The MMO-Worlds Social Network Contest!

Hello out there. From today on, we’ll start an monthly contest here on MMO-Worlds! Among all participants, we will be draw of two winners who will be able to choose between between one of the featured guides and get it for free!

The Rewards!

World of Warcraft

	This “Dugi Ultimate WoW Guide” consists out of 1-85 Leveling Guide as ingame addon which leads your way to Level 85. No need to stop leveling to read a written guide, just display all steps within your game! Daily Guides is the ultimate Gold & Reputation Guide for farming massive amounts of gold and grinding of reputations Dugi also offers a comprehensive Achievements and Profession guide And last but not least, an Dungeon and Loremaster guide to archive the ultimate goal of finishing most of the WoW quests and a dungeon guide for all dungeons available within the game
	This guide is similar to Dugis Ultimate Guide, it’s also one of the oldest Guide collections available and offer many things in one package 1-85 Leveling Guides for both factions Dailies Guide Gold Farming Guide Achievements Guide All in-game via Addon. No reading/tabbing required
	Warcraft Formula has it’s main Focus on earning massive amount of gold and PvP/PvE specs for best performance in any PvP situation or during extensive and professional high-endgame PvE content. They also offer guides to the latest raid bosses and the best tactics to beat them. It’s updated on a monthly base. This guide/service is subscription based. The Winner will receive a 4-month free access to the service
	This Guide is specifically aimed to making as much gold as possible. It includes best strategies for Auction House trading, Twink Profits (How to make huge amounts of gold with Twinks or items for Twinks) and a Fishing Guide
	Joana’s Guides are one of the oldest guides available on the internet and one of the most popular one. Joana was one of the first people to hit max Level and it’s considered to be one of the best WoW Guides available out of there. The only catch: This Joana’s Guides are exclusively for Horde players. There is no Alliance Guide available.
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Rift

It’s one of the first and best Guides available for Rift Online, the latest MMO to face the light of the world. It’s basically a WoW clone (everything is almost identical to WoW, Classes, Quests, Battlegrounds, Gameplay with some gems copied from Aion (Rifts) and Warhammer Online (Tome Book and exploration system, as well as Public Quest system)). This guide contains: Level 1-50 in 42 hours guide Videos Tutorials Step-by-Step instructions Detailed Quest information Screenshot Throughout 24 hour Technical Support

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Yes you can. In fact you’re even encouraged to like or retweet more. For every Page you like or have been retweeted, you will receive one vote. The more votes you have, the more bigger your chances are to being drawn.

However, we don’t encourage the sending of many retweets or to many likes within a short time spam, so if someone is catched of spamming or liking too many pages within a short period of time they will be disqualified from the current and all future draws.

A limit of 2-4 tweets/likes within a 24 period seems reasonable enough. If you do more, you risk of being disqualified.

Can I chose the reward myself?

Yes, you choose the reward yourself, but it has to be one of the featured products. A list of featured products is listed above.

Can I pass the reward to someone else as a gift?

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Can I get the rewards value in cash?

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Are there other rewards than the ones listed above?

Basically yes. Basically everything that can be found on the ClickBank Marketplace can be also issued as reward. However, the max. value shall not exceed 75$ and it has to be related to MMOs (World of Warcraft, Rift, Aion, etc.).

Everything You Need to Know about WoW Dailies

WoW dailies are the best way to earn reputation, purchase some must-have items and enchantments, and have a stable way of earning WoW gold. However, sometimes it can be difficult knowing which daily quests to do or which part of Northrend to focus your efforts in. A WoW dailies guide like Dugi’s Dailies and Events Guide can really help you out in this respect. Just start your daily quest effort by asking yourself what will help your character the most right now: gold or reputation?

WoW Dailies for Gold or Reputation

The beautiful thing about some of the WoW dailies is the fact that they earn both reputation and large stacks of gold. Some of the highest paying WoW dailies are located in the Storm Peaks, and they earn you about 13 gold per quest, plus 250 reputation points with the Sons of Hodir. Most classes will need to be exalted with the Sons of Hodir for a variety of reasons. This faction offers shoulder enchants for most classes, in addition to exclusive recipes for some gems and an exclusive tailoring recipe for the glacial bag. The Sons of Hodir daily quests should be among the first ones you do. In fact, you may even be able to begin doing some of them before you reach level 80, as long as you complete the prerequisite quests so you can become friendly with the Sons of Hodir. You won’t be eligible for the WoW dailies for the Sons of Hodir if you are not friendly with them. Also remember that you can keep doing these daily quests for gold even after you reach exalted status with the faction. That 13 gold per quest is among the highest gold dailies in the game.

