Protection Paladin Best Legendaries in Shadowlands — Shadowlands 9.2
Legendary Powers are targetable, unique effects that you can imbue certain base items with through the Runecarving system. In Shadowlands, these enable you to customize your Protection Paladin, drastically improving your performance, and are arguably the most important aspect of your gear.
The purpose of this page is to help you pick the right legendary powers (and item slots for them) for your character, depending on the content you are interested in.
Introduction: Legendaries in Shadowlands
As part of your progression through Shadowlands, you will gain the ability to craft Legendaries through Runecarving. Runecarving becomes available to you as you progress through Torghast. The Legendary powers are obtained via various gameplay sources, and once obtained you can craft your own specific, targeted Legendary! Each of these Legendaries will boost the power of your character in a specific way, however you can only wear 1 Legendary item at a time. This guide will detail the Legendary powers available and which are the best ones to use in any given situation.
Best Legendaries for Protection Paladin
In the table below, the recommended slot for each item is bolded.
Focus | Legendary | Available Slots | Source | Stats |
---|---|---|---|---|
Raiding | ![]() |
Waist or Feet | Quest: The Great Vault | Haste and Mastery or Versatility |
Single-Target DPS | ![]() |
Waist or Feet | Quest: The Great Vault | Haste and Mastery or Versatility |
Mythic+ | ![]() |
Shoulder or Finger | High Adjudicator Aleez (Halls of Atonement) | Haste and Mastery or Versatility |
Torghast | ![]() |
Neck, Wrist or Back | Torghast (Layer 6+) | Haste and Mastery or Versatility |
Generic Legendary | ![]() |
Head or Waist | Torghast (Fracture Chambers, Layer 3+) | Haste and Mastery or Versatility |
Best Overall Legendary for Protection Paladin
The aim with the new Runecarving system is that you can target
specific Legendaries, so you are not in a situation where you have to make the
best of a bad situation. However, should you want a Legendary that works for
all content types but is not strictly the best for all content types, we would
recommend The Mad Paragon.
Best Raiding Legendaries for Protection Paladin


Other competitive options for Raiding include:
Holy Avenger's Engraved Sigil: once again focusing on Holy Power economy, this Legendary will let
Avenger's Shield have a chance to reset its cooldown.
The Magistrate's Judgment has dropped in value in Patch 9.2 as you
will have enough Haste through natural gearing choices to sustain your Holy Power
spending needs.
Should you find yourself in a situation where you do not require the defensive benefit from a Legendary, we would recommend simming your character to find out what your highest DPS option is.
Best Mythic+ Legendaries for Protection Paladin
For Mythic+, Bulwark of Righteous Fury will be your choice, as it
allows you to do the highest amount of AoE DPS of any Legendary option.
Other competitive options for Mythic+ include:
Holy Avenger's Engraved Sigil: being able to reset
Avenger's Shield will facilitate higher AoE DPS.
- If you are a Kyrian, then
Divine Resonance will provide you with additional utility. It will facilitate more AoE damage, silences/interrupts, and Holy Power. However, for pure damage there are other options which are better.
Vitality Sacrifice: as your damage intake will be higher from tanking multiple mobs at a time, this will trigger the effects of this Legendary, thus increasing your DPS.
Best Torghast Legendaries for Protection Paladin
Should you require additional Phantasma in Torghast then,
Stable Phantasma Lure is a natural choice, as it will facilitate
faster and more reliable Phantasma. Should you not need the additional
Phantasma, then we would recommend a more generic Legendary choice, or the
Mythic+ choice.
New Legendary in Patch 9.2 for Protection Paladin
In Patch 9.2
you will obtain
Unity through the Zereth Mortis storyline. This will give
you the power associated with your active Covenant and will change based on your
current covenant. These powers are:
- Kyrian —
Divine Resonance simply fires off additional casts of
Avenger's Shield to your current target. It can be exceptionally powerful in scenarios where you will get multiple hits on
Divine Toll such as Mythic+. This is further enhanced with the Soulbind trait
Effusive Anima Accelerator which can reduce the cooldown of
Divine Toll significantly.
- Venthyr —
Radiant Embers provides you with a reduced cooldown on
Ashen Hallow when you cancel the ability. This can potentially be used to allow
Ashen Hallow to line up with
Avenging Wrath better.
- Necrolord —
Duty-Bound Gavel provides you with an additional charge of
Vanquisher's Hammer. This Legendary is a respectable gain in power for Necrolord Paladins, however it addresses a concern of
Vanquisher's Hammer — where it is forcing you to use your
Word of Glory in a non-ideal way — via a Legendary Power, rather than addressing the concerns with the spell on its own.
- Night Fae —
Seasons of Plenty enhances your
Blessing of Summer and
Blessing of Winter, empowering them by 100% for 10 seconds. This feeds into the fantasy of being a support player, however it is yet another external buff to party/raid members in an expansion that has seen community issues arise from these (
Power Infusion being a key example).
Changelog
- 21 Feb. 2022: Reviewed and approved for Patch 9.2.
- 01 Nov. 2021: Reviewed and approved for Patch 9.1.5.
- 21 Jul. 2021: Corrected typo in Legendary table column header.
- 18 Jul. 2021: Updated M+ Legendary choices for Kyrian.
- 28 Jun. 2021: Updated for Patch 9.1.
- 09 Mar. 2021: Added Legendary focus (single-target DPS). Included information around The Mad Paragon being used for Protection.
- 05 Dec. 2020: Updated information about Retribution legendaries used for Protection.
- 20 Nov. 2020: Page added.
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This guide has been written by Panthea, who raids in Catalyst and is the author of TankNotes. He plays all tanks and is a Moderator for the Hammer of Wrath Paladin Discord. You can follow him on Twitter.
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