Struggling between choices? Just rerolled and don’t know what to chose? Dinged 70 recently and confusion has taken over you? Look no further! This guide will (hopefully) answer all your question regarding the weapon of choice for Protection Paladins.

This guide is being continuously being updated. Although you might not notice changes in the actual post, the online spreadsheet displays all the new and old information you need so check that as often as you would like.

Who do I write this guide for?

This guide is for those brave Protection Paladins that are on the brink of their carriers, those who are only now starting Karazhan or storming through 25-man content. It doesn’t address those who tank Illidan with The Sun Eater. If you are one of those Paladins, you can safely skip this read, as you probably know much more than me.

General considerations

What to look for in a weapon for tanking Paladins? Let’s see:

1. Spell damage - the more, the merrier;
2. Stamina - obvious, isn’t it?
3. Spell hit rating - secondary stat, but nice to have;
4. Spell critical strike rating - nice to have some crits from time to time for a threat boost;
5. Intellect - Again, not that important;

All other stats are not important and should be ignored.

More specific details and nifty calculations after the jump.

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Just a quick update on my status (been kind of lazy):

• We cleared Zul’Aman last Sunday with first two bosses on the timer and third missed by 30ish seconds. No tanking drops.
• Managed to get a Karazhan badge run and finally ninjad Barbed Choker of Discipline.
• Missed Gloves of the Fallen Champion. Again.
• Gathered around 30k honor for my alt Shadow Priest. Gief S4 now.

Also, the idea of a small PvP Tournament was born and will take place on the 2nd of June. But more on that later.

Take care.

This is really impressive. I watched both videos like 10 times each and I’m really really baffled.

Rogue - Shahraz

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Link to his/hers gear and spec

So, will Blizzard nerf this in a future patch? Should “classic” tanks be afraid of the hybrids?

Without questions Commendation of Kael’thas. And I got it on my first run.

I’m a happy Tankadin.

Didn’t get to write much in the last week because it was my week off from work and I was being busy playing WoW and doing other stuff as well. But here is a list of what I’ve been up to:

Gear upgrades

Got myself into a Karazhan and Zul’Aman groups. From Kara I got Crimson Girdle of the Indomitable, which is a nice upgrade to Sha’tari Vindicator’s Waistguard. I also tanked Maiden and I’m pretty happy with myself that I was able to do it. But let me tell you, that was some heavy button-smashing I did back there! The Gloves didn’t drop (again) and I’m starting to be rather pissed about it. Maybe I should stop hoping, I’m sure then will drop.

From Zul’Aman I managed to pick up Bulwark of the Amani Empire. Thing is, I’m starting to have problems keeping myself above the 490 DEF cap. With the new upgrades I’m sitting exactly at 490. I’m curious what new upgrades I’m going to get and if this problem will be solved or not.

New experience

I went SSC with my guild. Not really much to say because I felt REALLY not needed in that raid. Might as well taken another DPS/healer instead of me, because 1) I didn’t even get to tank on trash; 2) I _healed_ on Hydross; 3) I helped with the platform adds on Lurker. Yesterday it was Morogrim’s turn to die and my turn to shine but guess what? I had over 1Kms lag all day and couldn’t attend the raid. We’ll see what this week brings to the table.

I respeced

Yes, I did. I dropped Reckoning. Now I’m your average Tankadin with 0/46/15 build. So far I get the feeling I’m killing things even slower than before and that really hurts my questing time. But you know what they say, help your guild with Improved SoC. Right..

Guess that’s pretty much everything that happened in the last week. I’m looking forward to this weeks raiding and hope I get to do more 25-man tanking.