Protection Paladin Tank Gear and Best in Slot — The War Within (11.0.5)

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear from any source in Season 1 of The War Within. It is there as a reference to what is currently the highest-performing gear available to players.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Engorged Worm Smasher (639)	The Necrotic Wake
Shield	Acidslough Bulwark (639)	Mists of Tirna Scithe
Helm	Wrathbark Greathelm (639)	Mists of Tirna Scithe
Neck	Sureki Zealot's Insignia (639)	Sikran in Mythic Nerub-ar Palace
Shoulder	Entombed Seraph's Plumes (639)	Tier Set: Catalyst / Vault / Raid
Cloak	Wings of Shattered Sorrow (580)	Rasha'nan in Mythic Nerub-ar Palace
Chest	Entombed Seraph's Breastplate (639)	Tier Set: Catalyst / Vault / Raid
Bracers	Everforged Vambraces (636)	Crafted
Gloves	Entombed Seraph's Castigation (639)	Tier Set: Catalyst / Vault / Raid
Belt	Everforged Greatbelt (636)	Crafted
Legs	Entombed Seraph's Greaves (639)	Tier Set: Catalyst / Vault / Raid
Boots	Boots of the Black Bulwark (639)	Bloodbound Horror in Mythic Nerub-ar Palace
Ring #1	Seal of the Poisoned Pact (639)	Queen Ansurek in Mythic Nerub-ar Palace
Ring #2	Key to the Unseeming (639)	Bloodbound Horror in Mythic Nerub-ar Palace
Trinket #1	Ara-Kara Sacbrood (639)	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
Trinket #2	Skarmorak Shard (639)	The Stonevault

If you were to assemble the best gear set from Nerub-ara Palace specifically, and no other source, this is what you would wear.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Duelist's Dancing Steel (639)	Sikran in Mythic Nerub-ar Palace
Shield	Crest of the Caustic Despot (639)	Queen Ansurek in Mythic Nerub-ar Palace
Helm	Visor of the Ascended Captain (639)	Sikran in Mythic Nerub-ar Palace
Neck	Sureki Zealot's Insignia (639)	Sikran in Mythic Nerub-ar Palace
Shoulder	Entombed Seraph's Plumes (639)	Tier Set: Catalyst / Vault / Raid
Cloak	Wings of Shattered Sorrow (580)	Rasha'nan in Mythic Nerub-ar Palace
Chest	Entombed Seraph's Breastplate (639)	Tier Set: Catalyst / Vault / Raid
Bracers	Ravaged Lamplighter's Manacles (639)	Rasha'nan in Mythic Nerub-ar Palace
Gloves	Entombed Seraph's Castigation (639)	Tier Set: Catalyst / Vault / Raid
Belt	Nether Bounty's Greatbelt (639)	Nexus Princess in Mythic Nerub-ar Palace
Legs	Entombed Seraph's Greaves (639)	Tier Set: Catalyst / Vault / Raid
Boots	Boots of the Black Bulwark (639)	Bloodbound Horror in Mythic Nerub-ar Palace
Ring #1	Seal of the Poisoned Pact (639)	Queen Ansurek in Mythic Nerub-ar Palace
Ring #2	Key to the Unseeming (639)	Bloodbound Horror in Mythic Nerub-ar Palace
Trinket #1	Skyterror's Corrosive Organ (639)	Anub'arash in Mythic Nerub-ar Palace
Trinket #2	Sikran's Endless Arsenal (639)	Sikran in Mythic Nerub-ar Palace

This list contains the best items available per slot from Mythic+. It is there to provide you with a quick list of easily farmable gear if you need something in a specific slot.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Engorged Worm Smasher (639)	The Necrotic Wake
Shield	Acidslough Bulwark (639)	Mists of Tirna Scithe
Helm	Wrathbark Greathelm (639)	Mists of Tirna Scithe
Neck	'Emergency Stop' Keychain (639)	The Stonevault
Shoulder	Entombed Seraph's Plumes (639)	Tier Set: Catalyst / Vault / Raid
Cloak	Anvilhide Cape (639)	The Stonevault
Chest	Entombed Seraph's Breastplate (639)	Tier Set: Catalyst / Vault / Raid
Bracers	Bracers of Umbral Mending (639)	Grim Batol
Gloves	Entombed Seraph's Castigation (639)	Tier Set: Catalyst / Vault / Raid
Belt	Girdle of Somber Ploys (639)	The Dawnbreaker
Legs	Entombed Seraph's Greaves (639)	Tier Set: Catalyst / Vault / Raid
Boots	Ichor-Stained Sollerets (639)	City of Threads
Ring #1	Circle of Bone (639)	Grim Batol
Ring #2	Band of the Ancient Dredger (639)	Siege of Boralus
Trinket #1	Ara-Kara Sacbrood (639)	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes
Trinket #2	Skarmorak Shard (639)	The Stonevault

This Trinket Tier List is for trinkets that are used for Single Target/Raiding Purposes.

• Ara-Kara Sacbrood — This is the best trinket available for Protection Paladin right now. It has passive haste, and the passive Strength proc will pretty much always be active with 1 to 3 stacks at any given time.

