First Look at Protection Paladin in Dragonflight 10.0.7 - Feedback & Wishlist

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Protection Paladins have received significant changes with the 10.0.7 PTR, but were these changes enough to fix some of the issues plaguing this Tank of Faith? Our Protection Paladin Writer, Lincoln, breaks down all changes while providing insightful feedback and a wishlist that might help Protection Paladin meet its full potential. With the release of the 10.0.7 PTR over the last few weeks, we have seen several class changes to the Paladin class including changes for Protection, Retribution and Holy. 10.0.5 did not bring much except some minor quality of life changes for Holy.

Protection and Retribution were effectively unchanged compared to launch day Dragonflight. Looking at the current state of live balance, Protection Paladins are not a «meta» spec this tier. It's not a highly popular spec for raids — most Mythic teams are progressing with Death Knight and Warrior tanks with very few Paladins who have cleared 8/8M.

And for Mythic Plus, Paladins are strong but again Warrior and Death Knight tanks have higher representation in higher keys. Andybrew is once again pushing the highest Mythic+ on Paladin but looking at the larger population, Protection Paladin is not that popular. Paladins have been patiently waiting since beta for their day in the sun as other classes saw major changes repeatedly while Paladins saw really none.

The class tree is effectively the same as it was in early Dragonflight alpha builds. There were some changes and iterations during alpha and beta to address feedback but none of them were really that satisfying. But based on the PTR, it seems like improving the gameplay experience for Paladins is now a focus! In this article, I'll be going over the changes for Protection Paladins in 10.0.7 and