Protection Paladin Tank Macros and Addons - The War Within Pre-Patch (2024)

Most of the macros for Paladins revolve around allowing you to use yourutility 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 youarecurrently mousing over. Stopcasting is in place to ensure that you do not delaycasting 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 currentlymousing 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 currentlymousing over. If you want to add a failsafe into the macro where it willcast on yourself if your mouseover target is not friendly, the below macrocovers 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 currentlymousing over.

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

This macro will cast Cleanse Toxins on the target you arecurrently mousing over. If you want to add a failsafe into the macro where it willcast on yourself if your mouseover target is not friendly, the below macrocovers 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 delayedat all.

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

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

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

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

The addition of [noknown:Final Stand] makes the macro not cancel Divine Shieldif 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 targetyou, you can always press the same button to remove its effect. And sinceDivine Shield can not be cast on you when you have Forbearanceyou 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 thegame will not directly cancel Divine Shield right after casting it if onlypressed once. Be careful if you have to repeatedly click Divine Shield in an emergency during global cooldown, as if youkeep pressing it after you cast Divine Shield you will drop it instantly.

Here, at Icy Veins, we useElvUIfor all our characters. This addon is a complete replacement of the defaultUser Interface. It comes with almost everything you need to perform properly:action bars, cooldown timers, proc display, etc.

We strongly recommend that you get this addon and our forum moderator Pandacho has writtena quick configuration guide for it.

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

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

Parrot andMik's Scrolling Battle Text are highlycustomisable addons for displaying floating battle text while in combat (incomingheals, damage of your spells, etc.). They both work very well by default.

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

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

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

WeakAuras is anextremely 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 yourspec more proficiently. It can also be used for a variety of otherfunctions.

Omen Threat Meteris the most popular addon for displaying the current threat levels on yourtarget. We recommend you to use it to check on your current threat levels andensure that you are not being overtaken in aggro.

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

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

Word of Glory Heal Predictor by Woliance An overlay on yourhealth 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 thishappens so you can talent out of it and back into it to fix the bug.

Clique allows you tobind specific spells to be cast as mouseover casts on unit frames. This can bevery useful for casting Word of Glory, Lay on Hands, Blessing of Sacrifice, and Blessing of Protection withoutchanging your target.

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