Paladin Hit Rating

[crowdx]

Hi all,
simple question, how much theat do I lose with my current low hit rating? I have not geared at all to hit but I am now wondering should I try to increase it more to hold threat better? I normally start to lose threat to my destro crits at the end of a mob pull and so wondering can I fix this.
All advice welcome

[remanz]

I don't think hit rating will help you much here.
70% of your threat comes from abilities that cannot miss. Holy Shield, HotR, SotR, JoL and consecrate. Might be just that your locks are over gearing your paladin too much. If anything, expertise should help you more. But I don't think it is worth gemming for it either.


What is your tanking rotation? is this on single target or multi target ? use AV shield on every CD, and all those abliities listed above. With righteous fury on, no way warlock can pull aggro off your paladin with same level of gears.

[crowdx]

The paladin I am referring to is listed in my signature below. I am pretty sure everyone is near level gear but it just seems like Darkpowerz starts to creep up in threat the whole way through the fight even though he is not normally the highest dps in the group.
Very strange

[wowphreak]

The only thing hit rating is really good for a pali is not missing that taunt even then it'd be better to glpyh for it instead.

Yer warlock shouldnt be even coming close to pulling aggro of yer tank.

yeh forget righteous fury?

Whats yer rotation?

are yeh aoeing or single target burn down?

Get rid of the figurine of the colossus its a level 70 item. I would keep lavanthors talisman for a block set

essence gossamer and/or the black heart would be good and there fairly easy to get.

I would gem for def->stam->str if yer over def min the stam->str


I've been using this macro

/use 13
/use 14
/startattack
/cleartarget [dead]
/castsequence reset=combat Holy Shield, Hammer of the Righteous, Judgement of Light,Shield of Righteousness,Consecration, Hammer of the Righteous, Holy Shield,Shield of Righteousness,Judgement of Light, Hammer of the Righteous, Consecration,Shield of Righteousness

when I pug and there some crack aoe monkeys I start off with conscrate first

There also hand of reckoning it doesnt reset gcd is cheap on mana and does a good chunk of damage beside being a taunt with yer set bonus can be spammed every 6 seconds.

[gitcho]

crowdx brings up a good question - how should you be gemming pallies? My gear is OK now, but I have no idea what to do with yellow slots after I reach the def cap.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...am%C3%A2wesome

What should I be gemming for? Is it worthwhile to skip the slot bonus (on a yellow, for example) and go with a blue +30stam gem?

[remanz]

mostly gem for stam. Stam scales with talent. Scales with BOS buff. of cuz gem for stam~

You only care about socket bonus if the bonus is , well, stam~

[crowdx]

This is my cast sequence (I think I got it here )
/castsequence reset=combat Holy Shield, Hammer of the Righteous, Consecration, Shield of Righteousness, Judgement of Wisdom
/use 13
/use 14
And yes I do have Righteous Fury on at all times, I also use Kings.

[Zal]

This is my cast sequence (I think I got it here )
/castsequence reset=combat Holy Shield, Hammer of the Righteous, Consecration, Shield of Righteousness, Judgement of Wisdom
/use 13
/use 14
And yes I do have Righteous Fury on at all times, I also use Kings.

your using the proper rotation. I didn't check your gear or anything but i'm willing to say (if warlock gear > pally) that its just a gear issue.

[crowdx]

Well as I said above, it just seems in most fights that the warlock creeps up throughout the fight and then a single crit can put things over the edge, by that time most fights are done though. My real concern is if I try to raid with the pally that he will lose threat on raid bosses etc due to a lot more dps being pushed on boss.

[Pallarfo]

I use www.raider101.com to gem and enchant.
Works pretty good for me most of the time.
Here is my pala.
He does the job he needs to do great.