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Best Protection Paladin Weapon Enchant – Updated for Patch 3.3

• Best WotLK Weapon Enchant for Protection Paladins
• A Guide to Protection Paladin Glyphs
• Useful professions for a Protection Paladin (IV): Enchanting
• Talent Build Dilemma
• Patch 3.1 Protection Paladin Specs and Glyphs

Prot Pala spec 1

Prot pala spec 2

Prot pala spec 3 (added 4/17)

Prot pala spec 4 (added 4/18, suggested by Gymal) — mana regen and mana conservation, improved heals, helping DPS out

Please feel free to discuss my choices. This post will be updated with future input or insights I might have.

Have fun and don’t forget to enjoy the game and the new content!

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Patch 3.1 Protection Paladin Specs and Glyphs

• Protection Paladin Glyphs Revamped
• Problem solved: Glyph of Divine Plea and BoSanc STACK
• A Guide to Protection Paladin Glyphs
• Fail of the Lich King. I’m also back
• Best Protection Paladin Weapon Enchant – Updated for Patch 3.3

Glyph of Divine Plea and BoSanc STACK as of today’s PTR build.

Saw this post from Galyan where he was talking about Protection Paladin Glyphs and in the comments the dilemma if the two of them stack.

I’ve decided to take the matter in my own hands. So I logged into the PTRs, found a Prot Pala with the Glyph and proceeded to test it.

The method I’ve used it pretty simple: I firstly Judged Wisdom with my helper having only BoSanc on him and did X amount of damage. Then he casted DP and I Judged again, making Y amount of damage. See pictures below for further explanations.

Damage with only BoSanc on himself: 598

Damage with BoSanc and Divine Plea: 580

3% of 598 is 17.94.

Thus, it leads me to firmly say that Glyph of Divine Plea and BoSanc stack.

(thank you Aratar for helping me!)

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Problem solved: Glyph of Divine Plea and BoSanc STACK

• Protection Paladin Glyphs Revamped
• Patch 3.1 Protection Paladin Specs and Glyphs
• A Guide to Protection Paladin Glyphs
• Readers ask, itankstuff.com answears (I)
• PvP dilemma

It’s not yet certain what kind of Glyphs these will be, but they look OK. Let’s take a look.

Glyph of Divine Plea: While Divine Plea is active, you take 3% reduced damage from all sources.

This might not look good in the first place, but Guarded by the Light talent is changed. Does that mean we’ll have 100% uptime on Divine Plea and thus take 3% less damage? Looks yummy. This will be _the_ Glyph to have (also because they are nerfing Spiritual Attunement — boooooooooooooo! and increasing the mana cost of our abilities).

Next Glyph.

Glyph of Hammer of the Righteous: Your Hammer of the Righteous hits 1 additional target.

One additional target is always good. Makes us even powerful in AoE tanking and trash.

So, until now, we get two excellent Glyphs, that might replace some of the useless ones. But what slot will they fit? Major or Minor? I tried to find an Inscriptor on the PTRs that can craft them, but with no success. They weren’t even on the AH. My best guess is that they will fit a Major slot. Please ignore that, I didn’t check wowhead before posting. They fit Major slots.

Right now I’m thinking I’ll run with DP, HotR/SoV and Judgement/Exorcism as Glyphs, depending on the fights. But things may change.

What about you?

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Protection Paladin Glyphs Revamped

• A Guide to Protection Paladin Glyphs
• Problem solved: Glyph of Divine Plea and BoSanc STACK
• Patch 3.1 Protection Paladin Specs and Glyphs
• Protection Paladin consumables and regents — getting ready for a raid
• Timbal’s Focusing Crystal for Protection Paladins

This 95-page book contains a lot of important information I wish I knew before the expansion hit. The presentation is impressive, very organized and well worded.

I was very happy to read about the changes introduced in WotLK, conveniently grouped by classes, quests, professions, items, raids, etc. I must admit, some of them were new to me! New abilities and class spells are very well documented. What impressed me right from the start was the PvP section, introducing builds, gear and tips on how to do well in Arenas and Battlegrounds (siege vehicles ftw!)

