Honor's Code

Here is a general guide to MT gear progression in raids. Don't consider it definitive so by all means contest any of this. Bias is shown towards "paladin tank" gear wherever the item is viable so some "warrior" items will be omitted if they offer nothing different. Equally ranked items are about equivalent or down to personal preference and your gear makeup. One item might be very slightly better than the other but it's the sort of very minor upgrade that you'd pass over for another tank. Disclaimer: This list just a harmless bit of OCD fun that can be a useful reference and point of comparison. Please do not take all of this literally and as 'the way' without thinking what is best for you and what the encounter requires.  Color coding: Phase 5 - Isle of Quel’danas and Sunwell Plateau Phase 4 - Zul'Aman Phase 3 - Battle for Mount Hyjal and Black Temple Phase 2 - Serpentshrine Cavern and Tempest Keep Phase 1 - Karahzan, Gruul’s Lair, and Magth...

I love Macros. They can be really helpful in accomplishing many tasks in game. Most of the Macros I use today are Pickup Macros. They are used to help me pickup targets quickly and make up for my 30something years old reaction time. General Flash Divine Shield #showtooltip Divine Shield #show Divine Shield /cast Divine Shield /cancelaura [modifier:alt] Divine Shield If I spam it with alt down, it casts Divine Shield then cancels. With no alt down it stays up. I use this in a couple of ways. For one, it's my Fear break. I hit this Fear is gone and I'm back in action. It's also a debuff remover. Hit this, debuff is gone. Most of the time when I use this, I get aggro back so quick, the party doesn't even know I bubbled. I use this when I'm tanking Nightbane or one of the Ogril'la dragons. Healthstone /use Master Healthstone This will use the highest Healthstone you have in your bags so you don't need to bind a key for each of the 3 different Healthstones you ca...

General Enchanting Principles Always keep in mind the total effect that any given enchant has on your ability to tank content. Sometimes, the overall "lower quality" enchants are more viable for certain pieces of gear. You do your raid no good if you are dead or if you're not holding aggro against your DPS. For that reason, if you're having problems surviving, get survival based enchants, while if you're having problems generating threat, put on some threat enchants. Moreover, if Agility on your gloves pushes you over to uncrushable, get that over spellpower and, in rare cases, if defense to bracers makes you uncrittable where you otherwise wouldn't be, get it. The same principle applies to gems. Enchanting to the strengths of your gear is a strong gearing principle. Tanks are not made best by a balanced set of gear in most cases, but a min/maxed set that specializes in something particular. This doesn't mean neglect stats, mind you, but it does mean that ...

General Gem Theory If you still need to reach the Uncrushable breakpoint, use your gem slots to get there. If you're already at the Uncrushable breakpoint, gem for stamina. Gear is a better place to get mitigation and avoidance. Gemming for threat with gems is not as powerful as other uses of your gem slots. Don't gem for spell damage, hit, spell hit, etc. Consumables and your weapon are better places to look at it to increase your threat generation. Not all of the gems will release in Phase One. Some of them will unlock in a later phase. Gems Solid Star of Elune (12 stamina, Blue) This gem gives the largest bonus to effective health of all gem options prior to the Phase 3 BT/Hyjal gems becoming available. If you are uncrushable by a solid margin, this will give you the most survivability of any gem option. Enduring Talasite (4 Defense Rating and 6 Stamina, Blue/Yellow) The best yellow hybrid available, giving both a modicum of avoidance and stamina.  In Phase 4, this will be...

This is a list of preraid gear to get you to Uncrushable that does not rely on any drops or any reputations above revered. Using just this method, you can get your paladin to uncrushable status quickly with no luck at all. This is intended to provide a baseline for future raiding. This will not be your final gear set.  Head Felsteel Helm  (crafted) Neck Strength of the Untamed  (Cenarion Expedition revered) Shoulders Nexus-Guard's Pauldrons  (quest:  Success! ) Warchief's Mantle  (quest:  Return to Andormu ) Back Cloak of Eternity  (crafted) Chest Breastplate of the Warbringer  (quest:  Forge Camp: Annihilated ) Vindicator's Hauberk  (Aldor Revered) Wrists Shatari Wrought Armguards  (quest:  The Soul Devices ) Bracers of the Green Fortress  (crafted) Hands Felsteel Gloves  (crafted) Gauntlets of the Chosen  (Scryers revered) Belt Shatari Vindicator's Waistguard  (quest:  How to Break Into the Arcat...

