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Protection Paladin tank guide & helper

Tank as Protection Paladin with your rotation, mitigation and defensives timed for you, kicks on the casts that matter and AoE threat on big pulls.

Updated for patch 12.1.5 · World of Warcraft: Midnight · Windows
Guide

How Protection plays.

Your Holy Power goes into Shield of the Righteous, and Consecration stays under you. Judgment, Hammer of Wrath and Avenger's Shield fill the gaps, with Blessed Hammer or Hammer of the Righteous as the filler. The guides pick Lightsmith for Mythic+ and raid, and Hammer of Light is used when you have it.

One target

  1. Avenging Wrath on cooldown; Holy Armaments when Avenging Wrath is coming or at two charges.
  2. Divine Toll inside Avenging Wrath (any time without Glory of the Vanguard).
  3. Hammer of Light with Judgment on the target, before its window runs out.
  4. Shield of the Righteous to spend Holy Power.
  5. Hammer of Wrath and Judgment before they cap on charges; Consecration when you're not standing in it.
  6. Hammer of Wrath, Judgment, Avenger's Shield, then Blessed Hammer or Hammer of the Righteous.

Staying alive

  • Word of Glory on yourself below 50% health when it's free, or below 35% even when it costs Holy Power (both changeable).
  • A free Word of Glory also goes out below 90% as a filler.
  • Ardent Defender goes out by your health and before boss tank hits; with Eye for an Eye it goes on cooldown.
  • Shield of the Righteous goes out before boss tank hits too.

Packs

  • From 2 targets (you can change the number), Avenger's Shield goes right after Shield of the Righteous.
  • Avenger's Shield also moves up with Vanguard, or inside Avenging Wrath with Glory of the Vanguard.

Good to know

  • Put down Consecration yourself before the pull.
  • Arcane Torrent fills a gap late in the order.
What it does for you

Built for Protection.

01

Defensives before the hit

Your defensives and mitigation go up at the health you choose, and before a big tank hit lands (works with your boss mod).

02

Hold the pull

AoE and threat spells once enough mobs are on you, single-target spells on a single mob.

03

Kicks and stuns

Interrupts on the casts that matter, at the last safe moment, and no stuns on mobs that can't be stunned.

04

Immunity learning

It learns which mobs shrug off your spells and stops casting them there.

05

You stay in control

Every spell, threshold and line of the priority is yours to change. One switch turns it off.

In the rotation

Protection spells it uses.

Lines for spells you don't have are skipped, so it follows your talents.

Ardent DefenderHoly ArmamentsAvenging WrathDivine TollHammer of LightShield of the RighteousWord of GloryAvenger's ShieldHammer of WrathJudgmentConsecrationBlessed HammerHammer of the Righteous
Tuning

Tune Protection your way.

A few of the settings you can change in game, shown with their default.

  • Word of Glory: your own health below 50%
  • Word of Glory: your own health below 35%
  • Lines for 2+ targets start at 2 targets (and the single-target ones stop)
  • Word of Glory: your own health below 90%
  • Shield of the Righteous: Divine Guidance stacks below 5
  • Shield of the Righteous: Holy Power exactly 5
  • Word of Glory: Holy Power below 3
  • Consecration: Divine Guidance stacks at least 5
Paladin

Other Paladin specs.

Every spec

All MidnightBridge rotations.

MidnightBridge

Play Protection Paladin with the helper.

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