Protection Paladin Tank Best Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — 12.0.5

You should use a Indecipherable Eversong Diamond in your first available gem socket, and fill every other with Flawless Masterful Peridot. While there are many other Eversong diamond options and secondary stat gems available, these two provide the best benefits.

Optimizations

Stats and Simulations

Not satisfied with standard recommendations? Jump to these two guides to find out more about what your stats do, and how to fully optimize them.

StatsRaidbots Guide

Thalassian Phoenix Oil as Templar or Rite of Sanctification as Lightsmith.

Slot	Enchantment
Head	Enchant Helm - Empowered Blessing of Speed
Shoulders	Enchant Shoulders - Akil'zon's Swiftness
Chest	Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul
Legs	Blood Knight's Armor Kit
Feet	Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt
Rings	Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Tenacity
Weapon	Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Gear Information

Best in Slot Gear and Where to Get It

Before applying gems and enchants to your equipment, make sure to check whether there might be an easy-to-get item that is better than the one you're currently wearing!

Gear

In addition to enchants and improvements to your gear, making sure you come prepared with the right consumables to endgame content has a big impact on your performance.

Use Flask of the Shattered Sun as a general-use flask in all content types.

Light's Potential should be your combat potion of choice.

You should use Silvermoon Health Potion for in-combat healing. Healing potions do not share a cooldown with Healthstones, so you can use both independently if you can access a Warlock.

Use Champion's Bento (secondary stat) as your food buff of choice if a Feast is not available.

If a Harandar Celebration (primary stat) / Blooming Feast (secondary stat) is provided by the group, use them instead. Either are fine.

When deciding what food type to use it would be advisable to sim both options to identify which one is better for you. Primary Stat (Strength) and Highest Secondary Stat options are available for both feasts and personal food buffs.

In addition, if you can afford it, you should use Void-Touched Augment Runes to increase your primary stat. Augment Runes will be expensive until the final Season of the expansion, and disappear on death, so use them wisely!

Professions

Create and Craft Your Own Consumables

While you can simply buy all these items from the Auction House, you may want to craft them yourself and sell the leftovers instead with our Icy Veins Profession Guides!

Midnight Professions Guide

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This guide has been written by Panthea, who raids in Catalyst and is the author of TankNotes. He plays all tanks and is a Moderator for the Hammer of Wrath Paladin Discord. You can follow him on Twitter.