Shoxy's Protection Paladin Guide

[wompompom21]

Hello guys, I play a protection paladin named Shoxy on the US servers.

I would like to share a bit of information to help you become a successful protection paladin.

To start off this guide, I would like to tell everyone that if you are going to be a tank in a retail server, you should level it 1-80. If you don't, it is going to be a little challenging to get to know everything.

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Gear:

Getting gear for this spec may seem easy, but it's not. If you are going to become a protection paladin you need to have a lot of play time.

You need the following stats to be able to tank a raid as a paladin.

Minimum requirements for Naxxramas (Easiest raid??) :

540 defense rating - This is critical, if you are not def capped you are going to be getting hit for 10k dmg per attack when you should be getting hit for 1000 to 3000.

28,000 Health Unbuffed - Yes, 28k HP sucks but its fine for tanking naxx for a start. Now that we have ICC 5 man heroics thats just about what you need to tank them.
(When you are raid buffed you will have about 35khp UB which is fine...)

Strength - Strength gives +block, you need block




Tank terms:

Some mandatory tank terms you should know before starting a raid:

Avoidance - Your Block, Dodge, and Parry percentages added up. When you are geared you should have at least 102.4% of avoidance

Aggro - Threat. ("You lost aggro... you wiped the $!*#in raid...")


How to tank:

What attacks should I use?!?!?! Don't be afraid, I will break down every spell.

Holy Shield - Keep this up at all times when you are in combat. Adding +block helps a lot.

Blessing of Sanctuary - One of the buffs you need, 10% more stamina and mana when you get attacked.

Righteous Fury - One of the buffs you need, a high % of threat added to your attacks. Without this you will lose aggro quick.

Seal of Corruption - The seal you will use for tanking. DPS leads to threat per second

Hammer of the Righteous - Use this to get threat on single or multiple targets.

Shield of the Righteous - Threatening attack.

Concecration - Good to get threat on a multiple targets, should be down at all times like holy shield is.

Avengers Shield - This spell is used to pull mobs, cast it and the target (goes up to 3) will be slowed down. Use this every 30 seconds to maintain threat.

Hand of Reckoning - This is your taunt spell, you won't need to use it much unless you are born to suck at a tank...


Talents

This is my paladins link to her protection spec. Works fine for me, there are others that may be useful for specific boss fights but this will work for main tanking/every boss fight.

Shoxy, 80 paladin, Bloodscalp US, Horde, Protection Talent Tree



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If you read this whole guide and followed everything I have told you. You will be excited about how successful your paladin is. I have 2 paladins. Both Protection. The gear on Shoxy, compared to my other one, is terrible. I will not say the name of my main, but i have 44,000 HP unbuffed. If you are not a noob you would know how good my gear can be.



Thank you all, have fun.


NOTE: I cannot exactly answer any other questions because you should be able to understand all of this unless you have bought your prot paladin and dont know anything about it.

I don't support people who buy accounts and don't know how to play the class because it requires common sense and if you don't have common sense...... Never mind, none of this matters if you do have common sense.
:wave:

[wompompom21]

[saving spot for updates on different patches]

[TechnoKilla]

Inc Blizz ban for you........may want to remove your characters name and armory link lol

[paladinspwn]

they cant ban him for making a guide, good one kid.

[[Pat]]

Inc Blizz ban for you........may want to remove your characters name and armory link lol

you can't be banned for posting on here idiot.

P.S. here is a good rotation for tanking, [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17gYjce4P7E"]YouTube- Warcraft Paladin 969 Tanking Rotation[/ame]

[boazjuggalo]

you can't be banned for posting on here idiot.

Um... no they can't? Even if he was posting a game breaking exploit with his character name beside it they still wouldn't ban him for it. For one they have no clue that it's actually him and not just somebody claiming to be. For 2, posting a guide isn't against ToS, and neither is visiting mmowned.

