So, I just got back into WoW since quitting during WotLK.

I've leveled a Paladin to 92, once I hit 100 I plan on trying to solo old raids.

I have a few questions for those who may know:

1. Is Ret/Prot best for soloing? I've heard Ret is fine for most older stuff since you can just DPS things dead very quickly, whereas Prot gives you more mitigation for recent fights like heroic Firelands, etc.
2. Is Paladin even worthwhile? I know Blood DKs are absolutely OP for soloing, and I've also heard that Fury warriors and BM hunters are very capable of soloing content with ease. I've never played either class.
3. What is soloable? All vanilla/TBC/WotLK/Cata raids/dungeons are soloable on 25m heroic/mythic/whatever. Some MoP raids are soloable (I think all heroic dungeons are easy) depending on gear/class, but it's difficult.

I also haven't played since WotLK, so I don't know what talents/glyphs/gear I'd want/need at 100. I don't even know the best way to gear up at 100 either.

I'm hoping to write a guide, maybe some videos once I get more experience. Any help is appreciated!

At lvl 100 with decent gear any of the old raids are pretty easy besides the mop ones



to gear just run ashran tbh can get 710 conq gear an 700 honor gear and that good enough to run old content

Welcome back!, another simple tip is you can enter raids without being in a raid party now as well. /cheers

You can skip heal boss fight in ICC now, just run around it.

Some raids still require more than one person to do on hroic, due to dps race or mechanics. But more are soloable.

Biggest tip, have fun

you could solo anything at lvl 90 tbh

Game is heaps ez now lol

Welcome back

Anything up to icc25hc is a cakewalk even as a level 100 squishy Rogue. Haven't tried any harder raids than that but I can't imagine level 85 raids being hard on a Paladin

I went from 92-100 in a couple of hours, lol.
I still had all my greens and stuff from questing and went into ulduar 25 man to give it a whirl.

Tried soloing FL without a vehicle, that didn't go so well. I hopped in a pyrite launcher thing and killed it in about 4 hits. Didn't realize scaling worked with vehicles too.
I crushed Ignis easily, and skipped Razor cause that fight is annoying as hell. XT hard mode was easy, I was worried about Tantrum still hitting for 10% every tick, but I guess they nerfed that too. I was able to take down Iron Council going from small to large, but I forgot to bubble with the debuff and died after the fight was over while trying to do the Algalon questline.
I fought Algalon next, since his room is unlocked now, and forgot mechanics and stood in a Cosmic Smash or whatever (I remembered the stacking debuff but forgot about the other) and phased out, resetting the fight. He died on the second attempt.
Kolo, Auriya, Hodir were simple.
I was worried about the tunnel and evade problems with Thorim, but that was simple too.
Freya gave me some trouble, all the adds kept knocking me around and healing the crap out of her, but I just kept killing stuff and she went down after about 5-7 minutes. I wish paladins had better AoE aside from Divine Storm, unless I'm missing something?
I pushed the red button, and Mimiron went fine for a bit, until I forgot the repair mechanics and got hit with a rocket strike for 100K. Ouch. He was easy the second time around.
Vexax was cake, and Yogg +0 was more annoying than I remember. I "died" twice due to sanity. The first time, I somehow missed an add and didn't have time to reach the brain before induce madness. The second time I had some stacking debuff on me like 5 times that stunned me every few seconds and I just couldn't do anything and went insane. The third time went smoothly and he died.
I feel like I want to gear up a bit before going further, but I'll do easier stuff since that won't be a problem, but I don't want to try ICC just yet.

GL man i know its damn hard ...