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    Melee Based Pally Tank

    http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?pala...15251033000000

    Not sure if this would work but it seems interesting enough, would love to hear other's feedback

  2. #2

    Re: Melee Based Pally Tank

    If your intent is to hold aggro through the threat generated by what you think would be increased dps by speccing that far into ret... I don't see that as being too effective.

    SoC is not worth it for tanking. It's ppm. Soooo, with a one hand, you'll see a drastic decrease in procs. Furthermore, when you're relying on said procs of additional holy damage for threat you're taking a gamble and it'll hurt your TPS when it doesn't proc.

    Without Avenger's Shield, pulling mobs would be a bit problematic. Especially since it offers such a fantastic method of gaining threat on multiple targets immediately.

    IMO, you should go deep prot and save the Hybrid specs for OTs.


  3. #3

    Re: Melee Based Pally Tank

    Additionally, LULZ Reckoning.


  4. #4

    Re: Melee Based Pally Tank

    protection leveling spec?

    cause for tanking this is horrible
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  5. #5

    Re: Melee Based Pally Tank

    there is nothing wrong with reckoning it is quite a good talent, and if you pull this parry gib BS on me here is my reply to that...HS has extra charges hence no parry gib warrior SB has 2 charges and that is why they get parry gibed..

    it isnt a great talent for aoe tanking i agree with that but for tanking a single mob or even if you have an aoe pack with a mob you have to hold agro on sololy it is very good

  6. #6

    Re: Melee Based Pally Tank

    Reckoning is a talent used for leveling/farming as prot.

    Possibly, now that white damage makes up a slightly more significant amount of Prot pally threat it could maybe be worth the 5 points.

    However, as far as pre-WotLK goes, I have yet to see a serious paladin MT build using Reckoning. That talent has been stirring up trouble since some guy went and Youtubed himself Reck-Bombing Kazzak.


  7. #7

    Re: Melee Based Pally Tank

    FYI: Reckoning procs SoR

    and my pally is OT for SSC/TK this is the spec i use http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=sZVhxIx0zGgqtVbx

  8. #8

    Re: Melee Based Pally Tank

    Quote Originally Posted by Oracle
    there is nothing wrong with reckoning it is quite a good talent, and if you pull this parry gib BS on me here is my reply to that...HS has extra charges hence no parry gib warrior SB has 2 charges and that is why they get parry gibed..

    it isnt a great talent for aoe tanking i agree with that but for tanking a single mob or even if you have an aoe pack with a mob you have to hold agro on sololy it is very good
    The spec itself is terrible for any kind of tanking. He doesnt have the stam/spell power talent so his threat is drastically reduced. And reckoning isnt really a talent worth all 5 points. I would put maybe one point in it just for the chance for the proc and only if I had the extra point to spare.
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    Re: Melee Based Pally Tank

    Quote Originally Posted by Oracle
    there is nothing wrong with reckoning it is quite a good talent, and if you pull this parry gib BS on me here is my reply to that...HS has extra charges hence no parry gib warrior SB has 2 charges and that is why they get parry gibed..

    it isnt a great talent for aoe tanking i agree with that but for tanking a single mob or even if you have an aoe pack with a mob you have to hold agro on sololy it is very good
    Parry insta-gib is a borderline a myth with druid tanks theres no way possible I can see that a paladin tank can be parry insta gibbed. Its not to say that you cant be parried, but not twice in a row, and never in succession. You cant be crushed now so the main worry isnt even there to begin with. Its cute that you bring it up, but not from a paladin.
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  10. #10

    Re: Melee Based Pally Tank

    Quote Originally Posted by Oracle
    FYI: Reckoning procs SoR
    Yes, but in the current build SoV/SoCor has shown to be better TPS than SoR.
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    Re: Melee Based Pally Tank

    i havent yet tested prot pally on the current build, and im not saying that this spec is good im just saying nothing is wrong with reckoning it is a good talent, and the melee based tank spec has fail all over it sorry, but SoC is for 2h dps otherwise use sumthing else and just the whole spec in general u will loose out on the beneficial spells pallies need to tank

    for lvl 80 spec i would go for sumthing like this in a raid situation http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?pala...14251433312301

    kings isnt really needed seeing as tho ur in a raid one of the other pallies will have it and you will probly be on sumthing else but if you want kings then just swap the str talent, the str talent would be good for SotR as it would increase ur block which would increase the dmg it does, that build have 1 pt left could either go for reckoning or ardent defender

    Quote Originally Posted by Tasttey
    Yes, but in the current build SoV/SoCor has shown to be better TPS than SoR.
    reckoing procs extra hits not just a melee attacks so SoV/SoCor will benefit from this too

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    Re: Melee Based Pally Tank

    Think all of you missed my point, I obviously wasnt trying to make a perfect paladin tanking spec or I would have gone deep prot...

    Just the fact was you will be able to do a lot of damage with the additional talents (+17% crit from talents alone) and Reckoning would work well considering it will make all of my attacks hit twice and I had planned to use a melee/tank weapon not a spell damage one.

    I was thinking this would be a good OT spec for a 10 man or a high damage 5 man tank, but I could be wrong...

  13. #13

    Re: Melee Based Pally Tank

    Quote Originally Posted by Maklor
    Yes you are wrong because you will have 0 spell power so it doesn't work at all.

    Besides prot already do pretty good damage, something like http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?pala...15251033312301 would be much better for pure DPS.
    Hammer of the Righteous seems like it would own, so I will agree on your spec there.

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  14. #14

    Re: Melee Based Pally Tank

    sorry i didnt mean to be like that, i think full prot will be better dps as we get a shield bash (SotR) and we have HotR also so i think full prot would be the best dps for prot not much really u can change i think as an OT you still need to do a very good amount of TPS

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    Re: Melee Based Pally Tank

    Quote Originally Posted by Xephan
    Reckoning is a talent used for leveling/farming as prot.

    Possibly, now that white damage makes up a slightly more significant amount of Prot pally threat it could maybe be worth the 5 points.

    However, as far as pre-WotLK goes, I have yet to see a serious paladin MT build using Reckoning. That talent has been stirring up trouble since some guy went and Youtubed himself Reck-Bombing Kazzak.
    That is also because in pre-WotLK it only procs on full hits vs the target, which means no 100%+ avoidance (miss, dodge, block, parry), which means crushable. It also isn't very useful since boss swings tend to be slow and strong, not fast and weak making the low % of the proc start to stand out a lot. In Wrath it gets changed to full hits and blocks, so it will increase the amount of times it procs, but it still has a low % to proc in the first place making it better on fast swinging bosses. Though if it did get its % increased it could start making SoR better than in TPS than SoCorrupt, and SoVeng.

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