Method Protection Paladin Guide - Stats Races And Consumables

Stat Priorities

Stat Ranking

As with many other specs, when initially gearing your character, you’ll want to focus strictly on item level, as increases in Strength, Stamina, and Armor tend to be significantly more important than the differences between secondary stats. This, of course, is less true for jewelry pieces and trinkets as they tend to lack multiple of these traits.

When comparing gear of similar item level, you can use the following general stat priority for a decent mix of damage and survivability. If you’re looking to optimize your offensive output, you should always sim your character.

Item Level > Haste > Vers = Crit > Mastery

Stat Outline

Strength: Increases the potency of all attack power scaling abilities, the armor provided by Shield Of The Righteous, and grants a small amount of parry

Haste: Reduces your global cooldown as well as the cooldown of several rotational abilities, including Judgment, Blessed Hammer, Hammer Of The Righteous, and Avenger's Shield

Critical Strike: Grants you parry, thanks to the Riposte passive

Mastery: Reworked in Midnight, this increases your block chance, gives you twice that amount of block against spells and periodic magic effects, and also gives you some attack power

Versatility: Provides a flat percent increase to your damage and healing, while also granting half of that value as damage reduction

Races

For the most part your choice of race can be entirely based on aesthetic preferences, however in competitive content many players opt to play either Dwarf or Dark Iron Dwarf as they have the unique ability to remove debuffs on a 2min CD using Stoneform or Fireblood, which can be extremely valuable in certain dungeons and raid encounters.