Just the Reputation

In some cases, you may want to complete some WoW dailies just to earn reputation with a faction. The best way to go about this is to check a reliable WoW dailies guide like Dugi’s Dailies and Events Guide. This will show you where you need to go to earn the reputation you need. Perhaps you’re seeking an achievement for reputation or there is something very specific you need from a smaller faction in the game. These scenarios are no problem at all when you have a WoW dailies guide to help you out.

Just the Gold

If you’re all about earning WoW gold and could care less about reputation, then you can complete any of the WoW dailies you want. However, you may want to focus on the ones that earn you the most gold. The highest paying gold dailies pay out 22 gold per quest, but these quests do require that you have a group of five people. The next step down is 20 gold per quest, and most of these are solo dailies that are available in the Sholazar Basin area. The next step down is 13 gold per quest, and these are available in Sholazar Basin, the Storm Peaks, and the Icecrown Skybreaker.

Daily Quest Guide for World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft players have been writing various guides for the game since it began, and this constant desire for information keeps all of us wanting more guides about pretty much anything with the game. Many players are already very familiar with the 1-80 leveling guides and profession leveling guides, and now there’s even a new guide for instance leveling. However, one area that some players overlook is the daily quest guide. After all, as soon as you reach level 80, you stop doing quests, right?

WoW Dailies for Gold

Actually, many players do stop questing at level 80, but the fact is that there are so many bonuses to be earned through daily quests. For one thing, daily quests provide a reliable source of income for the player who got all the way to level 80 without saving any gold up. Of course you don’t really need a lot of gold before you reach level 80, but you should still make efforts to save it up as you level. However, even the small amount of gold you save as you go won’t be enough to support your level 80 character. You will constantly be looking for gear upgrades, and some of your gear will need to be crafted. You will also need plenty of gold to spend on enchantments and gems to enhance your gear. You won’t believe how much gold you’ll end up spending just to get your toon geared enough to enter Icecrown Citadel, where all the top level gear will drop off of the bosses.

Daily Quests for Professions

Another reason you will need to keep doing daily quests is if you have certain professions. Jewel crafting does require you to complete daily quests in order to earn rare gems and patterns. Also cooking and fishing require daily quests, especially if you want to get the recipes for the fish feast, which is commonly needed for raids.

Daily Quests for Reputation

Another common reason for running daily quests is to earn reputation with the various factions on World of Warcraft. Reputation allows you to purchase special designs and recipes for your profession, in addition to enchantments you won’t be able to get anywhere else. There is even a quest chain and set of dailies to earn the right to purchase one of the fastest mounts in the game. Purchasing the Netherdrake requires an exalted status with the Netherwing.

Before you begin your daily quest routine, figure out what your character needs the most. If you’re a new level 80, then a great place to begin is with the daily quests in the Storm Peaks. These quests earn you a decent amount of gold, in addition to earning you reputation with the Sons of Hodir, a faction which every class and race can benefit from being exalted with. You’ll want to consult a WoW dailies guides to determine which faction would help you the most if you were exalted with it.

Dailies Guide for Gold Farming

Daily quests are an important part of World of Warcraft. They’re used for gold farming, reputation farming, and professions. Dailies are the quests that appear as a blue exclamation point instead of the standard gold one, and they can be done once a day, every day. Each of your characters can complete up to 25 daily quests per day, so you’ll want to pick and choose which ones you complete.

All daily quests will grant you some gold, but some will grant you more gold than others. Here’s a quick dailies guide for gold farming to help you pick out the daily quests that bring in the most gold. The highest paying gold dailies pay out 22 gold, but they do require having four other people to complete them, so we’re focusing this dailies guide on daily quests you can complete on your own.