Do I think blizzard comes here and looks around? Yes I do, i can guarantee that their bugs team comes here looking for stuff to fix. But get banned? Highly doubt it.

[xollax]

Banning someone for posting a guide? yeah right.. anyway this was some nice tips and the youtube was great since i am thinking of going prot whit my pala

[Trollblod]

you can't be banned for posting on here idiot.

P.S. here is a good rotation for tanking, YouTube- Warcraft Paladin 969 Tanking Rotation

I'll tell you quick what the rotation is about, it's called 969 'cause you open the combat with an ability which have 9/8(judgement talented)sec CD, then use one with 6seconds, then another one with 9. I.e. Holy Shield -> Shield of the rightousness -> Judgement -> Hammer of the Righteous -> Consecration -> Shield of the righteousness -> Holy shield.
You get the rotation, it's all at maintankadin: Maintankadin - Paladin Tanking Guides and Tankadin Forum
And for the gearing I can help you with my thread: http://www.mmowned.com/forums/wow-gu...-pre-raid.html
We don't really need strength nowadays, it was awesome in TBC, but not anymore. http://wow-heroes.com/index.php?zone...&name=Thalanas
That's what I gem for/enchant as I have the defense cap. Just pointing the strength part out.
"Avoidance - Your Block, Dodge, and Parry percentages added up. When you are geared you should have at least 102.4% of avoidance" You noway need close to 102.4% when it's added up, if you include redoubt and/or Holy shield you should reach that, but ignore block, seriously, block will only take away partly the damage, not the whole damage as dodge and parry does. Oh ye btw, you have 34084HP unbuffed, not 44k.

And for the stuff going around about getting banned, No, you will only be banned if you post in the exploit/exploration section without hiding your name as exploiting and exploring is against Blizzard's ToU, even if the character is not yours, they can still ban it for exploiting/Exploring.

[Thulkas]

"Avoidance - Your Block, Dodge, and Parry percentages added up. When you are geared you should have at least 102.4% of avoidance" You noway need close to 102.4% when it's added up, if you include redoubt and/or Holy shield you should reach that, but ignore block, seriously, block will only take away partly the damage, not the whole damage as dodge and parry does. Oh ye btw, you have 34084HP unbuffed, not 44k.

To be honest, block is still useful for prot pallies due to the necessity (potion nerfs etc) of spiritual attunement for mana gain. We want to REDUCE the damage without getting rid of it completely.

[Quagmire]

Hand of Reckoning - This is your taunt spell, you won't need to use it much unless you are born to suck at a tank...

I usually use this to pull as it crits about 5k+ for me

[lordpip]

Both of your spec and glyph for both specs are way off.

I don't even know where to start. I just want to know the name of the guild where your "main" is in because i want to be carried too.

[krayz]

To be honest, block is still useful for prot pallies due to the necessity (potion nerfs etc) of spiritual attunement for mana gain. We want to REDUCE the damage without getting rid of it completely.

Block was nice in Naxx. Now you're better off completely throwing the hit off the table, then slightly taking; because the hits are so large.

And btw, mana isn't exactly an issue, you may oom every once in awhile, but from watching my OT in our raids, and playing a prot pally of my own (alt mind you, i play a druid) i was near 50-90% at all times.

[Trollblod]

Block was nice in Naxx. Now you're better off completely throwing the hit off the table, then slightly taking; because the hits are so large.

And btw, mana isn't exactly an issue, you may oom every once in awhile, but from watching my OT in our raids, and playing a prot pally of my own (alt mind you, i play a druid) i was near 50-90% at all times.

Ye, exactly what I mean, you get the mana through heals, if you don't, then the instance is way too easy, like HCs on my pala, just use divine plea.
If you gem for block/strength you're out cycling, you could adjust your guide just a little to be honest : )

[wompompom21]

i post my guides everywhere, I never have posted my armory link before but I did on these forums because it seems like a lot of people look at them. If blizz bans me its going to be for a pointless reason anyway.

Thanks for caring for me? rofl