4.1 Prot Pally Tanking Rotation

[lans83]

You need to set up a two macro system for this one to work.

First macro:
/startattack
/click BT4Button5
/click BT4Button6
/cast Hammer of Wrath
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear(); UIErrorsFrame:Show()

If you don't use Bartender4, then change the BT4Button5 and 6 to ActionButton and whatever numbers you want them to, like 1-9
The script will force the red error messages to clear out when you spam this button, if you get the error noise, you can grab the sound file that removes it from Curse.

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...ject-8021.aspx

It's a sound file that replaces the current one that still works to this day I use.

Second Macro:
/castsequence reset=3 Hammer of the Righteous,Judgement,Hammer of the Righteous,Word of Glory,Hammer of the Righteous,Shield of the Righteous,Judgement,Hammer of The Righteous,Shield of the Righteous,Hammer of the Righteous,Shield of the Righteous

Place macro 1, the spam macro above on whatever button you'll spam for this, then place Second macro on whatever hotbar you set in the spam macro, then the Avenger's Shield spell itself in the next hotbar. Only downtime on you'll get is from global cooldown and maybe a second or so at as the next spell comes off cooldown. With this, you'll still be able to spam the hell out of Avenger's Shield left and right. But like before, make sure you're Spell/Hit capped for whatever you're goin up against or you risk your HotR not landing for HP and it hanging up on SotR or WoG. You can also lower the time on the reset= to 1 or 2 if it'll help with that if you're missin too much.

The following spec should also help you out. It's a mix of both the Self Healing/Fast Threat building specs I've seen on Elitist Jerks. May not be a perfect build and rotation, but it should help you build, hold, and maintain a good hold on anything you pull.

http://www.wowhead.com/talent#sZGrhfRzdRMuf0hskbcqzcm

As an added bonus, what I did was made /cast [@mouseover] macros for alot of my other spells and put them at my fingertips. Separate macros for Rebuke, Avenger's Shield, so I can use it a little more if it's not poppin with the above macro, also helps with pulling, and regaining threat from healers. And one for Hand of Reckoning. I also use Tauntmaster from Curse for threat monitoring. Others use Clique or similar addons, but TM is lightweight and easy to set up. I like it and it works for me.



Hope this helps ya'll. I just copied and pasted here from my post on the WoW and WowHead forums.



Edit: You can make another /castsequence rotation macro the same way, but swap the HorR for CS for single targets. I use HotR because I've found that it refreshes my AS way more than CS did during fights allowing me to put out more damage with it and use AS as a filler between spells that were still on cooldown. Try it, if you don't like it, then switch back to your style. Even with 1HP SotR hitting, atleast you've got that constant damage being tossed out instead of waiting every 3 seconds for your HotR or CS to cooldown to use them. This works for me and has not let me down, nor have any of my macros I've come up with. Again, to each their own, I'm just trying to help.






Edit: 6-10-11 Reposting new macros from a post I made back in May. I have not been on much with my Pally to test these as I have been working nearly non stop since I last came up with these. I was hoping that with all the views to this thread, someone might have had some luck with them and if so, what do you think?



Just replace this one with the first /castsequence I posted and use it with the SPAM button I made to /click this macro, then the Avenger's Shield spell too. This macro reached the 255 mark, so I couldn't group them all together in one macro.

Mob rotation:
/castsequence reset=3 Hammer of the Righteous,Judgement,Hammer of the Righteous,Inquisition,Hammer of the Righteous,Inquisition,Judgement,Hammer of The Righteous,Inquisition,Hammer of the Righteous,Holy Wrath,Hammer of the Righteous,Word of Glory

Just use this one on bosses/single target pulls by it'self.

Single Target macro:
/castsequence reset=3 Crusader Strike,Judgement,Crusader Strike,Shield of the Righteous,Crusader Strike,Judgement,Crusader Strike,Shield of the Righteous,Crusader Strike,Holy Wrath,Crusader Strike,Word of Glory
/cast Avenger's Shield
/cast Hammer of Wrath

Again, I use Consecration manually.

An opening boss fight macro that might help. If running with others, warn them not to fight till after the AS is cast.

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=60 Divine Plea, Inquisition, Exorcism, Avenger's Shield


The original /castsequence can be changed also to replace the Word of Glory at the beginning with the Shield of the Righteous at the end, this way if the macro resets before WoG is off it's cooldown, the macro will not get hung up on you. Downside however is having Judgement hang it up if it's still on cooldown :/ I'm wanting to get back into the tanking game now that I'm starting to have a little free time more than before.