Protection Paladin Tank Simulations in Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.0.1
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General Information
On this page, we present you with various simulations results for Protection Paladin in World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth 8.0.1.
The other pages of our Protection Paladin guide can be accessed from the table of contents on the right.
About Our Author
This guide has been written by Treckie, a long-time leading Protection Paladin who competed for world first kills for 5 years. He currently raids in NollTvåTre and has been a caster and an analyst of Blizzard's Mythic Dungeon Invitational. You can watch his stream on Twitch and you can follow him on Twitter.
1. Simulations for Tanks?
Simulation programs such as SimulationCraft (and its web-based front end Raid Bots) are incredibly useful programs for World of Warcraft players. They can suggest to you what talents to use, what gear you have is best for you, or what stats you should prioritize. With the addition of Titanforging on gear, "simming" has become more and more widespread throughout the WoW community.
Does this work for tanks? The answer is yes and no. You can simulate DPS gains for most tanks currently to a reasonable degree. This will have similar rules to simming damage-dealing specs. The difference for tanks is that you cannot simulate for survivability. There are several factors and metrics for tanking and different situations will weigh things differently. So the short version of this answer is, you can simulate for DPS gains, however ignore the survival side of simulations as there are too many factors that come into play to get an accurate depiction of what constitutes a survivability upgrade from simulations.
2. Combat Logs
Combat Logs are a recording of all actions in a dungeon or raid, which are then formatted in an easy to read way. Websites such as Warcraft Logs serve as a directory where you can upload your own logs, or examine those of other players. You can use logs of yourself, or others of your class and specialization, to help improve your play.
WoW Analyzer is an exceptionally powerful and easy to use tool for analyzing a combat log. Even if you are inexperienced with combat logs, WoW Analyzer will quickly provide a wide variety of suggestions to improve your play, including stat weights.
To get the best results, we recommend using combat logs, the discord communities and programs like WoW Analyzer together to make the best choices for talents and gear.
3. Changelog
- 13 Aug. 2018: Updated for Battle for Azeroth launch.
CONTENTS
FROM THE PALADIN FORUMS
- Beacon of Faith in M+
- Gearing up as prot paladin, then respecc?
- Prot Pally questions
- AoE Tanking in Dungeons
- BiS leggo for mythic+
IN THE SAME CATEGORY
- Tanking Guide
- Transmog Paladin Sets
- Transmog Paladin Models
- Holy Paladin Simulations
- Retribution Paladin Simulations
- Level up a Paladin
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