Welcome to our Protection Paladin tank guide for World of Warcraft MoP 5.4. Here, you will learneverything you need to know about playing a Protection Paladin in a raid environment,although most of the content also applies to normal and heroic dungeons.

As a Protection Paladin, you can expect to perform the role of a solid andreliable tank. In general, your damage intake will be relatively smooth, withmany attacks being blocked by your shield or softened by your strong activemitigation. You also possess strong self-healing and raid-healing capabilities,and bring a variety of cooldowns and utility to a raid group. No other tankclass has quite the array of tricks up their sleeve that a paladin does.

Note that this guide focuses on aspects that are specific to ProtectionPaladins, and general tanking strategies are beyond its scope. If you wish toknow more about the tanking role and what you can do to improve, we recommendthat you read our tanking guide.

To make it easy to navigate the guide, we have split it into7 pages:

• Builds, Talents, and Glyphs: learn how to choose your talents and glyphs;
• Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities: master your rotation and your cooldowns;
• Buffs, Debuffs, and Useful Abilities: discover your arsenal of useful abilities;
• Statistics Priority and Reforging: read up on the respective values of your statistics;
• Gems, Enchants, and Professions: choose the best gems, enchantments, etc.;
• Macros and Addons: step up your game with useful macros and addons;
• Gearing Up and Best in Slot: find the best gear you can wear.

Builds, Talents, and Glyphs