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Protection

Tankshield and consecration uptime · interrupt tools · group support

Protection Paladin — how the spec plays, what it brings to a group, and how it survives. This page teaches understanding, not a rotation script — for theorycraft, the class resources below are the standard references.

Officer notes for this spec are still being charted — the guidance below covers the Tank fundamentals.

What This Spec Is Trying to Do

General Tank guidance — spec notes are still being charted.

Hold enemy attention, survive the hits meant for you, and position the fight so the rest of the group can do its job.

Basic Priority

Broad Tank principles while this spec's notes are being charted.

  1. Keep your active mitigation running while enemies are hitting you
  2. Save defensive cooldowns for the moments that actually threaten you — not on cooldown
  3. Spend your resource before it caps
  4. Hold threat on what the group is fighting

Defensive Toolkit

The categories of personal survivability — every spec plays these differently.

  • Active mitigation — the baseline defense you keep running
  • Defensive cooldowns — bigger buttons for bigger hits
  • Self-healing or absorbs that smooth damage between cooldowns
  • Mobility — moving out is often the best defensive

Utility

The Paladin class kit — spec access varies.

  • Interrupt — Rebuke
  • Blessings — Freedom, Protection, Sacrifice
  • Combat resurrection — Intercession
  • Aura group defense
  • Poison and disease cleansing

Where to Go Next

The crew's lessons for this spec, its class, and its role.

Playing Tank?

The Tank course covers what the role owes a group — a suggestion, never a prerequisite.

Tank

Using this spec in Mythic+

Mythic+ Academy →

Dungeon charts, interrupt priorities, and what a Tank owes a key.

Using this spec in raid

Raid Academy →

Encounter charts and role jobs for the current raid.

Academy Sessions

Class workshops and role sessions on the Academy calendar.

No class sessions are scheduled right now. The Learning Board can still rally a study group.

Need a hand?

Ask the Crew

Learning Protection? Pin a note to the Learning Board and find someone aboard who plays it.

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Trusted Resources

Where the class communities keep their theorycraft.

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