[How-to] 5x Paladins Disscusion

[Tdog]

I've been getting alot of private messages lately asking me about my 5x pally set-up, heroics, and pvp. So instead of answering ever question individually, several times over which I unfortunately just don't have the time for I decided to go ahead and through up this post.

First off, THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE GUIDE TO 5X PALADINS!!! Nor is this a MY WAY IS DA BEST WAY EVAR!!! This is just my set-up and how I do things. These are some of the things that work for me, and if you see something that you do that is superior to what I do, by all means share with the class :P

Table of Contents
Post #1:
Set - Up

• Buttons

Post #2:

• Talents
• Glyphs

Post #3: This post's contents are temporary and will be changed as I require more space.

• Links to other Member's useful inputs.

Post #4:
Post #5:

Set-up - I run with 1 Protection Paladin and 4 Retribution Paladins. I 5 box on one machine using just a keyboard and mouse with 2 monitors.

Buttons - If you're unfamiliar with making macros Cogwheel has put up a very nice guide to making macros on WoWwiki.
This is a list of what attacks I have assigned to which buttons. This isn't every last button I use but just the attacks/spells that get used quite often. Also depnding on what you use whether you use a keyboard of w/e you may choose to place different spells in different areas. In the end use what works for you!

1
Prot - Shield of Righteousness/SoRight

#showtooltip
/use [modifier:shift] Seal of Righteousness; Shield of Righteousness

Ret - CS / SoComm

#showtooltip crusader strike
/assist focus
/use [modifier:shift] seal of command
/stopmacro [noharm], [dead]
/startattack
/use crusader strike
/follow focus

2
Prot - JoJ/HS / Main spam button

#showtooltip judgement of justice
/startattack
/target frost tomb
/stopmacro [noharm], [dead]
/use 13
/use 14
/castsequence reset=combat/5 judgement of justice, Holy Shield
/startattack

Ret - JoL/JoW / Main spam button
Note that even though this is for judgement of light, I only use JoL on two ret pallies, the other two I use JoW. Judgements no longer stack but this decreases the chance that either judgement won't be up.

#showtooltip judgement of light
/assist focus
/stopmacro [noharm], [dead]
/use 13
/use 14
/use judgement of light
/startattack
/follow focus

3
This just happened to be the button I put Avenging Wrath into. You can put it in whatever macro you want, it just seemed to fit nicely for me here.

Prot - HoRight / AV

#showtooltip
/startattack
/stopmacro [noharm], [dead]
/use [modifier:shift] avenging wrath; hammer of the righteous

Ret - DS / AV

#showtooltip
/assist focus
/stopmacro [noharm], [dead]
/startattack [target=focustarget]
/use [modifier:shift] avenging wrath; divine storm

4
All
Exorcism

5
All - Consec / HW

#showtooltip
/use [modifier:shift] holy wrath; consecration

7
All - HoF / Repent
Yes I know prot pallies can't use repentance but I have it there when I switch his specs I don't have to use seperate macros :P

#showtooltip
/use [modifier:shift] repentance; hand of freedom

8
All - DP / SS

#showtooltip
/use [modifier:shift,target=player] Sacred Shield; Divine Plea

9
All - Aura / Bless
This is actually just the macro I use on my prot pally but I'm sure if you can read the macro you understand how to spread around the various blessings/auras. The 5 auras I use are Devo, Retri, Shadow, Frost, Fire.

#showtooltip
/use [modifier:shift] greater blessing of sanctuary ; !devotion aura

R
Prot - HoW
Hammer of Wrath

Ret - HoW

#showtooltip hammer of wrath
/assist focus
/use [target=party1target] hammer of wrath

F
Ret - Heals

#showtooltip
/use [modifier:shift, target=player] flash of light; [modifier:ctrl, target=player] holy light; [target=focus] flash of light

*NOTE* Do not have your tank heal while in combat! You do not parry/block while casting! You'll usually take more damage while casting the heal from not parrying/blocking then you'll actually heal yourself for.

V
All - Mounts
Insert your flying mount name in place of "snowy gryphon" and your land mount name in place of "charger"

#showtooltip [modifier:shift] snowy gryphon; charger
/use !crusader aura
/use [modifier:shift} snowy gryphon; charger

*Note* You only need to have one Paladin use the /use !crusader aura line.

C
All - HoJ / Repent
I use this button on Round Robin, repentance is included in this macro for mostly pvp purposes but it helps also for interrupts on trash mobs when I'm not CC'ing other mobs.

#showtooltip
/assist focus
/use [modifier:shift] repentance; hammer of justice

X
All - Cleanse
*NOTE* I set up this macro to cleanse your other pallies first, then to cleanse your focus/self thru modifiers. The reason I have it like this is if you get stunned, silenced, slept, MC'ed, etc. you cannot cleanse the magical debuffs off of yourself. With this cleansing your neighbor first this will not be a problem. Having a modifier to cleanse your focus which in my case is always the tank/leader always me to mass cleanse the lead toon which is especially important in pvp as he/she will likely be debuffed 9 ways to sunday. Having a modifier to cleanse yourself is in case the neighbor who suppose to cleanse you is dead or for whatever reason unable to cleanse said toon.

#showtooltip cleanse
/use [modifier:shift, target=focus] [modifier:ctrl, target=player] [target=INSERT TOON NAME HERE] cleanse

Z
All - DS / DP

#showtooltip
/use [modifier:shift] divine protection; divine shield

E
All - Interact with target
Some people only like to use this on their followers, I have no problem using it on all 5 but I guess that comes down to personal preference.