

The Onyx Annulet from the Forbidden Reach is going to be one of our better options for the foreseeable future given its damage and defensive bonuses.īest setup: Infused Storm Stone, Desirous Blood Stone, Prophetic Twilight. It meshes well with our kit which is incredibly strong for the upcoming patch.

The 4pc also applies Heartfire on Judgement crits and adds an extra component to resetting the cooldown of Avenger’s Shield, more Shield, more interrupts, more Heartfire uptime.Īll in all, the tier set is strong, albeit kinda boring when compared to some of the other tank tier sets. Paladin didn’t really need a healing over time component added to their kit but it certainly doesn’t hurt. Heartfire heals you for 100% of damage it deals.Ĥpc: Judgment critical strikes apply Heartfire and can trigger Grand Crusader.Ĭoming into 10.1, the new tier set bonuses for protection paladin are solid, both 2 and 4 piece are focused more around Avenger’s Shield, which now applies Heartfire to targets struck, dealing DoT(20%) damage over 5s and passively heals for you 100% of the damage done. How the new 10.1 Tier set changes the playstyleĢpc: Avenger’s Shield causes targets struck to burn with Heartfire, dealing an additional 20% of damage dealt over 5 seconds.

All around good stat to keep up but not necessarily prioritize. Versatility: Increases the damage we do, decreases the damage(50% value) we take and increases our healing done.While a useful stat and definitely not something to dump, it’s neither our most important stat. Grand Crusader relies mostly on parry chance to reset the cooldown of Avenger’s Shield. While we are a block based spec, parry does have some use for us. Critical Strike: Increases critical strike chance and the rating itself is also our parry rating.This is a stat we like a lot, pound for pound, we gain more from mastery than any other stat aside from haste until a certain break point. What makes Mastery strong for Paladin tanks, the that it increases our block chance while within our Consecration(rule #1, always be in Consecration) while also reducing the damage you take while you stand in it. Mastery: Like other tanks this increases our attack power.Haste: reduces the cooldowns of our more frequent holy power generators as well as effects our GCD, making the rotation smoother and makes our holy power generation quicker, which in turn means for Shield of the Righteous, bigger damage, easier active mitigation.Ilvl is better than secondaries as you are gearing. Strength is your main stat for protection paladin and should be valued before any secondaries.
