Protection Paladin Gearing Guide

Patch 11.0.5 Last Updated: 27th Oct, 2024
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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.