New Pally Tank Blog - ByBaylor.com

ByBaylor.com tags itself as the blog for Pally tanking for random heroics.  There is a ton of useful information.  It covers boss and trash mob tips, gold farming instances, gearing your Pally, and general Pally info for all three trees (Prot, Ret and Holy).

He uses a good combination of articles and videos to show the strengths and how-to's of Pally tanking.  Here's a brief sample of how to use Judgements for chain pulling in Nexus.



So make sure you check out the site, you won't be disappointed.

Paladin Powerleveling with RAF

Here is a list of instances you can powerlevel guildies or Recruit-A-Friend accounts.  The 300% XP bonus from the RAF accounts will allow you to level from 1-60 in one (very long) day.  This is by no means set in stone, they are only recommendations.   A lot of the instances overlap, some are more PL friendly than others (SM Cath is heaven). There are others, but this should get you started.  These should work for any class that is able to lay down respectable AoE.

Levels	Alliance	Horde
1-10	Quest	Quest
8-14		Ragefire Chasm
10-15	Deadmines
14-19		Wailing Caverns
15-25	Stockades
19-25		Razorfen Kraul
25-42	Scarlet Monastery	Scarlet Monastery
40-50	Sunken Temple	Sunken Temple
42-52	Zul'Farrak	Zul'Farrak
50-55	Statholme	Statholme
52-56	Blackrock Depths	Blackrock Depths
55-60	Hellfire Ramparts	Hellfire Ramparts

If you have any others that work really well let us know!

How To Gear Your Level 80 Tank

The following is an excerpt from Maintankadin for  gearing with patch 3.3

You can read the full post by yappo with all the goodies here.

"Gearing fully according to this list should have the tank ready to run ToC 25 as well as ICC 10. However, I'll need input on ICC 10 and if a tank geared this way could possibly do ICC 25 as well.

The premise is to gear up a tank by farming heroics without relying on a single drop. However, I'll still assume that drops from normal mode instances have a 100% availability because they can be reset and reentered immediately.

For simplicity's sake we could assume the paladin runs the daily quests and the daily random heroic for a net value of 150 gold a day. After all we want to be exalted with Hodir, and if RNG hates us we need to run the AT dailies for a tanking weapon. The reason I have increased the amount by 50 gold daily compared with the 3.2 guide is that each random heroic awards gold for completion.

This way gemming, enchants and bought craftables can be weighed against the effort needed. For example, the craftable ilevel 245 chest would be out of the question as the first slot geared, but Titansteel Shieldwall should be considered an early buy.

The realistic approach, however, is probably to have your naked tank run the first 20 - 30 heroics as dps if you want to argue that a naked tank tanks nothing. This way we ensure that the perceived inability to get tanking gear without tanking remains a myth.

Assumptions:
Tank generates a surplus of 150 gold per day played by means of dailies done and vendor-trash.
Tank generates 22 emblems of triumph per day played (four random heroics).
Tank generates 2 emblems of frost per day played (first daily random heroic).

There is no inherent order between weeks a such. They're only there to visualize what you get for seven days worth of grinding following the schedule above. For each week I have summed up the cost in emblems out of of the 154 (7 X 22) available.

Week: 1
ilevel 245 [Headplate of the Honorbound] / [Faceplate of the Honorbound], 75 emblems
ilevel 232 [Liadrin's Breastplate of Conquest] / [Turalyon's Breastplate of Triumph], 50 emblems
ilevel 226 [Libram of the Sacred Shield], 19 emblems downgraded to Emblems of Conquest

144 emblems of 154 used

Week 2:
ilevel 226 [Shard of the Crystal Forest] (neck), 19 emblems downgraded to Emblems of Conquest
ilevel 232 [Liadrin's Legguards of Conquest] / [Turalyon's Legguards of Conquest], 50 emblems
ilevel 232 [Liadrin's Handguards of Conquest] / [Turalyon's Handguards of Conquest], 30 emblems
ilevel 226 [Shieldwarder Girdle], 28 emblems downgraded to Emblems of Conquest

127 emblems of 154 used

Week 3:
ilevel 213 [Bracers of Dalaran's Parapet], 60 emblems downgraded to Emblems of Valor
ilevel 200 [Axe of the Senjin Protector]/[Teldrassil Protector], 25 Champion's Seal from AT dailies
ilevel 245 [Shoulderguards of the Enduring Order]/[Shoulderplates of Enduring Order], 45 emblems
ilevel 213 [Signet of the Impregnable Fortress] (ring), 25 downgraded to Emblems of Valor
ilevel 245 [Glyph of Indomitability], 35 emblems

165 emblems of 154 used

Week 4:

ilevel 245 [Clutch of Fortification], 35 emblems
ilevel 213 [Kyzoc's Ground Stompers], 40 emblems downgraded to Emblems of Valor
ilevel 213 [Platinum Mesh Cloak], 25 emblems downgraded to Emblems of Valor

100 emblems of 154 used

After week four we're lacking a shield and a trinket.

Trial of the Champion on normal five man difficulty drops the following:
ilevel 200 [Boots of Heartfelt Repentance]
ilevel 200 [Mercy's Hold] (hands)
ilevel 200 [Legguards of Abandoned Fealty]
ilevel 200 [Girdle of the Pallid Knight]
ilevel 200 [The Black Heart] (trinket)

Forge of Souls, normal difficulty drops:
ilevel 219 [Lucky Old Sun]
ilevel 219 [Legplates of Frozen Granite]
ilevel 219 [Sollerets of Suffering]

Pits of Saron, normal difficulty drops:
ilevel 219 [Titanium Links of Lore]
ilevel 219 [Scourgelord's Frigid Chestplate]

Halls of Reflection, normal diffuculty drops:
ilevel 219 [Eerie Runeblade Polisher]
ilevel 219 [Splintered Door of the Citadel]
ilevel 219 [Crystalline Citadel Gauntlets]

These instances are included because you can clear it, exit, reset, enter, clear it...

Of the items in these instances we want The Black Heart (trinket), Splintered Door of the Citadel (shield), Eerie Runeblade Polisher (cloak) and Lucky Old Sun (weapon).
Black Heart and Door because we lack one shield and one trinket in the emblem list, and the cloak and weapon because they are arguably better than what's available from emblems."

Maintankadin, 2010

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