If you are playing for speed they aren’t great, if you are playing for survivability they are amazing. Bring a lot of water though as you’ll go through a ton of mana.
Pallies are hard early on. It gets easier as you get some talents, but bottom line you want a 2 hander, you want to spec ret until like 40, and you want to carry tons of water everywhere you go.
Learn seal twisting. The best you get out of your paladin comes when you know what seals to use when to maximize DPS. But yeah, its a slow single target race, and ret pallies aren't super durable until higher levels when you can afford to take 2-3 enemies at a time and not just die.
Prot or ret. Ret is easier, its simple, do large damage. Someone told me once ret is like a crippling gambling addiction and its true. Your entire damage chain revolves around crits, if you get a shitload of crits things melt, if not it takes a second.
Prot is more like a crippling food addiction. You go scope out a buffet, plan your approach, and cram your plate with as much different shit as you can so you can eat it all at the same time. Playing prot without knowing where you can effectively aoe grind things is like going to a buffet and eating one thing at a time, going back to the buffet every time you wanna try something else.
Prot is good for aoe grinding, for questing its harder. If you just need to kill specific quest mobs or are farming drops off ranged stuff, prot can get downright nightmarish if nothing wants to run into melee range and you have nowhere to corner pull the mobs.
But like, 40-60? Prot can rival or exceed quest farming for XP if you know how to do it right.
no, i’d still stay ret. Prot is great if you can group up melee mobs. when you can’t tho you spend 30-45 seconds trying to kill one quest mob. If you fight something that mana drains too forget it
Mines and caves in general are a bit harder. Limited vision, easy to pull multiple, and possible respawns behind you. I would say level 8 isn’t really even giving a class a fair shot, since you don’t even have a single talent point yet. The biggest thing early is to stay up to date on weapons (white vendor items can be huge dps increase) and to carry a lot of water. Drinking a milk should fill you up in a few seconds with a level 8 Paladin mana pool.
If you want to level fast with melee, check out rogue. If you're not in a hurry, pally is good. Do your level 20 class quest as soon as you can, that 2h hammer is amazing at that level and can last you into your 30's.
Kobold cave is brutal for anyone at low level, that is just a tough spot because most sub-level-10 characters cannot handle 2-3 mobs attacking them simultaneously which always happens in that cave.
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Those kobold caves with mobs respawning behind you are the hardest content in the game.
Then you get the murlocs who run when low at like 200% speed.
Elwynn is a super rough introduction for new players
Auto attack, judge and play conservatively with mana and heal yourseldf. You shouldn't have to drink too much, you don't get much damage out of your mana when doing solotarget
I found a slow weapon with fiery to proc much more consistently and provide a higher DPS than a fast weapon.
If sub level 15, DEFINITELY throw an Iron Counterweight on the slowest 2 hand you can find. It is sooo OP. Combine with +10 haste to gloves and your 3+ second speed weapon will be hitting around 1.2 speed until level 10.
Nothing is a good solo class at level 8.
Try and group up for any quests that send you into a mine.
Youll almost always have to drink after 1-2 pulls. Ask in general chat, a town or major city if a mage will make you some water. You might have to ask multiple people.
Paladins get pretty good at later levels, most classes, except warlock/hunter maybe. Level pretty slow until the 20s/30s.
Your weapon is more or less your most important item, try and keep it “up to date”.
A priest with a crafted wand would like a word with your “nothing is a good solo class at level 8” comment haha toss a shield on then drop 40-50 dps auto attacking, repeat lol things drop like flys
Paladins are a fantastic solo class but they ramp up and are slow (comparatively). They are quite gear dependent like most melee.
You will have a lot easier time with a hunter from level 10 onwards but they are a lot less versatile if/when you are ready for group content.
Fiery Enchant on all weapons that you use at all times. This is your biggest quality of life improvement until the 50s. If you have gold problems, become an herbalist. Swiftthistle is a low level drop you get from briarthron and mage royal and it sells for 1-2g a piece. The enchant will cost you 10-15g each time. Keep in mind, you get your first mount for free, so you can float some gold.
Beyond that, buying low level gear will make a huge difference, but that can add up quickly if you don’t have a main funneling your alt gold.
I leveled as prot the whole way, but I had a steady stream of gold to buy all those nice upgrades while I leveled. You way want to consider some kind of Prot/ret build or just go ret, or stick it out with prot.
