Ret Pally Solo Content
Ret Pally Solo Content
As a Ret Pally in WoW, you can solo quite a bit more than any other class in the game. Sure, Prot Paladins can solo and last a bit longer against some bigger raid bosses…but that is a serious time drain. Ret Paladins can knock out old and new solo World of Warcraft content quickly and easily.
For me, I can easily clear all level 60 dungeons, and ZG (minus the bat boss). In Molten Core I can clear out all trash and take down the first couple bosses, and Garr as well. IN AQ 20 I have also gotten past the first couple bosses.
Level 70 content is easy too, for the most part. I can beat all normal dungeons, and am currently working on the heroics. They are time consuming, however.
And level 80 PvE content, which I like to call all the group quests, can be knocked out solo at 80 as well, if not earlier than that.
Here is my current collection of Ret Pally solo-able content posts:
- Scholomance
- Stratholme (Undead)
- Bloodlord Mandokir – ZG
- Bloodlord Mandokir – Raptor Mount Obtained!
- High Priest Thekal – ZG
- Hakkar - ZG
- ZG All the Rest - ZG
- Onyxia – Onyxia’s Lair
- Chillmaw – Argent Tournament
- Zul’Farrak (ZF)
- Karazhan – Attumen the Huntsma
- Karazhan – Moroes
- Deamines at Level 26
- Magister’s Terrace
- Kurinnaxx – AQ20
- General Rajaxx – AQ20
Question in this regards…what would be the stats (armor, hp, crit, stregth, etc…) to solo these places?
What could a average equipped ret pally solo?
I think that most entry level 80s with about half epics and half blues can do this no problem.
The key is managing your HP…when to bubble, when to Lay on Hands, and how often to heal, and which heal to use.
Most of the ZG bosses give me no trouble at all. I am rarely healing myself except on Bloodlord, and occasionally on the Tiger boss. DPS output will help speed up the fights, it’s just a matter of learning to manage mana and HP.
Chillmaw should be cake either way. I do pop LoH every other time when I stop kiting and sit in the middle of some bombs.
Onyxia is no longer solo-able sadly
I have’t written on MC yet because as ret, I haven’t knocked down any of the bosses yet, tho I haven’t actively tried either. Trash in MC is easily solo-able.
Regardless, to answer your question, I’d say you are good to go with about half epics and half blues, and it can only get better from there with better gear.
I will say that upgrading your weapon is top priority. Hit up 5-man heroic ToC for your easiest option in Edge of Ruin.
Or starting out with Titansteel Destroyer isn’t bad either.
Those weapons would be top priority.
I have to say that farming mana tombs with mining (enchanting would be good as well) and a repair mount is pretty rapid as a ret pally, especially with the cleave effect of Seal of Command.
I’m fairly well geared, (5400 gear score) though so i can shell out tons of dps with just a kings buff, but you can just judge light and clear it without having to heal or LoH at all. You should be fine in full triumph badge gear from heroics to solo that stuff.
I actually do not recommend killing bosses in Karazhan and skipping attumen outright. Why, you ask? Because the price of dust and essences from level 70 instances is typically far higher than that of vendoring purples. Also, the horses trample you which will kill even a decently geared prot pally, let alone ret. My best advice is to clear all human trash in the ‘dance hall’, Moroes’s dining hall, the kitchen and the connecting areas, up to the balconies and the opera house area, and even towards the maiden. Vendor out greys and repair (if you have a mount, otherwise, run to stonard when bags are full) and send stuff to be disenchanted if you can’t do it yourself and if you can, send it to an alt.
Runs can give 200 gold plus from just vendoring greys and cloth, not including DE materials.
Sorry that’s (up to) 200g/hr. Same for mana tombs, it averages around 180g/hr for me to vendor greys cloth and blues (since i cannot DE them myself) and the rest is de’d by my alt.
First, thanks for taking time to write these articles it sure gives me an ideal to do some WoW content that I didn’t get to do early on. Is there a “trick” to starting a raid by your self? Right now the only way I know how is to invite a friend so I can get into a “raid instance”.
Thanks in advance for your reply.
Unfortunately, the only way to get into a raid is to invite someone and convert to a raid. At that point, if you wish to free them up and go on alone, you must remove/kick them from the raid. If you leave the group yourself, you will be booted from the instance. Must remove the other player in order to stay in.
Nice website, just stumbled into it. Ive been a ret player for a longgg time and I love it too! Especially the solo things we can do. And even to my own surprise, I was able to solo Molten Core! I brought extra pots and buffs (drums of the wild etc). And I used my offspec to spec a little bit different then from my raid spec. And glyphed for dmg reduction too. It was really exciting and was close to dying a couple times even. Ive put a longer story about my solo MC run on our guildwebsite, if anyone is interested to read it, let me know.
