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I leveled my pally from 60 - 70 as holy spec, just using whatever spelldmg plate i was able to get my hands on. It wasn't terribly difficult as healers were in so high demand for instances and a huge bulk of my xp came from instancing.

I'm kinda stuck with the 41/20 arena build as my arena team is doing relatively well in our battlegroup. And with the 2.10 patch, my pally has found a whole new need to grind/quest all over again.

Not having the experience to lvl as ret, I've been curious as to whether for just grinding, what kind of gear are you pallies using to kill stuff? I've collected 5/5 righteousness and just enchanted spelldmg on the it and used that with a Greatsword of Horrid Dreams + Dragonheart FlameShield and just SOR + Consecrate(Rank 1) all this while.

I've been wondering whether it would be better to use the ret gear with spelldmg (Ruby Helm of the Just, Breastplate of Righteous Fury, Ornate Boots of the Sanctified etc - the re-coloured red colored tier1 items) for grinding mobs. I also managed to pick up the Despair 2hander from Opera in Karazhan on my pally.

Basically I'm very confused whats better for me to use for grinding mobs with the choices that I currently have available, keeping in mind that I can't really spec my pally out of 41/20 and also what kinda Spelldmg > AP ratio would be if I was to grind with Retgear (a la red-colored tier1 / PVP "Scaled" Armor) or should i just stick with stacking spelldmg and spellcrit (Righteous / PVP "Lamellar" armor)?