Quote Originally Posted by Ughmahedhurtz View Post
For the Summoner in DTK, just use seal of light. You'll regen enough health that if you run out of blizzard to the other side of him when he casts it, you should survive the fight.

For H CoS, Meathook is easy, just make sure your prot faces him away from the rets. The silence effect only affects people in front of him. I had much more trouble with the first boss once you get inside the houses when following Arthas.

I've had good luck with the first two bosses in H UP, just don't forget to cleanse off the disease from the abomination trash.

Gundrak is just too painful to bother with, IMO. So much aoe nature damage and no nature resists on pallies. Your time is better spent elsewhere. You can, however, farm Moorabi easily for one badge a day and an i200 blue tank helm assuming you don't have tempered titansteel helm already -- just can't do it with LFD.

Don't forget normal FoS/PoS. You'll be able to get through FoS (probably) and Forgemaster Garfrost in PoS but you won't be able to kill Ick/Krick with 1000-1500dps on the rets, I don't think.

Also, don't forget the i200ish epics from ToC Normal. If you can get the joust part down, the rest of that run with rets is pretty flipping easy with paladins. The rogue boss's poison pool is the only thing you'll really have any trouble with.

What I would recommend is getting the FoS quests done so you can get into PoS. Once you unlock PoS normal, you can farm Garfrost normal repeatedly for a badge every 3-4 minutes. Once you get the path right, you only have to kill two skeletons and the boss. Plus, you'll get the i232 2-handers ( Garfrost's Two-Ton Hammer ) which will help immensely. Then it's just ho-hum farming until you get the badge gear done. By the time you get the Triumph badge gear finished, you should be at around 4300-4500ish gearscore and can go farm some filler gear elsewhere much more easily. Mine were about where yours are (1000-1500ish depending on fight) and after farming the odd heroic here and there, my rets are now up to about 3800-4200GS and putting out about 2300-2800 dps. If you're curious, in my wow characters list, Zipples is my tank and Ukobach is my best-geared ret so far.

Just my 2 cents on all-paladin groups.

Cheers,
Ugh
Pretty much agree with everything Ugh just said and let me definitely go ahead and say it again. Seal of Light!!! This will help make-up quite a bit for lousy gear. Not all the way but alot.

Also something I've been saying for awhile and somehow no one ever seems to hear me when it comes to melee teams, an extremely useful tactic to use on bosses such as Ick/Krick that spit out tons of that aoe crap is to simply kite the boss around while just walking backwards with your tank. This keeps your toons already moving so that when bosses like Ick/Krick start dropping aoe that need to be moved out of you already have a head start and aren't standing in that crap taking unecessary damage. My 4 ret paladins almost never even take a tick of damage from the green crap that he drops.

This tactic also prevents melee bosses from using spells with cast times as much since they will move to keep in range of you rather than stop to cast the spell. Now it's not true with every single spell or instant cast spells, but if the boss is always trying to stay in melee range of you they tend to not stop and cast a spell or a channeled spell anywhere near as often.