Madrenn from Thrall (US).
Would definitely love to read about soloing MC! Link it up!
I dont think I’ll be able to link to our guilds forum since its private. I hope u ok with me posting the story here Khor? If not send me a mail and Ill e-mail it back to u, maybe u want to put it up somewhere here.
_______A Madman in Molten Core_______
I’m a bit bored and can’t play atm so I thought I post this, cause it was a quite funny and exciting 40-man solo raid yesterday. Just fyi, it’s long and probably more fun to people who enjoy doing old world stuff.
Information:
So I’ve always been an old-world fan, I love the older tiers, prolly more set on getting that then my T10! Anyway, I love doing Blackwing Lair with some friends and I’ve done AQ20 with my roommate (tank). And had Zul’Gurub on solo-grind for reputation, mounts and a cool 2 hander (Destroyer of Worlds ^^)
Molten Core:
Yesterday I wanted to know how difficult Molten Core nowadays is, cause I knew it should be 2-man-able at 80. But I just googled “How to solo Molten Core at 80″ and found an article of a prot pally in horrible gear that did it. I read the tactics to know the specials of all the mobs (Annoying core hounds why wont you die!) and bosses of course. After closely studying this guide so I would go in prepared I decided to go for it.
Setup:
Special home-made spec 0/27/44, alot of people forget the awesomeness of Reckoning, chance on hit that my next 4 weaponswings generate an additional attack, combine it with Seal of Command that hits 3 extra targets, well you do the math, but when it comes down to it, its basically hitting 6 mobs with just my melee swing. Besides that, I would have over 10% damage reduction from all sources which I thought I could use as well ^^ I also glyphed for damage reduction and increased heals from offensive abilities.
Besides that, I carried with me, a nice perfume (75AP from love is in the air worldevent), wellfed, flask/pots, Scroll of Fortitude & Drums of the Wild, so atleast it would feel like a raid, buff-wise
Start:
Alright fully self-buffed I was close to 30k HP and I ran in, killed the first 2 giants easily, only to realize the mobs dont follow you in the lava, anyway, through the lava to the first 2 bosses, Lucy and Maggy. Both too easy, Lucy didnt have anything I worried about, and Maggy had a fear so I pulled him all the way back because I only cleared 2 packs of corehounds. Those were actually more annoying, cause sometimes I’d miss one and kill him too slow and they’d all pop back up.
After my own amazement how easy the bosses where I was excited to continue, I skipped Gehennas, because it was the most difficult encounter to solo (as the guide said), so I continued to Garr, also easy. Continued to Shazzrah, and in windowed mode checking if there was anything to know about the boss, not much really, just to watch out for patrolling Geddon boss, I thought oh crap, looked back at screen, ah right, he’s attacking me with 3 mobs, but used seal of light and (quite slowly) was able to kill him (and popping some cooldowns). And to my amazement, I saw a legendary item! The second half of the bracers of Thunderaar (for the legendary sword). Looked it up, was a 3% dropchance. But I needed the first pair too, and I already killed the boss that should drop them (Garr). But continued to Shazzrah, really easy. Then I jumped down to Golem and his 2 pets, tactics, switch to his doggie’s when your debuff stack gets too high so it would drop off. But before I could even worry about that he was hitting me too much (and his pets, who dont die) that I had to pop cooldowns.. but boss wasnt even at 80% so I was in trouble, and eventually wiped. At this time, the instance would reset in 15 minutes (it was a tuesday without maintenance ) And I was happy to do all bosses again for loot and gold. But I needed to find a way to down Golem, so I decided to make use of Divine Storm because of my T10 2 set bonus, it had a 40% to reset on melee strikes and it heals me for almost 2k (depending on dmg). Thought this might actually be better then my ret-reckoning–spec SO hearthed, respecced and went back in after reset, now with a little more confidence and tuned up some AC/DC to rock this place! First bosses went down so much quicker and with Divine storm the corehounds became core puppies. Facing Garr, I thought Id have to have insane luck to be able to get 2 legendary items of a 3% dropchance in 1 day (but 2 runs). But to my amazement it DID drop! I had now the 2 pieces I needed to start the quest, read up on it before I continued, good thing I did cause I needed to pick the quest up first cause I needed a questitem from Ragnaros, if I was able to reach him. So went to Silithus, grabbed quest and went back in to face Golem, being terrified, I jumped down and popped some dmgreduction CD’s, fighting intensely to keep alive, Sacred shield, judgement of wisdom, seal of light, instant flash of light, divineplea timed at the right second etc etc, it was going steady but I was close to die’ing several times, and at the last 10 seconds I was at 1000 health and he probably at 30k. This was the most intense fight ever and I downed him with literally 250 HP left. I mean this was even more exciting then Yogg hard-mode !
