Gilliame's guide to being a Paladin tank, in regular instance, heroics and raids.
Member
Hello this is my guide to the protection paladin. I can succesfully tank Heroics, and Kara, and I am starting on Gruul's. If you do not think this information is accurate please say so, and i am only doing this because of the lack of other paladin guides out thier.
Requirements:
Regular Instances: as soon as you hit level 70 you should be able to start doing regular instances, and besides black morass and shadow labs, you should be fine tanking anything.
Heroic Instances: tanking a heroic instance can be harder than off-tanking Kara, so do not think that because you can OT in Kara you can tank a heroic. This is a mistake i made, and you will realise that without the following your healers will find it very hard to keep you up.
Defense: 490+. this will make you uncrittable
Avoidance: 102.4%+. here is a macro to use to check your defense.
/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Need 102.4 combined avoidance. Currently at:",0.8,0.8,1)
/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(GetDodgeChance()+GetBlockChance() + GetParryChance() +5+(GetCombatRatingBonus(CR_DEFENSE_SKILL) + 20)*0.04,1,0.5,0)
armor: around 15000 without dev aura on.
Health: 12,000 or more is a must, and even that is a bit low. Your healers will have a very hard time keeping you up at under that amount of health, thus it is very important that you get your health high.
Karazhan: Off tanking is karazhan is not very hard, and do not be convinced that you are not geared enough to go. When I did my first kara run, and cleared it, i was with a PUG and i had around 11970 health and 480 defense. however i recomend you have around 11000+ health and 490+defense to make it easier on your healers.
In this section of the guide i will tell you more about Paladin tanking so you will understand how to do it better.
Agro: paladins gain agro through spell damage, and there weapon should have a lot of it on it. do not be confused and take a warrior weapon, as you will never hold aggro, and it is a warrior weapon, not a pally one.
secondly you do not need a single bit of strength, just get stamina and a bit of intellect(not too much because pallys have nice ability where they get mana when healed).
when you attack a target you should cast avengers shild, turn on holy shild and judge them with seal of the crusader. then turn on seal of righteousness. this is because you get more holy damage that way and therefore more aggro. remember to turn on righteous fury and put blessing of salvation on your party, even if they say they do not need.
also remember to use righteous defense if you lose agro here is a nice taunt macro so you do not have to click the player being attacked.
#showtooltip Righteous Defense
/cast [help,nodead][target=targettarget,help,nodead]Righteous Defense
Download deadlyboss mods and Omen threat meter of Curse to help you tank better, deadly boss mods is only needed in raids.
Finally here is a bit where i will ask you not to give up on paladin tanking. it is a hard tanking spec to master, and we do not have as good single target tanking as bear tanks or warrior tanks, but we have great aoe tanking. Even though it is harder for us to tank, please go out into the world of warcraft world and show people that paladin tanks can be the best.
Remember, to gem your gear in +12 stam gems after youg et uncrittable and have fun!!
- Printer-friendly version
- Login or register to post comments
Member
thank you for the advice i
Thank you for the advice I will try and edit my guide as soon as i can
Member
Ouch!
Hi Gilliame or Eakotu (or who ever wrote this),
please, please try to improve your spelling. Even for me, (english is not my native tongue) it is really awful to read your small guide.
I liked to see that s.o. cares about my beloved pallys. I played alle 3 kinds of them successfully and I think there a some small mistakes in your explanation.
First: With my rare equipped protection pally it was more than easy to tank black morass and shadow lab, although the healer was a druid with just +700 healing. With same equipment it was also manageable being maintank at Karazhan (3 healers, did the whole instance without nightbane - my stats: about 12000 life unbuffed, 500 defense and 96% avoidance without a single epic!).
Second: You wrote "Avoidance: 102.4%+. here is a macro to use to check your defense." which is truly right. But you should say or at least link to a page where "avoidance" is explained and how to reach it, without raiding.
Third: You wrote "secondly you do not need a single bit of strength" which is right, but you conceal, that strength also increases the dmg blocked by your shield! Which is not that unimportant because the main avoidance stat for a pally is the chance to block. And I think you wouldn't mind being hit for 10 dmg than for a few hundred.
But it's right, that the pally don't needs strength that much. But they also shouldn't avoid it if they use 'warrior' items to get their stats.
Fourth: "paladins gain agro through spell damage, and there weapon should have a lot of it on it" ... be honest, if your pally has about 400 spelldmg on it's armor it isn't necessary, that he runs around with a spelldmg sword. It's a good startup for the beginning but no "must have" for endgame raiding content, if you have that 400 spelldmg.
Fifth: "here is a nice taunt macro so you do not have to click the player being attacked." You don't need this anymore.
Last: "Remember, to gem your gear in +12 stam gems after youg et uncrittable and have fun!!" First you should find the balance between life and avoidance to get that "uncrushable" percentage. It's worthless to have 15000 health if every tenth strike hits you 'unprotected'.
Hope I could help!
And excuse me for my own misspelling
See ya.
Angelus
________________________
... once in a blue moon.
Administrator
Good suggestions, I hope the
Good suggestions, I hope the author of the guide will take them into account. It would also be nice if you could re-organize the guide, format the text better, add some colors, paragraphs, a better overall presentation never hurts.