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What's up, YouTube? We're here with a new video series that I have decided to start to cover some of the class changes that have been made to Turtle Wow.
A beginner-friendly guide to Protection Paladin tanking in Turtle WoW, covering new abilities, talents, and survivability strategies.
Key Takeaways
- Turtle WoW adds new baseline abilities that improve Protection Paladin tanking viability.
- Talent trees are heavily reworked, offering new builds and survivability options.
- Maintaining buffs like Crusader Strike is crucial for threat and survivability.
- Mana management is enhanced through talents like Shield Specialization and Reckoning.
- Protection Paladins can now effectively tank many bosses with the right talent choices.
What the video covers
- Introduction to Turtle WoW's changes for Protection Paladins, including new baseline abilities.
- Explanation of key spells: Crusader Strike, Holy Strike, and Hand of Reckoning, focusing on threat and survivability.
- Overview of the reworked talent trees in Turtle WoW, highlighting flexibility between Retribution and Holy trees.
- Recommended talent build emphasizing survivability, threat generation, and mana management.
- Importance of talents like Redoubt, Improved Righteous Fury, Blessing of Sanctuary, Shield Specialization, and Anticipation.
- Discussion on the value of Improved Hand of Reckoning for hit cap and threat consistency.
- Key defensive talents such as Righteous Defense, Holy Shield, Reckoning, Righteous Strikes, and Bulwark of the Righteous.
- Mana regeneration strategies through blocking and talent synergies.
- Advice on allocating remaining talent points based on playstyle, including options in Divine Strength and other trees.
- Overall, the build aims to maximize mitigation, threat, and utility to be an effective tank in Turtle WoW.
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To kick the series off, I couldn't think of a better way than a simple and quick but effective guide to being a Protection Paladin, one of my favorite specs and classes in the game.
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So let's jump into the changes made to Paladin tanking, so you can be mediocre at the game, but still be a great tank. Jumping right into it, let's go over some of the additional spells that we get here on Turtle Wow.
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Paladins have three additional abilities that are baseline for every Paladin.
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Which are, if we come in here, we can go to our spellbook.
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And let's go down to Retribution.
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The first one is going to be Crusader Strike.
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This is a very good ability that we're going to want to be using at least to maintain the buff that it gives us.
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It's a strike that deals 90% weapon damage plus an additional 161.
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And increases your attack speed by 3%, stacks up to three times, last 30 seconds on a 6-second cooldown.
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So, this is a very good ability, and the reason why we want to keep this up at all times.
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Not just for the increased threat from the attack speed, but from our, one of our bottom end game talents.
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Righteous Strikes increases the threat generated by your Holy Strike by 30% and its damage by 25.
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In addition, Zeal increases the amount of damage blocked by 10%.
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So that is going to be the main reason why we want to keep it up because it is a survivability cooldown.
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And it will help us tank longer and reduce strain on our healers.
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So our healers can do other things.
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I heal the raid.
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Or DPS, God forbid.
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The next thing that we get early on, we're going to go to the Holy Tree.
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It is Holy Strike.
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Holy Strike is an ability that hits the target for 366 to 407 Holy damage, restoring 90 health and 90 mana.
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To you and four allies within 10 yards, the healing effect is reduced by half on yourself.
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So, this is a very good effect if, you know, you're tanking and you want to have utility as well.
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But it's also going to be our bread and butter threat generator.
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So once we have three stacks of Zeal, we're going to be using this ability quite often.
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Just to keep our threat, it is, it is going to scale with spell power and do a good amount of damage.
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The last ability that Paladin gets is Hand of the Hand of Reckoning, which is a, I think it's a Wrath of the Lich King ability.
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That we're getting now in Turtle Wow, and it's basically a taunt on a button that Paladins were lacking for so long.
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And it's the main one of the main reasons why you couldn't tank as a Paladin in Classic.
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But here we got it and it makes us probably one of, I would consider Paladin a good two tank.
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Next behind Druid.
