Is Leveling As Holy Viable?

**MyLifeIsRandom** · 2012-05-04, 01:27 PM

I know that outside of an instance, the proper talents can turn Holy Shock and Exorcism into a means to DPS mobs during questing. If I'd prefer leveling as Holy and picking up my Retribution off-spec at 30, would that be possible? I don't expect to kill mobs as fast as a Mage, but just be able to complete quests when instance grinds have bored me.

**Treelife** · 2012-05-04, 01:28 PM

Very. In fact it's more so than Ret imo until early 60s at least. Exorcism Spam though, instead of Holy Shocks. Casting Judgement just for the Spirit/haste buff.

**Evah420** · 2012-05-04, 01:33 PM

It's not the fastest. Its a little easier if your specced Denounce though

**MyLifeIsRandom** · 2012-05-04, 01:35 PM

I have a feeling that due to the majority mob types in Outland and Northrend, it should be very viable there with near constant criticals. I believe that as Holy my survivability will be through the roof while leveling too. Thanks for the input so far, everyone.

**JohnMarshall** · 2012-05-04, 01:46 PM

I levelled as a Holy Paladin as I couldnt be bothered to carry 2 sets of gear in my bags - yes its slow but the advantages are you hardly ever die even if you have 10 mobs attacking you - takes a long long time to kill them however lol an advantage is that by the time you get to where you want to be you will know holy paladin inside out and backwards.

**iDot** · 2012-05-07, 04:05 AM

i leveled holy 80-85, its very easy.

**crowpala** · 2012-05-07, 05:53 AM

It is viable, but as some has already said, it's a bit slow. The advantage is that you need to mess up big time to die.

Speaking of leveling as a paladin, small chance to die, can pick up many mobs at the same time, have you concidered leveling as prot ? I found that really easy and fast. Could pick up big groups of mobs and just brute force kill them.
When I leveled from 80-85 it was so easy and with WoG self healing combined with other CD's, I had a blast. Have leveled up 8 characters/classes to 85 (pala, warrior, DK, Druid, Mage, Shaman, Rogue and warlock) and are currently working on my priest (82) and hunter (80). Paladin as prot, druid (feral tank) and blood DK was the easiest specs I found to level up. Could take on so many mobs at the same time and just nuke them down without to many problems.

**Ktperry** · 2012-05-07, 06:27 AM

It can be done.
But as previous poster said, just level as prot.

**jd812** · 2012-05-07, 06:30 AM

yep u sure can obviously stuff wont die as fast but it is doable i did it

**Irisel** · 2012-05-07, 06:33 AM

I leveled my Pally in Cata (pre-Firelands) as holy. Until Northrend, things would die before they reached me.I hve "DPS" holy spec and a Healing one, for dungeons.

I did mixture of solo and LFD.

**Seyka** · 2012-05-07, 05:19 PM

So far in mists beta it feels slow, but very little downtime and in theory you won't ever die.

**Kaga** · 2012-05-07, 05:21 PM

yeh, i did mine from about 50-85 as holy, brilliant fun, especially when outdpsing people who flood me with hate in dungeons for being healer specced

**anyara** · 2012-05-07, 05:41 PM

It is doable, and a hell of a lot easier than it used to be.
I leveled 1-70 as holy in TBC when it was a case of gathering things up consecration down and spam healing yourself and it was painful. Single target I used to describe as: You will never die, but neither will anything else
I leveled 70-80 as holy and it was a bit slow and boring but doable, a lot of the same gather stuff up and consecrate. I believe I did some levels as prot in holy gear for loads of spellpower (this wouldn't be such a benefit now though).
80-85 with exorcism + denounce wasn't too bad at all, gave me some extra damage in dungeons, I didn't have to decide between leveling gear and MS gear.

You won't die leveling as holy but it can be very boring. It's a very anemic rotation so mix it up with dungeons and music/tv/movies in the background.

I had a play around on beta with denounce+holy shock dps glyphs and the damage isn't great but it's not terrible. Still very safe from dying but again very dull.

**Coorpse** · 2012-05-08, 05:07 PM

I leveled as holy because my buddies said it would fail and take forever.....ehhhh wrong. I hit 80 in 6 days and had a blast doing it. Part dungeon grinding, part PvP, part questing. It was easy tbh!

**fears** · 2012-05-08, 08:59 PM

I know a bunch of people who swear by holy leveling but as an anti-healer (I like tanking and dpsing, lol) I've always found that on characters who can tank is the way to go. You can round up mobs and aoe on slay quests and break the monotony by dungeoning. Though I will admit for some reason pre-85, healer queue > tank queue 100% of the time.

**saintlyn** · 2012-05-10, 01:09 PM

Sure is! Dungeon level FTW

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