Returning to WoW After a Decade, and I Hear Paladins Suck?!?

[DrearyYew]

Against most mobs you'll be using SotC every 30s, and if you have Consecrate, Judging Crusader and R1 Consecrating every 8 seconds. I personally don't take Consecrate until the 50s since Repentance gives you a huge survivability and damage boost through Judging Command (this is the only time to use Command unless by some divine miracle you find one of 3 weapons with a slower speed than 3.6 while leveling).

You *can* do more damage than just using SotC and auto-attacking, but the marginal killing speed increase isn't anywhere near worth the amount of mana it costs you. You will have to both eat and drink after every mob if you use everything, or drink twice if you elect to skip food in order to just heal yourself. This downtime will greatly increase the time it takes to level, and is in no way worth it. Just use SotC and you will only have to drink every 4 or 5 mobs since you won't be casting during combat, just SotC every 30s.

[smilkovpetko]

i always use Max Rank Consecration with seal of crusade. + Using Blessing of Wisdom instead Might solve your mana issue with Divine Intellect.

your dps will still be much higher with aoe .

anyway you can do dungeons like this much easier if you have a wish and complete easier your quest while leveling.

in later (higher) levels you can use "weapon swap" using fast weapon with seal/judge of wisdom to consecrate and regen mana for most dps output.

Seal of Command maybe is high on 1 Target but 90% of your time will be spent on aoe or 3+ Targets regardless if you do solo questing or dungeon and therefore "consecration is more efficient that allows you multiple things to do" (tanking or dps) on dungeon or questing.

[Kazarak]

Ah. So auto-attack with SotC is more time efficient overall than burning through mana to increase DPS? I guess that makes sense.

What's with the 3.6s delay threshold and Judging Command? Assuming one was equipped with such a weapon, would adding Command, Judge, SotC every 8s to the rotation be worth it?

[DrearyYew]

The 3.6 threshold is where using Seal of Command becomes worth using over Seal of the Crusader. SoC functions off of PPM (which itself is a soft-ppm in vanilla, not the hard ppm we have in retail today) so the proc chance is lower for faster weapons. If you do happen to have a 3.6 or slower weapon, just use R1 SoC. Judging and re-sealing will cost you too much mana, and there is no difference between R1 SoC and max rank SoC besides the mana cost if you aren't judging.

If you are using SoC, the ideal rotation would be: SotC before combat, Judge Crusader, Seal of Command, auto-attack til dead. You can get away with skipping the SotC and Judging Crusader if you want to save as much mana as possible, but the mana cost for this is pretty low since you will probably be back to full mana by the time combat ends anyways.

[Kazarak]

Got it. Thanks!