Dailies Guide for Sholazar Basin

Each of the daily quest areas in Northrend have about the same number of dailies available, but Sholazar Basin has a couple of quests that do pay 20 gold. There are 15 gold farming dailies in Sholazar Basin, although seven of them only pay 6 gold each. However, three of the gold farming dailies in Sholazar Basin do pay 20 gold, and the rest of them pay 13 gold each. This makes Sholazar Basin one of the highest ranking places for gold farming through daily quests. Just remember to check both of the two daily quest areas in Sholazar Basin. They are the Rainspeaker Canopy and Frenzyheart Hill. One good thing about these two areas is that you will also earn reputation with either the Oracles or the Frenzyheart Tribe.

Dailies Guide for the Storm Peaks

If you’re looking for consistency as far as gold earned per daily quest, then you should check out the Storm Peaks. There are 13 daily quests available in the Storm Peaks, and most of them pay 13 gold each. Most of the dailies in the Storm Peaks are located in either Dun Niffelem or Brunnhildar Village, but there is also one located in K3 and one located in Frosthold. Completing the dailies in the Storm Peaks is a nice way to do several quests all at once and walk away with some nice bank in a short amount of time. Another note about the quests in the Storm Peaks is that most of them earn you reputation with the Sons of Hodir.

Dailies Guide for Icecrown Skybreaker

Another great place to do gold farming through daily quests is the Icecrown Skybreaker area. There are 11 daily quests on the Skybreaker, although two of them do require groups of five people. Those two pay out 22 gold, while the other 9 quests can be done on your own and pay out 13 gold each. The nice thing about the Skybreaker is that all of these quests are located in a rather small area, so there’s less time running around and gathering up your daily quests.

Completing Your WoW Dailies as Quickly as Possible

How quickly do you think you could complete your daily quests on World of Warcraft? How about two hours? That’s the power of good WoW dailies guide like Dugi’s Dailies and Events Guide. A daily quest guide is a valuable tool that any World of Warcraft player can benefit from.

Each character can only complete 25 daily quests per day, so you will have to pick and choose the WoW dailies you want to do. You should begin by setting your priorities. Think about what your character needs next, and then go from there. If you’re a new level 80, then you will probably want to look for dailies that grant both reputation and gold. The Sons of Hodir daily quests in the Storm Peaks are a great place to start because virtually all classes can benefit from an exalted status with the Sons of Hodir.

Help Planning Your Routes

One of the most important things you can do when planning a strategy for daily quests is to plan your route. You can’t be effective if you don’t have a plan laid out, and you’ll lose valuable minutes by not planning ahead. A WoW dailies guide will help you figure out which daily quests will benefit you the most and help you lay them out so you can get them done in a timely fashion.

A Complete Breakdown of All the Dailies

Another very helpful part of a WoW dailies guide is the breakdown of all the daily quests that are available. It is very difficult to choose which daily quests will help you out the most if you don’t know the benefits of each one, so looking at a complete breakdown is vital to determining which ones you should do. All of the daily quests are a great, stable way to make gold, but some of the WoW dailies will earn you more gold than others. A good WoW dailies gold will help you make sure that the gold dailies you run are maximizing the amount of gold you make on a daily basis.

The Reputation Grind

Another important part of running daily quests is farming for reputation, and not all classes and races will benefit from earning reputation with the same factions. For example, melee DPS will want to build up reputation with Knights of the Ebon Blade, but tanks will prefer to build up reputation with the Argent Crusade. This is because these two factions each offer a very helpful enchantment, but the enchantments they offer are only good for DPS and tanking classes respectively.

Also some factions are in opposition to each other, so checking out your WoW dailies guide will help you make sure you’re not working on reputation for two factions that detract from each other. One example of this is in Sholazar Basin, where completing the daily quests for the Frenzyheart Tribe will cause you to lose reputation with the Oracles, and vice versa.

Argent Tournament Daily Quest Guide

The Argent Tournament Grounds are located in the northern part of Icecrown, and they hold a gold mind of daily quests that any World of Warcraft player is sure to enjoy. There are several reasons WoW players might choose to complete the daily quests at the Argent Tournament Grounds. Of course these are the usual reasons like gold and reputation, but the Argent Tournament dailies work a bit differently than other WoW dailies.

The Argent Tournament

To become eligible for the daily quests at the Argent Tournament grounds, you must first complete prerequisite quests. You’ll start with “The Argent Tournament,” and then move on to “Mastery of Melee,” “Mastery of the Charge,” and Mastery of the Shield-breaker.” After this quest chain is complete, then you move on to “Up to the Challenge” and are eligible for the daily quests at the Argent Tournament Grounds.

