Pally Tanking Questions

[Thedonsquad]

zecaguilherme[/url]:

Foe SM get the Libram of repetance ->for the shield block rating or Libram of Eternal rest ->for extra dmg on consec...
most important (to easy your life); get Figurine of The Colossus -> pull whole cathedral instance(both CY and inside building) and pop this thing.... your life goes back really fast
and Petrified Lichen guard.
I have heard of paladins at 70 doing SM using Demon Forged Breastplate for the heal... never tried thou

Apart from the spelling mistakes and the fact that Libram of Repentance is USELESS, this post has the gold. Figurine of the Colossus is the best aoe grinding item in the game.
You can do both Cath and Armory in one pull if you have high end blue tanking gear. "Warrior" gear is better, has more avoidance and stamina.
Cath is easy, Armory requires a bit of dodging. In Armory, run past all the mobs, without aggroing, and pull the mobs right outside Herods door. Then its a footrace to the slaughter ground where you left your alts.

Reflective gear wise... Well, when I do this Consecration does 50% dmg, Holy Shield does 9%, Spore Cloud does 8% (Petrified Lichen Guard), Felsteel Spike does 5%, DMC:Vengeance does 4%, Blessing of Sanctuary does 4%, Retribution aura does 2%.
Rest is melee and singletarget killing with Seal/Judgement of Righteousness.

I normally ignore the last bunch of stragglers when doing Cath. Singletarget dps vs healers and casters just isn't worth it, run out and reset instead. I might be a bad person giving advice on this though, my Paladin is in epic raid gear, and my health bar doesnt move down as long as I am facing the group of mobs.

Libram of repentance useless? how? u gain 5% block while holy sheild is active, each block reflects dammage (blessing of sanc if holy sheild is running out of charges). Making it a reflective gear item, that ultimatly can produce more dammage than the 10% more consecration dammage in aoe pulls. The only way that 10% consec buff might outdo the holy sheild 5% block is if you have 500+ spelldmg in prot gear, which is not attainable kara and below.

On the other hand, too much avoidance vs low mobs is bad, let a mob swing on you thats level 30 when you are 70 with 51% pure avoidance and see how long it takes for it to kill itself. In the case of tanking lowbie instances, you are best off focusing on the highest block rating possible as you will still mitigate most if not all of the dmg incomming from lowbie mobs while reflecting the most dammage back. IE: Block = take minimal dammage and hit back for Ret aura + sanc or holy sheild + items vs Dodge = you take no dammage and give none back.

In my prot pallys max threat/block gear i ran thru sm, and aoe killed the whole instance at once, peaked at over 7000 DPS ended the fight at about 1700 DPS overall, but then i'm full epic with almost 500 spelldmg in tanking gear. There are plenty of ways to be able to do it... but ultimatly the figurine is the biggest survival peice for mass tanking... (it will allow youto take the 25 mobs on top of bt all at once in maybe 2-3 other epics)

The most i've had the figurine end up doing was while tanking 30 mobs i was at 12% health (of 13.6k at the time) and clicked it and by the time it finished i was full health. The more the mobs and the more block you have the better that trinket works.

[Silly Gooooose]

Well I know it's not that big of a deal, but after speccing him prot (he was prot geared, specced holy) I finally was able to single pull SM cath.

[Soulo]

With all the Refer-a-friend bonuses out there.. I'm sure i'm not the only one going crazy with alts.. but I do want to share what I've been able to do with a friends Prot Pally. First off..
Stamina: 877 Intellect: 178 Spirit: 94
Armor: 14978 Defense: 517
Dodge: 15.6% Parry: 17.99% Block: 32.23% Resilience: 0

Here is a trick i've learned when gathering mobs.. instead of pressing "W" on the keyboard to run forward.. I rather press "A" or "D" to strafe.. however, by turning yourself with the mouse left click.. you can effectively run sideways at ALMOST full speed. This allows you to block,parry,dodge (most attacks).

The benefit? EASILY pulling ALL of SM Cath in one pull.. once i didn't even need the collossus. My strat.. is leave the nubs at the entrance. Gather hallway mobs.. make a right in the courtyard.. staying under the awning.. then exit the awning at the last exit to go up the right side stairs. Then do the same thing on the upper level. Exit the right side.. and all the roaming mobs will be picked up by casters running past them. Go to the door.. gather the 4 mobs.. Pop Divine Shield. Open the door... run to Whitemane.. pull her.. run back out of cath.. this time taking the opposite side of the courtyard. I pull all the mobs to the original hallway.. but JUST barely inside.. so as to LOS the casters. By then.. i'm usually down to 2k health.. and I pop the collosus. Full health. Seal of Wisdom is active.. so as to regen my mana... while popping max rank Consecrate & Holy shield.

Again... the key to surviving the pull is the strafe run... followed by Collossus.

I do SM from lvl20 to lvl 45. Then head to strath. Going in the service entrance I am able to basically 4 pull all the streets. Ignoring Live side & Undead side respectively. The streets are worth about 70k honor (with RAF).. and takes about 15m. It would probalby be a little too hard to describe but I'll try if ya'll are interested. This took me to lvl59 where I stopped so I could level more alts.