That’s three out of nine classes.

I think the best advice you gave here was to check wowwiki. Wowwiki is your friend as a newbie player. As patches come and content changes, players edit WoWwiki and builds to reflect the changes that players need to make to adapt. That includes the builds page.

Oh and Ren and Cédric, the reckoning/retribution paladin build is dead. It died when the endgame talents got changed to give retadins threat reduction. It died further when retadins were given an improved Crusader Strike that made the talent indispensable.

Anyway that’s my two copper. Other than that one thing, I like the article.

Another problem with speccing only partly in prot is that there are a lot of points that are wasted in terms of dealing more damage. For example, the first two talents are 5/5 for improved blocking (Ret palidins dont use shields!) or 5/5 for improved defensive aura (that sucks even for people who do use shields). You don’t use shields and if you are going into the Ret tree you should be using Sanctity aura for more damage.

@Rommoram: I’ve seen good builds for Warriors and Rogues that use a 30/31 build. I dont know if they can compete with pure bred specs though.

A paladin may have to build 41/20 eccept for retrbution pally, there is a very good build that you can do.

It’s called a Recconing pally. Just build enough to get recconing in protection (That’s about 25 pts but usualy your gonna take blessing of sacntuary so it makes 26) and then put the rest on ret, maybe 5 pts on 10% str and intel

so it might look like this : 10/26/25 or 5/25/31.

And I agree that the rest is true

Moonyang : Cenarion Circle – Night elf Hunter.
Kaylaya : Cenarion Circle – Human priestess.

Playing a Warlock, this doesnt really help, infact now that you mention it, i can’t really think of any class that would really need a 31/30 spec in any respective except hunters. I mean, a number of classes could get away with doing it, it just wouldn’t put out ‘end game’ dps. Warlocks, for example, want to be using a mainly demoonolodgy spec for leveling and into the really shit gear of kara, once a decent kara gear is reached head onto affliction then with ssc/tk gear go a 0/21/40 spec for the really high dps.

So yeah… let me know what everybody else thinks!

Personally, I don’t think all classes can/should super specialize or necessarily benefit the most from a 30/31 build. Take Palidins for example. You can’t invest in protection at all unless you plan on tanking so puting points into that tree is not an option for a retribution palidin. On the other hand there are a lot of skills in the retribution tree that arent worth anything so you can’t put all your points their either.

In the end to have balanced talents in any two trees just means you can do two things moderately well but not be really good at a single thing. For a Palidin, they need to have a 41/20 build so they can have a solid build and battle plan with their 41 points and compliment it with the remaining 20 points into another tree.