[WoW] AOE Paladin Boosting, when to move on to next instance?

[daviddoran]

I'm not sure my pally can handle Baron + Skeletons. I had to use the Seal of Light/judge/reseal trick just to survive zolo. I only have 10k hp, and 13-14k armor. I used to be holy, but picked up a few heroic tanking epics and a few kara tanking pieces (shield from Nightbane, Iron Gloves of the Maiden) and the rest are either the blue honor PvP stuff, and random healing plate. Back when I was holy I couldn't take out the spider boss on the UD side. As Prot, I didn't get too far due to my computer crashing, but I wasn't able to take on more than 3 groups of skeletons at a time.

Another problem I noticed, is that because my guys have been boosted practically from lvl 10, all the gear they have is from SM (the warlocks still have the Deadmines gloves), which at 55 is quite low. I know gear isn't all that great, but if they pull aggro in strat, they die very fast. I had planned on just questing in outland for the rewards, and then doing some instances, but if they can barely hang in Strat, I am unsure how long they can hang in outland.

So, I either need to gear out my paladin tank so I can keep boosting until they get some better gear from outland instance drops, or do instances a bit lower than required for the gear, like BRD perhaps.

[noir]

I've got way more experience as a KZ/ZA tankadin than a multiboxer... XD

You don't need a weapon for Baron, period. You can even go tank a 5-man with just your fists and a shield. Try it. XD All your threat is from being hit. You're just gonna do less threat cos a huge chunk of your +spell damage is from your weapon.

If you need to judge Light on Zolo, then yeah, you're not gonna survive Baron. Your ultimate goal for your tankadin at 70 is 490 Defense to reach uncrit, and 102.4% miss/dodge/parry/block to reach uncrushable. Baron's level 60, so you don't really need that. Just stack Armor and avoidance and you should be fine. Go buy green tanking gear from the AH. +STA, +avoidance, +spell damage is what you're looking for.

If you can tank the trash in Strat, I don't see why you can't survive Baron. Your alts can help heal you, as long as you're good with keeping up the rank 1 consecrates to catch the skels as they spawn.

[Tdog]

What level are the skeletons in baron's room?

[dRiN]

[quote='Tdog',index.php?page=Thread&postID=85057#po st85057]What level are the skeletons in baron's room?[/quote]Level 60

Search was : "skel" then sort by region. Stratholme. There where three options. Comments hold the truth : )

[url='http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=10440']Baron Rivendare[/url] periodically summons a group of these with his Raise Dead spell. They have very little health and do minimal damage, but if they aren't quickly killed, the Baron will cast Death Pact, killing them and healing himself.

This was on a sidenote.

I have been trying out Zolo with my druid to boost part of my set. This was going really well. I kept Zolo alive. And when I ran low on health / was overwhelmed by the spawning adds I just dropped some of the totems. Gave me some time to recover and get my cooldowns reset.

trinkets (make sure to use them every cooldown).
Spyglass of the hidden fleet (for restore of 1300 health)
Moroes' Lucky Pocket Watch (for extra dodging)

In this mix I had 3 healing stream totems (10-14 health per totem per tick), a pally armor aura (don't remember the name) and sometimes I would barkskin and put a regrowth and rejuv on me. By the time I needed it again my mana was replenished. I use Pitbull to track what my mana is in bearform so I know when I'm back to full again. Dont use thorns to get them to stick on you. Use demo shout instead. Also giving a nice debuff so they hit for less. Don't use swipe too often, only when you are trying to control the amount of skellies. If you swipe chances are you hit zolo a bit too. But you can try to avoid this from happening when zolo runs to one side, and you do controled swipes on the other side. Chanes on hitting him are less this way.

Too bad our realm went offline for a sec so I disconnected.

[Wolf]

Is there anywhere else that would be good to try boosting from lvl 55 other than strat, I don't have anyone else to help me clear it and I have a lot of trouble trying to solo. I have 1 lvl 60 shaman to help me but he's not very much help. :-/
Thanks.

[daviddoran]

If your highest is only lvl 60, I'd just dual box em and quest. You can simply do em faster with 2 compared to 1, and both toons will get xp from it. Just stick to azeroth until you hit 58, cause then the rewards/xp in outland is way better.

[Wolf]

Oh sorry I just realized I said that wrong >.<
I only have a 60 shaman to help my 70 pally.
The character I'm trying to level is a 55 rogue.

[Marathon]

Just got my 2nd set of two shammies into Sunken Temple last night. OMG I frogot how mindless that place was. I mean I loved seeing my toons ding every 25min but I am defently going to have some other form of entertainment going on while I am boasting the second half of my team.

[Tdog]

Just got my 2nd set of two shammies into Sunken Temple last night. OMG I frogot how mindless that place was. I mean I loved seeing my toons ding every 25min but I am defently going to have some other form of entertainment going on while I am boasting the second half of my team.

I just thru up a windows media player over one of the less important lowbie screens and watched some movies while only half paying attention to the skeletons and hp.

[Septimous]

Has anybody tried this with a warrior? Technically the process sounds like it should be very similar. Attach shield spike, let them pound on you in defensive stance, swap gear as it becomes broken, etc. The problem is just deciding how to keep him healed. The only healer in the group would be a priest. Would renewing him periodicly eventually draw aggro from Zolo?