Protection Paladin Tank Gear and Best in Slot — Midnight (12.0.1)

Welcome to our Gear and BiS Page for Protection Paladin for Midnight Pre-Season. Check this page to learn everything you need to know about gearing a Protection Paladin, including the BiS Gear from all sources, Raiding, and Mythic+, information on the best Trinkets, Tier Sets, and much more.

Generally speaking, you will prioritize an item level upgrade over an "optimal" item at a lower item level as your survival is heavily reliant on Strength and Stamina. If you have a choice on the same item level, the alternative will likely, in generic circumstances, not make a difference defensively. We recommend just simming the choice and doing whatever helps you do more damage.

There are exceptions to this rule and encounter specific situations where a stat is massively devalued. You should keep an eye on the raid encounter guides to be aware of this. Similarly, certain Mythic+ key levels and dungeons require a slightly different gearing path. We linked the related guides below, but generally, we will add a note here as well:

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Pre-Season BiS Gear for Protection Paladin

Overall BiS List for Pre-Season

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear from any source in Midnight pre-season. It is there as a reference to what is currently the highest-performing gear available to players.

Note: As sims are not fully functional for Protection Paladins at the time of writing this list may receive updates as they develop.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Taz'Rah's Cosmic Edge	Voidscar Arena
Shield	Tempest's Shelter	Den of Nalorakk
Helm	Fletcher's Faded Faceplate	Windrunner Spire
Neck	Pendant of Malefic Fury	Murder Row
Shoulder	Cinderfury Shoulderguards	Murder Row
Cloak	Bloodthorn Burnous	The Blinding Vale
Chest	Taproot Ribs	The Blinding Vale
Bracers	Trollhunter's Bands	Maisara Caverns
Gloves	Bonds of the Hash'ura	Den of Nalorakk
Belt	Riphook Defender	Windrunner Spire
Legs	Lightscarred Cuisses	Nexus-Point Xenas
Boots	Footwraps of Ill-Fate	Maisara Caverns
Ring #1	Occlusion of Void	Nexus-Point Xenas
Ring #2	Omission of Light	Nexus-Point Xenas
Trinket #1	Sapling of the Dawnroot	The Blinding Vale
Trinket #2	Heart of Wind	Windrunner Spire

Outside of trinkets there are not any items that are a must have for leveling. Brand of Ceaseless Ire is a strong choice of trinket assuming that you are not spending too much time between moments of combat. Other trinket choices would be ones where you can activate the effect immediately such as Unyielding Netherprism Perfidious Projector, or trinkets that deal passive damage such as Eradicating Arcanocore.

Throughout this page, we regularly refer to the importance of simming yourself on Raidbots, as it is an indispensable aspect of optimizing your character.

While we do offer generic sim charts for Trinkets, this should not be a replacement for simming. As they will neglect nuances such as two on-use trinkets, Avenging Wrath timings or rotational changes that occur from using a trinket.

If you are new to simming and Raidbots, check out our detailed guide below.

During the pre season period we would recommend not using any Sparks to Craft items and spend low level Crests to fill out any gear slots where you have not received a drop from Dungeons/Delves/Prey.

Once sparks are available the recommendations would be:

1. Craft a Weapon with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt.
2. Potentially overperforming: Signet of Azerothian Blessings provides a large amount of secondary stats.

Obtaining gear from rated PvP can be a powerful boost to your item level early in the season.

All of these items have Versatility on them.

If you are wanting to obtain PvP gear, we would advise doing Solo Shuffle as Retribution or Holy.

Completing end-game activities in Midnight will reward you with Crests. Once you have upgraded a slot to a certain item level, upgrading other items of that slot to that item level is free.

We recommend not upgrading pieces using Myth crests in the first few weeks of Midnight. The reason for this is due to the crest upgrade system requiring exponentially more crests per upgrade level. As a result, if at all possible, you have an incentive to strategically game your upgrades, and craft Myth-track embellishment items first.

We recommend upgrading with the following priority list:

• Your main hand weapon and shield.
• Upgrade your trinkets.
• Upgrade your lowest item level slots or use a Raidbots Droptimiser sim to evaluate what to upgrade next.