Protection Paladin Tank Best Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — Midnight Season 1
On this page, we list the best gems, enchants, flasks, potions, and food you can get for your Protection Paladin, based on your stat priority. We also give budget alternatives. This page is updated for World of Warcraft — Midnight Season 1.
If you were looking for TBC Classic content, please refer to our TBC Classic Protection Paladin Gems, Enchants, and Consumables.
Best Enchants, Gems and Consumables for Protection Paladin in Midnight
In general, the gearing you will do with gems and enchants will all go in the same direction as the general way of gearing your character for specific stats. You can read more about it in the Stat page linked below.
Gems for Protection Paladins
You should use a
Indecipherable Eversong Diamond in your first
available gem socket, and fill every other with
Flawless Masterful Peridot.
Enchants for Protection Paladin in Midnight
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Consumables for Protection Paladins
Flasks, Weapon Augments, and Potions
Use
Flask of the Shattered Sun as a general-use flask.
Thalassian Phoenix Oil as
Templar or
Rite of Sanctification as
Lightsmith.
Light's Potential should be your combat potion of choice.
You should use
Silvermoon Health Potion for in-combat healing.
Healing potions do not share a cooldown with
Healthstones, so you can use both
independently if you can access a Warlock.
Food
When deciding what food type to use it would be advisable to sim both options to identify which one is better for you. Primary Stat (Strength) and Highest Secondary Stat options are available for both feasts and personal food buffs.
As a general recommendation without simming the Secondary Stat variants are a safe choice.
Use
Royal Roast (primary stat) or
Champion's Bento (secondary stat) as your food buff of choice if a Feast is not available.
If a
Harandar Celebration (primary stat) /
Blooming Feast (secondary stat) is available, use this instead.
New with Midnight: Teas can be used to give yourself a small speed buff which can be consumed in addition to your food buff. Any of the following options work, get whichever is cheapest:
Sanguithorn Tea
Azeroot Tea
Argentleaf Tea
Augment Runes
In addition, if you can afford it, you should use
Void-Touched Augment Runes to increase your primary stat.
Augment Runes will be expensive until the final Season of the expansion, and disappear on death, so use them wisely!
Changelog
- 16 Mar. 2026: Updated for Midnight Season 1.
- 26 Feb. 2026: Updated for Midnight 12.0.1.
- 10 Feb. 2026: Updated for Midnight Pre-Patch.
- 30 Nov. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.7.
- 05 Oct. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.5.
- 04 Aug. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.2. Removed corruption section as this no longer works in Season 3 and changed Healing Potion to the new Invigorating Healing Potion.
- 15 Jun. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.7.
- 21 Apr. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.5.
- 24 Feb. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.0.
- 15 Dec. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.7.
- 22 Oct. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.5.
- 16 Sep. 2024: Updated Vantus rune information.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Updated with new gems, enchants, and consumables for The War Within Launch.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Season 4.
- 19 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Added helm enchant and new healing potion.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 14 Jul. 2023: Updated Weapon Enchants and Flask recommendations. Weapon Enchants to be more explict on the two choices, both choices are fairly close in terms of throughput however. Flask has been changed to Tepid Versility due to the increased prevalance of external damage sources.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updated Onyx Annulet and Primordial Gems section, and when you should consider replacing it.
- 01 May 2023: Added belt enchant (New in Patch 10.1) and reviewed for Season 2.
- 25 Mar. 2023: Updated Primordial Gems recommendations.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Added Onyx Annulet and Primordial Gems section.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 24 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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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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