• Foul Behemoth's Chelicera — Puts a DoT on the target for 20 seconds. Each time you attack the target, you heal slightly. If this overheals, your maximum health increases. For Mythic raiding scenarios this trinket is exceptionally powerful for progression raiding as you can use it on the boss when you are not the active tank and gain more maximum health for the rest of the fight!
• Skyterror's Corrosive Organ — This trinket can provide a notable increase to your damage output in single target scenarios, on encounters with adds you may want to plan your uses of the trinket to gain more from it.
• Mark of Khardros — A strength stat stick with Mastery on use.
• Oppressive Orator's Larynx — The stacking strength buff on this trinket, which is nearly always active and an on use of a decent amount of Shadow damage.

• Mad Queen's Mandate — Execute damage trinket. This will be beneficial on some Raid encounters on farm such as Broodtwister Ovinax.
• Treacherous Transmitter — This trinket will command you to move to a portal to get the effects of it. It can be quite annoying to find a good moment to do it, and the payoff is not the best. It doesn't line up with Avenging Wrath consistently.
• Sikran's Endless Arsenal — This trinket rotates through three different stances with different effects and passives based on the stance.
  • Stance - Surekian Barrage deals damage to everything in front of you. The passive gives you a stacking speed buff while you stand still for the next time you move.
  • Stance - Surekian Flourish applies a large DoT to your target. The passive effect while holding the weapon grants you a notable amount of parry and avoidance.
  • Stance - Surekian Decimation deals damage to everything in a line in front of you. The passive allows you to deal 20% bonus damage to shields.

• Ovi'nax's Mercurial Egg — Gain Strength while standing still. Gain your highest secondary stat while moving. When one is increasing in value the other is decreasing. Very annoying to use without proper planning.

• Swarmlord's Authority — This trinket gives you a small stacking absorb shield. The on-use gives you more absorption with a delay, you will need to plan this in advance. This can be beneficial on encounters with frequent large damage events such as Broodtwister Ovinax on Mythic.
• Silken Chain Weaver — This trinket provides an on demand absorb shield and reduces attack speed of all enemies in front of you. The only downside of this trinket is that it only drops in delves which means you would need to get it from a Tier 8 Delve Map or your Great Vault for it to be powerful enough to use over other options.
• Throngus's Finger — This will provide you with a large amount of Dodge every minute, which can be defensively powerful. However, this can only trigger once per minute, and you are not in control of when it will trigger. It could trigger at the end of a trash pack and not be available for the next one.
• Ceaseless Swarmgland — Purely random proc for a damage reduction. The proc rate is not often enough to justify using it, but it is a good stepping stone to another better trinket.
• Refracting Aggression Module — This trinket provides you with an absorb shield when you taunt every minute. In Raiding scenarios this is not worth it at all as you have enough cooldown coverage from your base toolkit. If you try to game the trinket to get the absorb on cooldown you may encounter issues with the boss becoming taunt immune!

This Trinket Tier List is for trinkets that are used for AoE Purposes in M+/Delves/Raiding.

• Ara-Kara Sacbrood — This is the best trinket available for Protection Paladin right now. It has passive haste, and the passive Strength proc will pretty much always be active with 1 to 3 stacks at any given time.

• Skarmorak Shard — A Mastery on use trinket which provides you with passive Mastery when something nearby dies. This is quite powerful in Dungeon/Delve situations as you will have stacks of this Mastery buff when going into a new pack of enemies all of the time.
• Oppressive Orator's Larynx — The stacking strength buff on this trinket, which is nearly always active and an on use of a decent amount of Shadow damage.

• Overclocked Gear-a-Rang Launcher — A strong AoE damage trinket. Send it while being at maximum melee range, it hits enemies twice if you do so.
• Skyterror's Corrosive Organ — AoE damage trinket.

• Mark of Khardros — Another Mastery trinket which provides benefits on use, however in Dungeon/Delve situations Skarmorak Shard would perform better as you will be gaining more benefits over the course of the Dungeon/Delve as it provides you with Mastery when something dies.
• Spare Meat Hook — A strong single damage on use trinket. Many dungeons have priority enemies in packs. Lowered to C Tier due to a 33% nerf in damage.

• Swarmlord's Authority — This trinket gives you a small stacking absorb shield. The on-use gives you more absorption with a delay, this effect scales with haste. Due to the low cooldown of the trinket it will be available on most groups of enemies.
• Silken Chain Weaver — This trinket provides an on demand absorb shield and reduces attack speed of all enemies in front of you. The only downside of this trinket is that it only drops in delves which means you would need to get it from a Tier 8 Delve Map or your Great Vault for it to be powerful enough to use over other options.
• Foul Behemoth's Chelicera — This trinket will provide you with extra maximum health if you deal damage while at full health and the DoT is active on the target. However for Dungeon/Delve environments this buff changes to an absorb shield when you leave combat.
• Throngus's Finger — This will provide you with a large amount of Dodge every minute, which can be defensively powerful. However, this can only trigger once per minute, and you are not in control of when it will trigger. It could trigger at the end of a trash pack and not be available for the next one.
• Ceaseless Swarmgland — Purely random proc for a damage reduction. The proc rate is not often enough to justify using it, but it is a good stepping stone to another better trinket.
• Refracting Aggression Module — This trinket provides you with an absorb shield when you taunt every minute. The frequency of the shield can line up with gaps in your cooldown plan but there are better options above in this list to solve that issue. Ignore this trinket.

Anything not listed above would be a stopgap until you get something better.