PvE is not ignored and inside you’ll find a useful presentation of all instances in Wrath of the Lich King, including boss fights and trash detail. Raising the reputation with one faction can be a real pain sometimes but the Unofficial World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King Guide comes and helps you with useful information on every faction you will be encountering along your journeys.

Also included in the package there are two 150+ paged leveling guides: one for Alliance and one for Horde. It will tell you where to go, what to do, what to pick up beforehand. Simply put, it is guaranteed to make your leveling a lot faster than before. Both have a section dedicated to the Death Knight starting area and will guide you all the way the Northrend. I bet you’re tired of going through the same areas again, so why not make it in 10 days with the help of this guide?

But enough talking. Just head over to KillerGuides and check them out. Hopefully you’ll be as impressed as me.

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Unofficial World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King Guide by KillerGuides Review

• New official Wrath of the Lich King information released
• Protection Paladin build for Wrath of the Lich King
• A little bit of sharing
• Faction rewards for Protection Paladins in Wrath of the Lich King
• Protection Paladin guide to Karazhan: a few words of introduction

Changelog:

01/04/10 – Updated for patch 3.3

01/28/09 – Initial post

Enchant Weapon — Blood Draining > Enchant Weapon – Accuracy or Titanium Weapon Chain (don’t use this if you’re hit capped or put this first if you’re not) > Enchant Weapon – Potency

These would be my options for the best weapon enchant for Protection Paladins. Found any better options? Please state your opinions, I’m always opened to discussions.

Edit: follow this link over at Ferraro for more accurate explanations.

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Best WotLK Weapon Enchant for Protection Paladins

• Best Protection Paladin Weapon Enchant – Updated for Patch 3.3
• Protection Paladins — heading towards the right way
• How I started tanking
• A Guide to Protection Paladin Glyphs
• Blizzard, please give us a third profession

Changelog:

01/14/10 – Updated for patch 3.3

12/08/08 – Initial post

Glyphs are great. I love them. I think that they are a good addition to the game and can improved your character to make it stand out and why not, make a difference when needed.

Out of 27 Glyphs (21 Major, 6 Minor), Protection Paladins receive good utility out of around 10 to 12 Glyphs. Unfortunately we have only 6 spots to fill, so let’s take a look at how to do that.

Major Glyphs

1. Glyph of Divine Plea — this is the first Glyph that every Protection Paladin should get. Don’t leave home with it!

That’s it. That’s the only major Glyph that everyone should have. The rest two spots can be filled to your taste. I’m just here to make suggestions, not to say which one is best for you.

Everyone has his tanking style, right? Me for example, 90% of the time spent tanking I use Seal of Light and not Seal of Vengeance, so Glyph of Seal of Vengeance is pretty useless for me. If that’s your style, go and take it.

I have a very precise tanking rotation and using Glyph of Consecration would pretty much mess it up. If you find a way to fit Consecration with that Glyph, go for it. And be sure to tell me also how you did it.

I seldom find myself OOM while tanking. So, Glyph of Spiritual Attunement would just take up a spot that I can fill with something more usefull. Take it if you see you have mana troubles (highly doubtful).

I like doing damage. It’s something about huge numbers that makes me smile. Glyph of Judgement, I has it and I’m proud of it. Yes, I Judge every cooldown.

Glyph of Avenger’s Shield is very nice. Sure, it’s 2 targets less, but it’s 100% more damage. Worth having for single-target tanking and using every CD.

Minor Glyphts

Minor Glyphts are very easy. Protection has so few choices here that it’s not even worth making a list.

Glyph of Sense Undead for your Naxxramas pleasures, Glyph of Blessing of Kings for rebuffing without much downtime and Glyph of the Wise for questing/grinding (damn those reseals, they cost so much mana!).

A shot conclusion

Glyphing (is that even a word?) your Protection Paladin comes down in the end to your taste. The way I see it, only Glyph of Righteous Defense and to a minor degree Glyph of Avenger’s Shield can really make a difference. Filling up the other slots is up to you and to your style of play.

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A Guide to Protection Paladin Glyphs

• Protection Paladin Glyphs Revamped
• Problem solved: Glyph of Divine Plea and BoSanc STACK
• Protection Paladin consumables and regents — getting ready for a raid
• Protection Paladin soloing Stratholme Undead side — live blogging
• Interesting Protection Paladin builds