Protection Paladin Tank Guide (WoD 6.0.3)
Welcome to our Protection Paladin tank guide for World of Warcraft WoD 6.0.3. Here, you will learn everything you need to know about playing a Protection Paladin in a raid environment, although most of the content also applies to normal and heroic dungeons.
This guide has been reviewed and approved by Theck (@TheckPhD), the main author of Sacred Duty (a well respected, and arguably the most valuable Protection Paladin theorycrafting resource).
If you want to read all about the Patch 6.0.2 changes and learn how they affect your character, make sure to read our Paladin Transition Guide!
As a Protection Paladin, you can expect to perform the role of a solid and reliable tank. In general, your damage intake will be relatively smooth, with many attacks being blocked by your shield or softened by your strong active mitigation. You also possess strong self-healing and raid-healing capabilities. No other tank class has quite the array of tricks up their sleeve that a paladin does.
Note that this guide focuses on aspects that are specific to Protection Paladins, and general tanking strategies are beyond its scope. If you wish to know more about the tanking role and what you can do to improve, we recommend that you read our tanking guide.
To make it easy to navigate the guide, we have split it into 7 pages:
- Builds, Talents, and Glyphs: learn how to choose your talents and glyphs;
- Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities: master your rotation and your cooldowns;
- Buffs, Debuffs, and Useful Abilities: discover your arsenal of useful abilities;
- Statistics Priority: read up on the respective values of your statistics;
- Gems, Enchants, and Consumables: choose the best gems, enchantments, etc.;
- Macros and Addons: step up your game with useful macros and addons;
- Gearing Up and Best in Slot: find the best gear you can wear.
