Greetings. Have had my eyes on this forum for quite a while. It's an incredibly useful resource, and an excellent haven to have constructive discussions.
I'm a tankadin that MT's for a five-man guild (well, technically it's a four-man guild, but I have a second computer, so just play two simultaneously in our group). Because there's only four of us, we're more or less never going to do anything more interesting than heroic 5-mans.
Because of that, I've been very hesitant to drop reckoning with the upcoming changes, and so have been thinking of doing something like this:
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=sZVbtIx0zgGqtVbx
It's perhaps a little strange, but I figure it's the best compromise talent tree I can come up with, having looked at everything on this thread. The way I see it, what was a 3% chance to hit with melee turns into a 2%+2% chance to hit with melee and spells, so that's net increase, and the now improved weapon expertise will take my chance to land a melee hit through the roof anyway, and taking down misses/resists should offset the 2% to total damage lost from toning 1h-spec down a little bit.
Only problem is that I'm really our only 70 tank, and so I'm going toe-to-toe with casting bosses all the time, but I think not having spell warding isn't by any means a deathblow, given that in the heroics, that's reaching over and throwing an extra heal on my second computer.
Our group smashed through to Anzu with this group:
49/12 Prot Pally (me)
Balance Druid (on my 2nd computer)
Frost Mage
Dest Warlock
Disc/Holy Priest
And I'm leveling a raid-spec elemental shaman to replace the balance druid. I think paladins gain immense benefit from a combined Totem of Wrath / Wrath of Air Totem combo (+3% to hit/crit with spells, + ~100 spell damage), so I'm thinking that those benefits should definitely overshadow the loss of 2% total damage.
Just couldn't bring myself to give up reckoning... only have around 32-34% avoidance, so it goes off quite a bit, and it's great to have when I'm cycling through a 4-trash-mob-pull in heroic Slave Pens... drop a full SoV stack on in six seconds? Yummy.
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Matipzrieu - 70 Protection Paladin - Lightbringer
375 Blacksmith/Engineer
