Readers ask, itankstuff.com answears (II)

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Seems we’re get­ting a lot of love tonight as another ques­tion just popped out. It comes from Asara:

I am also, like Mama Druid, work­ing on lev­el­ing up a Prot pally (Saraabi on
Mal­fu­rion). She was ret most of the way, but now that she’s hit Out­land, I
decided I’d take the plunge and start tank­ing things.

Any­way, I was hop­ing you could shed some light on how exactly one goes about
AOE grind­ing. Is that some­thing I can do now, or do I need to wait for my full
tal­ent tree at 70? I’ve seen videos but they don’t really explain blow-by-blow
what they’re doing.. and when I’m quest­ing, I’m gen­er­ally lucky to be able to
hold two mobs with­out dying. I just started the Nesing­wary quest­lines in
Nagrand, and it would cut a lot of time out of my grind if I could drop four or
five of the mobs at a time. Any help you have is welcome!

Sorry about me not being so prompt about your ques­tion, but I was fight­ing in the tour­na­ment I was telling you about ear­lier this week.

Refer­ring back to your prob­lem, I’ve looked at your char­ac­ter on armory. First thing I noticed is that you didn’t took Reck­on­ing. You should. Helps out a great deal while lev­el­ing. Sec­ondly, it really shows on your gear that you came from a Ret­ri­bu­tion build. But it’s ok, things will get bet­ter. A really big plus is the shield you have. Strap a Fel­steel Shield Spike on (expen­sive, but invest in that because you’ll be using this shield at AoE farm­ing even at 70) and you’re set.

Unfor­tu­nately, I can’t seem to recall how many mobs I could pull while lev­el­ing. I think around 3 if they were melee and only 1 caster. So I can’t really tell why you die at only two mobs. Here are a few tips you could use:

• Holy Shield and Con­se­cra­tion should be always up. Always;
• Judge and fight with SoW;
• Use Ret­ri­bu­tion aura;
• Get Reck­on­ing (lulz);
• Have guts. Don’t be afraid to bub­ble (and heal) or even LoH. Next time you’ll know to pull less;

I’m guess­ing the vids you watched are of the Pal­adins farm­ing the Demon Hunters near Black Tem­ple. For those you kinda need good-ish gear. Fig­urine of the Colos­sus and Dabiri’s Enigma are a deadly combo. I remem­ber that first time I attempted to farm them, I had to bub­ble, heal myself to full and still was very close to dieing. Now I just storm in and they don’t even get me to half HP.

AoE grind­ing is not so present and effec­tive at lower lev­els. Good news is, by the time you hit 70 and have the gear to attempt Karazhan (mean­ing at least 490 Defense, 10k HP, 200ish Spell Dam­age) you’ll be a lean-mean-farming machine. And things get only for the bet­ter while get­ting bet­ter and bet­ter gear.

Good luck! Hope I’ve been of some help.

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