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When do you switch to Prot?
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Arideni
I am starting a new warrior and my wife started a priest. We basicly grind and quest together and my question is ... When do i start speccing in protection?
When is it best benificial to start going protection..
No earlier than 60 due to itemization & questing design.
There is a wonderful post detailing hybrid builds (which you should switch over to around 60, since you're a team player).
You can find the post here:
http://www.wowhead.com/?forums&topic=4327&p=41787
and another useful Prot.-related thread here:
http://www.wowhead.com/?forums&topic=4501&p=43585
Considering your wife is leveling a priest, I would suggest staying primarily a DPS spec (arms or fury). This will greatly help your wife reach levels 40-50 (this is the most complete area in terms of shadow talents) regardless of her talent spec.
Tanking while leveling will not be much of a challenge as you will have all the skills necessary to beat a dungeon of proper level. As you get into the 60s you will want to run dungeons more often (most likely) & to prevent repair bills, etc. it may be wise to spec into a hybrid (part Prot.).
So, when you look at it...the first part of the game priests are fairly fragile & incomplete in terms of talents and abilities...while as they level higher, they gain more damaging utility. In terms of who deals the damage and who's "tagging along" (for sake of terminology), you will carry the group early on, but your wife will end up carrying you (if you go full protection) by end-game.
I think that about covers it.
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I specced prot at 60-62 to do the dungeons, respecced back to dps til 68, then leveled in instances from 68-70 so I could be used to tanking when I hit 70. If you have never been prot and jst become it at 70 and run instances you might have a hard time learning and wipe a lot.
As for leveling with a priest, go fury as you can aoe a little and have more rage geting hit at the same time.
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warrior
You can easily tank all instances until 5man level 70 heroics and 70 raids in arms / fury. In fact, you can offtank Kara with ease as arms, if you want to go the DPS route.
To summarize, there is absolutely no reason to spec prot until 70.
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