So, you got your gear all pimped up and think you can raid? Excellent! Here is a list of consumables to bring the best out of your Protection Paladin.

(quick explanation about the colored numbers: lowest, recommended, hardcore)

Regents

• Symbol of Kings (200+)
• Symbol of Divinity (5+)

Food and drinks

• Fisherman’s Feast / Spicy Crawdad (20+) - 30 Stamina and 20 Spirit = winner;
• Blackened Sporefish, Buzzard Bites, Feltail Delight, Mok’Nathal Shortribs, Tabuk Steak (20+) - to replace the above two;
• Blackened Basilisk, Crunchy Serpent, Poached Bluefish (20+) - take this if you need spell damage;

 Potions

• Ironshield Potion (5 10 20) - pop this up while a boss enrages, it’s quite useful;
• Super Mana Potion (10 15 20);
• Super Healing Potion (5 15 20);

Elixirs

• Elixir of Mastery (Battle Elixir) (5 10 15) - +15 stats for 1 hour, who wouldn’t want that?
• Adept’s Elixir (Battle Elixir) (5 10 15) - only use if your spell damage is low, otherwise it’s pretty useless;
• Elixir of Brute Force (Battle Elixir) (5 10 15) - a good way to get your HP a bit higher. Use in fights where Stamina is everything;
• Elixir of Major Mageblood (Guardian Elixir) (5 10 15) - very useful while OT-ing or being the extra tank on trash when we receive no healing;
• Elixir of Major Defense (Guardian Elixir) (5 10 15) - +550 Armor is always a nice little buff;
• Elixir of Major Fortitude (Guardian Elixir) (5 10 15) - not that good, +250 HP and +10 HP every 5 seconds are not really worth. Take this only if you can’t any of the others;

Flasks

• Flask of Fortification / Shattrath Flask of Fortification (1 2 5) - the +10 Defense will probably go to waste and +500 HP is not that much;
• Flask of Mighty Restoration / Shattrath Flask of Mighty Restoration (1 2 5) - good when you are not a MT;
• Unstable Flask of the Sorcerer (only works in BEM and Gruul’s Lair) (1 2 5) - a nice flask, shame only works in limited places;
• Flask of Blinding Light

Oils

• Superior Mana Oil (5 10 15)- use during trash;
• Superior Wizard Oil (5 10 15) - use during bosses;

What do I use?

Hmm, hard to say. I only recently went for my first 25-man raid and I can say that, looking at the list above, I was kind of unprepared. I only had Regents, Health/Mana Pots, buff food and, by a fortunate coincidence, 5 Superior Mana Oil which a guildy gave me right before I was invited.

But, to be fully prepared I would go for: 20+ Mok’Nathal Shortribs, Super Mana Potion and Super Healing Potion (10+ of each), 5+ Elixir of Mastery, 5+ Elixir of Major Defense, 5+ Superior Mana Oil. If it were Gruul, I would replace the Elixirs with 5+ Unstable Flask of the Sorcerer.