How I Play My Level 80 Paladin

• Role: Main tank for the 6-box plus backup healer via target-of-target heals.
• Why heal too: Takes pressure off the Druid, who's mana-limited at 80. Target-of-target heals catch whoever the mob is actually hitting.
• Stun chain: Three stuns on three timers. Order them by cast time so the fastest fires first.
• Pull mechanic: Trial for Honor on every pull. Gives an incoming damage reduction buff.

• Force of Timorous (Timer 5): 1s cast, stuns up to 83.
• Solemn Force (Timer 4): 1s cast, stuns up to 83.
• Lesson of Contrition (Timer 6): 2s cast, does extra damage on the stun.

Order matters: All three stuns are sorted by cast time in the multibind so the 1-second stuns fire first. Different timers means none of them block each other in the spell button queue.

• Burst of Marrow: 3,000 target-of-target heal, 12s reuse.
• Radiant Light: 1,500 target-of-target heal, 0.2s cast time. Emergency save.
• Aurora of Morrow: 1,300 group heal, 3s cast.
• Wave of Absolution: 2,000 group heal at the end of the rotation.

Why target-of-target: The Druid's multibind heals the tank. The Paladin's target-of-target heals catch the casters when a mob breaks loose. Together they cover the whole group without switching targets.

• Trial for Honor: Pull tool. Incoming damage reduction + hatred over time. Cast on every pull.
• Mark of the Saint: Reverse damage shield. 27 damage to the mob every time it strikes, with a small heal proc.
• Force of Disruption: Damage spell at the end of the rotation.

• Armor of Decorum: Mini-defensive. Absorbs 25% incoming melee damage up to 22,000 total over 1 minute.
• Deflection: Block everything with your shield. Never gets replaced, useful all the way to 130.
• Armor of the Inquisitor: Increases incoming heal effectiveness + bonus AC.
• Lay Hands: 78,000 instant heal + 20,000/tick HoT for 6 seconds. Saves your life when nothing else will.
• Divine Aura: Total invulnerability + 12,000 HP/tick HoT. Last-resort emergency button.
• Hand of Piety: 7,800 group heal. Quick group save.

Lay Hands is real: With heroic stat buffs, the HoT alone can carry you through a fight that should have killed you.

• Sustenance of Tunare: Current Ward of Tunare line. Heal + AC + attack proc on melee hits. Always up.
• Divine Protector's Unity (Rank 2): Casts Righteous Fury proc (~270 damage proc) plus the current armor buff. This is why you take Aegolism over Druid skin. Better stats, mana regen, and the extra proc.
• Bthur's Mark: Current Symbol HP buff line.
• Aegolism: Take this on the Paladin (block Druid skin). Better than Druid skin + Symbol combined.
• Blessed Aura: +10% to all healing spells.
• Remorseless of the Fallen: Killer buff after slaying mobs.

• Mark of Salvation: Group hate-reduction buff. Cast on everyone else so they pull less aggro and you hold it more easily.
• Block on the tank: The tank must block Mark of Salvation. Otherwise it lands on you too and your hate generation drops, making the buff useless for the whole group.
• Holy Forge: Massive damage vs undead. 5min duration, 1hr reuse. Pop it for undead-heavy zones.
• Inquisitor's Judgment: Burn AA. 1,200 damage proc 20 times. Stack into burn windows.

• Mem macros: One button to swap spell sets. Useful for swapping between tank-spec and healer-spec.
• Pause syntax: /pause 100 = 10 seconds (after the previous command).
• Healer spec: Drop stuns, swap in more heals. Useful when grouping with another tank like a Warrior or Shadow Knight.

• Elegant Defiant: Starting to show its weakness at 80.
• Marks of Valor (level 75 gear): Decent step up. Buy from the Call of the Forsaken merchant in Ethernere: West Karana.
• Marks of Valor (level 80 gear): Buy these next. Significant upgrade over Elegant Defiant.
• Paragon Plate (Seeds of Destruction): Best path if you're investing time. Equivalent to House of Thule tier 1.
• Weapons: Best weapon you can find. Typically a rune-proc weapon for tanking. Shield should have a high-AC tank proc.

AA priority: Defensive AAs first, always. Offense and utility second. Tank stats compound. Every point of AC and HP makes the entire box safer.