Tier Sets
Protection Paladin’s tier set in Season 1 of The War Within is completely passive, and requires no rotational changes to get the most value out of it.
- (2) Set Bonus: Shield of the Righteous deals 10% increased damage and grants 3% damage reduction.
- (4) Set Bonus: Casting a Holy Power ability increases the damage and healing you deal during your next Avenging Wrath by 0.5%. This effect stacks.
protection paladin Best in Slot Gear
The tables below aim to give you a general list of gear that is good for Protection Paladin, these lists are not a perfect replacement for simming your character.
Overall Best Gear
| Slot | Item | Source |
| Head | Entombed Seraph’s Casque | Tier Token/Catalyst |
| Neck | Sureki Zealot’s Insignia | Sikran, Captain of the Sureki |
| Shoulders | Earthshape Pauldrons | Grim Batol |
| Cloak | Wings of Shattered Sorrow | Rasha’nan |
| Chest | Entombed Seraph’s Breastplate | Tier Token/Catalyst |
| Wrist | Bracers of Umbral Mending | Grim Batol |
| Gloves | Entombed Seraph’s Castigation | Tier Token/Catalyst |
| Belt | Nether Bounty’s Greatbelt | Nexus-Princess Ky’veza |
| Legs | Entombed Seraph’s Greaves | Tier Token/Catalyst |
| Boots | Boots of the Black Bulwark | The Bloodbound Horror |
| Ring | Seal of the Poisoned Pact | Queen Ansurek |
| Ring | Ring of Earthen Craftsmanship (With Elemental Focusing Lens) | Crafted |
| Trinket | Ara-Kara Sacbrood | Avanoxx |
| Trinket | Ovinax’s Mercurial Egg | Bloodtwister Ovi’nax |
| Main Hand | Duelist’s Dancing Steel | Sikran, Captain of the Sureki |
| Off Hand | Beledar’s Bulwark | Crafted |
Best Gear from the Raid
| Slot | Item | Source |
| Head | Entombed Seraph’s Casque | Tier Token/Catalyst |
| Neck | Sureki Zealot’s Insignia | Sikran, Captain of the Sureki |
| Shoulders | Seasoned Earthen Boulderplates | Ulgrax The Devourer |
| Cloak | Wings of Shattered Sorrow | Rasha’nan |
| Chest | Entombed Seraph’s Breastplate | Tier Token/Catalyst |
| Wrist | Ravaged Lamplighter’s Manacles | Rasha’nan |
| Gloves | Entombed Seraph’s Castigation | Tier Token/Catalyst |
| Belt | Nether Bounty’s Greatbelt | Nexus-Princess Ky’veza |
| Legs | Entombed Seraph’s Greaves | Tier Token/Catalyst |
| Boots | Boots of the Black Bulwark | The Bloodbound Horror |
| Ring | Seal of the Poisoned Pact | Queen Ansurek |
| Ring | Ring of Earthen Craftsmanship (With Elemental Focusing Lens) | Crafted |
| Trinket | Mad Queen’s Mandate | Queen Ansurek |
| Trinket | Ovinax’s Mercurial Egg | Bloodtwister Ovi’nax |
| Main Hand | Duelist’s Dancing Steel | Sikran, Captain of the Sureki |
| Off Hand | Beledar’s Bulwark | Crafted |
Swarmlord’s Authority from The Silken Court is a solid defensive trinket option instead of the Mad Queen’s Mandate.
Best Gear from Mythic+
| Slot | Item | Source |
| Head | Entombed Seraph’s Casque | Tier Token/Catalyst |
| Neck | “Emergency Stop” Keychain | The Stonevault |
| Shoulders | Earthshape Pauldrons | Grim Batol |
| Cloak | Anvilhide Cape | The Stonevault |
| Chest | Entombed Seraph’s Breastplate | Tier Token/Catalyst |
| Wrist | Bracers of Umbral Mending | Grim Batol |
| Gloves | Entombed Seraph’s Castigation | Tier Token/Catalyst |
| Belt | Belt of the Forgemaster | Grim Batol |
| Legs | Entombed Seraph’s Greaves | Tier Token/Catalyst |
| Boots | Ballast Sinkers | Siege of Boralus |
| Ring | Stitchflesh’s Misplaced Signet | The Necrotic Wake |
| Ring | Ring of Earthen Craftsmanship (With Elemental Focusing Lens) | Crafted |
| Trinket | Ara-Kara Sacbrood | Avanoxx |
| Trinket | Refracting Agression Module | The Stonevault |
| Main Hand | Shipwrecker’s Bludgeon | The Dawnbreaker |
| Off Hand | Beledar’s Bulwark | Crafted |
Trinkets
- Ovinax’s Mercurial Egg - a good statstick that gives a lot of main stat if you can remain stationary for longer periods of time. Even with heavy movement this trinket provides good value through a mix of main stat and your highest secondary stat.
- Ara-Kara Sacbrood - another good statstick that increases your Strength with each stack. Stacks can overlap up to 8-10, giving an impressive boost to your main stat.
- Mad Queen’s Mandate - an on use trinket that does decent damage on single target. Damage done is increased with the target's missing hp. A good option for raid fights.
- Swarmlord’s Authority - one of the few defensive options in Season 1 of The War Within. The on use absorb shield it gives is nothing crazy (1.5 Million absorb on 1 Minute cooldown), but it’s sadly one of the best defensive trinkets we have access to.
- Refracting Agression Module - a worse version of Swarmlord’s Authority. Your only option to get the absorb is to use your taunt, which can often lead to unintended uses. It also doesn’t provide any damage.
Embellishments
Based on current Beta tuning embellishment values are extremely low and very close to each other - they each contribute at most 1% to your overall damage, with almost nonexistent defensive benefits. Therefore embellishment choice doesn’t matter too much, you can either go with a personal preference or better sim yourself, but here are some recommendations. Keep in mind that this information is based on beta numbers, and is subject to changes:
- Elemental Focusing Lens - flat damage proc similar to Shadowflame in Dragonflight. Can be crafted on most gear slots, preferably on a ring/wrist/cloak, and scales with the amount of used gem colors.
- Beledar’s Bulwark - a shield with a random versatility proc with decent uptime that can be shared with an ally if you move within 3 yards of them.
- Blessed Weapon Grip - a weapon embellishment that randomly increases your highest secondary stat. You might want to swap to another embellishment once you’ll get access to a higher ilvl weapon, sim yourself for better results.