Classic Protection Paladin Tank Gear and Best in Slot

Theses gear lists are considered to be the best in slot for each phase for Protection Paladins. Click the button that correlates with the specific phase you are interested in seeing a gear list for.

2.

Protection Paladins Gear Sets

Phase 6 Phase 5 Phase 4 Phase 3 Phase 1 & 2

2.1.

Phase 1 & 2 Best in Slot

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Gyth's Skull — of Fire Resistance	Gyth Upper Blackrock Spire
Neck	Medallion of Steadfast Might	Magmadar Molten Core
Shoulder	Stockade Pauldrons	BoE World Drop
Cloak	Redoubt Cloak	Mizzle the Crafty Dire Maul North
Chest	Deathbone Chestplate	Shared Loot Scholomance
Wrist	Fel Hardened Bracers	Lord Hel'nurath Dire Maul West
Hands	Stonegrip Gauntlets	BoE World Drop
Waist	Deathbone Girdle	Shared Loot Scholomance
Legs	Deathbone Legguards	Shared Loot Scholomance
Feet	Core Forged Greaves	Majordomo Executus Molten Core
Ring 1	Naglering	Golem Lord Argelmach Blackrock Depths
Ring 2	Heavy Dark Iron Ring	Shared Loot Molten Core
Trinket 1	Force of Will	General Angerforge Blackrock Depths
Trinket 2	Onyxia Blood Talisman	Celebrating Good Times
Main-Hand	Azuresong Mageblade	Golemagg the Incinerator Molten Core
Off-Hand	Drillborer Disk	Garr Molten Core

2.2.

Phase 3 Best in Slot

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Enchanted Thorium Helm	Blacksmithing
Neck	Master Dragonslayer's Medallion	The Lord of Blackrock
Shoulder	Stockade Pauldrons	BoE World Drop
Cloak	Redoubt Cloak	Mizzle the Crafty Dire Maul North
Chest	Enchanted Thorium Breastplate	Blacksmithing
Wrist	Fel Hardened Bracers	Lord Hel'nurath Dire Maul West
Hands	Stonegrip Gauntlets	BoE World Drop
Waist	Deathbone Girdle	Shared Loot Scholomance
Legs	Deathbone Legguards	Shared Loot Scholomance
Feet	Core Forged Greaves	Majordomo Executus Molten Core
Ring 1	Naglering	Golem Lord Argelmach Blackrock Depths
Ring 2	Heavy Dark Iron Ring	Shared Loot Molten Core
Trinket 1	Styleen's Impeding Scarab	Flamegor Blackwing Lair
Trinket 2	Onyxia Blood Talisman	Celebrating Good Times
Main-Hand	Lok'amir il Romathis	Nefarian Blackwing Lair
Off-Hand	Elementium Reinforced Bulwark	Chromaggus Blackwing Lair

2.3.

Phase 4 Best in Slot

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Judgement Crown	Onyxia Onyxia's Lair
Neck	Master Dragonslayer's Medallion	The Lord of Blackrock
Shoulder	Stockade Pauldrons	BoE World Drop
Cloak	Overlord's Embrace	Jin'do the Hexxer Zul'Gurub
Chest	Enchanted Thorium Breastplate	Blacksmithing
Wrist	Judgement Bindings	Razorgore the Untamed Blackwing Lair
Hands	Stonegrip Gauntlets	BoE World Drop
Waist	Deathbone Girdle	Shared Loot Scholomance
Legs	Bloodsoaked Legplates	Hakkar Zul'Gurub
Feet	Core Forged Greaves	Majordomo Executus Molten Core
Ring 1	Overlord's Onyx Band	High Priestess Arlokk Zul'Gurub
Ring 2	Heavy Dark Iron Ring	Shared Loot Molten Core
Trinket 1	Styleen's Impeding Scarab	Flamegor Blackwing Lair
Trinket 2	Onyxia Blood Talisman	Celebrating Good Times
Main-Hand	Lok'amir il Romathis	Nefarian Blackwing Lair
Off-Hand	Elementium Reinforced Bulwark	Chromaggus Blackwing Lair

2.4.

