Midnight 12.1 arena
Protection Paladin PvP Guide
How Protection Paladins play arena: the PvP talents they take, what they press when they go, how they survive, what to kick on them, and the comps they play. Based on rated arena games.
Most taken PvP talent
Warrior of Light
100%
Empowered Spells
None confirmed for Protection Paladin yet. A buff is listed once its tooltip and our games agree.
Protection Paladin PvP talents
How often each PvP talent is taken. Click one for what it does.
Increases the damage done by your Shield of the Righteous by 30%, but reduces armor granted by 30%.
Call upon the light to blind enemy players in a 25 yd cone, causing enemies to miss their spells and attacks for 4 sec.
When activated, your next Avenger's Shield will interrupt and silence all enemies within 8 yds of the target.
lasts 1.9s in arena
Empowers the friendly target with the spirit of the forgotten queen, causing the target to be immune to all damage for 6.
45s cooldown ยท lasts 6s
Class and spec tree talents, with the build most players run and every cooldown adjusted for it: Protection Paladin talents and kit.
How Protection Paladins survive a go
Dies in
17%
of rounds. Every spec: 24%
Dies first in
17%
of rounds. Every spec: 17%
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Based on rated arena games uploaded to MindCollector, including every player in each game. Updated 1 Nov 2026.
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