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Welcome to our Protection Paladin tank guide for World of Warcraft 4.3. Here, you will learn everything you need to know about playing a Protection Paladin in a raid environment, though most of the content also applies to normal and heroic dungeons.

As a Protection Paladin, you can expect to perform the role of a solid and reliable tank. In general, the damage your take is smooth, and the vast majority of attacks made against you will be mitigated in one way or another.

Moreover, as a Protection Paladin, you bring a wide variety of cooldowns and abilities to raids.

Note that this guide focuses on aspects that are specific to Protection Paladins, and general tanking strategies are beyond its scope. If you wish to know more about the tanking role and what you can do to improve, we recommend that you read our tanking guide.

To make it easy to bookmark the specific sections you are interested in, we have split the guide into 7 pages:

• Talents, Builds, and Glyphs: learn what the best talent trees are and how to customise them;
• Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities: understand how to play your class in an optimal way;
• Buffs, Debuffs, and Useful Abilities: discover your arsenal of useful abilities;
• Statistics Priority and Reforging: read up on the respective values of your statistics;
• Gems, Enchants, and Consumables: choose the best gems, enchantments, and consumables;
• Macros and Addons: benefit from useful macros an addons to step up your game;
• Gearing Up and Best in Slot: find the best gear you can wear.