When Wrath hit, I was specced Protection. Grimhammer is my levelling partner, and as a Warrior the most sensible combination was to have him specced Protection, and me specced Holy. Getting groups for instances was a breeze, and since we know each other’s playstyle, healing and tanking was very, very easy. Now, Grim is 74 and I’m 73, and I’ve been entertaining the idea of respeccing Protection to try the new talents out. I was happily working out a spec when I had to stop and hesitate…

Having healed Grim as we quested and ran instances, I got a good feel for the abilities that a Prot Warrior has at his hands. And looking through the Paladin Prot tree I felt… underwhelmed, frankly. First, lets address the issue of interrupts.  Hammer of Justice is a stun… which interrupts if the target is immune to stuns. That’s fine, no problems there. But for Human, Dwarf, and Draenei Paladins, this is the ONLY interrupt they get. Prot Warriors have 3 interrupts, one of them not even on the global cooldown. Added to which, they have Spell Reflect. Now, as a Blood Elf Paladin, I have an advantage over my Alliance counterparts in the form of Arcane Torrent. So, with the improved Hammer of Justice, and Arcane Torrent, I have 1 interrupt (which is also my only stun) with a 30 second cooldown, and one with a 2 minute cooldown

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