Protection Paladin guide for Karazhan: gear guide and drops

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This post is part of the Com­plete idiot’s guide to Karazhan for Pro­tec­tion Pal­adins and cov­ers a gear guide and drops you must get for your Pro­tec­tion Pal­adin. Be sure to read my other guides for your Tankadin on the Guides page. Inter­est­ing reads indeed!

Before ven­tur­ing into an instance you might find use­ful to know before hand which loot you really need and on what to spend that pre­cious DKP, instead of wast­ing it on small or not needed upgrades of your gear.

I’ll cover there to main spec drops (tank­ing drops) for your Tankadin, but also off spec drops (for heal­ing). I usu­ally brake my gam­ing monot­ony by some­times heal­ing some nor­mal or even hero­ics instances just for the diver­sity. Why don’t you try also?

So with­out delay­ing it much, here are the good­ies, divided by slots, for your convenience.

Head

Main spec

  1. Helm of the Fallen Cham­pion (Prince Malchezaar) -> Jus­ticar Faceguard
  2. Eternium Greathelm (Opera event)

Off spec

  1. Helm of the Fallen Cham­pion (Prince Malchezaar) –> Jus­ticar Diadem

Neck

Main spec

  1. Barbed Choker of Dis­ci­pline (Maiden of Virtue)

Off spec

  1. Ember­spur Tal­is­man (Nightbane)
  2. Shin­ing Chain of the After­world (Netherspite)

Shoul­ders

Main spec

  1. Man­tle of Abrah­mis (Netherspite)

Off spec

  1. Paul­drons of the Justice-Seeker (Shade of Aran)

Cloak

Main spec

  1. Gilded Tho­rium Cloak (Ter­es­t­ian Illhoof)

Off spec

  1. Red Rid­ing Hood’s Cloak (Big Bad Wolf)
  2. Stain­less Cloak of the Pure Hearted (Prince Malchezaar)

Chest

Main spec

  1. Panzar’Thar Breast­plate (Nightbane)

Off spec

  1. Breast­plate of the Light­binder (Ter­es­t­ian Illhoof)

Wrist

Main spec

  1. Vam­braces of Courage (Attumen de Huntsman)

Off spec

  1. Brac­ers of Jus­tice (Maiden of Virtue)

Hand

Main spec

  1. Gloves of the Fallen Cham­pion (The Cura­tor) –> Jus­ticar Handguards
  2. Iron Gauntlets of the Maiden (Maiden of Virtue)

Off spec

  1. Gloves of the Fallen Cham­pion (The Cura­tor) –> Jus­ticar Gloves
  2. Gauntlets of Renewed Hope (Attumen the Huntsman)

Waist

Main spec

  1. Crim­son Gir­dle of the Indomitable (Moroes)

Off spec

  1. Gir­dle of Truth (Netherspite)

Legs

Main spec

  1. Wrynn Dynasty Greaves (The Curator)

Off spec

  1. Leg­plates of the Inno­cent (Chess event)

Feet

Main spec

  1. Boots of Elu­sion (radom drop)
  2. Bat­tlescar Boots (Chess event)

Off spec

  1. Boots of Valiance (Moroes)

Rings

Main spec

  1. Sher­ma­nar Great-Ring (Shade of Aran)

Off spec

  1. Jade Ring of the Ever­liv­ing (Prince Malchezaar)
  2. Mender’s Heart-Ring (Ter­es­t­ian Illhoof)

Trin­kets

Main spec

  1. Moroes’ Lucky Pocket Watch (Moroes)

Off spec

  1. Rib­bon of Sac­ri­fice (Opera event)

Weapon

Main spec

  1. none (maybe King’s Defender (Chess event) but DON’T spend DKP/need on it))

Off spec

  1. Shard of the Vir­tu­ous (Maiden of Virtue)
  2. Light’s Jus­tice (Prince Malchezaan)

Shield

Main spec

  1. Shield of Impen­e­tra­ble Dark­ness (Nightbane)

Off spec

  1. Trip­tych Shield of the Ancients (Chess event)

Libram

Main spec

  1. none

Off spec

  1. Libram of Souls Redeemed (Opera event)

Whoa! That’s quite the list there. Let’s make another recap, but not based on bosses.

Karazhan loot for the Pro­tec­tion Pal­adin based on bosses:

  1. Attumen the Hunts­man – 1 main spec, 1 off spec
  2. Moroes – 2 main spec, 2 off spec
  3. Maiden of Virtue – 2 main spec, 2 off spec
  4. Opera Event – 1 main spec, 3 off spec
  5. The Cura­tor – 2 main spec, 1 off spec
  6. Chess Event – 2 main spec, 2 off spec
  7. Ter­es­t­ian Ill­hoof – 1 main spec, 1 off spec
  8. Shade of Aran – 1 main spec, 1 off spec
  9. Nether­spite – 1 main spec, 2 off spec
  10. Night­bane – 2 main spec, 1 off spec
  11. Prince Malchezaan – 1 main spec, 4 off spec

Con­clu­sions

As you might have noticed already, there aren’t many pure Pro­tec­tion Pal­adin items in Karazhan, except for the T4 drops. Unfor­tu­nately, we need to wear the war­rior drops or we need to farm heroics/badges to fill our sets with badge gear, which is in the first place sig­nif­i­cantly bet­ter than Karazhan drops.

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1 Comment

  1. Muckbeast / 03/09/2008

    If you do karazhan enough, even­tu­ally every­one who wants one will get a King’s Defender.

    –Cam­bios
    Blog­ging about Online Gam­ing and Vir­tual Worlds:
    http://www.muckbeast.com

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