Phase 5 Best in Slot

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Avenger's Crown	Emperor Vek'lor AQ40
Neck	Mark of C'Thun	C'Thun AQ40
Shoulder	Pauldrons of the Unrelenting	Fankriss the Unyielding AQ40
Cloak	Overlord's Embrace	Jin'do the Hexxer Zul'Gurub
Chest	Enchanted Thorium Breastplate	Avenger's Breastplate	C'Thun AQ40
Wrist	Judgement Bindings	Razorgore the Untamed Blackwing Lair
Hands	Gauntlets of Steadfast Determination	Battleguard Sartura AQ40
Waist	Royal Qiraji Belt	Emperor Vek'lor AQ40
Legs	Bloodsoaked Legplates	Hakkar Zul'Gurub
Feet	Boots of the Unwavering Will	The Prophet Skeram AQ40
Ring 1	Signet Ring of the Bronze Dragonflight	Brood of Nozdormu Exalted
Ring 2	Ring of Emperor Vek'lor	Emperor Vek'lor AQ40
Trinket 1	Styleen's Impeding Scarab	Flamegor Blackwing Lair
Trinket 2	Onyxia Blood Talisman	Celebrating Good Times
Main-Hand	Sharpened Silithid Femur	Viscidus AQ40
Off-Hand	Blessed Qiraji Bulwark	Imperial Qiraji Armaments AQ40
Libram	Libram of Hope	Isalien Dire Maul East

2.5.

Phase 6 Best in Slot

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Avenger's Crown	Emperor Vek'lor AQ40
Neck	Mark of C'Thun	C'Thun AQ40
Shoulder	Pauldrons of the Unrelenting	Fankriss the Unyielding AQ40
Cloak	Cryptfiend Silk Cloak	Anub'Rekhan Naxxramas
Chest	Enchanted Thorium Breastplate	Avenger's Breastplate	C'Thun AQ40
Wrist	Judgement Bindings	Razorgore the Untamed Blackwing Lair
Hands	Gauntlets of Steadfast Determination	Battleguard Sartura AQ40
Waist	Royal Qiraji Belt	Emperor Vek'lor AQ40
Legs	Bloodsoaked Legplates	Hakkar Zul'Gurub
Feet	Boots of the Unwavering Will	The Prophet Skeram AQ40
Ring 1	Signet Ring of the Bronze Dragonflight	Brood of Nozdormu Exalted
Ring 2	Ring of Emperor Vek'lor	Emperor Vek'lor AQ40
Trinket 1	Styleen's Impeding Scarab	Flamegor Blackwing Lair
Trinket 2	Onyxia Blood Talisman	Celebrating Good Times
Main-Hand	The End of Dreams	Grobbulus Naxxramas
Off-Hand	The Plague Bearer	Patchwerk Naxxramas
Libram	Libram of Hope	Isalien Dire Maul East

While not used for many bosses, some raid encounters will require the use of resistance gear to simply just survive the incoming damage. Below you can find our recommended gear sets for Frost, Nature, and Fire resistance gear sets, allowing you to easily optimize your gear choices when resistances are needed.

Some items, which are not powerful enough to be in the best in slot list, have special properties that make them very valuable to acquire for specific encounters or as a weapon swap mid-fight. We will list the most notable special items for the current phase, and their effects and application below.

• Gnomish Battle Chicken summons a chicken that attacks your enemies for 1.5 minutes, with a cooldown of 30 minutes. The chicken scales with your Engineering skill (Level 60 at 300 skill), and buffs your group with 5% increased Attack Speed through Battle Squawk. This is what makes it well worth using while grouped.
• Arcanite Dragonling summons a dragon that attacks your enemies for up to 1 minute, with a cooldown of one hour. The dragon scales with your Engineering skill (Level 60 at 300 skill) and causes a stacking debuff that increases Fire damage taken, which makes it worth using in later raids to boost Fire Mage damage.
• Skull of Impending Doom is given as a quest reward from completing Forbidden Knowledge in the Badlands. While generally undesirable, if you need to run somewhere fast, it can be a useful item to have.
• Furbolg Medicine Pouch is sold by Gorn One Eye when you reach Honored status with Timbermaw Hold. This is a great item that you can swap during combat to provide you with a significant 1000 heal over 10 seconds. For comparison's sake, Heavy Runecloth Bandage heals you for 2000 over 8 seconds, but requires you to channel it, and you cannot take any sort of damage in the channel duration.
• Tidal Charm allows you to instantly stun an enemy for 3 seconds. It has a 50% drop chance from Prince Nazjak, who spawns around 25,84 in Arathi Highlands. Due to his very high respawn timer it might be hard to get this trinket, but the stun it provides is a life saver and duel winner.
• Linken's Boomerang allows you to potentially disarm or stun an enemy when used, which makes it useful in certain scenarios, especially in PvP. Its rewarded from the Un'Goro Crater quest It's Dangerous to Go Alone.
• Luffa removes a bleed effect, such as Garrote, from yourself when used. You get this item from the Searing Gorge quest Incendosaurs? Whateverosaur is More Like It.
• The Alliance-only Crystal of Zin-Malor allows you to kill yourself easily, and you do not get durability loss if you die from its effect. This can occasionally be useful, such as when you regret getting on a fly path after you are already flying or if you need to talk with the Blackrock Depths key ghost NPC. You get it from starting the quest Tormented By the Past.