Protection Paladin PvE Guide For Mythic+
Welcome to Murlok.io's PvE guide for Protection Paladins in Mythic+ Dungeons. This guide covers the best stats, races, talents, gear, embellishments, enchantments, and gems for Patch 11.0.5, based on data from the top 50 Protection Paladins in The War Within Season 1 across the US, EU, KR, and TW regions. This includes Yodafotm (Zuljin US) , who is currently the highest-ranked with a rating of 3592.
Updated every 12 hours with the latest data from the Battle.net API , this guide also examines each character's recent playtime, specialization frequency, and equipment choices for greater accuracy.
Top Protection Paladins
Stat Priority
Stats are crucial attributes that influence a character's power in World of Warcraft. They determine the character's strength and overall playstyle. Stat bonuses can be found on various equipment pieces, consumables created by Alchemy, certain foods, some enchantments, and gems.
Each stat experiences diminishing returns once its equipped bonus reaches +20%. Optimizing a character's performance involves finding a balanced distribution. Here is the optimal way to balance Protection Paladin secondary and minor stats for Mythic+:
Secondary Stats
- Haste
- Mastery
- Critical Strike
- Versatility
Minor Stats
- Leech
- Speed
- Avoidance
Class Talents
Talents are the main element defining a character's build, significantly influencing playstyle by adding, modifying, and enhancing abilities and behaviors. They are crucial in shaping how a character functions in battle.
Class talents represent a common tree shared across all Paladin specializations. These talents provide foundational skills and enhancements essential to the Paladin class. They offer a range of abilities that lay the groundwork for a Paladin's overall capabilities. The following tree reproduces the in-game class talents disposition as a heatmap. Each color represents the usage frequency and general recommendation level of the talents:
- Most frequently used talents, highly recommended for optimal performance.
- Widely used talents offering flexibility for alternative choices or personal preference.
- Less commonly selected talents, typically chosen to fill necessary slots for advancing to the next tier.
Specialization Talents
Specialization talents provide Protection Paladins with unique abilities and enhancements tailored to their combat style. The following tree reproduces the in-game specialization talents disposition and shows the best talents as a heatmap:
- Most frequently used talents, highly recommended for optimal performance.
- Widely used talents offering flexibility for alternative choices or personal preference.
- Less commonly selected talents, typically chosen to fill necessary slots for advancing to the next tier.
Hero Talents
Hero talents allow deeper customization of the Protection Paladin class fantasy, enhancing character builds. The following trees show the Templar and Lightsmith hero talents as a heatmap, highlighting the most effective choices:
- Most frequently used talents, highly recommended for optimal performance.
- Widely used talents offering flexibility for alternative choices or personal preference.
- Less commonly selected talents, typically chosen to fill necessary slots for advancing to the next tier.
Templar
Lightsmith
Best In Slot Gear
Gear consists of items that directly determine a character's power level. It can be acquired from various sources: dungeons, raids, world drops, crafted through professions, obtained from PvP vendors, or chosen as rewards from the Great Vault.
Each piece of gear significantly boosts a character's overall strength and capabilities. Here are the top items for Protection Paladins in Mythic+, tailored for each equipment slot:
Head
Neck
Shoulders
Back
Wrist
Waist
Feet
Rings
Trinkets
Main Hand
Embellishments
Embellishments are unique effects associated with crafted items, either as predefined elements in a recipe or added with an optional embellishment reagent, creating embellished gear. These enhancements diversify and amplify characters' capabilities.
Given that only a maximum of two embellished items can be equipped at a time, here are the best embellishments for Protection Paladins in Mythic+:
Enchantments
Enchantments provide minor yet valuable enhancements to various items, including Back, Chest, Wrist, Legs, Rings, Feet, Main Hand, and Off Hand.
Most enchantments are crafted via the Enchanting profession. However, Legs enhancements are crafted by Leatherworkers.
Enchantments are usually available at the auction house, making them accessible for upgrades. Here is a list of the top enchantments for Protection Paladins in Mythic+, essential for optimizing combat effectiveness:
Gems
Gems are crafted stones from the Jewelcrafting profession that provide stat bonuses to improve gear and fine-tune character stats. These gems can be socketed into various item slots, including Head, Neck, Wrist, Waist, and Rings.
While the availability of sockets on these items is generally random when they drop, Head, Wrist, and Waist items can have a single socket added using the Nerubian Gemweaver , which costs 6 Algari Token of Merit obtained from the Great Vault.
Additionally, for non-PvP Neck and Rings items, sockets can be added with the Magnificent Jeweler's Setting . This item, crafted by Jewelcrafters, can increase the number of sockets to 2 for Neck and Rings slots.
Available through both the auction house and the crafting order system, the following are the top gem choices for Protection Paladins in Mythic+:
Races
Each race in World of Warcraft has unique traits that enhance abilities or improve in-game quality of life. Although these racial traits offer minor advantages, they can provide a competitive edge in certain scenarios.
With Dwarf currently being the top race for Protection Paladins in Mythic+, here are the other races that also stand out due to their advantageous traits:
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Dwarf42 -
Dark Iron Dwarf4 -
Blood Elf3 -
Tauren1