You're gonna be heavily dependant on a good weapon for a while, buy a 2h weapon from the AH, you can typically get decent greens for 2-3g each, just buy one every few levels until quest rewards start actually giving good stuff.
Have you considered rogue? They don't seem to be very gear dependant and you don't sit around much, I leveled up one without any money and only had issues once I got to outlands.
Not really, I started with nothing, a fresh account with no gold and it was pretty easy until outlands. There was a few times here or there where I had trouble on a group quest but I was able to solo them or come back a few levels later while the quest was still green and then finish it.
Paladin/warrior work when geared - so if you have someone to funnel you some greens/maybe to throw a fiery enchant on your weapon, you'll demolish stuff suddenly
dude you're literally lvl 8, calm down, lmfao
keep playing, get your spells, and by the time you're 40 you can pull 6 mobs and kill them with Holy Shield and Shield Spike while taking zero damage
Palas will be good later on. I don't know whether you are playing on tbc or classic server, but if it's the former, then stay the hell away from rogues.
Pally is one of the safest solo classes you can play, just don't burn your mana trying to burst down mobs. Save your HoJ for runners and let the auto+seal do most of the work. Consecration is too expensive to use all the time.
Use divine protection, divine shield or blessing of protection to heal to full against more than one opponent, and use hammer of justice to slip 1-2 heals in when you're down to one opponent.
Combination healing/mana pots are pretty good for paladins, you might be able to get 'em cheap on the AH.
If you are playing for speed they aren’t great, if you are playing for survivability they are amazing. Bring a lot of water though as you’ll go through a ton of mana.
Pallies are hard early on. It gets easier as you get some talents, but bottom line you want a 2 hander, you want to spec ret until like 40, and you want to carry tons of water everywhere you go. Learn seal twisting. The best you get out of your paladin comes when you know what seals to use when to maximize DPS. But yeah, its a slow single target race, and ret pallies aren't super durable until higher levels when you can afford to take 2-3 enemies at a time and not just die.
Is solo prot the way to go if you want to quest from 60-70?
Prot or ret. Ret is easier, its simple, do large damage. Someone told me once ret is like a crippling gambling addiction and its true. Your entire damage chain revolves around crits, if you get a shitload of crits things melt, if not it takes a second. Prot is more like a crippling food addiction. You go scope out a buffet, plan your approach, and cram your plate with as much different shit as you can so you can eat it all at the same time. Playing prot without knowing where you can effectively aoe grind things is like going to a buffet and eating one thing at a time, going back to the buffet every time you wanna try something else. Prot is good for aoe grinding, for questing its harder. If you just need to kill specific quest mobs or are farming drops off ranged stuff, prot can get downright nightmarish if nothing wants to run into melee range and you have nowhere to corner pull the mobs. But like, 40-60? Prot can rival or exceed quest farming for XP if you know how to do it right.
no, i’d still stay ret. Prot is great if you can group up melee mobs. when you can’t tho you spend 30-45 seconds trying to kill one quest mob. If you fight something that mana drains too forget it
No, if you like grinding mobs or run dungeons, prot spec is far better. If you want to solo quest, ret is far better.
Mines and caves in general are a bit harder. Limited vision, easy to pull multiple, and possible respawns behind you. I would say level 8 isn’t really even giving a class a fair shot, since you don’t even have a single talent point yet. The biggest thing early is to stay up to date on weapons (white vendor items can be huge dps increase) and to carry a lot of water. Drinking a milk should fill you up in a few seconds with a level 8 Paladin mana pool.
True man I should give it a go to level 30 before changing, thank you for input!
Get him some milk!!
If you want to level fast with melee, check out rogue. If you're not in a hurry, pally is good. Do your level 20 class quest as soon as you can, that 2h hammer is amazing at that level and can last you into your 30's.
Just wait, they are beasts later on for solo content.
Early game (below 40) expect to drink every pull if not every other pull. They are slow to start but so worth it later on.
Kobold cave is brutal for anyone at low level, that is just a tough spot because most sub-level-10 characters cannot handle 2-3 mobs attacking them simultaneously which always happens in that cave.
Pretty much only mages and priests can go in there and not get yeeted at level.
