Originally Posted by Alerian
Paladin: The change to quest XP makes Ret a better choice again. While Prot Paladins aren't horrible to level with, they are only really ideal for quests where you have to kill multiple mobs in the same area. Many, many quests involve having to go somewhere and kill 1 mob or loot 1 item. Unless you can find situations where you can get 2-3 mobs beating on you, Ret comes out being quicker.
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Should probably remember that this ties in with equipment, too.
Recent trends are for prot/holy and ret to require
utterly different equipment. If you want to occasionally respec from your leveling spec to prot or holy for instancing, ret gear won't help -- no int, no spell power, no mp5, no defence, no block, et cetera.
But if you have good prot gear you can make due with it as holy spec, and if you have good holy gear you can make due with it as prot spec -- neither is optimal, but neither is pessimal either. A holy paladin in true ret gear is useless, and a prot paladin in ret gear, nearly so.
(But if you're going to just bank full sets of T5-or-better gear for each spec before the leveling starts, it's not so much of a consideration. Just wanted to put the idea out there for consumption, though.)