Protection Paladin Tank Mythic+ Tips — The War Within (11.1.7)

Lightsmith is recommended for starting your Mythic+ journey as it provides more group utility and is a simplier rotation to execute making learning dungeons easier.

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Templar will be your go to build for most weekly keys once you are comfortable with the dungeons. It offers more damage than the Lightsmith build which helps to complete the dungeon faster!

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This Templar will be used for higher keys and requires 10800 Mastery Rating (or 9400 if you have a Shaman in the group) to have 100% spell block chance with Faith in the Light and Barricade of Faith active. Simply use Word of Glory and Avenger's Shield before a large magic hit to mitigate it with block.

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• Avenger's Shield is one of the strongest abilities in our toolkit for Mythic+. Not only does it interrupt, but it will also silence enemies that can be silenced for 3 seconds. This allows you to almost fully lock down any caster by yourself, especially if they can be stunned by Hammer of Justice as well, and let the rest of the group deal with another caster.
• Rebuke is another interrupt option for enemies in melee range.
• Hammer of Justice is a long single-target stun that can be used often with the Fist of Justice talent. This can be used to make enemies non-threatening for a couple of seconds or prevent them from moving if they may want to.
• Blinding Light can be used to disorient enemies within 10 yards. This can be used as an AoE interrupt for crowd-controllable casting enemies.
• Turn Evil fears an Undead, Aberration, or Demon target within 20 yards for up to 40 sec.

• Intercession allows you to combat res a party member.
• Devotion Aura reduces all damage taken by your group by 3%.
• Cleanse Toxins can remove all Poison and Disease effects from a group member. Cleanse Toxins has value in every dungeon apart from Dawnbreaker and Stonevault. It can also be used to deal with the Xal'atath's Bargain: Devour affix.
• Blessing of Protection/ Blessing of Spellwarding and Blessing of Sacrifice are amazing tools in dungeons to help your group survive both dangerous affixes as well as abilities.
• Blessing of Protection has two additional benefits on top of providing the target immunity to Physical damage. It will remove any Bleed effect on the target, and make them lose threat temporarily on enemies that deal Physical damage. Very helpful for the Fury Warrior who popped all cooldowns before you even put down Consecration!
• Unbound Freedom will help with negating slows/roots on your party, but, more importantly, also apply Blessing of Freedom to yourself when cast on others.
• Word of Glory and Lay on Hands are not only self-heal abilities, but can be used on group members to great effect as well to help the healer.
• Turn Evil allows you to kill undead enemies when they are below 30% Health.

• Cleanse Toxins is useful on this trash to dispel Nasty Nibble applied from the Pack Moles.
• Be ready to throw Avenger's Shield's into the Royal Wicklighters to interrupt Wicklighter Bolts.

• If you see a DPS start to get too many stacks of Crude Weapons use Blessing of Protection on them.

• When gathering Blazing Fiends be ready to interrupt their Explosive Flame casts.
• When grouping the Blazing Fiends in the boss room Divine Toll and Blinding Light are great tools to mass interrupt the casts.

• During the intermissions be sure to stand on the right hand side of the safe zone as it will rotate to the left. This ensures that the Impale frontal is not in the safe zone.
• If you need even more space you can stand outside of the area to bait the Impale frontal with Divine Shield / Blessing of Spellwarding. Be sure to stay in melee range of the boss when doing this as if you move away the boss will follow you which will also move the safe zone!

• Interrupt as many Candleflame Bolts as you can to lower the damage taken on the group on the minibosses.

• As a Protection Paladin you can solo interrupt all of the Paranoid Mind casts by rotating Rebuke and Avenger's Shield.

• Be careful to not tank the Corridor Creepers on corpses as they gain a stacking damage buff for nearby corpses! This in combination with the stacking DoT ( Creeping Shadow) can be a recipe for death.
• If needed you can dispel your own Creeping Shadow stacks with Divine Shield (be ready with a cancelaura macro if you do not use Final Stand).

• Divine Toll to interrupt all of the Wriggling Darkspawns together (the adds that spawn after Call Darkspawn).
• The group will likely be busy dealing with boss mechanics so it is usually up to the tank to interrupt Call Darkspawn.

• Stop the Assassins from casting Fan of Knives with Blinding Light/ Hammer of Justice.
• If the Assassins cast Toxic Blades you will need to dispel the poison they apply.
• When Mech Jockeys reach low health they will run to the nearest inactive Peacekeeper and try to Activate Mech, you can stop this cast with Blinding Light/ Hammer of Justice.

• Move the boss shortly after gold piles spawn and keep it stationary when players are kicking Footbombs into the boss.

• You can pull the entire right hand side just after the boss back into the boss room to give your group more space to avoid mechanics.
• Keep the Earthshapers Rock Lance interrupted.

• You can CC the empowered Earthragers to stop them from moving towards their fixate target.

• Focus the Alchemists and keep all of their casts interrupted.

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• Try to CC any Deploy Crawler Mine that spawn to let people cleave them down.
• You can pull the pack of trash just before the final boss up into the boss arena to give you more space (and to not fight on the staircase).

• Pay attention to where the Summon B.O.O.M.B.A.s are moving and move the boss into an area which is safe from their barrages.

