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At around this time, a good bunch of us should have hit 80 by now. A fortunate few will already be raiding, while others will slowly be gearing up for them. I've put together a quick guide to the gear that Paladins of all specs should be looking forward to. With blue, or rare, gear easily attainable through several sources, it should be extremely easy to gear up in preparation for ten- or even twenty-five man raids. Time and again, there are many players ask for information about how to gear up and spec as a Holy Paladin. Here we want to talk about it. Before we get all our gear, we have to have a clear idea of what we want from them considering Blizzard has seen fit to load some Plate with Haste and others with Crit. Protection Paladins have no problem because you see a Defense value as soon as possible, we'll know it's meant for us. Holy and Retribution don't have it as easy, and must often choose between Crit and Haste.
By now, a large amount of us should have hit 80 by now. A fortunate few will already be raiding, while others will slowly be gearing up for them. I've put together a quick guide to the gear that Paladins of all specs should be looking forward to. With blue, or rare, gear easily attainable through several sources, it should be extremely easy to gear up in preparation for 10 or 25 man raids.
Luckily, lots of caster gear is stacked with Haste, making the choice for a cloak merely one of accessibility. If you're Honored with the Kirin-Tor, the Shroud of Dedicated Research isn't a bad deal at all. Tailors can craft a Cloak of Frozen Spirits extremely easily with 8 Bolts of Frostweave and a Northsea Pearl. There's a bunch to choose from, including quest rewards from Sholazar Basin and the Nexus.
For Holy Paladin, haste is a very attractive stat due to the unfortunate fact that two of our bread and butter healing spells have a cast time. We have talents designed to speed this up, such as the soon-to-be-buffed Judgements of the Pure, as well as Infusion of Light. Our atomic bomb of heals are Rank 13 Holy Lights, which can go off for jaw-dropping amounts, so getting those out faster is a good, good thing. Haste also reduces the global cooldown of spells, so casting instants such as Cleanse or an Infusion of Light-powered Flash of Light won't hurt our heal thoroughput.
It's not a big issue once we start getting the epics, simply it's how we choose to get there. Faster heals work towards mobility and better spamming, so if that appeals to you, then go for Haste. I've compiled a list of decent plate Haste and Spell Power gear from a variety of sources, so you can start flashing up those heals.
Head is only one of haste-imbued blue plate. You can get this quest at level 78, and can be completed in normal or heroic modes, so pick up the Platehelm of Irate Revenge. It looks exactly like the melee DPS plate, so be careful when choosing your reward.
There's only one piece of blue Northrend Plate that has Haste, and that's the Patina-Coated Breastplate, which is a BoE zone drop from Heroic Halls of Stone. You can try to farm the instance, but it might be better to farm the Auction House where it's likely to sell for no more than 200 wow Gold. Because blue and epic items come easily in Wrath, many blue BoEs sell for cheap.
Like the chest, there's only one piece of Plate that has Haste for the waist, and it's a BoE world drop called the Belt of Crystalline Tears. It's a level 77 blue, so it shouldn't cost too much and a few times of checking the Auction House should yield some results. On the other hand, ther's a perfectly good alternative which has no Haste but Crit and a yellow socket which you can plug with a Haste gem, instead. The Girdle of the Warrior Magi can be bought from the Kirin-Tor at Revered status. This should be a servicable belt until you can get better in Naxxramas or Heroics.
The rest of the decent plate haste and spell power gear we here do not make mention of them one by one because of the limited time. If you are in great interest in them, you can come to our world of warcraft gold site (http://www.inwowgold.com) to look for them at will.