Reputation from the Argent Tournament Daily Quests

The major difference between the Argent Tournament daily quests and the WoW dailies in other parts of the game is that it’s not always cut and dry which faction you’re earning reputation for. You can eventually earn reputation with all five of your faction’s capital cities, but you will start out earning reputation for your home capital city. For example, dwarves will be earning reputation with Ironforge and Tauren will be gaining reputation with Thunder Bluff, and so on. You can later earn the right to also represent some of the other capital cities in your faction. Some of these quests will also give you reputation with either the Silver Covenant (Alliance) or the Sunreavers (Horde).

Rewards from the Argent Tournament Grounds

The Argent Tournament Grounds also has its own hierarchy as far as reputation goes. You have to earn titles for your character before you can be eligible for the higher daily quests. For example, you have to begin by earning the title of Champion. Next, you’ll work on the title of Crusader, and each of these levels within the Argent Tournament Ground has its own rewards, which include heirloom gear that’s bind-on-account and some level 200 gear. All rewards in the Argent Tournament Grounds are purchased with Champion’s Seals, which are earned by running the Argent Tournament daily quests.

Most Importantly: Have Fun!

The most important thing to remember about the Argent Tournament Grounds is that they can be a lot of fun. Many of the daily quests in the Argent Tournament Grounds involve jousting and battling opponents in an arena, and these daily quests are quite a bit different than other WoW dailies. Of course there are the quests that involve going to an area and killing a specific type of creature, but many WoW players simply enjoy the unique nature of the daily quests that are available at the Argent Tournament Grounds.

   

Priest Leveling Guide

A Priest is a great character to play, especially because he is by most recognized to be the best healing class at level 80. Getting a Priest to the level cap has never been really easy or fast. However, I recently leveled an Alliance Priest, after having leveled a Horde Priest 4 years ago, and I must say that the mana-issue while using the Shadow build wasn’t really a problem. You can’t expect to be Holy or Discipline and expect to level up as fast as a Shadow priest. Only if you have some friends that will boost you whenever you want to play you can consider this but if you know you are the one that has to do it, Shadow is the way to go.

Let’s have a look at the talent tree:

Priest Leveling Build

As you can see, all Shadow talents are chosen in this build. It speaks for itself that you do move down the talent tree as fast as possible and later take the less important leveling talents like Improved Spirit Tap, Shadow Affinity, Veiled Shadows, Psychic Scream, Silence etc. The talents are quite good though so at a later level they should definitely be taken.

The Shadow tree starts nice with Spirit Tap. While leveling this talent is so great because it greatly improves your mana regeneration after each kill. Once you got your points there you should skip Improved Spirit Tap and put two points in Blackout. Then put points in Improved Shadow Word Pain and Shadow Focus. Put a point in Mindflay once you hit level 20, it’s not that strong in the first few levels you’ll have it, especially if you have a nice wand but it will become stronger and stronger. Use four talent points in Improved Mindblast to reduce its cooldown.

Leave Veiled Shadows for what it is for now and go for Shadow reach and Shadow Weaving, both great talents. Now go straight for Vampiric Embrace which is a nice and free spell that will restore some hitpoints in your fights. Put three points in Focused mind and one in Improved Vampiric Embrace.

Now you can choose either between Darkness and Mind Melt before Shadow Form becomes available! Now this is what you have probably been waiting for while leveling. Your damage will be increased while damage taken will be decreased, it’s just too sweet. Also take the Improved version asap because of the reduced pushback which is nice for your Mind Flay among other spells.

Now take Vampiric Embrace when you get the chance because that is a great damage dealing and mana restoring ability.

All the talents in the downside of the tree are great and it’s up to your preferences which you’d like to take first. You should take Dispersion, a real life saver and mana-generator, whenever you get the chance.

Mage Leveling Guide

As a Mage you have some great advantages while leveling. Of course, many classes have their pros and cons but a Mage is great to level because he can make his own food and water, teleport to cities from one to another continent and is able to Blink which also reduces run-time. As for the best leveling build, the opinions are divided. Some would swear with the Frost build because it is more mana efficient. I however, would go for a Fire/Arcane build for the simple reason that you take down the enemies faster and the Arcane tree will provide you with mana regeneration and more stats.

Lets first have a look at the full Fire talent tree though.