• If you pull this trash be sure to keep the Ritualists Necrotic Bolts interrupted.

• Be careful when Mortal Strike is active on you. Ideally you should pop a small cooldown before the hit so you sit at a higher level of HP for the duration.

• Interrupt Meat Shield from the Horrors to prevent them from getting a large absorb shield.
• Interrupt the Sludge-Spewers Withering Discharge. If this cast goes Withering Blight will be applied to all party members and you should priortise dispelling DPS who are in cooldowns.

• If any player is hit by the chains use Blessing of Protection on them.

• You can skip the third miniboss in this area by having all group members wait half way down the corridor which has the commander and all run together. The time from the two minibosses fighting and being active is long enough for you to skip it entirely. If you opt to do this you will need to make sure that you are pulling mobs elsewhere in the dungeon to make your trash count.

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• Divine Toll is great for grouping all of the Deathwalkers together.

• Rooted can be removed with Blessing of Freedom.

• After each intermission move the boss away from the Excessive Electrification pools that will spawn.

• Wallop deals damage to players within 5y in front of the boss. Avoid facing it towards your melee DPS.
• When the bombs are about to spawn you can see a brown circle on the floor. Position Bront in a way that lines him up for multiple bombs for the charges.

• Divine Toll is great for interrupting multiple Restorative Algae casts.
• Blinding Light is great for stopping multiple Jettison Kelp casts.

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• Keep the electricians interrupted as Lightning Bolt can combo someone to death pretty easily.

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• Interrupt as many Detonates as possible. This will be your limiter on how big you can pull here.

• Have the bosses stacked up under a hammer to remove Platinum Plating as soon as it is applied.

• You can delay Corrosive Gunk with CC such as Blinding Light/ Hammer of Justice so that it does not happen at the same time as Mega Drill.

• You can pre immune the Blazing Chomp with Divine Shield/ Blessing of Spellwarding.

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• Stun the Plants as soon as they spawn with Hammer of Justice.

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In this dungeon as a Paladin you can give the group the buff Blessing of the Sacred Flame which is a 30 minute Holy damage proc for everyone.

• Blinding Light/ Hammer of Justice can be used to stop the Defend channel on the Footmen or Flamestrike from the Conjurors.
• Blessing of Protection can remove the Impale bleeds from the Knights, or Grievous Rip from the War Lynxes.

• Blessing of Protection can stop Savage Mauling.

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• Blessing of Spellwarding/ Divine Shield can be used to negate the stacking DoT on you when soaking Sacrificial Flame meaning that you can do all 3 or 5 without the group needing to help.

• Make sure the Fireball and Fireball Volley is interrupted on the Mages.

• If the adds from the intermission start to get close to your healer use Blessing of Protection on them.

• The first pull you do here will be quite deadly and you will need to rotate most of your defensives to do a big pull for your team.
• Mean Mug is a stacking bleed on you which are applied by the Patrons. You can technically remove this with Blessing of Protection but a DPS or two may die if you try this. If you are playing Final Stand use Divine Shield instead.
• Throw any Avenger's Shields into the Pyromaniacs to interrupt Boiling Flames.

• Pull the boss to one side for the first cycle to spawn the Hot Honey pools there (keep them away from the Patrons).
• After one intermission swap to the other side of the room.

• Interrupt the Rejuvenating Honey on the Scientists.
• When the Brew Drops die they will spawn a pool on the ground, be ready to move out of this instantly.
• Be ready to pick up Brew Drops after they spawn from Reckless Delivery (Hobgoblin charge).

• Hammer of Justice the add that spawns closest to boss to give you a little bit more time to move the boss away.

• Interrupt the Honey Volley on the Purveyors.
• Be mindful of when the Worker Bees reach low health as they will cast Final Sting. You can survive a single one with ease but if multiple are casting at the same time you will want to delay this with an AoE CC such as Blinding Light or use a large defensive cooldown.

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• Aim Cash Cannon at barrels. This also knocks you back. You can be lazy and just stand against the table where the boss spawns and let the group handle blowing up the barrels on fire and you just get the one behind the table.

• Help with interrupting Lightning Bolt as multiple of these on a single player can kill them.

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• Pay attention to the Corrupted Oracles and interrupt the Void Bolt casts and be ready to CC them when they try to cast Seeping Corruption.

• Divine Shield/ Blessing of Spellwarding can prevent Chaotic Corruption from being applied to you and remove the debuff entirely if it jumps to you as it will just disappear.

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• Nothing of note on this boss other than basic positioning. Put yourself in a position where the frontal will not hit any other players.

Blinding Light is our only AoE stop that will deal with the orbs. If you are a Blood Elf, Arcane Torrent will also work as an AoE dispel. Single target options are also available in the form of Hammer of Justice, Rebuke, and Avenger's Shield.

The Void Emissary always spawns on you and just needs to be killed. You will not need to take any different talents for this affix, use your best damaging buttons available at the time to deal with this affix.

Pick up orbs. Run around with Divine Steed or Unbound Freedom.

If you need to move out of your Consecration, be sure to put down a new one as you are moving.

Cleanse Toxins to dispel it. Word of Glory with Shining Light or Lay on Hands to heal it off.

Do not use Divine Shield to remove it, as the group will not gain a stack of Lingering Void.