Paladin Tanking

This guide will cover what the best enchants for your Paladin by slot. This guide assumes that you are defense capped at 540 defense, if you are not, then you may want to take any defense enchants that may have not made their way to the #1 slot.

Please keep in mind that some things in this guide are only for specific professions, they are labeled so there is no confusion. This guide covers not only enchants but everything that is considered an item enhancement.

There's essentially two things you want to know when choosing the talent builds that best suits your play style as a tank for a Paladin. That's whether or not you're going to be AoE Intensive Tank, a Raid Boss Tank, or perhaps a mixture of both. Regardless of what your passion is, you're going to be spending most of your points in the protection tree.

Paladin AoE Tanking Build

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http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#sZE0xA0zgGsIzczxf0t0s:Nzk

According to polls the most favored tank to group with is the Paladin. Unlike the Death Knight and Druid, Paladins are able to wear a shield and block attacks like Warriors. Therefore, Block Rating and Strength play a factor in tanking. Unfortunately, there aren't currently gems that offer Block Rating, and the Stat Strength is so weak in comparison to the other stats for tanking, that we will mostly avoid using any.

I've only had one macro for the Paladin and it hasn't really changed since Wrath has came out because it's worked so well. It works well for 5 mans, AoE Pulls, Raids, you name it. One thing I'm noticing is starting to be a problem witha 5k plus gear score is that if I run a heroic, the mobs aren't able to hit me enough that I need heals at all which in 1on1 situations sanctuary is unable to keep my mana up so I'm always out of mana it seems and have to switch to seal of wisdom for some pulls.

Paladin AoE and Single Target Tanking