If the pally has the right traits he will absorb most of your dmg and if he has a good shield block the rest of it. Then go in burst you down then kite back again. The Pally should be kiting your burst and doing his ranged damage healing to full. Strength is a Prot Paladin’s best threat stat. Paladins have one actual taunt available: Hand of Reckoning. Paladin tanks can tank everything well in BC, They have a little harder time gearing prebis to become unchrushable, but it’s not too bad. Just be careful not to outshine the main-tank if you’re not comfortable in that role, because a Prot Paladin can fill it pretty easily on most fights. In general, your damage intake will be relatively smooth, with many attacks being blocked by your shield or softened by your strong active mitigation. Protection Paladin Overview As a Protection Paladin, you can expect to perform the role of a solid and reliable tank. It doesn’t require as much effort as say, Death Knights, while providing the same durability and self heals, but it’s also not as brain dead easy like Bear tanks. Is Paladin tanking fun?īecause they can do three roles very well Paladin tanking is the easiest and most fun, while being very dynamic. When the core component of your class is “difficult to kill” it becomes a god class when you also give it the damage and utility to be viable in the arena meta. Blizzard has tried several times to make tanks competitive in arena.