Protection Paladin Tank Liberation of Undermine Raid Guide — The War Within (11.1.7)
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Protection Paladin for each boss of the following raid: Liberation of Undermine. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — The War Within (11.1.7).
Introduction
Below, you can find class and spec-specific advice for every fight in Liberation of Undermine. If you are looking for a general overview of the Raid that is not spec-specific, check out our dedicated Liberation of Undermine Boss guides.
On this page, you will find tips and tricks specifically tailored toward Protection Paladins and its toolkit based on the recommended talent build. It does not include general tips for mechanics, which are included in the full raid guide instead, whereas this page assumes that you are already familiar with most of the major mechanics of each encounter.
All recommendations are progression-based tips and will not necessarily be the best for an overall DPS ranking.
Liberation of Undermine Boss Guides for Protection Paladin
Liberation of Undermine Raid Builds, Tips, and Tricks for Protection Paladin
Tips for Vexie Fullthrottle for Protection Paladin
Defensive Tips
- N/A.
 
Cooldown Usage
- On cooldown, unless the intermission is coming up then you will want to save them to take advantage of the vulnerability.
 
Mechanical Tips
- All of the pit mechanics are susceptible to CC. This means you can interrupt a bunch of them with 
 Divine Toll, blind them with 
 Shining Light to stop multiple casts
and stun them with 
 Hammer of Justice! 
Mythic Difficulty
- No mythic changes for tanks on this boss.
 
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Cauldron of Carnage for Protection Paladin
Defensive Tips
- Use 
 Ardent Defender / 
 Guardian of Ancient Kings in addition to 
 Shield of the Righteous to mitigate the follow up damage from 
 Lightning Bash. - Use 
 Ardent Defender / 
 Guardian of Ancient Kings to mitigate the damage from 
 Eruption Stomp. 
Cooldown Usage
- On cooldown.
 
Mechanical Tips
- If you get stunned from moving too much with 
 Static Charge, 
 Divine Shield can remove it from yourself and 
 Blessing of Protection can remove it from other people. 
Mythic Difficulty
- You may be tasked with kicking the miniature figurines, run into them to kick them and you want them to go in the middle of the room.
 
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Rik Reverb for Protection Paladin
Defensive Tips
- The auto attacks on this encounter deal Sonic damage. This means that they are not reduced by armour. Feel free to use 
 Word of Glory
to keep yourself healthy as 
 Shield of the Righteous will just be for damage on this boss. 
Cooldown Usage
- On cooldown but if the intermission is coming up, hold them as the boss takes 99% less damage during this phase and you will have nothing to hit.
 
Mechanical Tips
- N/A.
 
Mythic Difficulty
- No mythic changes for tanks on this boss.
 
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Stix Bunkjunker for Protection Paladin
Defensive Tips
 Final Stand can be great to pick up adds if 
 Divine Toll is not enough.
Cooldown Usage
- On cooldown.
 
Mechanical Tips
- Heroic: You can remove 
 Infected Bite with 
 Cleanse Toxins. 
Mythic Difficulty
- No mythic changes for tanks on this boss.
 
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Sprocketmonger Lockenstock for Protection Paladin
Defensive Tips
- Heroic: If you opt to soak 2x 
 Foot-Blasters in a row, you won't need much on the first one but be ready to 
 Word of Glory
yourself to heal the damage you took. For the second soak you will want to use 
 Ardent Defender or 
 Guardian of Ancient Kings.
This damage goes through 
 Divine Shield. 
Cooldown Usage
- On cooldown.
 
Mechanical Tips
- You should have a charge of 
 Divine Steed for every 
 Pyro Party Pack you get to help with running away from the raid. 
Mythic Difficulty
- You can take the last 
 Pyro Party Pack of each phase and use 
 Divine Shield to negate the damage from it and also negate
the knockback from the intermission starting! 
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for One-Armed Bandit for Protection Paladin
Defensive Tips
- If you ever need to click a pylon to trigger the effects again and remove 
 Shocking Fields you will take a large
physical hit. 
 Shield of the Righteous should be plenty to live this. 
Cooldown Usage
- On cooldown.
 
Mechanical Tips
- Be ready with 
 Divine Steed to run away with 
 The Big Hit as it drops a pool after the cast completes. This does not
give you a debuff so as soon as you see the boss casting the ability run away! - The 3 Coin Attendants have fixed locations. Be ready to drag the boss on top of them after it uses 
 Pay to Win. - Be mindful of the 
 Voltaic Streak beams in the enrage phase. These will connect from the pylons which you have placed in the previous phase
to the boss. 
Mythic Difficulty
- No mythic changes for tanks on this boss.
 
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Mug'Zee for Protection Paladin
Defensive Tips
- N/A.
 
Cooldown Usage
- On cooldown.
 
Mechanical Tips
 Spray and Pray can be cancelled by using 
 Blessing of Protection on the target.- Do not soak any 
 Earthshaker Gaol's. If the boss follows you inside there the adds will enrage. 
 Molten Gold Knuckles requires heavy movement after you land from the knock back. Be ready to use 
 Divine Steed after landing
to remove the stacks quickly.
Mythic Difficulty
- As a Protection Paladin on this fight you will be tasked with popping mines and soaking the 
 Molten Gold Knuckless. - Popping the mines is as simple as using 
 Divine Shield and going into 3 of them with a short break to allow your healers to heal the raid. - On later sets of mines you will need your co tank or a Monk to take a mine as well as 
 Divine Shield will not last the full duration of every mine
with small gaps for healer recovery. - For 
 Molten Gold Knuckless you will stand against the wall with the first one with 
 Blessing of Spellwarding active. The second one you will
run with 
 Divine Steed, and the final one will be similar to the first. 
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Tips for Chrome King Gallywix for Protection Paladin
Defensive Tips
- Be ready to use defensives such as 
 Ardent Defender with a 
 Word of Glory after each 
 Scatterblast Canisters in Phase 1 and 
 Bigger Badder Bomb Blast in Phase 3. 
Cooldown Usage
- Be ready to 
 Word of Glory yourself after heal absorbs are applied. These are added from nearly every soak mechanic. 
Mechanical Tips
- Stay close to the boss to minimise damage taken from 
 Gatling Cannon. - Having 
 Divine Toll ready for the intermissions is invaluable to group all of the adds together. 
Mythic Difficulty
- The fundamentals of the fight remain the same on Mythic, however the order everything happens in is completely different.
 - In Phase 1 you will very likely be the tank that soaks every dud. You cannot immune the damage from clicking the dud but you can immune or negate the damage from the DoT they leave afterwards.
For the sets you are not immuning with 
 Blessing of Spellwarding/
 Divine Shield you will need to maintain your spell block uptime by using 
 Word of Glory to increase your block
chance and staying in your 
 Consecration. - In Phase 2 (Mythic Phase) you will want to make full use of your externals on other players (
 Blessing of Spellwarding and 
 Blessing of Sacrifice) to help them live the frontals. 
Best Talents
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Changelog
- 15 Jun. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7.
 - 21 Apr. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.5.
 - 18 Mar. 2025: Gallywix tips added.
 - 20 Feb. 2025: Guide added.
 
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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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