Protection Mythic+ Resources
1.
Protection Paladin Overview
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. No other tank class has quite the array of tricks up their sleeve that a Paladin does.
2.1.
New Content
Midnight Season 1 is here! With this we get new tier set bonuses to use which for Protection Paladin
focuses on adding more damage to 
Shield of the Righteous which is great for improving your DPS in general but
really shines in Mythic+. With the launch of Season 1 there are three new raids, Mythic+ featuring 4 dungeons from Midnight and 4 returning dungeons
and Delves (including a Hall of Fame for Delves), there is a lot of content to engage with and they have dedicated sections on the website for more
information linked below.
2.2.
Class Tuning
For the Launch of Season 1 there have been no changes proposed for Protection Paladins. Blizzard have
previously announced they will be keeping an eye on performance of every class and spec for the first few
weeks of Season 1 and that there will be tuning for each of these weeks. If any changes are announced for
Protection Paladins we will update the guides to reflect what the changes are and if they have impacted
any major decisions that you will make such as Rotational Priority, Talent usage, Hero Talent usage, or Gear
choices.
When it comes to tuning adjustments, our next planned pass is expected to arrive
with the Midnight Season 1 launch on March 17. Our next pass will follow immediately
afterwards utilizing data gathered during the week Heroic difficulties are available;
these changes will go live with the launch of Mythic raid difficulty and Mythic+ on
March 24.
Beyond these dates, we will look to perform more tuning passes based on data gathered
during the starting weeks of Mythic difficulty for Season 1 and the March on Quel’Danas
available the week of March 31.For these two passes we err on the side of caution with
the amount of tuning we do until their respective Mythic end-bosses die to avoid being
overly disruptive to progression. After these key dates we will have several check-in passes
planned roughly a month apart. Once players obtain higher item level and better optimized gear
sets, the throughput of several specs will shift up or down relative to others and we feel
it’s important to be diligent in looking at the current state of class balance as time goes on.
3.
Leveling as a Protection Paladin
If you do not have a Paladin at max level, you can follow the link below to
help you in your quest to reach max level. Keep in mind that leveling as a
tank, while not always the fastest, means you are great at being able to pull
large groups of enemies and AoE them down.
Should you be leveling as a tank, it is recommended to learn the ropes
throughout the leveling process as well, as generally, it is not tuned to be
very hard. Addons are rather important to be able to tank well, such as
threatplates, but also tracking buffs and debuffs. Playing dungeons while
leveling will give you a sense of those addons before getting thrown into max-level content.
4.
Basics of Protection Paladin Gameplay
Tanking, in general, means a lot of pressure to not only do damage and thus
threat to make sure things are attacking you but also about surviving those
attacks. As a Protection Paladin, this generally means generating as much Holy
Power as possible, so you can spend it on Shield of the Righteous to
reduce damage intake. There can be moments where damage taken is higher
and you will want to supplement this with another cooldown should, these
would be scenarios such as pulling a large amount of enemies or bosses. If you are
fairly new to the class and spec and need to jump into it right away, we
recommend the Easy Mode page linked below.
If you have got the basics down and want to improve your class knowledge, go to the Talent and Rotation pages for more in-depth information.
5.
How to Gear Up as a Protection Paladin
Tanks are generally quite uncommon, so finding a group as a tank is
not too difficult, and gearing up might happen rather fast. At the start, all
you really want is a higher item level, as you value all the stats you
can get. Once you have options of similar item levels, you can follow these
pages to read more on how the different stats influence your character, as well
as what gems, enchants, and consumables you should be using. You can also find
a page dedicated to more end-game gearing information on the BiS and Gear
page.
6.
End-Game as a Protection Paladin
End-game content comes in many forms that can vary quite a lot in both
gearing and playstyle, depending on what you focus most of your efforts on.
While tanking in raids or in Mythic+ on the surface seems similar, there are
many ways they differ, and you can focus on them separately in the pages linked
below. PvP is typically not played
with tank-specced players, so we recommend you play one of the other Paladin
specializations (Holy /
Retribution) should you wish to
learn more of that.
7.
Changelog
Lightsmith
Templar