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So, yeah, that's about it for the abilities that we get.
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But the really exciting stuff comes in our next section here.
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Our talent tree.
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Which we're going to pull up the Turtle Wow page.
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And go over those talents real quick.
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As I mentioned, the exciting stuff for Paladin comes in the talent trees.
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The talent trees on Turtle Wow have been completely reworked, they're almost unrecognizable from what they were in Classic.
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And we get some really cool talents.
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You have plenty of options for tanking builds, like you can go deeper into Ret, you can go deeper into Holy.
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You can stop at certain points here.
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Avoid some mitigation spells.
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But in our case, this is the build I've been using for 40.
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I use for Nax.
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I tank Guardians.
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I can tank a lot of bosses, we do a lot of good stuff with this.
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We have good survivability.
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It's just been working very well for me.
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And threat isn't really an issue.
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So, let's break it down.
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On our first row, we're going to take five points into Redoubt mainly just because I find it better than Devotion Aura.
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Or the chance to block and, you know, just, it's just more survivability.
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It gets us closer to being our goal of over 100 mitigation on bosses.
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Which is what you want to be as a Paladin.
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In the next row, we obviously take the 3% hit.
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Because it's just very useful.
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It gets us close to our threshold of, you know, just never missing on bosses.
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Which you'd never want to miss as a tank.
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Because it just reduces your threat.
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Now, for the next few points, you can either put two points in Toughness.
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I just go all out for full mitigation.
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I prefer it over Devotion Aura mainly because as a Prot Paladin, I personally wouldn't be using Devotion Aura.
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Because I'll explain it a little bit later about the aura that we use.
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Just because there's one that's better for us.
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In this row, all these talents we're going to take.
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Mainly because they're all very good.
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They provide us very good survivability, they provide us utility through the thorns of Blessing of Sanctuary.
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And we just because of the survivability of this build and just we're not going to go into the Retribution tree, unfortunately, we cannot get Kings.
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Because it's been moved over there.
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So we'll take the Improved Righteous Fury.
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Because it generates more threat.
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Obviously, I've explained Blessing of Sanctuary.
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Shield Specialization.
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It increases the amount of damage we absorb from blocking, and it also has an 100% chance to restore 2% of the mana when a block occurs.
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Which is great for maintaining our mana.
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Which is a big problem for Protection Paladin.
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As we're going to be using Consecration a lot.
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And then Anticipation for the 20 defense rating.
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Good, good thing.
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So, here is the interesting part.
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If you are not hit capped, you will 1,000% want to take the Improved Hand of Reckoning.
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Because the last thing you want to do is miss.
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So this is one of those talents that if you're lacking in gear, you will want to take.
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I personally do not take it, I just avoid it.
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Because I very, very rarely does Hand of Reckoning miss for me.
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And if it does, well then.
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Good luck.
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So the next row, we just, since we're skipping that row, we're going to go into Righteous Defense.
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Your Righteous Fury active, the damage you take is reduced by 10%.
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I originally did not like this talent because 10% is just not that crazy.
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Like, you know, 10% of 10K is only 1,000, that's 9,000 damage that you're mitigating, which is still going to kill you.
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I with Tier 3, with some pieces of Tier 3 and some Tier 2 and a half.
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I have over, I have close to 10K health.
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So, it'll leave me with 800.
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So that's more that could save me.
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Who knows?
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But I still take it anyway.
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Just because it, it's helpful for other abilities.
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The next thing we take obviously is our most important ability.
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Holy Shield.
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This one right here is huge.
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It, it has had its, uh, charges reduced down to four.
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But it's still very good.
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Because it gives us a 45% chance to block.
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Then then next to that, we have Reckoning, which we do take.
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It gives us a 50% chance after blocking an attack to generate an additional attack.
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We will take this because we are going to be doing a lot of blocking.
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Which means we're going to be hitting a lot more.
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Which means we can generate more mana.
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We can use our seals more.
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And we just generate more threat that way.
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Righteous Strikes.
