Forever Protection Paladin Stat Priority

Welcome to the Stats page for Protection Paladin. This page is intended for Level 60 players, but it can still be useful to understand what each stat does and how they can benefit you. It is important to note that Forever is changing a lot about the game and we are unsure what to expect in many ways. Without knowing what tank mechanics may look like in raid, we can be less confident in the value of certain defensive stats. As more information is gathered is gathered, stat recommendations may change.

Each stat will provide a unique bonus, with many also providing bonuses to multiple stats.

Stat	Bonus
Stamina	Increases your maximum Health.
Spell Power	Increases the damage and healing of spells.
Intellect	Increases overall Mana pool and Spell Critical Strike chance.
Strength	Increases melee attack power and grants Block value.
Block	Gives you a chance to block enemy melee and ranged attacks, reducing the damage of the attack.
Defense	Provides you with Dodge, Parry, Block, and reduced chance to be both hit and receive critical strikes.

Below we will break down each stat a bit more beyond the basic descriptions. Additionally, you can find some of the intricate math behind each stat.

Stamina is an incredibly important stat to increase your max Health, giving you the ability to live hits that would typically kill you. You will gain 10 max Health per point of Stamina.

The overwhelming majority of Prot Paladin spells scale directly with Spell Power, making this a very important stat. While doing more damage can be great for the damage meters, it is also incredibly important to maintain threat on enemy mobs. The more damage you are able to output, the better your overall threat will be.

Intellect increases your Mana, Spell Critical Strike Chance, and Weapon Skill improvement rate. Most of the stat's power comes from the fact it gives you a larger Mana pool, giving your more casts of Consecration and other key abilities. With so much of our threat relying on Consecration, we need to make sure we have as much uptime of it as possible and an increased Mana pool just makes it easier to achieve this. Additionally, it will reduce the risk of you running out of Mana during a long combat window.

Intellect Scaling

Each point of Intellect will increase your stats by the following.

• Mana
  • 1 Point of Intellect grants 15 to your Max Mana total.
• Critical Strike
  • 54 points of Intellect will reward 1% Spell Critical Strike chance.
• Weapon Skill
  • Each point of Intellect will slightly increase your chance to level up a weapon skill.

Strength increases your melee Attack Power and Block Value. With melee damage and Holy Strike, Strength can add a bit of extra damage even if it is not as powerful as Spell Power. The extra Block Value it provides is also a nice bonus.

• Attack Power – 1 point of Attack Power per point of Strength.
• Block Value – 1 point of Block Value per 20 points of Strength.

While Block, Parry, and Dodge all work slightly differently, they contribute to a category of mitigation/avoidance. This becomes important anytime you are tanking enemies that are a higher level than you. Having enough Avoidance can can prevent you from taking a "Crushing Blow" from an enemy. Currently we are unsure how important this will be at max level, but we will break down these stats regardless:

• Block – chance to block enemy melee and ranged attacks, reducing the damage of the attack.
• Parry – chance to completely nullify melee attacks.
• Dodge – chance to completely avoid incoming physical melee attacks.

Keep in mind that Parry and Dodge only have a chance to nullify damage from the front. Meaning that you will want to always try to keep enemies in front of you. For more detailed information on these stats, you can click the button below.

Block, Parry, and Dodge

Let's take a closer look at these stats.

• Block – is incredibly important due to the synergy it has with other talents in our kit. Shield Specialization causes blocks to restore a percent of your max mana. In order to maintain heavy mana costs, you will need to be blocking. Redoubt helps to add some extra Block.
• Parry – has a unique mechanic called Parry Haste. If you block too many attacks in a row, enemies can cast their next attack much faster, leading to a very quick burst of damage. This can result in very unexpected deaths.
• Dodge – has no unique mechanics, but it is increased by Agility which you will still typically be avoiding, but can at least have minor levels of value.

Additionally, when you have a combined 102.34% avoidance, you can push crushing blows off a bosses attack table, meaning that they will no longer occur. This number is quite difficult to achieve on Protection Paladin and is likely to require significant gear sacrifices that are not worth it, in combination with Holy Shield.

Defense is a stat solely desired by tanks and is used to increase your survivability. 1 Point of Defense increases your Block, Parry, Dodge and chance to be missed by 0.04%. Once you have 440 Defense, you will be able to be fully immune to critical strikes from bosses. Extra defense beyond this will still provide an increase to survivability, but the stat becomes much less important.

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