Cataclysm Classic Protection Paladin Enchants and Consumables

Last updated on Sep 17, 2024 at 12:00 by Sellin

On this page, we list the best enchants, flasks, potions, and food you can get for your Protection Paladin in Cataclysm Classic for PvE content.

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Best Enchants, Gems and Consumables for Protection Paladin

Cataclysm is a relatively straight forward expansion when it comes to Enchants Gems and Consumables, but each of them is extremely important to maximizing your damage out put and survivability in any situation; this is especially true in Raids and Dungeons. Below is a list of the optimal consumables and enchants to help you get the most out of your ProtectionProtection.

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Enchants

Slot Enchantment
Head Arcanum of the Earthen Ring Icon Arcanum of the Earthen Ring
Shoulders Greater Inscription of Unbreakable Quartz Icon Greater Inscription of Unbreakable Quartz
Back Enchant Cloak - Protection Icon Enchant Cloak - Protection
Chest Enchant Chest - Greater Stamina Icon Enchant Chest - Greater Stamina
Bracers Enchant Bracer - Major Stamina Icon Enchant Bracer - Major Stamina
Gloves Enchant Gloves - Greater Mastery Icon Enchant Gloves - Greater Mastery
Legs Drakehide Leg Armor Icon Drakehide Leg Armor
Feet Enchant Boots - Mastery Icon Enchant Boots - Mastery
Weapon Enchant Weapon - Windwalk Icon Enchant Weapon - Windwalk
Weapon Enchant Shield - Mastery Icon Enchant Shield - Mastery
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Gems

As a Protection Paladin there are some considerations to be made when choosing a Meta gem, generally in lower levels of gear Austere Shadowspirit Diamond Icon Austere Shadowspirit Diamond will perform better due to the flat increase to your armor value. As you get more gear and more importantly Block rating you will switch to Eternal Shadowspirit Diamond Icon Eternal Shadowspirit Diamond for the increased Shield Block value to further mitigate damage.

Our focus while gearing as a Protection Paladin is to reach the 102.4% avoidance cap and then focus on maximizing Stamina, your gem choices will largely depend on where you are in relation to the avoidance cap.

  • If avoidance capped in Red Sockets, you will use Defender's Demonseye Icon Defender's Demonseye if not use Fine Ember Topaz Icon Fine Ember Topaz.
  • If avoidance capped in Blue Sockets, you will use Solid Ocean Sapphire Icon Solid Ocean Sapphire if not use Puissant Dream Emerald Icon Puissant Dream Emerald.
  • If avoidance capped in Yellow Sockets, you will use Regal Dream Emerald Icon Regal Dream Emerald if not use Fractured Amberjewel Icon Fractured Amberjewel.
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Consumables

4.1.

Food

Similar to Gems, the goal with your food buff is maximizing your avoidance until reaching avoidance cap. Mastery typically yields the most consistent results of avoidance stats so we will opt for Mastery food, Lavascale Minestrone Icon Lavascale Minestrone.

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Flasks and Potions

As a Protection Paladin we will use Flask of Steelskin Icon Flask of Steelskin for the added Stamina, it is also an option to run Prismatic Elixir Icon Prismatic Elixir and Elixir of the Master Icon Elixir of the Master for encounters with heavy Magic damage but generally speaking the Stamina added from Steelskin will give you better survivability throughout the course of an encounter.

Earthen Potion Icon Earthen Potion are a nice added cooldown to allow you to mitigate even more Physical damage, so make sure to have them on hand to pre-pot to ease into pulling the boss or using it as a defensive cooldown if needed. It is important to also have Mythical Healing Potion Icon Mythical Healing Potions on hand for a quick burst of healing if you find yourself in a situation where you would otherwise die.

4.3.

Profession Items

While you will not have much time to cast them and any kind of damage taken will interrupt their healing Dense Embersilk Bandage Icon Dense Embersilk Bandage can be the difference between surviving or dying so it is a great mana-free way to heal yourself in an emergency.