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I already explained to that earlier.
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So that's obviously, we know we're going to take that.
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For very good reasons.
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And then Bulwark of the Righteous.
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This is an ability that is also, it does damage, but also mitigates 30% damage for 12 seconds.
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On a 5-minute cooldown.
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We want this because it is one of the few survivability, unfortunately.
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One of the few survivability buffs that Paladins get.
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Unfortunately.
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We don't have many.
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So we take that.
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So now you're at, so now you're here.
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You're left with 13 points.
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What do you do?
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You can either, depending on who you are and how your play style is, you can either go back.
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Rework this, or you can go into the Ret tree or the Holy tree with your 13 points.
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And just go down them.
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In my case, for my 13, I personally go five into Divine Strength.
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For the increased block that we get from that and the DPS.
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We don't need the intellect, just because we're going to be generating mana a lot.
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So we don't need a bigger mana pool.
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Then I take five points into, uh, Improved Seal of Righteousness.
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Just more damage, more threat, obviously.
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And then just so I have an extra cooldown, I just 20, it brings it down to 40 minutes.
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But it's still good to have that 30% armor value increase.
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And just the full restore of our health.
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So that's what we do there.
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And with our last point.
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This is the aura we're going to be using.
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We're going to be using Sanctity Aura, which increases the Holy damage done by party members.
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Which is you.
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Let's face it.
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It's you.
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This is mainly for you.
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It's very selfish.
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You take this so you can do more damage.
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And more threat.
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And there you have it.
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Here is the build for Protection Paladin that I use.
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That's been very good for me.
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It's been helping me tank very well.
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Obviously, you can play around with this.
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And change it as you feel the need to.
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But it just, it works very good.
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And if you need a good starter, here's this.
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Try this out.
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Uh, like I said, you might want to go into Improved Hand of Reckoning early on.
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If you really need something and you're struggling with like threat and stuff like that.
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So you want to, you might want to go there.
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But other than that, this is just something you can work off of and build up.
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As you start playing and you get more familiar with the class.
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And learn it a little bit better.
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So we're going to move on to stat priorities as a Prot Paladin here.
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So, going over the stat priority, this will be a quick section.
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Um, I'm going to just have them on the screen here.
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The two stat priorities that you're going to want to have for threat and mitigation.
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Again, so our main goal for mitigation is going to be, we want to get as close to.
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Or above 100% avoidance with Holy Shield and Redoubt up.
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With Redoubt, we'll get an additional, I believe it's.
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I think I had.
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Yeah.
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So it's an additional 15%.
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So that'll put us at like 117.
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For example, like I am right now.
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Which is well over 100%.
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So you want to always be at 100%.
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Obviously, I understand it's not physically possible because Holy Shield has a cooldown.
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And Holy Shield wears off depending how fast you get hit.
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But you want to as often as possible be in that 100% range.
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Which is going to be very doable just with the gearing you can get very early on now.
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Especially with the alternate tier sets and everything like that.
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Which we'll cover in the process that we want to.
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Like kind of like the gear progression that we're going to go through.
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Which I think we can cover next.
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Because it goes very well hand in hand with stat priorities.
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So let's, let's go into that.
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Gear progression for a Protection Paladin is very simple early on when you start raiding.
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Always want tier pieces.
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Tier pieces, tier pieces, tier pieces.
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You're going to be your best friend.
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So as soon as you get into Molten Core, you're there.
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You may not be main tanking.
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You may be an add tank.
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You're dropping consecrations, everything like that.
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But you're going to work your way through getting a full set of Lawbringers.
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And you're going to convert that set of Lawbringers into the tank set.
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Mainly because it's going to help you with threat.
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It has survivability enough to get you through Blackwing Lair and you know, just pop into like the occasional like AQ40.
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So, it gives us, reduces the cost of our consecrations.
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So we're going to have more sustained on our mana.
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Increases our chance to block attacks with shield by 2%.
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So it's going to give us that block value.
