5 Prot Paladins?

[Catamer]

I liked my 5x pally team, I was using 1 prot and 4 ret. that worked great until I started heroics.
I ended up dropping the 5th pally and using a shaman healer, I get great totem bufs and other than a earth shield/riptide on the main tank I use chain heal. I love just running in instead of setting up positions.

[OzPhoenix]

Thanks all for the feedback. The team, 1 prot, 4 ret, hit 21 last night and look forward to their heroic dungeon running.

[Prega]

i tryed 5 prot, for fun, long time ago in pvp, in Bg.
basically with crappy gear, rare+crafted epics items.
oom is a real issue and lack of mana make healing capabilities...almost useless.
mana is the main issue. but it requires better testing. the positive thing was HoJ spam
pve? dps is too low, you probably run out of mana too fast.
But ...with gear... and if anyone could constantly switch tanks during fights...maybe some heroics bosses are... possible(??) ... not sure.

[Maxion]

i tryed 5 prot, for fun, long time ago in pvp, in Bg.
basically with crappy gear, rare+crafted epics items.
oom is a real issue and lack of mana make healing capabilities...almost useless.
mana is the main issue. but it requires better testing. the positive thing was HoJ spam
pve? dps is too low, you probably run out of mana too fast.
But ...with gear... and if anyone could constantly switch tanks during fights...maybe some heroics bosses are... possible(??) ... not sure.

Sounds like your testing was done before they gave prot the ability to refresh their divine plea by attacking enemies.

[zenga]

But ...with gear... and if anyone could constantly switch tanks during fights...maybe some heroics bosses are... possible(??) ... not sure.

My tank has 'decent' gear (as in all the triumph gear, the 245 crafted pieces and 2 frost pieces, 46k hp self buffed), and I have solo'd several easy HC bosses. Takes ages, but with seal of light on, you can use divine shield (+ 2 heals), lay on hands and divine protection. And if necessary a mana pot. Doing 2k dps the average fight lasts 3-4 minutes.

[Vasyl]

I'm currently leveling a prot pally solo, and due to the changes [namely holy power, WoG] I think this thread is worth rezzing.

Unfortunately, due to fiscal strain, I am still bound to single boxing play. I'm currently level 53 and my Prot's dps/healing is enough to solo BRD and get pretty good xp. I've also noticed that I am always pulling 50%+ of the groups damage when I do randoms, and I can easily keep myself up between WoG + GbtL, allowing the heal spot to be filled by my Ret friend who queues as a healer. I was wondering if anyone with 5x pallies has tried 5 Prot since the patch? I should also think it would be much easier to set up round robin WoG for prots since their Holy Power generation has no RNG component. All that would really be needed is some way to track Eternal Glory to maximize the Free heals from supporting characters.

Strengths I see from this team:

Omfg Survivability in PvE and PvP

Round robin

http://www.wowhead.com/spell=70940

would provide 25% uptime of a -20% damage for 80% of your team.

WoG + Eternal Glory for wonderful, free heals.

THE BIG MOTHER

Shield of the Templar reduces the CD on Avengers Shield to 15 Seconds. Avengers shield silences for 3 seconds. Avengers shield hits 3 targets. 5 Paladins means 15 seconds of silence on perfect round robin. But oh wait, 15 second cool down means the first will be ready after the round robin is up. UNLIMITED SILENCE POWER from this group. This is huge. Not only can you chain silence any Caster AND up to two next to your target, but AS has HUGE damage now. And I know I'm not the only one who thinks seeing a shield fly out of your group every 3 seconds is cool. And again on the Round robin chaining of AS effects: Daze! Forgot about the glyph :P

So guys, what do you think? This will definitely be my first venture when I pick up my 4x accounts.

[deadguyfred]

diminishing returns in PVP

[zenga]

I play my pally solo in prot spec for pvp, pre & after 4.0.1 patch. The problem since patch is that we are very week against casters. Their increased dps + us taking more damage is a bitch. On the other hand world of glory rocks for this. So prepare for lots of kiting. Another thing that blows is the increased hp pool of the other players. However I can rambo in groups of rets/dks/pallies and kill them. A ret pally with shadowmourne? pff, easy

I rezzed my warrior + 4 pally team (still lowbies) and started to level them again. They are all 4 prot, so lets see how they do when they get higher. The fact that AS cooldown can reset is pure awesomeness. I have it glyphed as well16-17k crits are no exception. Using a 31/5 spec with 1 point in divinity & toughness, no hallowed ground and divine guardian. Though if i'm gonna box 5 prots i'll def. spec divine guardian. All cooldowns combined seems to be nuts. Also went all the way mastery, sitting at 40% block.

Prior to the patch I used a mixture of tank gear, ret pvp gear and 2 pieces of healing gear (high spellpower). However I'm now sticking to ret pvp gear only.

[BrothelMeister]

In my experience, with any team for PvP, the only character that has to be soaking up a LARGE amount of damage, is the main toon. If you want to have a toon that breaks the rules of damage dealing in order to soak up as much damage as possible, regardless of losing >50% of his damaging potential, the main toon is the only one.

Beyond that, the 3-4 slaves should be geared towards as much survivability without gimping their damage much at all. The only time that they will really be getting focused is when your opposing team is smart enough to know that they are squishier; but 95% of the time, the main toon is the only one that takes any focused damage.

[Mokoi]

In my experience, with any team for PvP, the only character that has to be soaking up a LARGE amount of damage, is the main toon. If you want to have a toon that breaks the rules of damage dealing in order to soak up as much damage as possible, regardless of losing >50% of his damaging potential, the main toon is the only one.

Beyond that, the 3-4 slaves should be geared towards as much survivability without gimping their damage much at all. The only time that they will really be getting focused is when your opposing team is smart enough to know that they are squishier; but 95% of the time, the main toon is the only one that takes any focused damage.

This has not been my experience at all. I'd like to be on your battlegroup. On Bloodlust everyone and their dog knows that CCing yor main and killing your alts is the way to go, and they do t in spades.