Mini guide to tanking Nightbane for Protection Paladins



I am so excited about my achieve­ment that I decided to write a small guide for all you Pro­tec­tion Pal­adins out there that want to try this. Please bear with me.

Mini guide to tank­ing Night­bane for Pro­tec­tion Paladins

• ask a Priest to put Fear Ward on you (if you got more than one in your raid, ask them to take turns);
• ask a shaman to put Tremor Totem near you (to shorten the fear duration);
• nuke hard, keep aggro at all costs (mana is NOT a prob­lem, you’ll get plenty back when all the heal­ers are tar­get­ing you so go all out. Keep Holy Shield up at all times and remem­ber to use Exor­cism as often as pos­si­ble to give you what extra boost on aggro);
• if you get feared don’t worry, he still goes for you if you are top on the aggro list. After fear remem­ber to posi­tion him so that he doesn’t have his tail at the DPS group;
• in phase two (when he’s fly­ing) use Holy Wrath then Con­se­crate when the skele­tons spawn. This way no War­lock or Mage will get aggro from them when they AoE;
• rinse and repeat until he’s dead;
• loot!

Keep in mind that it worked for me flaw­lessly. It’s true, my gear is much bet­ter than aver­age (uncri­ta­ble, uncrush­able, ~330 spell dam­age, ~12k HP unbuffed). But you can do it also with no prob­lems if you are aver­age geared (best blues avail­able, some epics from hero­ics or epics from pre­vi­ous bosses) and your group can han­dle the require­ments for this boss.

Hope my expe­ri­ence with this boss helps some­one else. If it does, please be sure to tell me. Have fun!

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