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That that block chance to get us our mitigation closer.
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It's got defense rating, it's got spell power.
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It's got everything you want except for agility.
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But who cares?
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You're new.
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So you're getting there.
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This is going to be a good balance between threat and mitigation.
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It's it's very balanced.
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So for those struggling new players.
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And then we're going to move into Blackwing Lair.
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We're going to natural progression of raiding.
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Obviously, like I said, it's very redundant here for Paladins.
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Where my sets at?
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Uh.
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Collections.
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Sets.
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Tier 2.
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Obviously.
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Then we move into our green Judgment set.
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Yeah.
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Actually not green.
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It's kind of like a bluish.
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But whatever.
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You get the point.
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So we move into this.
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This is full mitigation.
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Very good for just, you're going to have it for a while.
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You're going to want to save this because you'll be mixing this in with Tier 3 pieces.
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And Tier 2.5 pieces.
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So you want to just keep this full set on you at all times.
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It adds Holy damage to your attacks.
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It gives you three Holy damage.
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Which if you didn't know, will proc your Seal of Wisdom.
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Continuing to generate mana.
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Which is good.
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And you want that.
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This also increases your spell power by 47.
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Gives you that threat.
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Whenever you block, you have a 35% chance for your block to increase your block rating by 200.
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More mitigation.
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Like I said, this is the deep mitigation set.
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All the pieces will have some sort of, some sort of mitigation on it.
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Like just increased block value.
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Going to get you through AQ40, very, very high survivability.
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You're going to want to, you're going to keep this for a while.
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And then we move to AQ40, things get a little weird.
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So we will go back to sets and collections here.
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I don't like this new interface.
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So we will go back here.
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We're going to go to Temple of Onkaraj.
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Five pieces.
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So what do you do?
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Obviously, you're going to mix in some Tier 2 in here.
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Some off pieces if you really want to.
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But it's kind of weird.
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Because now you're looking at it and you're like, oh, there's a lot of spell power.
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It's just all spell power.
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And hit chance.
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Correct.
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And attack speed.
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This is going to be our threat set.
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This set is what we're going to be using if we're struggling with threat.
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If there's like just a fight that we don't need that mitigation on.
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That we can just be a pumper tank.
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And assist the DPS with more damage.
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We're going to be rocking our Avenger set.
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And we're going to obviously fill in the gaps in survivability with some accessories.
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You know, the Tier 2 pieces, those things.
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And then finally, we're in Nax.
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We're doing Nax.
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We're having a great time.
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We are just, we've been flying through raids.
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Everybody loves us.
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We're the rock star tank.
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The bear in our raid is just so envious of us because we're, we can AoE tank so much better.
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And the, the guild hasn't trusted him yet, so they're not letting him main tank.
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And showing that he's significantly better than you.
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But it's okay.
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Because we're never going to let that happen.
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Because we're going to keep being rock stars.
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Because we're going to start stealing Tier 3 pieces.
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That's our next goal here.
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Because Tier 3 is going to be what we really want.
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Obviously, as you see, I don't have a full set because I haven't played the game in a while.
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So we don't talk about that.
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But we really want this because it is a, it is just like Tier 1.
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It is going to be a crazy mix of mitigation and threat.
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And the reason why it's so good on threat is because it gives us an option for another ability in Exorcism.
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And why is Exorcism so good?
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Because it scales with spell power.
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And it just deals a shit ton of damage to Undead and Demons.
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Which in case you didn't know, Kara 40, mostly Demons.
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And Undead.
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Which we want that, so that Exorcism is going to generate us more.
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Just more damage, more threat.
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Which is very good.
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In terms of trinkets, though, I personally have been using the same trinkets for a while.
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And I just have had the best luck with these.
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For threat, I will be using a Zandalar Hero Charm.
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And a Stylin's just to have that.
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You can, if you really want to, if you're feeling brave and you want to like get rid of the Stylin's.
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I like to swap it in for a Darkmoon Card of Maelstrom.
