Protection Paladin TPS Rotation Explained

As I said in my last post, I love to review my site’s incoming search terms. One that has been coming up lately is TPS rotations for Paladins.

With WotLK, Paladins received a fairly large overhaul, mechanics-wise. We have a few more buttons to push, and combined with relatively short cooldowns on our core abilities, we have a set rotation, and occupies every global cooldown (GCD).

We have 5 abilities that occupy our rotation. These spells are split into 2 categories, dependent on the length of their cooldowns, 6 seconds and 9 seconds **.

9 seconds:

• Holy Shield
• Judgement
• Consecration

6 seconds:

• Shield of Righteousness
• Hammer of the Righteous

Now, the math behind this all revolves around the GCD being 1.5 seconds. Fortunately enough, 6 and 9 are both evenly divisible by the GCD. I’ll make a quick list of the CD’s here, so you can see the flow.

1. 0.0s Holy Shield (9)
2. 1.5s Shield of Righteousness (6)
3. 3.0s Judgement (9)
4. 4.5s Hammer of of the Righteous (6)
5. 6.0s Consecrate (9)
6. 7.5s Shield of Righteousness (6)
7. 9.0s Holy Shield (9)
8. 10.5s Hammer of of the Righteous (6)
9. 12.0s Judgement (9)
10. 13.5s Shield of Righteousness (6)
11. 15.0s Consecrate (9)
12. 16.5s Hammer of of the Righteous (6)

Now I know this seems a little complicated, however, its really not. I’ve included a handy little video that will show you exactly how to do this. Please try to follow this order for these spells, as this is most effective for 1) getting Holy Shield up ASAP, and 2) best for immediate TPS generation.

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** Ok, Holy Shield, and Consecrate aren’t really 9 sec CD’s, but you can treat them as such, Holy Shield has a 10 second duration, with a 8 second CD, so you’re not sacrificing any mitigation.