Paladin · tank
Protection Paladin rotation assistant for World of Warcraft
Shield of the Righteous uptime held, threat snapped on the pull.
Rice Rotations reads your Protection Paladin from the game picture, decides which ability comes next, and presses the key for it from a second PC or a virtual machine. It runs on World of Warcraft Midnight retail and on Mists of Pandaria Classic, and the profile is included in the same subscription as the other thirty-nine specializations.
How the Protection Paladin profile plays
Protection Paladin is Shield of the Righteous uptime. Rice spends Holy Power on Shield of the Righteous to keep the mitigation rolling rather than banking it, keeps Consecration down, and keeps Avenger’s Shield and Judgment cycling for Holy Power generation.
Tanking is where a rotation assistant earns its keep: mitigation has to land before the damage does, not after it. Rice tracks the boss cast bar and your own resources, spends your active mitigation on the hits that matter, holds a defensive back for the next one, and keeps interrupts and taunt-adjacent utility available while you drive positioning and route.
The profile reacts to the pull instead of replaying a fixed list: interrupts fire on casts that matter, dispels go out when a debuff lands, and cooldowns are held for the burst window rather than used the moment they come up. Dozens of Protection Paladin settings decide how aggressive or how conservative that behaviour is, so a raid night and a Mythic+ push can use different profiles of the same spec.
Cooldowns and burst windows
Ardent Defender and Guardian of Ancient Kings are spent on the damage events, Divine Shield is kept for the moment it saves the pull, and Word of Glory is used as an emergency heal rather than as a Holy Power dump.
What the Protection Paladin rotation handles
- Shield of the Righteous uptime instead of banked Holy Power
- Consecration kept down under the pack
- Ardent Defender and Guardian of Ancient Kings on damage events
- Rebuke on interrupts, Cleanse Toxins and Word of Glory as needed
Raid, Mythic+ and the rest
Raid keeps a steady mitigation uptime through known damage. In Mythic+ it holds Consecration and cleave through the pack, and makes sure mitigation is already up as the pull lands instead of one global late.
Raid nights, Mythic+ keystones, delves, world content and levelling alts. Rice Rotations is built and tuned for PvE, so there are no arena or battleground profiles. The desktop client is Windows only.
Setup and safety
Nothing is attached to the game: there is no injection, no memory reading and no unlocker. Rice runs on a second PC or a virtual machine, reads your gaming PC as a video stream and sends keystrokes back, so the machine running World of Warcraft only ever sees keyboard input arriving.
- Built and tuned for PvE. No arena or battleground profiles.
- Midnight retail is supported.
- Classic is Mists of Pandaria only, so no Era, no Wrath, no other ruleset.
Protection Paladin questions
- Does it bank Holy Power or spend it?
- It spends to keep mitigation rolling, with settings that let it bank a charge for an incoming hit if you prefer that pattern.
- Do I keep control of pulls?
- Yes. Pull timing, route and positioning are yours; the profile presses the rotation, the mitigation and the interrupts.
Other Paladin specializations
Browse every supported specialization or see what is included per spec.