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So you want to be a paladin, do you? At level 10, you’re going to be faced with the choice of what paladin leveling build to follow. If you don’t know what you’re doing, its easy to choose the wrong tree, so let’s take a look at them.

If you’re wanting to heal as a paladin, the Holy tree is probably right for you. The focus of the holy tree revolves around your healing abilities, with increases to your mana efficiency and buffs as well. While there are a few damage boosts, Holy is largely a support tree. Overall, it is the weakest tree for soloing, and debatably the best for grouping.

The next option is Protection. The talents in Protection focus on boosting your tanking abilities, increasing your threat building and your mitigation. While you will see quite a damage boost from following the Protection line, it is mostly reflective, dependent on enemies hitting you. For the most part, Protection is a better solo tree than Holy, and lends itself to grouping equally well.

The final tree for paladins is Retribution. Retribution, as the name implies, is focused on making you an instrument of holy vengeance. As you would expect, most of the talents focus on meting out punishment, but a few do boost your survivability and utility. While Retribution is far and away the absolute best tree for solo leveling, players who enjoy grouping should be aware that it is much more difficult to get a group.

If you are using a paladin leveling guide, they will most likely recommend a paladin leveling guide, but if you feel that one of the other specs is more suitable to your playstyle, give it a try.