Dragonflight Protection Paladin Tanking Guide

Protection Paladin Overview

The dragons' roar has been heard. To help the Aspects in their fight to retake and defend the Dragon Isles, the Holy Warriors of the Light must rise up. There are forces at work that aim to undermine the forces of order and pose a threat to our society as a whole. Will you pick up the phone?

You will use the Light as a Paladin to aid your comrades and vanquish your enemies. A solid spec for players that like the feel of a traditional tank with the ability to self-heal significant damage and defend your teammates is the Protection Paladin.

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Protection Paladin Talent Builds

For a more raid oriented talent build, you can use the following talent loadout.

You can import the Raid talent build with the following loadout code: BIEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA0iSIpIpcgIJBNJJSChEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQSSSKCkElUEJRJKB

For a more Mythic+ oriented talent build, you can use the following talent loadout.

You can import the Mythic+ talent build with the following loadout code: BIEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA0iWCpIKHItkkUKNJJSgIBAAAAAAAAAAAAAANRSSKCkElUEJR5AKB

Protection Paladin Stat Priority

Protection Paladins have Strength as their primary stat. The primary benefits are that it gives us Attack Power (AP), Parry chance and increases the armor gained from  Shield of the Righteous.


For secondary stats, Protection Paladins has the following:

  • Item Level > Haste > Mastery > Versatility > Critical Strike
  • Haste: This reduces our GCD (Global Cooldown). It also reduces the cooldown on most of our rotational abilities, thus increasing  Shield of the Righteous uptime with more Holy Power generation.
  • Mastery:  Mastery: Divine Bulwark - Grants damage reduction while standing in  Consecration and increases your chance to block. Additionally, while you are in  Consecration, you have a chance to block magic periodic magic damage. This stat also increases Attack Power.
  • Versatility: This is the all-around stat. It increases damage done and healing done, as well as reduces all damage taken at half the value. Since active mitigation doesn't provide magic damage reduction, this stat can have situational value since it can reduce magic damage as well as increase the healing we do.
  • Critical Strike: This increases both our damage and parry. It's a stat that's good for DPS and survival while tanking multiple targets, but very mediocre for single-target survival.

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Best Protection Paladin Consumables

Best Protection Paladin Enchants

Below is a list of the recommended enchants to use on your Protection Paladin gear in Dragonflight.

Protection Paladin Phials in Dragonflight

Overall, the best phial for Protection Paladin in raiding is  Phial of Elemental Chaos as it gives a random secondary stat and secondary effect. You should use  Phial of the Eye in the Storm when tanking Mythic+ dungeons as it gives a large amount of Strength, which converts into Armor and Parry.

If you're looking for damage, you can sim options like  Phial of Glacial Fury to see how they perform.

Protection Paladin Combat Potions in Dragonflight

There aren't many options for Combat Potions for Protection Paladin. Below are the options you should be looking for from your friendly neighborhood alchemist.

Protection Paladin Weapon Buff in Dragonflight

For their weapons, Protection Paladin should use  Howling Rune as a safe defensive option.  Primal Whetstone/ Primal Weightstone are alternatives that can be simmed.

Best Protection Paladin Food in Dragonflight

Best Protection Paladin Gems in Dragonflight

You'll want to socket a  Fierce Illimited Diamond in your gear as your first gem. You can only use one of them. Then you'll want to use  Quick Ysemerald or  Keen Ysemerald in the rest of your gem slots.

 

Pros and Cons

 Strengths Weaknesses
  • It can take a few seconds into combat to get your first  Shield of the Righteous active. You can use  Ardent Defender on the pull to off-set this. 
  • One of the lowest health pools of Tanks
  • Downtime in active mitigation can easily cause extremely high damage intake
  • Low mobility, only having  Divine Steed which is a short duration, long cooldown ability.

 

Protection Paladin Rotation Priority

or Dragonflight, there are two unique rotating playstyles. One is a typical rotation where you can use Holy Power as necessary. The other is for the talent known as  Of Dusk and Dawn.  Of Dusk and Dawn is a special playstyle that limits the use of your holy power to certain points, namely when you have three or five holy power left. The main goal is to keep Blessing of Dusk and Blessing of Dawn operating at the highest uptime. We will go over the Of Dusk and Dawn playstyle, as that is what our guide recommends.

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Protection Paladin Single Target Rotation and Priority

  4.  Consecration (if you're not standing in it)
  5.  Shield of the Righteous when you have 5 Holy Power. This is to prioritize maintaining  Blessing of Dawn.
  6.  Shield of the Righteous when you have 3 Holy Power or if it's free. This is to prioritize maintaining  Blessing of Dusk or wasting procs.
  7.  Word of Glory to heal yourself when you have  Shining Light active and you have 40-50% health.
  12.  Consecration (if you're standing in it)

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Protection Paladin Standard Multi Target Rotation and Priority

  4.  Consecration (if you're not standing in it)
  5.  Shield of the Righteous when you have 5 Holy Power. This is to prioritize maintaining  Blessing of Dawn.
  6.  Shield of the Righteous when you have 3 Holy Power or if it's free. This is to prioritize maintaining  Blessing of Dusk or wasting procs.
  7.  Word of Glory to heal yourself when you have  Shining Light active and you have 40-50% health.
  12.  Consecration (if you're standing in it)

Protection Paladin Rotation General Principles

Here are some general principles of the rotation in Dragonflight:

  1. Never cap on Holy Power
  2. Use  Judgment and  Blessed Hammer to build resources
  3. Use  Avenger's Shield to maintain buffs
  4. Use  Shield of the Righteous when you have 3-5 Holy Power.
  5. Use  Word of Glory to heal yourself when you have  Shining Light active and you have 40-50% health

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