World of Warcraft: Forever Protection Paladin - Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities

Welcome to our Rotation page for Protection Paladins. On this page, you will find everything you need to know about playing a Protection Paladin including standard rotations and tips to help increase your performance.

Protection Paladins are known for their large amounts of AoE damage, powerful utility, and simplistic rotation. With a limited amount of abilities compared to other tanks you will often just be pressing whatever is off cooldown while keeping your Mana in mind and ensuring you have enough to execute your responsibilities as a tank.

In addition your standard rotation, you have a ton of utility at your disposal to help manage tricky situations. Blessing of Freedom and Blessing of Protection are two incredibly powerful abilities, with no other class in the game offering anything similar. Combined with powerful group buffs such as Blessing of Kings or Retribution Aura, Protection Paladins will always have a role to play in any group or high-end PvE setting.

Protection gameplay centers around managing your Mana to ensure you always have enough to cast your required abilities. Consecration offers a ton of extra damage, but it is extremely expensive. Your main focus is to cast all of your abilities as much as possible, without ever running out of Mana.

• Maintain Righteous Fury at all times.
• Maintain Seal of Fury when tanking.
• Keep Consecration active as much as your Mana permits.
• Cast Judgement as much as possible.
• Cast Holy Shield as much as possible.
• Cast Holy Strike on cooldown.

Judgement provides an interesting dilemma, as it is off the global cooldown, meaning you can press it at the same time as another ability, but it will also taunt enemies when you have Seal of Fury active. When raiding, you may need to be careful with how you use this ability to prevent getting Aggro when you do not intend to. The easiest way to do so is by swapping to another Seal when not actively tanking as the main tank. Typically, your Raid leader will assign you with another Seal debuff to maintain such as Seal of Light or Seal of Wisdom, and that is what you will swap to when off-tanking.

Additionally, your rotation will change slightly when you are not actively tanking. Both Hammer of Wrath and Holy Wrath can add a nice damage boost, but they require you to cast them. You should only do this when you are not actively tanking. Of course Holy Wrath will also only damage Undead/Demons.

As a Protection Paladin your AoE rotation will look very similar to the single-target rotation, but with an increased importance on AoE abilities to help maintain threat and deal additional damage.

• Maintain Righteous Fury at all times.
• Maintain Seal of Fury when tanking.
• Keep Consecration active.
• Cast Judgement as much as possible.
• When not actively tanking, cast Holy Wrath if you are fighting Undead/Demons.
• Cast Holy Shield as much as possible.
• Cast Exorcism when fighting an Undead/Demons.
• Cast Holy Strike on cooldown.

In AoE scenarios it is incredibly important to maintain Consecration for not just damage but threat as well. Holy Wrath also gains significant importance when fighting Undead/Demons, just make sure you aren't tanking a bunch of hits while you cast it and are unable to dodge and parry.

Paladins offer some of the best utility out of any class and understanding how best to use it can be the difference maker in a good paladin and a great one. Below we will discuss some of the important abilities you have at your disposal to give your group the highest odds of succeeding:

• Blessing of Freedom grants your target immunity to movement impairing effects. If your target is already rooted or frozen in place, casting it will remove these debuffs. This ability is extremely valuable in PvP situations specifically, but also has its uses in regular PvE content, i.e. when a melee DPS is rooted in place while out of melee range.
• Blessing of Protection causes the target to become immune to any physical damage for its short duration. However, when you cast this on a player, they will be unable to attack or deal physical damage. Typically this is best used on casters or healers who have aggro and need to continue healing or get enemies off them, including yourself.
• Divine Intervention is one of the more iconic Paladin abilities, allowing you to sacrifice yourself in order to remove your target from combat. Typically this is used when your party or raid is about to wipe. You will cast the ability on a Healer so that after the wipe they can start resurrecting players without needing to run back from the graveyard.
• Voice of Truth grants immunity to silence and interrupt effects for a short duration. During difficult moments, this can be valuable to use to help ensure you are getting casts off. Especially valuable in PvP settings.

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