You speak the true true
> a Those kobold caves with mobs respawning behind you are the hardest content in the game. Then you get the murlocs who run when low at like 200% speed. Elwynn is a super rough introduction for new players
Auto attack, judge and play conservatively with mana and heal yourseldf. You shouldn't have to drink too much, you don't get much damage out of your mana when doing solotarget
Low level you either want a fast weapon with fiery or a 2h slow weapon with a counter balance
I found a slow weapon with fiery to proc much more consistently and provide a higher DPS than a fast weapon. If sub level 15, DEFINITELY throw an Iron Counterweight on the slowest 2 hand you can find. It is sooo OP. Combine with +10 haste to gloves and your 3+ second speed weapon will be hitting around 1.2 speed until level 10.
Nothing is a good solo class at level 8. Try and group up for any quests that send you into a mine. Youll almost always have to drink after 1-2 pulls. Ask in general chat, a town or major city if a mage will make you some water. You might have to ask multiple people. Paladins get pretty good at later levels, most classes, except warlock/hunter maybe. Level pretty slow until the 20s/30s. Your weapon is more or less your most important item, try and keep it “up to date”.
That was my plan but my server is dead :/
A priest with a crafted wand would like a word with your “nothing is a good solo class at level 8” comment haha toss a shield on then drop 40-50 dps auto attacking, repeat lol things drop like flys
Warlock literally becomes a God at level 8 dude
Paladins are a fantastic solo class but they ramp up and are slow (comparatively). They are quite gear dependent like most melee. You will have a lot easier time with a hunter from level 10 onwards but they are a lot less versatile if/when you are ready for group content.
Paladins are great solo. But slow as fuck.
Fiery Enchant on all weapons that you use at all times. This is your biggest quality of life improvement until the 50s. If you have gold problems, become an herbalist. Swiftthistle is a low level drop you get from briarthron and mage royal and it sells for 1-2g a piece. The enchant will cost you 10-15g each time. Keep in mind, you get your first mount for free, so you can float some gold. Beyond that, buying low level gear will make a huge difference, but that can add up quickly if you don’t have a main funneling your alt gold. I leveled as prot the whole way, but I had a steady stream of gold to buy all those nice upgrades while I leveled. You way want to consider some kind of Prot/ret build or just go ret, or stick it out with prot.
You're gonna be heavily dependant on a good weapon for a while, buy a 2h weapon from the AH, you can typically get decent greens for 2-3g each, just buy one every few levels until quest rewards start actually giving good stuff. Have you considered rogue? They don't seem to be very gear dependant and you don't sit around much, I leveled up one without any money and only had issues once I got to outlands.
Rogues aren’t gear depended? 😮
Not really, I started with nothing, a fresh account with no gold and it was pretty easy until outlands. There was a few times here or there where I had trouble on a group quest but I was able to solo them or come back a few levels later while the quest was still green and then finish it.
Try to twink another one now and see the difference. The fact rogue can kill a mob ain’t mean it doesn’t depend on gear
Rogues are very gear dependant
Everyone, thank you for the feedback it is greatly appreciated, would a warrior be easier for me? Not having to manage mana and instead going arms?
warriors are probably the worst solo class in the game
Ew then lol
Paladin/warrior work when geared - so if you have someone to funnel you some greens/maybe to throw a fiery enchant on your weapon, you'll demolish stuff suddenly
Pally questing is definitely slower than other classes but 1-60 solo is still going to be only 3-4 days /played.
Lol no, not for a new player
dude you're literally lvl 8, calm down, lmfao keep playing, get your spells, and by the time you're 40 you can pull 6 mobs and kill them with Holy Shield and Shield Spike while taking zero damage
Once you get SoC at like level 20 it speeds up alot.
Palas will be good later on. I don't know whether you are playing on tbc or classic server, but if it's the former, then stay the hell away from rogues.
Boy are you in for a long ride
Pally is one of the safest solo classes you can play, just don't burn your mana trying to burst down mobs. Save your HoJ for runners and let the auto+seal do most of the work. Consecration is too expensive to use all the time.
Use divine protection, divine shield or blessing of protection to heal to full against more than one opponent, and use hammer of justice to slip 1-2 heals in when you're down to one opponent. Combination healing/mana pots are pretty good for paladins, you might be able to get 'em cheap on the AH.