: Psiven's TPS sticky
A: Level 80 faction gear
A: Zamach's WoTLK Gear List


(this one is a bit older) [Paladin] WotLK - getting uncrittable http://wowthinktank.blogspot.com/200...crittable.html

Don't forget this one too!

http://www.failsafedesign.com/mainta...ic.php?t=20890

There is a ton of good info on that site. This list has the new Ulduar gear, some of it is BOE. What I have seen in the AH on my server so far is going for 3k (e.g., combustion bracers - cloth DPS) to 5k (e.g., Cloak of the Iron Council), depending on the piece.

The trick IMO was to make damn sure you get that +defense mace from the Ragemane's Flipper quest in Zul'Drak while leveling. Also, they don't list it but Bulwark of the Tormented God is another Zul'Drak quest reward that's +32 defense. ;)