[Guide] Protection Paladin WotLK Gear for starters

[HolyGraal]

Protection Paladin WotLK Gear for starters

I've playied as a shadow priest in TBC, but I pretty much got bored of this class and I wanted to reroll a Protection Paladin for WotLK, so I started to read about Paladins cause I've never playied one except 20-30 games as a Holy Paladin in arena.
I'm thinking to get Blacksmithing for the first profession cause it provides me with 4 more sockets on waist, gloves, wrists and 1h weapon, and I hope that Armorsmiths will get a second meta socket. For the second profession I think I'll go for Jewelcrafting(one of my friends will go for Mining to provide me with mats for BS and JWL) to get the trinket to get a boost till I get my hands on some uber Naxx trinkets.

I've made an idea about what gear I would like to wear before I'll start serious raiding:

Head:
Tempered Titansteel Helm - Item - World of warcraft (BoE Blacksmithing)
- mats to craft it: 4 Saronite Bars, 4 Titansteel Bars, 1 Frozen Orb
Arcane-Shielded Helm - Item - World of Warcraft (The Nexus Heroic)
Neck:
Titanium Earthguard Chain - Item - World of Warcraft (BoE Jewelcrafting)
- mats to craft it: 2 Titanium Bar, 4 Dragon's Eye, 6 Ethernal Life, 6 Ethernal Earth, 1 Frozen Orb
Shoulders:
Crusader's Square Pauldrons - Item - World of Warcraft (BoE Stratholme drop)
Back:
Durable Nerubhide Cape - Item - World of Warcraft (BoE Leatherworking)
- mats to craft it: 2 Arctic Furs, 40 Nerubian Chitin, 1 Frozen Orb
Cloak of the Enemy - Item - World of Warcraft (The Nexus Heroic)
Chest:
Reanimated Armor - Item - World of Warcraft (Utgarde Pinnacle Normal)
Wrists:
Svala's Bloodied Shackles - Item - World of Warcraft (Utgarde Pinnacle Normal)
Gloves:
Daunting Handguards - Item - World of Warcraft (BoE Blacksmithing)
- mats to craft it: 12 Saronite Bar, 1 Eternal Earth
Waist:
Girdle of Obscuring - Item - World of Warcraft (The Oculus Normal)
Legs:
Daunting Legplates - Item - World of Warcraft (BoE Blacksmithing)
- mats to craft it: 14 Saronite Bar, 1 Eternal Earth
Boots:
Tempered Titansteel Treads - Item - World of Warcraft (BoE Blacksmithing)
- mats to craft it: 4 Saronite Bar, 3 Titansteel Bar, 1 Frozen Orb
Slaughterhouse Sabatons - Item - World of Warcraft (Stratholme Normal)
Rings:
Titanium Earthguard Ring - Item - World of Warcraft (BoE Jewelcrafting)
- mats to craft it: 2 Titanium Bars, 4 Dragon's Eye, 4 Eternal Life, 4 Eternal Earth, 1 Frozen Orb
Solid Platinum Band - Item - World of Warcraft (Dungeon Quest Reward)
Trinkets:
Figurine - Monarch Crab - Item - World of Warcraft (BoP Jewelcrafting) (rare version, waiting for epic)
- mats to craft it: 2 Titanium Bars, 2 Monarch Topaz, 1 Forest Emerald
?? - I don't know anything about other good tanking trinkets.
Main Hand:
Eternally Folded Blade - Item - World of Warcraft (Halls of Lightning Normal)
Shield:
Titansteel Shield Wall - Item - World of Warcraft (BoE Blacksmithing)
- mats to craft it: 4 Saronite Bar, 3 Titan Steel Bar, 1 Frozen Orb

[InFly4]

öhm .. nice Guide ^^

[nafers]

Could you please add up all the pieces and give us the total of each stat for this set you've put together?

Are you uncrittable with this set?

What is your avoidance with this set?

[HolyGraal]

Unsocketed(I don't have a full list of available gems), Untalented, Unenchanted(I don't have a full list of available enchants) you'll have 1257stamina(+141base stamina) and 687strength(+148base strength) only from gear, and yes you are uncrittable.
PS: there's 1 trinket missing too

[xmanlevel]

Unsocketed(I don't have a full list of available gems), Untalented, Unenchanted(I don't have a full list of available enchants) you'll have 1257stamina(+141base stamina) and 687strength(+148base strength) only from gear, and yes you are uncrittable.
PS: there's 1 trinket missing too

Nice theory!!! lol