Pre raid BiS Following is a breakdown of most of what we have available to us in a pre-raid situation. (Please feel free to let me know of anything you think I've missed here.) Threat versus Mitigation At the pre-raid level, and throughout Karazhan, threat can be achieved solely through your weapon. A good spelldamage weapon like ( Continuum Blade ), properly enchanted with Major Spellpower (see Enchants guide), combined with some cheap  Superior Wizard Oil , will put you at a very comfortable threat level. In any pre-raid situation, you will produce comparable (if not more, especially on Demon/Undead NPCs,) threat to a Protection Warrior/Feral Druid on single targets, and the same to up to three targets as a Feral Druid. On more targets, and through use of Salvation, there is no spec of any class that can produce more threat, (nor mitigate as much damage, usually) than you. For all 5 mans, it is much advised to wear more spelldamage, giving up some mitigation. As long as healers c...

Return to Guide 0/49/12 - The Maintankadin https://tbc.wowhead.com/talent-calc/paladin/-0530513350002102521551-05205 This is the "Cookie-cutter" Prot spec.  Advantages Best suited for standard "main tanking" Gets most of the cool stuff in the Prot tree Disadvantages Not much hybrid left; healing (or DPS) suffers quite a bit 12/35/14 - The Gladiator https://tbc.wowhead.com/talent-calc/paladin/05500002-0502513302332102021-052050002 The goal of this build is to keep most of the important Prot and Ret talents from the standard 0/49/12 build, but add in uninterruptable healing for PVP and Arena purposes. Advantages Gives you more survivability and utility in arenas without having to respec Still fairly viable in most "Main Tanking" situations Disadvantages Requires slightly more defense and avoidance from gear (a little over 1%) Slight threat decrease from the loss of Precision 0/38/23 - The Threat Rocket https://tbc.wowhead.com/talent-calc/paladin/-05305133200...

Return to Guide Tankadins are looking for three things in their gear: Threat, Stamina and Mitigation. This is the same for any tank, but Paladins do it in their own way.  Threat Threat comes from Spell Damage, and Spell Crit. Your weapon will provide the majority of your threat stats in most cases. Stamina Stamina is relatively easy to get. 10,000 unbuffed is a good pre-raid goal. This will get better as you start getting more epics. Ratings Burning Crusade Classic implements a ratings based system that most retail players should be familiar with. Let's take a look at ratings and what they mean for us. 2.4 Defense Rating = 1 Defense = .04 Miss/Doge/Parry/Block 18.9 Dodge Rating = 1% Dodge 31.5 Parry Rating = 1% Parry 7.9 Block Rating = 1% Block 25 Agility Rating = 1% Dodge Mitigation Here's where it gets far more complex. Your ability to mitigate damage comes from your Armor, Defense, avoidance (Dodge/Parry/Block%) and your Block Value. There are many other ways to mitigate da...

Return to Guide Sources: Maintankadin Pre-raid Tanking: Theories, Goals and the Gear to Get There   Originally posted Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:14 am  user: Dreamcrusher  URL: http://www.failsafedesign.com/maintankadin/viewtopic.php?t=163 Popular Tankadin Specs Originally posted Tue Aug 21, 2007 6:23 am  user: Lore (now known as Josh Allen on the WoW team)  Tankadin 101 Orginally posted Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:43 pm b user: Aergis Site Admin  URL: http://www.failsafedesign.com/maintankadin/viewtopic.php?t=7&sid=baf72fda8e4ec95d8eb991084bcc9f2f An Officers Guide to the Paladin Tank Originally posted Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:49 pm  user: Igrado  URL: http://www.failsafedesign.com/maintankadin/viewtopic.php?t=1936&sid=baf72fda8e4ec95d8eb991084bcc9f2f Tankadin Gems and Enchant Guide  Originally posted Wed Dec 19, 2007 7:01 pm  user: Ralthos  URL: http://www.failsafedesign.com/maintankadin/viewtopic.php?t=4859 Your Maximum Threat Potential Orig...

This is very much a work in progress right now. How to Play a Protection Paladin in Burning Crusade Classic PVE Disclaimer 1 While I have edited the content, and made changes where applicable for Burning Crusade Classic , parts of what you'll see here are verbatim from old guides I saved from the now defunct Maintankadin site. Please see the Sources page for the original authors. Most of them have long sense left the game. Disclaimer 2 This entire guide is based upon the knowledge of the original release of Burning Crusade . There is a real possibility that things could be different, and I will attempt to update the guide as new information becomes available.  Menu Stats for Tankadins Talent buids Rotation Preraid Tank gear Preraid "fail safe" gearing Raid Tank gear progression Resist gear Gems Enchants Macros Addons (coming soon) Sources The Basics The basics of playing of Protection Paladin in group content are: Keep aggro.  Don't die.  That's it. That's you...