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WoW: How to Play a Protection Paladin

Posted November 30th, 2009 by Messiah

Learn to tank as a Paladin

So you want to take a beating, do you? Well, you’ve come to the right place. This guide will walk you through the basics of playing a protection based Paladin, or Tankadin as they are commonly called.

There are many critical abilities in the protection talent tree though. In fact there are more good talents than most players can reasonably take. Just a few of the key ones are: Anticipation for a 5% boost to dodge, Toughness for 10% extra armour, Sacred Duty and Combat Expertise for 8% and 6% additional stamina from each respectively, One-handed weapon specialization for a 10% boost to all damage while holding a one-handed weapon, and many more.

Join Byron "Messiah" Mudry as he teaches you the basics of playing a Protection Paladin.

Can you update for BE palidin Info

We sure will as one of us plays through a BE paladin or as we recieve updates from community members.

If you have one in progress we would love to hear about anything different from the Alliance Paladins.

Hi Everyone,

This is my first post. I've been reading up every guide I could find on pally tanking and pally guides in general and came across this one today, and there's a few question I'd like to ask.

Firstly, I find it weird that you mention the importance of INT to the pally. From every other guide that I've read (and please note, I've got lots of theoretical knowledge, but no real practical RAIDing experience with pallys - my pally is only lvl 50 now) the mention of Spiritual Attunemen...

Our Paladin guide received an update today to the equipment section to better outline what gear is best for each of the three different talent builds. Now, no matter your talent spec, we cover the type of gear you should be aiming to collect.

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As a Paladin the stats you require vary on your build. For a Retribution build you will be looking for Strength, Agility and Stamina as primary stats. For a Holy build, Intelligence and Stamina are key. Lastly a Protecti...

I like the new Talent guide - good work.
I have one question for Mister Messiah - do you like BoKings for casters or BoWisdom/Imp.BoW?
After years of automatically throwing BoW on casters, I think I've finally looked at the math and realized that while Kings gives the casters 10% to spirit which is nowhere near what Wisdom does (probably 6-7/tick with kings, and closer to 50 with Improved Wisdom or 41 with regular Wisdom) - Kings also gives them 10% more mana (around 600-1000 mana for end ga...

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