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7.3.5 Protection Paladin Guide PvE | In-Depth






1.Introduction
Hello everybody,

My in-game name is Meow, I'm playing since wotlk on a lot of servers and on this server I was in 2-3 cool guilds with several wins at pve events and a lot of realm first, including Realm First Kil'Jaeden.

I've created this guide after receiving so many questions about protection stats/rotation/gear, even raids/m+ mechanics for protection paladin. I hope that this guide will give you a better point of view over this spec and class.


2.Race

Only 6 races can be played by a paladin:

• Draenei, Dwarf, Human and Lightforged Draenei at the Alliance.
  
• Blood Elf and Tauren at the Horde.
  

Alliance



Draenei

• Heroic Presence - Increase strength, agility, and intellect by 425 at lvl 110.
  
• Gift of the Naaru - Heals the friendly target for 20% of the caster's total health over 5 seconds. 40 yard range. 3 minute cooldown.
  
• Shadow Resistance - Reduces Shadow damage taken by 1%.
  

Dwarf

• Might of the Mountain - Critical Strike damage and healing increased by 2%.
  
• Stoneform - Removes all poison, disease, curse, magic, and bleed effects and reduces all physical damage taken by 10% for 8 seconds. 2 minute cooldown.
  
• Frost Resistance - Reduces Frost damage taken by 1%.
  

Human

• The Human Spirit - You gain 2% more from all secondary stats "Haste, Crit, Mastery, Versatility" from all sources.
  
• Every Man for Himself - Remove all stun effects has a 2 minute cooldown, shares a 30 second cooldown similar effects (trinkets).
  

Lightforged Draenei

• Light's Judgment - Call down a strike of Holy energy, dealing Holy damage to enemies within 5 yards after 3 sec. (scaling with your stats)
  
• Light's Reckoning - Erupt with Light upon death. Deals Holy damage to enemies within 8 yards and heals allies. (scaling with your stats)
  
• Holy Resistance - Reduces Holy damage taken by 1%.
  

Horde



Blood Elf

• Arcane Acuity - Increases critical strike chance by 1%.
  
• Arcane Torrent - Silence all enemies within 8 yards for 2 seconds and restore 1 Holy Power, 1.5 minute cooldown.
  
• Arcane Resistance - Reduces Arcane damage taken by 1%.
  

Tauren

• Brawn - Critical strike damage and healing increased by 2%.
  
• War stomp - Stuns up to 5 enemies within 8 yards for 2 seconds with 0.5 second cast time and 1.5 minute cooldown.
  
• Endurance - Increases your stamina by 1283 at lvl 110.
  

Top races order by survivability:

1. Tauren = Dwarf
2. Human
3. Lightforged Draenei
4. Blood Elf
5. Draenei

3.Talents

In order to understand what talents to use in a encounter you have to read the tooltype of you spells and talents and see what is the priority for the raids/m+.

Tier 1:

• Holy Shield: top choice for raids and for some m+ where you have a lot of magic dmg.
  
  
• Blessed Hammer: top choice for m+ and large groups of mobs.
  
  
• Consecrated Hammer: situational choice for raid, where you must move a lot (aka, not being able to stand in consecration) and also mitigate the incoming dmg.
  

Tier 2:

• First Avenger: top choice for m+, useful to keep aggro, take a lot of mobs and do a lot of dmg.
  
  
• Bastion of Light: situational choice for raid, when you must do random soaks and you cannot handle the mitigation up as needed.
  
  
• Crusader's Judgment: situational choice, if you do not have gear and you need to have mitigation up as much as possible. Can be used to do the healer's job.
  
  

Tier 3:

• Fist of Justice: Useful for raids/m+ and in combination with Crusader's Judgment can be overpowered.
  
  
• Repetance: Useful in m+ if you want to avoid trash.
  
  
• Blinding Light: Useful if you want to do mass interrupt.
  
  

Tier 4:

• Blessing of Spellwarding: top choice for raid/m+, basically you ignore any inc magic dmg.
  
  
• Cavalier: situational choice, if you need to move a lot for long distances.
  
  
• Retribution Aura: If you are looking to maximize your dps, maybe this can help.
  
  
  

Tier 5:

• Hand of the Protector: Top choice for raids and m+, but not so useful vs Necrotic Affix.
  