Mage Leveling Build: Fire

As a Fire Mage you can start attacking with either a Fireball or a Pyroblast, shoot a 2^nd Fireball and then a Fire Blast. If the target isn’t dead yet you just Frost Nova, take a step back and make another Fireball+Fire Blast combo. Blast Wave and Dragon Breath will also become available at a later level and they can do the finishing touches as well.

Now why I didn’t take Improved Scorch is because you don’t use Scorch until you get the Hot Streak talent. Molten Shields, Fiery Payback and Blazing Speed are not necessary for leveling purposes. I did choose Impact (I know many Mages skip this one) because it’s nice for leveling. If you manage to use three or four Fire based spells before the mob reaches you, you have a 30-40% chance to stun the mob for two seconds before he even reaches you.

I took a bit of Frost because of the reduced mana cost of both Frost and Fire spells through the talent called Precision.

Another option, and my favorite, is to go Arcane+Fire which is a nice combination.

Mage Leveling Build: Fire/Arcane

This build has a mana preserving advantage because 60% of the regeneration continues while casting. You will also be surprised with the amount of critical hits you will get with this build which will also refund 30% of the spell’s costs. You will also have 10% more Spirit and 15% more Intellect. Arcane Concentration will allow about 10% of your spells to be cast free of costs.

This build will not give you AoE spells likes Blast Wave and Dragon Breath but will be mainly focused on Fireballs, Pyroblasts and Fire Blasts. Your Arcane Explosion will be boosted a bit so that is a good choice for AoE purposes. Presence of Mind and Arcane Power will give you two extra great abilities that will cause high burst damage when needed.

You can choose to go full Frost but especially in the first 30 levels you will be a lot worse of than the builds stated above. Shatter then becomes nice, and later you got Icy Veins, Water Elemental, Cold Snap etc. but the damage output of this build isn’t as high as compared to the ones above.

Hunter Leveling Guide

Hunters are known to be one of the easiest, if not easiest class to level. Send in your pet, put autofire on, go for a coffee, come back and see that your pet didn’t only kill the mob you wanted him to attack but also 3 other mobs that attacked you while you were AFK. No but seriously, a Hunter is easy to level.

How do your maximize your efficiency though and reach the level cap as soon as possible? The answer is quite easy for this one; The Beast Mastery Tree.

The Beast Mastery talent build will make your pet a lot stronger and this will make it easier for your pet to keep the enemy NPC’s attacking him while you do steady damage with your ranged weapon.

Here you can see a nice leveling build for a Hunter:

Hunter Leveling Build

Choose Hawk Eye and Lethal Shots to boost your damage and range a bit.

From the Beast Mastery talent tree you can skip Imp Aspect of the Monkey because you will not be the one taking the hits. Imp Revive Pet isn’t necessary for leveling. I would choose to put only one point into Imp Mend Pet because of the Dispelling purpose.

Thick Hide isn’t bad at all but I would rather go with some damage abilities instead of some bonus armor.

When you choose this build your pet will receive:

+10% Health
+10% Crit
+100% Focus Regeneration
+9% Dodge
+10% Attack speed
+15% Damage
+10% Movement speed
+4 Additional Skill points

This all together with a lot of nice abilities that will be gained in this talent tree like Intimidation, which make the pet stun a target and creates a high amount of threat, Bestial Wrath, which causes the pet to do 50% (!) bonus damage for 18 seconds.

The Hunter himself will also receive quite a few nice boosts through this talent tree like 20% Attack Speed, 5% Health, Improved Aspects and other nice boosts given through the pets abilities.

Besides these abilities the Hunter and his pet will also move around the areas quicker because the Aspect of the Cheetah and Aspect of the Pack abilities will become more effective, a 10% mounted speed increase is given as well as a 10% bonus to their normal running speed.

Another nice thing of this talent tree is that the Hunter can Tame some creatures that otherwise could not be Tamed.

Al together, the Beast Mastery talent tree is the way to go. The Marksmanship talent tree looks nice and it definitely gives a great boost to the Hunters damage. However, you will notice that your pet can’t keep the mobs on him and that they will come for you, which makes it all a bit less nice. The Survival talent tree is nice at later levels, especially for PvP.

