Considering leveling a pally, ut first a few questions
Hello, im recently coming back from a break from wow and i want to make a char that ive never played before. Pally might seem the way to go. My goal is to just basically have fun leveling, doing instances. Always been a healer so wanna try some melee dps and tanking. When I get to max level my plans will be be mainly soloing old instances and pvp. The point of this post is to ask pallys with these same interests, how is it. Did u enjoying the leveling experience on a pally, is it hard to solo old instances and raids, and how is pally pvp (both as a healer and ret)?
I loved leveling my Paladin, but that's because I did it back pre-BC. PvP is currently (I don't have any backup on this) probably the best tanking class at this point of time in the game. If you're going to be leveling by doing dungeons, I'd suggest going Protection. Ret is basically shit and worthless. Plus outside of dungeons, it's not too bad either for questing and such.
PvP-wise, I can't help you much, I don't do it a lot.
Go for it! Playing on my pally is so fun and it's so easy to solo old instances. For example I usually do H SH for the mount. And I can easily do it in a few pulls without worrying about dying.