Protection Paladin Tank Macros and Addons — The War Within (11.0.5)

Most of the macros for Paladins revolve around allowing you to use your utility spells on your mouseover target.

• #showtooltip Blessing of Protection
• /stopcasting
• /cast [@mouseover, help, nodead] Blessing of Protection

• #showtooltip Blessing of Freedom
• /stopcasting
• /cast [@mouseover, help, nodead] [] Blessing of Freedom

• #showtooltip Blessing of Sacrifice
• /stopcasting
• /cast [@mouseover, help, nodead] Blessing of Sacrifice

These macros allow you to cast your various hand spells on the target you are currently mousing over. Stopcasting is in place to ensure that you do not delay casting any of these spells due to a cast already in progress.

• #showtooltip Lay on Hands
• /stopcasting
• /cast [@mouseover, help, nodead] Lay on Hands

This macro will cast Lay on Hands on the target you are currently mousing over.

• #showtooltip Word of Glory
• /stopcasting
• /cast [@mouseover, help, nodead] Word of Glory

This macro will cast Word of Glory on the target you are currently mousing over. If you want to add a failsafe into the macro where it will cast on yourself if your mouseover target is not friendly, the below macro covers this.

• #showtooltip Word of Glory
• /stopcasting
• /cast [@mouseover, help, nodead] [] Word of Glory

• #showtooltip Intercession
• /stopcasting
• /cast [@mouseover, dead, exists] Intercession

This macro will cast Intercession on the target you are currently mousing over.

• #showtooltip Cleanse Toxins
• /cast [@mouseover, help, nodead] Cleanse Toxins

This macro will cast Cleanse Toxins on the target you are currently mousing over. If you want to add a failsafe into the macro where it will cast on yourself if your mouseover target is not friendly, the below macro covers this.

• #showtooltip Cleanse Toxins
• /cast [@mouseover, help, nodead] [] Cleanse Toxins

• #showtooltip Divine Shield
• /stopcasting
• /cast Divine Shield

This macro will stop your current spell cast and cast Divine Shield, ensuring that your invulnerability is not delayed at all.

• #showtooltip Rebuke
• /stopcasting
• /cast [@focus,exists][] Rebuke

This macro will stop your current spell cast and cast Rebuke on your focus target, if you have one. Otherwise, it will cast Rebuke on your current target.

• #showtooltip Divine Shield
• /cast Divine Shield
• /cancelaura [noknown:Final Stand] Divine Shield

This macro allows you to cancel your Divine Shield (by pressing it a second time). This is useful for when you want to use Divine Shield to quickly get rid of a debuff, but want to continue tanking the boss (make sure you use taunt to make the boss fixate you as you know, if you have Divine Shield, the boss will attack the next target on the threat list without the fixate).

The addition of [noknown:Final Stand] makes the macro not cancel Divine Shield if you have Final Stand talented.

You can always add both Blessing of Protection as well as Blessing of Spellwarding to the same macro to cover more bases. This means that if you use any of the spells that might make mobs not target you, you can always press the same button to remove its effect. And since Divine Shield can not be cast on you when you have Forbearance you are safe to use this macro:

• #showtooltip Divine Shield
• /cast Divine Shield
• /cancelaura [noknown:Final Stand] Divine Shield
• /cancelaura Blessing of Protection
• /cancelaura [known:Blessing of Spellwarding] Blessing of Spellwarding

Note that it does NOT matter in what order these abilities are, and the game will not directly cancel Divine Shield right after casting it if only pressed once. Be careful if you have to repeatedly click Divine Shield in an emergency during global cooldown, as if you keep pressing it after you cast Divine Shield you will drop it instantly.

ElvUI is a complete replacement of the default User Interface. It comes with almost everything you need to perform properly: action bars, unit frames, cooldown timers, proc displays, etc.

Boss mods are addons that warn you about boss abilities and give you live advice on how to handle some mechanics. We strongly recommend you to get one such addon. At Icy Veins, we mostly use Deadly Boss Mods, the most popular boss mod. A good alternative is Big Wigs.

GTFO is a lightweight addon that notifies you when you are standing in harmful effects or when you are making other such mistakes. It is very useful, even if your boss mod is already alerting you of such things.

Parrot and Mik's Scrolling Battle Text are highly customisable addons for displaying floating battle text while in combat (incoming heals, damage of your spells, etc.). They both work very well by default.

Recount is a well known addon that most people use for displaying current DPS or HPS (Healing Per Second). This add-on is not really lightweight, and provides a very high amount of information (and it can sometimes cause issues with performance). It is generally a good option to use Recount for checking what you take damage from and if the share of damage/healing you do with each of your abilities is similar to that of other players of your class.

An alternative to Recount (similar in function, so the choice is personal preference) is Details!.

A lightweight alternative to Recount and Details! is Skada Damage Meter.

WeakAuras is an extremely useful addon that allows you to have visual effects on your screen, helping you track your buffs, debuffs, and cooldowns. It is highly customizable , and it can make it much, much easier to keep track of your procs and play your spec more proficiently. It can also be used for a variety of other functions.

Omen Threat Meter is the most popular addon for displaying the current threat levels on your target. We recommend you to use it to check on your current threat levels and ensure that you are not being overtaken in aggro.

Method Raid Tools is a useful addon that allows you to track the cooldowns of other raid members, as well as providing you with a wealth of other useful raid information.

T31 Empowered Consecration by Fatpala A bar to keep track of the empowered consecration from the T31 2 set bonus.

Word of Glory Heal Predictor by Woliance An overlay on your health bar unit frame to show a predicted amount that Word of Glory will heal you for.

[Reminder] Spellwarding bugged by Fatpala Due to a bug with Blessing of Spellwarding it can sometimes not function. This Weak Aura will prompt you when this happens so you can talent out of it and back into it to fix the bug.

Clique allows you to bind specific spells to be cast as mouseover casts on unit frames. This can be very useful for casting Word of Glory, Lay on Hands, Blessing of Sacrifice, and Blessing of Protection without changing your target.

Currently, we do not believe that you need any additional addons to play your specialisation to its full potential.