It adds a lot more flexibility in how you can proactively, or reactively deal with a damage spike on you, or an ally. Haste helps scale the builder/spender economy - making it easier to maintain Shield of the Righteous, or heal with Word of Glory. You can gear for Haste, and Versatility, but you also gear for Mastery, which is very strong. Tanks generally gear around one or two secondary stats, like Haste/Vers in the case of Prot. Secondary stat scaling is where it gets really interesting. This type of scaling applies to all tanks as they gain a lot of benefits from item level. Strength improves Shield of the Righteous and Word of Glory helping increase the impact of active mitigation as content gets more difficult. Like all tanks, Paladin scales well with item level where they gain more health from Stamina and damage reduction from Armor, Block, and Strength. You can find him posting random opinions on Twitter.Ī good place to start when analyzing why a spec or class starts doing well is looking at stat scaling and it should be no secret that Paladin is one of the better scaling tanks. Feel free to message him questions, comments or concerns about what you read here. He is a moderator for the Hammer of Wrath Community where he helps players on a daily basis get better at playing Protection. These are not the only reasons, so today I’m going to look at what other factors are in play that have allowed a competitive player like Andy to excel at playing Prot. Paladin has very AoE strong burst damage, and is consistent in single target situations. The second most obvious thing is damage output. The first and most obvious thing is the playstyle change from BFA to Shadowlands - having more uptime on Shield of the Righteous makes playing the spec more consistent defensively than it’s ever been. There was no one magical change in a list of Blizzard patch notes that you can point to for Season 2 that made them suddenly good. However, there were no direct changes to the spec in 9.1 or 9.1.5 that would have caused this shift. Now it’s on par with other tanks, and able to do the same key levels or even slightly higher. Paladin had a reputation of being a "glass cannon tank." The general perception was that they did great damage, but it was very hard to live in difficult content, so the spec was considered worse than other tanks in the meta. Warrior in BFA or Vengeance Demon Hunter in Shadowlands Season 1. Paladin has always been capable of doing high keys but it was always two or three key levels below other tanks like Prot. Paladin has performed in top-end Mythic+ in the five years that the feature has been in the game.
Recently, Andybrew (aka Cptrogers) has reached the number one spot for tanks on Raider.io playing Protection Paladin, and his score has only gone up crossing the 3100 mark.
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