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. It is advised to keep track of 4 piece bonus in a WeakAura to not let it drop between the packs, the stacking buff duration is only 14 seconds.
- (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 | Visor of the Ascended Captain | Sikran, Captain of the Sureki |
| Neck | Sureki Zealot’s Insignia | Sikran, Captain of the Sureki |
| Shoulders | Entombed Seraph’s Plumes | Tier Token/Catalyst |
| Cloak | Wings of Shattered Sorrow | Rasha’nan |
| Chest | Entombed Seraph’s Breastplate | Tier Token/Catalyst |
| Wrist | Everforged Vambraces (Elemental Focusing Lens) | Crafted |
| 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 | Seal of the Poisoned Pact | Queen Ansurek |
| Ring | Ring of Earthen Craftsmanship (Elemental Focusing Lens) or Binding of Binding | 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 | Crest of the Caustic Depot | Queen Ansurek |
Best Gear from the Raid
| Slot | Item | Source |
| Head | Visor of the Ascended Captain | Sikran, Captain of the Sureki |
| Neck | Sureki Zealot’s Insignia | Sikran, Captain of the Sureki |
| Shoulders | Entombed Seraph’s Plumes | Tier Token/Catalyst |
| Cloak | Wings of Shattered Sorrow | Rasha’nan |
| Chest | Entombed Seraph’s Breastplate | Tier Token/Catalyst |
| Wrist | Everforged Vambraces (Elemental Focusing Lens) | Crafted |
| 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 (Elemental Focusing Lens) or Binding of Binding | 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 | Crest of the Caustic Depot | Queen Ansurek |
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 | Flesh Connector’s Epaulets | City of Threads |
| Cloak | Anvilhide Cape | The Stonevault |
| Chest | Entombed Seraph’s Breastplate | Tier Token/Catalyst |
| Wrist | Everforged Vambraces (Elemental Focusing Lens) | Crafted |
| 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 | Devout Zealot’s Ring | The Dawnbreaker |
| Ring | Ring of Earthen Craftsmanship (Elemental Focusing Lens) or Binding of Binding | Crafted |
| Trinket | Ara-Kara Sacbrood | Avanoxx |
| Trinket | Skarmorak Shard | The Stonevault |
| Main Hand | Shipwrecker’s Bludgeon | The Dawnbreaker |
| Off Hand | Old-Blood Hielaman | City of Threads |
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. Multiple stacks can overlap, 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
Embellishment values in TWW 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:
- Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension + Writhing Armor Binding are going to be your go to early crafts on weapon and shield if you don’t have easy access to mythic versions of these slots. As soon as you can get a 639 weapon or shield it is recommended to switch to another embellishment, as weapon/shield item level will outweigh the power of Ascension embellishment.
- 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.
- Binding of Binding - a ring with a proc effect that gives your allies stats based on their gem colors. Note that this embellishment does not give any power gain to the paladin himself, but is a good choice if you want to empower your teammates as giving stats to dps players is better than any other embellishment options we have. If you only care about your own performance - go with Ascension or double Elemental Focusing Lens.