Protection Paladin Tank Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — The War Within (11.2)
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 — The War Within (11.2).
If you were looking for WotLK Classic content, please refer to our WotLK Classic Protection Paladin gems and enchants.
Enchants, Gems, and Consumables for Protection Paladin
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.
Best Gems for Protection Paladins
You should use a Culminating Blasphemite in your first
available gem socket, and fill every other with
Masterful Emerald.
Best Enchants for Protection Paladin in The War Within
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Chest |
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Cloak |
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Consumables for Protection Paladins
Best Phials, Weapon Augments, and Potions for Protection
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.
Best Food for Protection
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.
Augment Runes for Protection
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.
Changelog
- 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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