Shockadins are in the spotlight at the moment - Seal of Blood discussed it late Spring, and more recently, wowinsider’s pallie column picked the topic up.
And here am I with my current main, a full protection specced pallie, level 67 in Nagrand.
The land is wide open and the mobs are spread out. In order to attain a decent soloing pace, a tankadin wants bunches of mobs realtively close to each other so he can grab them and grind them down 3-5 at a time. Something many Nagrand quests won’t let you have.
My exping slowed down to a crawl, and I finally figured it was time for a respec. Went to the AH, bought the best 2H available, and switched to the old true and tried Retadin build. Spent the next 3 hours levelling my 2H Axe skill, and then went to business.
And I hated every second of it. I was expecting something massively better in 1v1 fights, and the difference was only so-so. I promptly specced back, gathered another 100k exp… and started playing some of my alts.
Uh Oh…
When you try to focus on bringing one single class to 70 as much as possible, a sudden interest in anything but your main is a bad sign. But I was running against a brick wall and had lost the will to grind those last 3 levels.
That’s when I read the wowinsider column. And later that day, it finally struck me with full force: Ret didn’t work because apart from the 2H, the rest of my gear was still full of tankadin stats, which do not synergize with Ret at all.
So I went through my prot and my healing gear sets, added up the + spell bonuses I had and figured, heck, just give it a try.
So back to the trainer I go, 3rd respec in a couple of days, then I recombine my healing and tanking sets into a +int and + spell-damage heavy set, and go try it out.
And under these circumstances, it works remarkably well - my little BElfadin just dinged 68 within 2 more evenings of questing. I’ll be a better main healer on whatever instance groups happen on the road to 70 (if at all), but I will lose the option to main tank efficiently.
So if you’re in Outlands, find prot is getting too slow for your taste, and don’t have the means to regear to make Ret work for you, try out Shockadin, it may just work for you.
My current build: 43/0/15
This with some 280 +spelldamage pre talents.
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