Now I had downed 7/8 bosses I needed to face Majordomo and Ragnaros. Thinking I couldnt down Gehannas because of his high dmg output, 2 adds with 4 second stuns, and his 75% healing reduction curse, I thought Id do him later with a decurser. But friend of mine said, come’on give it a try… So I did, adds went down in 10 seconds, without me loosing any health really.. started on boss, and knowing I was gonna die soon from a curse I decided to pop dmg cooldowns and risk my bubble to just down him asap! Before I knew it he was at 35% before he even cast his curse (at that point I still had 100% health, godbless sacredshield + shadow resistaura) and he was down before I even had to heal! I was very happy cause this meant I could continue to face Ragnaros, after downing the adds around Majordomo (the sissy boss who fights me and runs off after you kill his adds).
Time for Ragnaros, read up, nothing special, knockback, watch where you stand and some adds when he teleports out. Alright, so summoned him using Majordomo, started fighting in ‘defensive stance’ (using seal of light, less dmg, more health regeneration), and wasnt taking much dmg so decided to go to a damage seal. Couple knockbacks, landed in lava and swam back to him. He teleported out, summoned his sons, so easy to kill, was a moment for me to get back to full health/mana basically. Only after he came back he used his knockback again and apparently I moved because i landed on rocks and lost 20k health from falling damage, bubbled, healed up, and continued now on a better spot. And after another teleport and summoning of his sons I was able to down him! Not much interesting loot from him though, but I did get my questitem for Thunderfury Blessed Blade of the Windseeker and an item I needed for the Opening of the Ahn Qiraj Gates quest (u dont get mount or title anymore, but it is still fun to do).
So all in all, most dangerous part of Ragnaros solo = the rocks! They be hard!
Now I am going back into blackwing lair with some friends (will never be solo-able because of the bosses) soon for elementium ore, since I need 10 bars for the sword. And of course next week Molten Core again for some gold and items.
Update: Now wielding Thunderfury ^^
//Madrenn of Thrall (US).
well as a ret pally i can easily solo any 70 heroic, seal of light and judgement of light combined you can heal yourself for roughly what a geared 70 drood did back in bc, and also still crank out 3-6k aoe dps,
i can solo all of aq 20 ( hardest fight is araymiss the flying one, you have to constantly use exercism and then los her behind the wall you came in on, to clear the stacks, takes about 20 min for the whole fight as ground phase isnt started till roughtly 66%) all other bosses, SoL and JoL, and you win, buru however you may want to learn how to shield and art of war heal yourself as well, and kite backwards, but very easy once you get it…. bosses in here drop 30-40G each
zg is super easy, same thing, everything is tank and spank, bosses in here drop 20-40G each, and the bijous and coins sell descent 2g each coin and 20g each bijou, atleast if you can /2 find someone lazy and wanting zandalar rep for achievement purposes
if you have prot gear, nothing too fancy ( 550 def 35k hp unbuffed) soloing Kara is easy as well, well except netherspite, and chess event takes a few tries to solo as gear means nothing, and prince takes about 10 min so is grulling, but other than that, if you are an enchanter / or know one that you can sit afk with anyhwere in the raid, you can get quite a few purples to de, and even some greens and blues to de for mats to make scrolls of mongoose which everyone knows still sell descent
hell with a 3k gs prot set i can also solo everything past first 2 bosses in Bwl, chrommagus is the hardest, you need 120 hourglass sands atleast
just keep in mind you have to know all the fights, and well, im not saying anyone can do this stuff, but if you know your class well, which i have over 300 days played on paladins then you get a nack for it, it isnt stupid to read up on the old fights, learn a few things, and if you ever have any questions seriously feel free to look me up on Blade’s edge server, the name is Hirus
Hey Khor, thanks for setting this up. Tried to solo ZG for the first time last night and couldn’t get past Bloodlord, so thought I’d check to see what others have done. Basically I’m just bored after running my frost daily and killing time with ZG rep, soloing old zones for nostalgia. I did get past the bat boss though, so I thought I’d let you know what I did. Maybe I just got lucky (lol)!
