Working on Proving Grounds on a Paladin I just boosted and I'm having troubles getting through gold. I'm still trying to get used to tanking again, the last time being back when I was clearing H BWD/BoT/To4W, but when I get to 9/10 and 10/10 I just get smashed. Are there any guides you'd recommend or some advice?
Trinket from Dark Animus is shit. Buy Ghost Iron Dragonling and put in cogwheels haste/expertise/hit.
Trinket from Lei Shen is, well, not very well for a class that doesn't need stamina unless severely undergeared.
You are not hit AND expertise cappped, altho I don't remember the level of enemies here, so if you can hit with each and every one of your spells, then carry on.
LOW haste. I mean, really, REALLY low. Now squish that haste to 463 ilvl - it's like walking in on haste-stacking prot warrior.
I'd advise you to try get better itemized items ROLLING AS RET on Timeless Isle.
At the very least drop divine purpose which is shit at low haste levels. Take holy avenger which is a good physical damage reduction CD once every 2nd wave (by good I mean Godly) I'd also take EF over SS but thats me.
What they said, only going to add, that on 9 and 10th waves for gold I found that I needed to kite the big guys for a bit, especially when they enrage. One thing as well, try to keep GoAK saved for wave 10 if possible...at least that, if not all your CDs.
Along that line you may want to switch to First of Justice, instead of Evil is a Point of a view. I found movement is key and even standing still long enough to cast Turn Evil can get you killed in wave 9 and 10.
You should have GoAK available for waves 4/5 and 9/10.