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

[Heenan]

Bah! I worked my butt off to get my Pally up to par for grinding and now I have to undo everything for this :P It'll be well worth it though. I am going to try your strat tonight Tdog. Since my alts hit 38 last night, SM XP is slow going.

[Marathon]

A couple of questions with probably more to come afterward.

1st question - I have tried viewing the video alot but I cant seem to view it. Any ideas?

2nd question - I tried doing this on my own with out my alts just to try it and with a defense rating of 491 and an armor of 14500 with devotion aura on and the mobs still ate me alive. In fact the only way I was able to heal was to bubble and heal. But being prot and not holy I was only able to heal a little bit. Can u help me with this.

3rd question - Once you jump off the platform do the mobs chase after you and kill your alts ?

Thanks for you support !!! :thumbsup:

[Tdog]

A couple of questions with probably more to come afterward.

1st question - I have tried viewing the video alot but I cant seem to view it. Any ideas?

2nd question - I tried doing this on my own with out my alts just to try it and with a defense rating of 491 and an armor of 14500 with devotion aura on and the mobs still ate me alive. In fact the only way I was able to heal was to bubble and heal. But being prot and not holy I was only able to heal a little bit. Can u help me with this.

3rd question - Once you jump off the platform do the mobs chase after you and kill your alts ?

Thanks for you support !!! :thumbsup:

1. /shrug works just fine for me. Google pally st boosting you might find another video of it. Although the way I personally am doing this is imo easier and more efficient than the videos I've seen.

2. I'm assuming you're using top rank of BoSanct right? Using Concentration Aura AND spiritual focus talent when you heal? When you do go to heal, switch to concentration aura and then use Holy Light not Flash of Light. Even though FoL is more mana efficient you do not block or parry while casting thus you take a ton of damage while trying to heal yourself. HL is 3x the HPS as FoL and you will suffer less healing time thus less damage taken while trying to heal up.

Also don't be trying to heal constantly either. I usually don't heal up till I'm at about 1000 hp. You may want to heal up at about 1500 the first few times till you get use to it. Either way the goal is to stay in 30% range for as long as you can since you are taking the least amount of damage due to Ardent Defender. With 5/5 reckoning + SoL you can basically just keep yourself healed in the 30% range with just that alone for a good long time.

Don't stand in the middle of the platform either or the skeletons will surround you and you will be taking damage from behind by alot of skeletons. Stand in the corner of the platform by the edge. This will force all of the skeletons to be in front of you thus you will have a chance to block, dodge, parry every single attack thrown at you. It will also make it so you can easily use SoW and SoL as the skeletons will want to move all over the place on you.

3. No, they all evade immediately after jumping off the platform. As long as they aren't in aggro range/LOS you're lowbies will not get aggro.

[Kayley]

I do it the super super lazy way. I park my shamans near, drop healing + a stoneskin totem. :P

I just jump down with the paladin, shamans die. Res them when I come back up. Although it is a little shady, who knows what would happen if a GM spotted you


*edit*
I was teasing about it being shady, creative use of game mechanics all the way!

[Marathon]

Thanks for the replies ... my 3 alts are still in SM at level 32 atm. But I am going to get them to 35 by tonight or at least by tommorow.

I am using the highest BoSan - And switched to conentration aura when i tried to heal. But no I did not have the spirtual focus talents. I am 49 Protection and 12 Ret - and I dont have th 5/5 in recokening either in the prot tree. So I guess I should respec. How do you think I should respec ?

Thanks again for the support. :thumbup:

[Tdog]

I do it the super super lazy way. I park my shamans near, drop healing + a stoneskin totem. :P

I just jump down with the paladin, shamans die. Res them when I come back up. Although it is a little shady, who knows what would happen if a GM spotted you


*edit*
I was teasing about it being shady, creative use of game mechanics all the way!

Yea I was explaining how to do it with just a paladin for everyone's benefit. Obviously different group make up will have different options.

As far as it being shady...It's a whole hell of alot less shady than the paladin/mage zone out method that Athene used for the longest time. And after doing a bit of research I've discovered posts of this strategy as far back as april of 2007 which said posts suggested that it was around even longer than that. So I can't believe for even a second that blizzard doesn't already know about this method.

Thanks for the replies ... my 3 alts are still in SM at level 32 atm. But I am going to get them to 35 by tonight or at least by tommorow.

I am using the highest BoSan - And switched to conentration aura when i tried to heal. But no I did not have the spirtual focus talents. I am 49 Protection and 12 Ret - and I dont have th 5/5 in recokening either in the prot tree. So I guess I should respec. How do you think I should respec ?

Thanks again for the support. :thumbup:

Yea you're not going to be getting heals off unless you are 100% immune to spell pushback.

If you don't have the Figurine of the Colussus I'd suggest you get spirtual focus. Using alts to heal won't work because it may take a few seconds to get a block off and generate some aggro and skeletons are respawning all the time so you're alts will definitely die if you try to use them to heal yourself. You can however using healing totems if you have shamans. Once you reset the group will die but you can just rez them up once you get back to the top.

Reckoning isn't necessary but it is very nice as it will always be up and you'll practically be swinging twice as fast thus receiving twice the benefit of SoW and SoL.

[Marathon]

Yeah I dont have Figurine of the Colussus just one of those nice trinkets I never got. I looked it up and it has a 12% drop rate. ;(

[Tdog]

Yeah I dont have Figurine of the Colussus just one of those nice trinkets I never got. I looked it up and it has a 12% drop rate. ;(

Well Fortunately you don't need it. I don't have it either and I've been doing just fine. Doing it right now in fact on my 2nd team

[Marathon]

Ideas about best spec for this ? Besdies the 1o points in holy for the 5/5 for spirtual focus?

Ok my 2 shammys and 1 mage have all hit 35 .. blah so tired of SM .... going to try and get a few practice runs in before I actually sink the time to bring my alts.

[daviddoran]

I used to be full holy spec with just enough points in prot to get kings, and when I respecced to mostly prot, I didn't do any in holy (cause I wanted improved ret aura) but I can see now that the points in ret aren't necessary, as BoSanct does more dmg anyway. I'm probably gonna respec (again, ugh) and put the rest into holy. Having more INT always helps, and for self healing, spiritual focus and conc. aura are must haves. When WotLK comes out, we get 10 more points at 80 (and even better gear) so you could do mostly prot, a bit in holy, and still go 10 in ret to get Deflection (increased parry) Then it will be extreme ezmode. Hell you could probably boost in outland instances...

But, I was able to watch my health go up by as much as 5% with my skullflame shield. Its lifestealing proc must be going crazy. That and JoL keeps me up pretty good. And there's always LoH. I used to always get improved LoH, but even then the CD is sooo long, that it's only worth it if you are deep into holy as a raid main healer, and are already OOM...

My alts just hit 30-31, so a bit more SM boosting (which is getting faster BTW) and it's off to ST. Too bad the new patch and lvl 30 mounts aren't out yet, it'd be a whole lot easier with mounts and crusader aura.