Protection Paladin Tank Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

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.

You should use a Culminating Blasphemite in your first available gem socket, and fill every other with Masterful Emerald.

When leveling in Midnight, many of the consumables you used throughout the War Within will continue to be valuable. You may opt to change your secondary stat enchants to speed variants such as Enchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Speed (Bracer) and Enchant Cloak - Chant of Burrowing Rapidity (Cloak) and use the speed food buff Exquisitely Eviscerated Muscle.

Using Tempered Potions as you fight your way through quests will also speed up your leveling journey and always having a combat flask active such as Flask of Alchemical Chaos.

Use Flask of Alchemical Chaos as a general-use phial.

Algari Mana Oil as Templar or Rite of Sanctification as Lightsmith.

Tempered Potion should be your combat potion of choice.

You should use Invigorating Healing 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.

Use Chippy Tea as your food buff of choice if a Feast is not available.

If a Feast of the Midnight Masquerade / Feast of the Divine Day is available, use this instead.

Leveling: Exquisitely Eviscerated Muscle can be useful for Leveling in Midnight to gain Speed Rating and make you move faster.

In addition, if you can afford it, you should use Crystallized Augment Runes to increase your primary stat. Augment Runes are expensive, and disappear on death, so use them wisely!

You can also buy the permanent Ethereal Augment Rune once at Renown 18 with the new Season 3 K'aresh Trust faction or use the Soulgorged Augment Runes that drop from the new raid and persist through death.