The Light and How to Swing It: The storied history of the paladin tank, part 2

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Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Light and How to Swing It for holy , protection and retribution paladins. Protection specialist Matt Walsh spends most of his time receiving concussions for the benefit of 24 other people, obsessing over his hair (a Blood Elf racial!), and maintaining the tankadin-focused blog Righteous Defense . Last week, we talked about the beginnings of the protection paladin spec and the stirrings of the infancy of the “tankadin conscience,” as it were. To briefly recap: In vanilla, we were presented with a series of hurdles ranging from terrible gear choices, to poor threat potential thanks to limited mana (after the Righteous Fury change), to terrible talent trees that didn’t offer the tools needed to tank effectively. Then The Burning Crusade launched, and the game changed completely. Suddenly we had real tanking tools — a taunt, for example — and were finally primed to explode upon the tanking world with all the sound and righteous fury we could muster. That’s where our story begins today, with the prot paladins of yesteryear preparing to make a name for themselves and their spec in earnest. Continue reading The Light and How to Swing It: The storied history of the paladin tank, part 2 Filed under: Paladin , (Paladin) The Light and How to Swing It The Light and How to Swing It: The storied history of the paladin tank, part 2 originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink