Paladin Gold Tips - How to Make Gold As a Paladin

Paladins are without a doubt one of the most efficient farming classes. Back in Burning Crusade, Prot Paladin Gold tips included picking some very specific spots for finding groups of mobs and AoE burning them down. However, Paladin Gold Farming methods have changed quite a bit with the release of Wrath of the Lich King, and now Cataclysm. Almost all Paladin gold farming tips include AoE farming, but Retribution specialization now plays a big part in gold farming for Paladins. Read on and I will discuss both specs in detail.

Protection Paladin Gold Tips:

This plan is all about survival and taking down large groups of mobs, possibly 10 or more at a single time. The idea is to use Avenger's Shield to pull. Even though it only hits 3 targets, you can get a good group if you pull properly. Immediately hit Consecration, followed by Holy Wrath, and use Hammer of the Righteous for damage. This will also inflict vindication, which will reduce the damage you receive. If you find yourself taking a lot of damage, use Shield of the Righteous to increase your block chance, and Word of Glory to instantly heal yourself.

Retribution Paladin Gold Tips:

This rotation is going to be pretty similar, but one thing will be different. Instead of Hammer of the Righteous, you will want to use Divine Storm. This ability has a built in healing effect which will help you survive. You will also want to stack haste in order to reduce the cooldown of Divine Storm. Judge whenever you can to restore mana. If you get low on health, Sacred Shield should kick in. Also, Crusade will buff your Holy Light spell, just in case you need that large heal. You will want to make sure you use Seal of Righteousness, since the Seals of Command talent allows it to hit multiple targets. If you still find yourself struggling, try using a 1-handed weapon and shield for a little while. Experiment a little to find what works best for you. Retribution is also an excellent spec for single target farming as well. If you have trouble finding large groups of squishy mobs, then you can always take them down one at a time as you go.

General Paladin Gold Tips:

If you plan to AoE farm, start with small groups. If you find yourself struggling, keep it small until your gear is better. At first, you may find yourself struggling to find the right rotation. But here's an important concept: If you're dying, you aren't making any gold, you're just losing it to repair bills.

Another Paladin Gold Tip would to be make sure you find an area with a good concentration of melee mobs with low health that drop what you are looking for. This is easy to do if you revisit lower level zones. The mobs will be much easier to kill, and they won't be farmed as heavily as Cataclysm zones. However, there are several Cataclysm farming areas that are still excellent for AoE and single target farming. What's important to consider while AoE Farming, is to know exactly what areas are suitable for Paladin AoE Farming, and the specific items you will be farming with your Paladin. None of these Paladin gold farming tips will do you any good, if the items that you're farming don't sell well.

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4.0.1 Class Changes and Leveling

Leveling has become a much less painful process with the release of the new patch. Every class has a unique special attack now at Level 1 and learn a number of other useful skills up to level 10.

Warriors have Strike

Pallies have Crusader Strike (formerly 41 point talent for ret)

Rogues have Sinister Strike

Hunters have arcane shot AND a pet

Shaman have Lightning Bolt (and soon after, Primal Strike)

Mages have Fireball

Priests have smite

Druids have Wrath

Warlocks have Shadow Bolt AND Summon Imp

So what does this mean? it means that EVERY class has a distinct feeling starting at level 1. Each class will learn anywhere from 3-5 new skills (or more) up to level 10. (druids and warlocks learn 11 new abilities by the time they reach level 10!)

Then at level 10 you pick your class's specialization from 3 different trees and then you immediately gain 3-4 new passive and active abilities (plus a mastery at 80) that really give you a feeling of uniqueness and customization.

Even better is that you only have to train a skill once, and you don't need to train multiple ranks anymore. You don't have to go back every 2 levels, you don't have to spend ridiculous amounts of gold on training. The problem is, after level 10, skills are so spread out between 3-5 levels per skill that things get kind of boring. Talents however help to take some of the boredom out of the leveling process adding 1 or 2 new abilities every 5 levels, depending on your talent tree.

I've played around with a handful of classes now, but by far the fastest leveling classes I've played are hunters and warriors. Hunters can kill anything before it reaches you with just your autoshot and arcane shot. But then you have your pet to finish it, even if the mob does close in on you. Just target another one and keep rolling. I literally just picked a small area with a lot of mobs, tab targeted and autoshot, and I gained a full level in under a minute. Granted these were low levels and supposed to be fast, but still, I've never leveled up that fast before. I was level 7 in under 10 minutes.

Warriors using charge and victory rush just plow through mobs even 1-shotting them if victory rush crits. The best thing I could do is charge into a group of mobs (yellow names) and take them down with victory rush and strike. When charge's cooldown was done, usually by the time all the mobs were dead, I would just charge into a new group and repeat. I was killing nonstop and I was level 7 in just under 30 minutes. It would have been faster, but I was guiding my wife through the game for the first time, teaching her how to use the controls.

So long story short, Leveling has become fun again. It's time to level an alt, bring in a friend, and plow your way to 80... again. Since patch 4.0.1 the entire game has been recreated, classes have been reworked from the ground up, and everything feels fresh again. There are some pitfalls to avoid though. You definitely don't want to waste any time or money, just to find out you're doing it wrong. Pick the right spec from the start. Get a good game plan, know where you're going and how you're getting there.

Zygor’s Leveling Guide is always kept up to date with the best leveling specs and with Cataclysm coming soon, the talent trees have received a huge makeover with all new features and abilities. When the expansion comes out, the face of Azeroth, and many of the quests will be changed as well. Zygor’s Leveling Guide will have all new questing paths and step by step instructions to take you through the changes to the new level cap in no time.

If you are having trouble leveling, Zygor’s Leveling Guide provides an in game talent spec and the perfect Shaman leveling spec and questing path that gets you to 80 faster and easier than any other way. No matter what level you are, you load the guide, and it points with an arrow the direction to each monster, quest giver, trainer etc. Its pretty crazy. It also has an in game box that tells you exactly where and how far to run, what to kill, what to pick up, etc. Unlike the Questhelper Addon, it actually shows where to PICK UP quests, and which ones to do, and what order to do them in. Check out Zygor’s Leveling Guide to make sure you're not wasting any time when you're on your path to 85.

Cataclysm Enhancement Shaman Leveling Spec

Enhancement is the way to go for a solid Shaman Leveling Spec. No doubt about it, Enhancement Shamans will have the highest killing rate and lowest downtime while leveling 1-85 in cataclysm. With today's release of patch 4.0.1, the talent trees have been revised and with it, class specialization has been introduced. So when you pick Enhancement as your Shaman Leveling Spec, you will be gifted with a few new abilities right away:

• Lava Lash - You charge your off-hand weapon with lava, instantly dealing 200% of that weapon's damage to an enemy target. Damage is increased by 40% if your off-hand weapon is enchanted with Flametongue.
• Mental Quickness - Increases your spell power by an amount equal to 50% of your attack power, and reduces the mana cost of your instant spells by 50%.
• Dual Wield - Allows one-hand and off-hand weapons to be equipped in your off-hand, allows you to parry frontal melee attacks, and and increases your chance to hit by an additional 6%.
• Primal Wisdom - Your melee attacks have a 40% chance to immediately restore 5% of your base mana.
• Mastery (trainable at 80) - Enhanced Elements: Increases all Fire, Frost, and Nature damage done by 20%. Each point of Mastery increases damage by an additional 2.5%

So right off the bat, you have some powerful new abilities to make the leveling process much less painful than when I was a lowbie coming up through the ranks. An Enhancement Shaman Leveling Spec will look something like this:

Levels 10-17

Focused Strikes 3/3

Elemental Weapons 2/2

Levels 19-27

Flurry 3/3

Elemental Devastation 2/3

Levels 29-37

Stormstrike

3/3 Elemental Devastation

3/3 Static Shock

Levels 37-47

Searing Flames 3/3

Improved Shields 2/3

Levels 49-57

Shamanistic Rage

Unleashed Rage 2/2

Improved shields 3/3

Ancestral Swiftness 1/2

Levels 59-69

Maelstrom Weapon 3/3

Improved Lava Lash 2/2

Feral Spirit

Levels 71 and up

Ancestral Swiftness 2/2

Acuity 3/3

Concussion 3/3

Elemental Precision 3/3

This is just one of many routes you can choose while leveling your Shaman. This Shaman Leveling Spec sacrifices some group utility for pure damage and solo killing power. Keep in mind that talent specs are always changing with major and minor update patches. You will want to keep an up to date guide on the best leveling tactics to pair up with your Ret Shaman leveling spec. wowpowercataclysm.com is always kept up to date with the best Shaman leveling specs and with Cataclysm coming soon, the talent trees have received a huge makeover with all new features and abilities. wowpowercataclysm.com has reviews of the best guides with all new questing paths and step by step instructions to take you to the new level cap in no time.

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Cataclysm Paladin Leveling Spec

Retribution is the way to go for a solid Paladin Leveling Spec. No doubt about it, Retribution paladins will have the highest killing rate and lowest downtime while leveling 1-85 in cataclysm. With today's release of patch 4.0.1, the talent trees have been revised and with it, class specialization has been introduced. So when you pick Retribution as your Paladin Leveling Spec, you will be gifted with a few new abilities right away:

Templar's Verdict - A fun new instant strike that causes a % of weapon damage based on Holy Power
Sheath of Light - Increases spell power by 30% of attack power and increases spell hit chance by 30%
Judgments of the Bold - Judgments restore 25% of base mana over 10 Seconds
Mastery (trainable at 80):
Hand of Light - Auto attacks have a 8% chance to grant Hand of Light causing your next Holy Power ability to consume no Holy Power and to cast as if 3 Holy Power were consumed. Each point of Mastery increases the chance by an additional 1%.

So right off the bat, you have some powerful new abilities to make the leveling process much less painful than when I was a lowbie coming up through the ranks. A retribution paladin Leveling Spec will look something like this:

Level 10-17
Crusade: 3/3
Imp Judgment: 2/2

Levels 17-27
Rule of Law 3/3
Pursuit of Justice 2/2

Levels 27-37
Divine Storm
Communion
Art of War 3/3

Levels 37-47
Seals of Command
Sanctity of Battle
Sanctified Wrath 3/3

Levels 47-57
Rebuke
Divine Purpose 2/2
Long Arm of the Law 2/2

Levels 57-67
Inquiry of Faith 3/3
Eye for an Eye 2/2

Levels 67 and up:
Zealotry
Repentance

Holy
Arbiter of the Light 2/2
Judgments of the Pure 3/3
Blazing Light 2/2

Protection
Seals of the Pure 2/2

This is just one of many routes you can choose while leveling your Paladin. This Paladin Leveling Spec sacrifices some group utility for pure damage and solo killing power. Keep in mind that talent specs are always changing with major and minor update patches. You will want to keep an up to date guide on the best leveling tactics to pair up with your Ret Paladin leveling spec. wowpowercataclysm.com is always kept up to date with the best Paladin leveling specs and with Cataclysm coming soon, the talent trees have received a huge makeover with all new features and abilities. wowpowercataclysm.com will have reviews of all the game guides with all new questing paths and step by step instructions to take you to the new level cap in under 5 days play time.

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Cataclysm Balance Druid Leveling Spec

While leveling, you can choose between feral or Balance as your Druid Leveling Spec. Balance is a somewhat trickier Druid Leveling Spec than feral, but it is a very fun way to level. Remember that these talents are still in a very raw form and are subject to a lot of changes. For a good talent guide that is always up to date, I suggest using wowpowercataclysm.com. When putting talents into your Balance Druid Leveling Spec, you will have a lot of trouble deciding which ones will benefit you right away. Some seem good now, but may not actually be useful until later levels. Look here for a solid Balance Druid Leveling Spec and plan.

level 10 – Choose “balance” on the talent summary page. This gives you Starsurge (a short cooldown spell that hits pretty hard).

Level 10, 11, 13 – Starlight wrath (tier 1) – decreases your cast times. Faster spells are good!

Level 15 & 17 – Nature’s Majesty (tier 1) – increaes your crit chance by 4%

19, 21, 23 – Moonglow (tier 2) decreases mana costs. Mana tends to be a problem for moonkin, so you won’t have to drink as much with this.

25 & 27 – balance of power (tier 2) – increases spell damage and turns spirit into hit rating to reduce the chance that your spells will miss.

29 – Moonkin form (tier 3) – You shift into moonkin form and you get haste, more damage, an armor bonus, and a fun graphic.

31 & 33 Shooting Stars (tier 3) – gives your DOTs a chance to make your starsurge instant and removes the cooldown. Should help make the leveling “rotation” a little more interesting.

35 – Typhoon (tier 3) – gives you a new spell that knocks things back from you and slows them.

37, 39, 41 – Nature’s Grace (tier 1) – gives you a haste bonus that will proc about once a minute from your DOTs.

43, 45, 47 – Owlkin Frenzy (tier 4) – gives you a damage bonus when you get hit. This is nice for leveling since things are often hitting me which will proc this ability.

49 – Force of Nature (tier 5) – spawns tree buddies to help you by attacking things.

51 – Earth & moon (tier 5) – gives you a group damage buff when you cast wrath or starfire.

53 – solar beam (tier 4) – gives you an ability that gives you a silence effect. When soloing, you can root a caster mob in a solar beam to keep it from hurting you.

55 & 57 – Gale Winds (tier 4) – your typhoon & hurricane do more damage.

59 – Sunfire (tier 5) – used to unlock the next talent at this point.

61, 63, 65 (tier 6) – when you are moving, your moonfire does more damage and costs less mana

67 & 69 (tier 3) – Talents that you will need later on once you learn your mastery, and helps you move up to the next tier.

71 Starfall (tier 7) – gives you an AOE spell that will aggro everything around you if you aren’t careful. Pick up glyph of focus for leveling to reduce it’s aggro radius.

73, 75, 77 – Heart of the wild (restoration tree, tier 1) – At this point you can finally go into resto and pick up heart of the wild that will increase your intellect.

You can also choose an AoE leveling build. You would want to add the Overgrowth talent, and use glyphs of Hurricane, Focus, and Starfall.

How to AoE grind as a druid –

1. Root your enemies (overgrowth roots all in an area)

2. Cast Hurricane until they are within starfall range (Some will break roots, but will be slowed 50%)

3. Cast starfall

4. Typhoon to knock mobs back

5. Hurricane again if needed.

6. At Level 85 you can lay down your wild mushrooms for extra AoE damage.

I will say that I do NOT recommend AoE as a regular leveling tactic. Too many variables can totally screw you, but for a small group of 5-6 mobs, you can take them down pretty fast. While leveling, it is best to stick to questing.

This is just one of many routes you can choose while leveling your druid. This Balance druid leveling spec sacrifices some group utility for pure damage and solo killing power. Keep in mind that talent specs are always changing with major and minor update patches. You will want to keep an up to date guide on the best leveling tactics to pair up with your Balance Druid leveling spec. wowpowercataclysm.com is always kept up to date with the best druid leveling specs and with Cataclysm coming soon, the talent trees are getting a huge makeover with all new features and abilities. wowpowercataclysm.com will have all talents updated with recommendations on how to spend your talent points.

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Cataclysm Mage Leveling Build

With Cataclysm coming shortly and the 4.0 patch coming out tomorrow, the World of Warcraft will be changing forever... and so are your talent trees. Here is a sample Mage Leveling build for Cataclysm. I only have fire completed right now, but I will be updating these posts with each additional patch and talent update. Always know that Blizzard is constantly updating, and these talents are sure to be changed before Cataclysm's release.

4.0 Fire Mage Leveling Build

Beautiful fire... destructor of wood... You get Pyroblast at level 10, Fire Specialization increases the damage of your spells by 25%, and Mastery: Flashburn increases the damage from all your periodic effects by a fair amount.

1. 2/2 Improved Fire Blast - more range and more crits, all in one.
2. 2/2 Master of Elements - your crits refund mana
3. 1/3 Burning Soul - reduces the casting time lost from attacks against you.
4. 3/3 Ignite - Your crits cause the target to burn for a short time
5. 2/3 Fire power - A bit more fire damage and an exploding orb
6. Blastwave - Area Effect burnination
7. Hot Streak- spell crits have a chance to make yor next Pyroblast instant and free.
8. 2/2 Cauterize - shots that would kill you, don't
9. 3/3 Fire Power
10. Combustion
11. 2/2 Blazing Speed - Chance for hits against you to increase your speed and dispell all movement impairing efects.
12. Firestarter - Your Molten Armor spell allows you to cast scorch while moving
13. 1/2 Improved Hot streak - any time you crit twice in a row with your non-periodic spells you have a chance to trigger Hot Streak
14. Dragon's Breath - Shoots flames in a cone and stuns targets
15. 3/3 Molten Fury - increases damage against low health targets
16. 1/2 Improved Flamestrike - Reduces Flamestrike casting time and give Blastwave a chance to trigger Flamestrike
17. 3/3 Critical Mass - Living Bomb and Flame Orb do more damage, Pyroblast and Scorch cause your opponent to become a bit more vulnerable to spell damage
18. 2/2 Pyromaniac - Increases spell haste by a small amount if three or more targets are suffereing from your periodic damage
19. Living Bomb - Your target takes periodic damage, then explodes, damaging up to three nearby targets
20. You can now take talents from the other trees
21. 3/3 Piercing Ice - Increases crit chance of spells by 3%
22. 3/3 Netherwind Presence - increases spell haste by 3%
23. 3/3 Arcane Concentration - Chance for your next spell to cost no mana
24. 1/3 Improved Blink - Increases your movement speed after casting Blink

Fire Spells:

1. Fire Blast - Instant spell for medium damage
2. Fireball - Unchanged. Fire damage at long range
3. Flame Orb - A red orb of flame moves awy from you and attacks the nearest target.
4. Flamestrike - Unchanged, area blast
5. Frostfire bolt - Long range frostfire bolt, slows the target
6. Molten Armor - Increases crit chance, reduces chance of being crit, causes some damage to attacker
7. Scorch - A little less damage and a little faster cast

This is just one of many routes you can choose while leveling your mage in Cataclysm. This Cataclysm mage leveling spec sacrifices some damage for utility, defensive ability, and mana efficiency. Keep in mind that talent specs are always changing with major and minor update patches. You will want to keep an up to date guide on the best leveling tactics to pair up with your mage leveling spec. wowpowercataclysm.com is always kept up to date with the best mage leveling specs and with Cataclysm coming soon, the talent trees are getting a huge makeover with all new features and abilities. Zygor’s Leveling Guide will have reviews of game guides that include all new questing paths and step by step instructions to take you to the new level cap in no time.

Priest Leveling Spec

Shadow Priest Leveling -

When deciding how to start your Priest Leveling Spec, Shadow will be your preferred talent tree. Many players will make the mistake of choosing Holy right off the bat. While it is a very valuable talent tree, Holy is primarily a healing build and very slow for a priest leveling spec. A shadow leveling build is the best choice since you will be dealing damage faster, killing more quickly, and completing quests more efficiently. Shadow also comes with some very handy abilities that help you regen health and mana, decreasing downtime, and further strengthening it as the number 1 priest leveling spec.

Not only are shadow priests effective at leveling, but they make an excellent off-healing class for groups where the main healer isn't pulling their weight, not properly specced, or dies too often. They also have a lot of fun features and utility to add to a group, from silence to fear, mind control (one of my favorites), and group mana regen.

So before we get started, here is the ideal shadow priest leveling spec. Simply add the talent points in this order:

Shadow

3 in Spirit Tap

2 in Improved Spirit Tap

3 in Shadow Focus

2 in Improved Shadow Word: Pain

Mind Flay

2 in Improved Mind Blast

2 in Improved Psychic Scream

3 in Shadow Weaving

2 in Shadow Reach

Vampiric Embrace

2 into Improved Vampiric Embrace

2 into Focused Mind (2 of 3)

5 in Darkness

Shadowform

1 in Focused Mind (3 of 3)

2 in Mind Melt

Silence

2 in Improved Shadowform

3 in Misery

Vampiric Touch

3 in Pain and Suffering

1 in Shadow Power

5 in Twisted Faith

Dispersion
Discipline Talents

5 points into Twin Discipline

3 in Improved Inner Fire

2 in Improved Power Word: Fortitude

3 in Meditation

1 in Inner Focus
Shadow again

2 into Veiled Shadows

4 in Shadow Power

Keep in mind that talent specs are always changing with major and minor update patches. You will want to keep an up to date guide on the best leveling tactics to pair up with your Shadow Priest leveling spec. Wowpowercataclysm.com is always kept up to date with the best priest leveling specs and with Cataclysm coming soon, the talent trees are getting a huge makeover with all new features and abilities. Wowpowercataclysm.com has guides with all new questing paths and step by step instructions to take you to the new level cap in no time.