  
• Knight Templar: Situational choice, if you must move and not die while moving away or if you want to use it as dmg reduction CD.
  
  
• Final Stand: Situational choice, useful vs Necrotic Affix.
  

Tier 6:

• Aegis of Light: Situational choice for raid, if you have to mitigate a mechanic over the raid.
  
  
• Consecrated Ground: Situational choice for m+, if you have to kite the mobs.
  
  
• Judgment of Light: Top choice for raid/m+, a really nice passive heal for raid/party.
  

Tier 7:

• Righteous Protector: Top choice for raid or if you want to do the healer's job.
  
  
• Seraphim: Situational choice, good for dps. Can be useful in raid vs one shot mechanics.
  
  
• Last Defender: Top choice for m+, if you are pulling +10 mobs or in raid if the adds don't die fast.
  
  
  Talents builds:
  
  Talents for m+:
  
  
  Talents for raid:
  
  
  Talents for dps:
  
  
  Talents to survive or to do hps:
  
  
  

4.Netherlight Crucible & Relics

Netherlight Crucible:

Spoiler:

Void Traits:

• Master of Shadows Top
  
• Murderous Intent Good
  
• Chaotic Darkness Mediocre
  
• Shadowbind Mediocre
  
• Torment the Weak Not good
  
• Dark Sorrows Not good
  

Light Traits:

• Light Speed Top
  
• Refractive Shell Good
  
• Light's Embrace Good
  
• Secure in the Light Mediocre
  
• Infusion of Light Mediocre
  
• Shocklight Mediocre
  

Top relics or Tier 3 Traits from Netherlight Cruciable:

• Righteous Crusader
  
• Stern Judgment
  
• Bastion of Truth
  
• Unflinching Defense
  

5.Rotation & CD's



Rotation priorities:

Avenger's Shield > Judgment > Consecration > SotR > Survivability CD's

Do NOT spam SotR, you will lose % dmg reduction and comparing to monks, we don't have mitigation up all the time.


Survivability CD's priorities:

• Dmg reduction: Eye of Tyr > Ardent Defender > Guardian of Ancient Kings > Situational CD's
  
  
• Situational choice:
  Seraphim
  Divine Steed with Knight Templar
  Aegis of Light
  Blessing of Spellwarding or Blessing of Protection -
  Lay on Hands
  Divine Shield
  

7.Stats

• Secondary stats priority:
  
  
• For survivability: Haste > Mastery > Critical > Versatility
  
  Haste is the go to stat for survivability as it reduces the CD of all the spells from rotation and in combination with mastery you can be pretty unkillable.
  
  
• For dps: Critical > Haste > Mastery > Versatility
  
  Critical chance gives us Parry chance, and if you Parry an attack you can have a proc of Avenger's Shield, therefore you can do more dmg.
  
  
  
  

6.Gems, Enchants & Consumables

• Gems:
  
  Spoiler:

  
  1. Quick Lightsphene
  2. Masterful Argulite
  
  
  
  
• Enchants:
  
  Spoiler:

  
  
  Neck:
  1. Mark of the Heavy Hide
  2. Mark of the Distant Army
  
  Cloak:
  Binding of Strength
  
  Rings:
  1. Binding of Haste
  2. Binding of Mastery
  
  
  
  
  
• Consumables:
  
  Spoiler:

  
  Potions:
  1. Potion of Prolonged Power
  2. Unbending Potion
  
  
  Flasks:
  Flask of the Countless Armies/ Flask of Ten Thousand Scars & Defiled Augment Rune
  
  Food:
  1. Azshari Salad
  2. Nightborne Delicacy Platter
  3. Lavish Suramar Feast
  
  
  
  

7.Best Legendary & Trinkets

• Legendary:
  
  Spoiler:

  
  Survivability:
  SotH & Saruan's Resolve
  Saruan's Resolve & Heathcliff's Immortality
  Saruan's Resolve & Tyelca, Ferren Marcus's Stature
  Heathcliff's Immortality & Tyelca, Ferren Marcus's Stature
  
  Dps:
  Tyelca, Ferren Marcus's Stature & Pillars of Inmost Light
  
  Hps:
  Saruan's Resolve & Ilterendi, Crown Jewel of Silvermoon
  
  
  
  
• Trinkets:
  
  Spoiler:

  
  
  Work in progress.
  
  
  
  
  

Thank you!


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