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Protection Paladin Dragonflight Class Guide

General Information

Welcome to our Protection Paladin Guide for World of Warcraft: Dragonflight Season 2 in Dragonflight Patch 10.1.5. We will help you to learn and master Protection Paladin in either Raids or Mythic Keystone Dungeons.

Last Update: 09-07-2023

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Basics of Protection Paladin

With a flexible Talent Tree, chosing between magical or physical damage taken, Protection Paladins can use all their abilities to provide unique Utility to themself and their party members. Protection Paladins offer very strong Healing to their group, which makes them unique in comparison to other Tanks.

 
Stat Choice for Protection Paladin

General Stat Priority for Protection Paladin with our Build is:

  1. Strength
  2. Haste
  3. Mastery
  4. Versatility
  5. Critical Strike
 
Basic Rotation

Please read our Rotation and Cooldown section for further information. 

Builds and Talents

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Rotation and Cooldowns

The Rotation and Playstyle of Protection Paladin varies depending on their current situation.

Click the Tabs to see each individual Rotation for either Single Target combat or Multi-Target. 

Stat Priority

General Stat Priority for Protection Paladin with our Build is:

  1. Strength
  2. Haste
  3. Mastery
  4. Versatility
  5. Critical Strike

 

  • Strength is your primary stat, meaning that Itemlevel is superior in most cases. Higher Itemlevel will also increase your Stamina and Armor that you gain.
  • Critical Strike increases the chance for your abilities and spells to deal double damage.
  • Haste reduces your global cooldown, your time to cast spells, and reduces the cooldown of many abilities.
  • Versatility grants you a flat damage increase, but also a damage decrease for half of its value.
  • Mastery increases your chance to block melee attacks and increases your attack power. While in Consecration, your damage taken is reduced.

 

The further we are getting into the expansion, the effects of diminishing returns start to limit your effective gain of your secondary stats. After reaching 30% (by rating) of any given stat, you will start to receive a penalty that reduces the gain from more of the same stat over this treshold.

Stat priority can differ on every character. Make sure to simulate yourself on Raidbots get the perfect results for you.

Gear and Trinkets

Best In Slot Gear for Protection Paladin

Our list currently contains the best Items obtainable through the current Raid – Aberrus, The Shadowed Crucible. Those Items yield the highest natural Itemlevel which grants the most amount of Primary Stats.

SlotItem
Head
NecklaceMagmorax’s Fourth Collar
ShouldersHeartfire Sentinel’s Steelwings
CloakVoice of the Silent Star
ChestHeartfire Sentinel’s Brigandine
WristsBonds of Desperate Ascension
Hands
BeltRecycled Golemskin Waistguard
LegsHeartfire Sentinel’s Faulds
BootsSpittle-Resistant Sollerets
Ring 1Onyx Impostor’s Birthright
Ring 2Tormentor’s Siphoning Signet
Weapon 1Scholar’s Thinking Cudgel
Weapon 2Calamity’s Herald
 
Best Embellishments for Protection Paladin

Besides all other Items that can be obtained through Crafting on the highest Itemlevel, Players can wear two Items with the “Embellishment” tag. These Items grant additional power which should be used. The current most popular Embellishments for Protection Paladin are:

 
Best Primordial Stones for Protection Paladin

If a player still chooses to wear the Onyx Annulet, you can equip three Primordial Stones into it. The most popular Primordial Stones are:

 
Best Trinkets for Protection Paladin

This List shows the current best Trinkets of Protection Paladin in a Single Target Situation. This list might not reflect the perfect choice for your specific situation. Trinkets can differ at any boss or in different dungeons. To see a full overview of Trinkets – Please visit Bloodmallet

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Best Races for Protection Paladin

The Racial Bonuses for each playable Race in World of Warcraft offers different powers to their character. We would highly suggest that Players play the Race that they enjoy the most. If you are looking for any information about the differences in their performance, you can find it in this chart.

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Gems, Enchants and Consumables

Best Gems

Due to the Stat Priority listed above, we currently suggest Protection Paladin using the following Sockets in their Gear. Keep in mind that using Elemental Lariat will always trigger the lower-valued stat of your Gems. If you want to trigger the desired stat, you have use the opposite Gem atleast once in your Gear.

 
Best Enchants

Enchants of Tertiary Stats (Avoidance, Speed and Leech) varies by player preference. 

 

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