Wotlk Pre-Raid / Pre-Heroic Gear List

[Bigfish]

From the plate items I looked at they looked like they would be good for either Pally/Death Knight/Warrior. Are there any items that are specifically geared towards pallys (ie +spell damage/int/spirit stats)?

ack no! Do not gear for spell damage unless you are a healer! You are a tank, gear as a tank. Paladins have a talent to convert stamina to spell damage.

Well, its not like spell damage stops working outside of the amount you get from stamina. It just means paladins get a wider range of gear to work with.

[Multibocks]

Ya with the new Cobalt and Saronite armor my paladin actually looks MEAN 8o , instead of the usual clown outfit.

[Aradar]

From the plate items I looked at they looked like they would be good for either Pally/Death Knight/Warrior. Are there any items that are specifically geared towards pallys (ie +spell damage/int/spirit stats)?

ack no! Do not gear for spell damage unless you are a healer! You are a tank, gear as a tank. Paladins have a talent to convert stamina to spell damage.

You shouldn't be gearing int/spirit either. If your tank doesn't overgear the istance, you should be fine on mana from blessing of sanctuary, spiritual attunement and divine plea not to even mention optional spells such as seal of wisdom, judgement of wisdom or mana replenishing spells from other classes. I currently do have some mana issues but in heroics or kara I could go forever without drinking.

[Frosty]

Ya with the new Cobalt and Saronite armor my paladin actually looks MEAN 8o , instead of the usual clown outfit.

A guild member made a full set of that for me..now I just have to hit 70. ;(

[Bigfish]

Oh how I wish work didn't block gaming sites. So much theorycrafting I could get done in my spare time.

[phara]

great work! Just a note: Kurzel's Warband appears to be alliance only.

Thanks, I updated it.

[Schwarz]

From the plate items I looked at they looked like they would be good for either Pally/Death Knight/Warrior. Are there any items that are specifically geared towards pallys (ie +spell damage/int/spirit stats)?

ack no! Do not gear for spell damage unless you are a healer! You are a tank, gear as a tank. Paladins have a talent to convert stamina to spell damage.

I wasn't aware that paladins don't look for anything that has +spell damage on it. I was more worried about using a dk/warrior and having wasted stats like +spell damage

[phara]

From the plate items I looked at they looked like they would be good for either Pally/Death Knight/Warrior. Are there any items that are specifically geared towards pallys (ie +spell damage/int/spirit stats)?

All the tank items are made for all plate classes. This is part of blizz's itemization chagnes for wotlk, and why they adjusted class talents, so there wouldn't be any class specific gear, it should be role / spec specific. If you see spell power / int / etc on plate in wotlk it's probably holy gear. There is an enormous amount of hit,crit,expertise, and sp plate items ... by all means take any of them if you have a really bad slot until you get a tank specific drop.

Divine Plea is freaking awesome. I was using SoW before 71, now I can use whatever I want and still have enough mana if I use Plea every cooldown ... I'm in pretty much all "warrior" gear now, with roughly 5k mana at 71.

[Bigfish]

From the plate items I looked at they looked like they would be good for either Pally/Death Knight/Warrior. Are there any items that are specifically geared towards pallys (ie +spell damage/int/spirit stats)?

All the tank items are made for all plate classes. This is part of blizz's itemization chagnes for wotlk, and why they adjusted class talents, so there wouldn't be any class specific gear, it should be role / spec specific. If you see spell power / int / etc on plate in wotlk it's probably holy gear. There is an enormous amount of hit,crit,expertise, and sp plate items ... by all means take any of them if you have a really bad slot until you get a tank specific drop.

Divine Plea is freaking awesome. I was using SoW before 71, now I can use whatever I want and still have enough mana if I use Plea every cooldown ... I'm in pretty much all "warrior" gear now, with roughly 5k mana at 71.

I think the intention is that Prot Pallies can use either Warrior tanking gear, or Holy Paladin Spell+ gear. Otherwise, you have an entire class of plate gear that is only good for one spec of one class. Personally, I'd just be annoyed by the wasted +spirit on the stuff myself, but its not like you can't throw on +spell power to your tankadin and still get use out of it.

[Frosty]

Otherwise, you have an entire class of plate gear that is only good for one spec of one class.

Blizzard would never do anything like that!!!! :P