My gearscore is just north of 5k: 1 T10, 4 T9, Tyrannical Beheader. I died a couple of times while I was trying to remember the fight. She pummeled me when I forgot about her heals. I actually ran it with Seal of Vengeance for big DPS, judged wisdom to support self heals, had retribution aura up to help with the bat swarm (forgot to switch it over to fire resist when the bombs started dropping…lol) and basically just dps’ed her down with self-healing as necessary. I was careful to pay attention to my cooldowns for Avenging Wrath and Mark of Supremecy Trink and didn’t use them until after 50%. I also made sure I was topped off on health right before 50%. Once she shifted at 50%, I knew I would only get one interrupt on her greater heal with HoJ, so I just FCFS dps per usual until I saw her cast. I can’t remember exactly, but I think she was at about 40% when she started her heal cast. I hit HoJ to interrupt (remember, doesn’t stun but does interrupt), then popped AW and my Trink and beat her down with a FCFS mana dump fairly quickly before she could get another heal off. Like I said, I may have just gotten lucky, but the main part of the strat was simply to not use HoJ, AW, or Trink cooldowns until she tried to heal…then interrupt and blow everything to get her down quickly. All in all, a pretty fast fight.
I’ll try your Bloodlord recommendations. Biggest thing I had problems with was I couldn’t seem to keep up with his damage output. But according to your strat, I was doing everything wrong. Didn’t burn down raptor first, hitting holy light to heal instead of flash, running with SoV instead of Seal of Light…etc…etc. *sigh* After I L2P I’m sure it’ll be simple. Also looking forward to trying MC/AQ20 per other posts…thanks guys!
Hey Khor,just wanted to let you know I used your ZG guide to finish soloing every boss last night. Worked like a charm. Got everyone on first fight as well, including Tiger Boss. GREAT STRATS! Thanks for putting this all together.
Erek
Hi Khor. Great site, learning a lot.
I’m curious if you have any thoughts on a specialized talent build for soloing. The comment above that suggested 0/27/44 is interesting. I’ve been trying out some different things as I solo my way through the BC dungeons. I’m feeling like full ret gear and the EJ concentration aura raiding spec is not the best way to go.
If you have a specialized soloing build on the site, I can’t find it. And do you mix in any prot gear? Ever throw on a shield? Not enough to turn it into a prot grind, that’s not what any of us want…
Thanks again for the site! Off to kill Kael’thas again!
TK
BTW, in case Gad checks in again, Here’s the method I use to form solo raids.
Log on an alt in a capital city. DK bank alt is what I use, since a low level will prevent entry into raids.
Use local chat (not trade) and ask if someone has a minute to help you form a solo raid group. People are often hanging around the AH on alts, it’s always been easy to find someone. I always think I’m going to need to offer money, but never have.
Invite them to group, and pass them leader. Tell them you will log on with your main, tell them the name. Log off the alt, log your main. Send a tell to the person asking for invite, and then have them pass you leader. Thank them nicely, send them some bowls of chowder (optional,) and kick them.
You are left with a 2 person group, with the other person being your logged off alt. Convert to raid, and remember to change the loot rules, so you don’t wind up having to role on something against your DC’ed alt.
Sorry if this is obvious to all, but since it was asked…
TK
Hey TK, here are a couple links for ya on my site about ret leveling pertaining to your questions:
Ret Leveling: http://retributionpaladins.com/smart-retribution-paladin-leveling/
Talent LEveling Guide: http://retributionpaladins.com/ret-paladin-talent-tree-leveling-guide/
In regards to gear and weapons, I go pure DPS ret. It’s the best way to go, far more optimal than anything prot will give you. THe burst damage from ret is so high that it’s a must for speed leveling paladins. Or at least for burning through content at a satisfactory pace.
Cool, thanks. Even though I’m well past leveling, there is a lot of good theory there.
I’m going to do some experimenting with a 0/27/44 build, focusing on surviving some of the harder raid boss encounters, and if I come up with anything useful I’ll post here about it.
Thanks again,
TK
TK, I’m so sorry man! Apparently, I lack the ability to read. Where you said soloing, I read leveling.
Khor is noob.
Yeah, I have a pure prot spec for anything I cannot Ret. It goes with SoC, and I can pretty much handle anything at this point in terms of soloing earlier raids.
My bad, I’ll get my glasses next time!
hey i was just wondering if it would be possible to solo The Eye as a ret paladin with 5500 gearscore or would you need a healer as well. I want to try for the pheonix mount
Pretty sure it’s not soloable, I’ve done BT and parts of the Eye with almost zero success thus far as Ret
Guys,
i have a 5,5k Gearscore Ret Pala and Holy dual specc.
I have prot gear in my bank wich gives me a gearscore of 5k wich would be better to solo BC Heroics and MC ?
Just throwin’ this out there, on my DK I’ve solo’d all BC heroics, beaten the opera event (dorthy) and the first two bosses in Kara. Obviously ZG. I plan on starting on MC sometime soon, but I hear I’ll need a second weapon ’cause Rag takes forever with only one person. I’ve got a pseudo-custom 28//0/43 build on my DK Rankra.
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