Originally Posted by mofidik
Based on kiting experience ever since Rotface hit live realms, no, their melee range is not further than your judgement range, unless you have high latency. It's pretty overkill considering it's just healing threat you need to outdo, but it does have the added benefit of keeping divine plea up. The catch is that if you stay close enough to judge, odds are you'll find yourself in melee range when you get vile gas'd on heroic. Cancelaura'd bubble works great for that occasion, though.
On a more general note, paladins have an easy enough time (just like any other tank, really) picking up oozes but we have the unique ability to not only get through slime pools on our own on heroic, but also the ability to control the cleansing. In practise it's probably best to put your tank with the most situational awareness on kiting duty, whatever his class is.
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Pretty much this. We're one of the best classes for slimes just due to our arsenal of abilities:
-PoJ for faster movement
-Judgement and AS for ranged threat (make sure to use SoRighteousness for the double seal proc!)
-Consecration for extra threat as you kite
-BoF to get through ooze slicks
-A taunt that does actual damage, for those "accidental" Big Oozes
-Bubble and Bubblewall in case you get Vile Gassed into Big Ooze melee range
-AD to save you if it happens again
-Cleanse to control ooze rates
Threat on the oozes is pretty trivial as well. They don't attack for a few seconds after they spawn, so you can do the following:
-HoR on spawn
-ShoR, start running
-Judge as you're running out to range
-AS at range (by this point the ooze should be active)
-Drop Consecration in the path
That gives you enough of a threat lead to last the full duration of the ooze, in my experience. I still slip back into Judgement range on occasion to refresh Divine Plea, but even that's not usually necessary. If it is, try and time it for right
after a Vile Gas cast, so that you're in no danger of being stuck next to the ooze. Also note that you can keep moving in between ticks of the vile gas.