Druid Leveling Guide

A Druid is a great class to level no matter if you choose to level as a Feral Druid or as a Balance Druid. Reason for this is that you are still able to heal up after you get some damage. In this article I will describe a great Feral Leveling build and a great Balance leveling build. The Restoration tree can be partially taken as you will see but a full Restoration build will slow down your leveling.

Feral Druid

As a Feral Druid that wants to level up fast you should specialize in your Cat Form ability because the damage done in Cat Form is better than the Bear Forms available. There are some talents that are better for Bears then for Cats so these can be skipped. Please note that this is a solo leveling build that focuses on maximizing the damage of your Cat Form.

Feral leveling build

Instead of saying why the talents that are chosen are chosen, I will tell you why you can skip the ones that are not:

Feral Instinct: Swipe is a Bear’s ability so you can skip it. The reduced chance to become visible is not important while leveling.

Thick Hide: This talent supports the tanking kind of Druids, not adding anything to quicker leveling.

Brutal Impact: It is more of a Bear ability since it reduces the cooldown of Bash and makes Bash last 1 more second. While for a cat it only gives an additional 1 second to his Pounce stun duration. It’s not bad though so that’s why you can spend a point here.

Natural Reaction: Pure Bear talent.

Primal Tenacity: Not good for leveling purposes since you will remain in Cat Form and fear and Stun effects are not a killer while leveling.

You should add some Restoration talents to this build because of three reasons: Improved Mark of the Wild which is still one of the better buffs out there, Naturalist which increases your damage done by 10%, and finally Omen of Clarity which gives you a chance to use your abilities without spending Energy.

Balance Druid

As a Balance Druid you just try to get as much possible damage but also don’t want to run out of mana too often.

Balance leveling build

Genesis: Isn’t really worth it since Moonfire and Wasp Swarm are the only Dot’s that can be used.

Brambles: Yes, a lot of Entangling Roots can be used while leveling + Thorns, Bark skin and Treants boosted.

Improved Faerie Fire: More something for raids, you don’t want to spend time casting this on a mob.

Both the Feral and Balance talent build focus on maximizing the damage output. Why? Well the answer is simple; you don’t need a lot of survivability because you can heal up from time to time anyway.

Paladins - Holy Warriors

The Paladin is a hybrid class, capable to tank, heal and do damage. The Paladin can wear plate armor, shields and most melee weapons. The Paladin uses the Holy magic school and physical attacks for most of his abilities.

One of the most well known abilities of the Paladin is Divine Shield, often called ‘Bubble’. The Divine Shield is an instantly casted spell that protects the Paladin from any damage for 12 seconds. Divine Intervention is almost as good as Divine Shield and can even be casted on party or raid members. It protects the target from all physical attacks. The Paladin also has various auras that affect the entire party and several buffs that can also be cast on different players. The Paladins abilities cost Mana, no matter what build one chooses.

The following races have Paladins in their ranks: Humans, Dwarves, Draenei, and Blood Elves.

A Paladin can be a very capable tank when the Protection talent tree is used. While using a shield and some abilities that create high amounts of threat, the Paladin can easily tank in dungeons. A Paladin tank is probably the best tank when it comes down to keeping aggro on multiple targets. This comes at a cost though meaning that he isn’t as good as a Warrior Tank in example when it comes to single target tanking. Some buffs also become available in this talent tree like Blessing of Sanctuary and Blessing of Kings, even though the last one doesn’t have to be chosen since it requires quite a few talent points.

A healing Paladin should use the Holy talent tree to maximize the effect of his healing spells and to obtain some other healing spells that will make him a great healer. A Holy Paladin is a very capable healer known for his fast heals. Known to be one of the best single target healers while his weak spot is the lack in heals that can heal an entire group. A Holy Paladin should focus on getting a lot of critical strike rating, because his heals will heal more and a lot of his heals will refund Mana this way.

Finally there is the Retribution Paladin. While wielding a 2h weapon and being able to use several abilities that deal great amounts of damage, the Retribution Paladin is a great class for both PvE and PvP. This hasn’t always been the case; before the WotLK, Retribution Paladins were almost never welcome in either raids or PvP teams. This is probably why they have received a great boost and are now one of the stronger PvP classes and builds out there.

A Paladin is a strong class, fighting one can be really annoying as it seems that they have multiple lives sometimes. Playing one is a great experience. A nice thing about a Paladin is that you can gather different types of gear and then change from a tank to a healer or DPS if you get a bit bored with your build.