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You can swap it in for something like a, like a Sanctified Orb.
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Which I like.
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Because it's another ability.
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It gives us 5% crit.
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Good.
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Little burst there.
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You can, so look for for threat, look for spell power trinkets.
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Casters are going to hate you.
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But, you know.
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Such is, so is life.
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For mitigation, I also will use an Ony Blood trinket.
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But like I said, you can, your mileage may vary.
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You'll probably, you can find better items to fill in the off pieces.
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Like your Mark of C'Thun's, your Dignity of the Black Dragonflight.
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Your Wrath of Cenarius if you want to farm that out.
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That's going to be your best in slot for threat.
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Obviously.
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It'll be your best in slot for a lot of specs.
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But it's very, it's very good.
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And I can post a BIS list here down below.
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It's from my guild.
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But I will post it down below here.
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So you have a link.
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So you can actually see that.
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So we will, let's move on here towards our rotation.
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And our priority abilities.
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So we can kind of wrap this up and bring it on home.
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So for this next section, we're going to cover the Paladin rotation and opener.
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So the Paladin rotation is very smooth.
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It feels kind of good for Protection Paladin.
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Um, it mainly is a priority list.
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That I will put on screen.
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I'll also put in the opener that I like to use here.
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But let me just demonstrate it for you real quick.
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So basically, as the pull timer is getting closer to pull, I will pre-cast Seal of Righteous.
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And as I'm nearing the boss, I will pull with Judgment and then go into Holy Strike.
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Drop Consecration.
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Shield.
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And then we go into Crusader Strike.
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Just to keep Crusader Strike up.
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As our Judgment comes up, we judge Wisdom.
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And then we keep Seal of Righteous up.
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So we just get our three stacks of Zeal, keep our Holy Shield up.
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Keep Consecration up.
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And now that we have all our buffs, you know, we just use Judgment on cooldown.
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And keep our just Holy Strike spam going.
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And then as needed, we can judge Wisdom.
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We can judge Judgment.
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And if you feel like you're getting low on mana, you can just switch to Seal of Wisdom once you feel like you have enough threat.
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And then go back into Seal of Righteousness.
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And just using Judgment.
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Paladin is very good at maintaining itself for a very long time.
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Your sustain is unmatched by any other.
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By any other caster.
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And any other tank.
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If played properly, Paladin, I consider them one of the best tanks in the game at the moment.
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It kind of falls behind very good Druids.
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That's it.
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And that's basically it for the rotation.
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Uh, I got some closing summary here.
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We can, we can just talk about.
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And some things.
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Just some quick notes here.
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All right, so in closing, with some quick notes here, let's go over some of the things that we want to do.
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One of the things you want to do as a Prot Paladin is get our total boss mitigation to 100%.
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We want to be gearing somewhere in between the threat and mitigation stat priority.
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Just getting a good balance of that.
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You know, you want to survive, you want to be able to survive hits and you want to be able to also generate threat.
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So people aren't ripping it off you.
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Um, just playing around with the build a little bit, getting familiar with it.
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Seeing where you can move some points around and reallocating them as you get better gear.
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And like I said, this is a by no means end all be all build.
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And should not be taken as law.
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That's the point of Classic Plus.
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It's to explore and experiment.
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So I think you should go out and have fun.
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Play the game.
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Play your class.
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Get familiar, learn with it.
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Use this guide as a basis to get you going as a Prot Paladin.
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And like I said, if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me in game or on Discord.
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It's in down below in the wherever it is nowadays on YouTube.
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I'm always, I'm always there to offer a helping hand.
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And just, you may be even theory craft over some classes.
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Thank you guys for making it this far into the video.
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Make sure to stop by Twitch for some of our streams.
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We will be going back to streaming, the schedule isn't set yet.
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We just have a lot of life stuff going on right now.
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If you want to see more guides, comment down below what class I should play.
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And just kind of figure it out and make a quick guide for next.
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And until next time, guys.
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Peace out.
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