4.1 Prot Pally Tanking Rotation

[lans83]

Well, I'm not promising top performance from this. I'm catching alot of flaq from people on the other forums for this telling me that it's gimping performance with a /castsequence. I've found it to be better than having to stretch my hand halfway across the damn keyboard just to hit my spells. But then I guess they're also not mashing the spam button like we do when multiboxing. Even after 4.0 with the new setup, my old /castsequence was damn good and even improved my brother's fights. Don't know about the critics on the other board, but if I can pop off a damage spell between my main spell cooldowns, I'm gonna do it. Even if it means weak hits. Atleast it's more damage being tossed out there with a 1hp SotR. Even before, the damn EJerks' posts stated you can use both WoG and SotR in a rotation. Those people just never came up with a /castsequence. I may be gimping, but even on tanking the rare zombie beast over in TwHlands, those fuckers only pulled threat off me a few times and i was 84. My gear was too low for surviving the hits he sent my way, but yes, I kept aggro off raid geared dps and healers. even if for a moment at times :/ Had I been 85 and geared better, I wouldn't have had any problems.

[Kekkerer]

I am looking to improve my pally tanking rotation as well but i want it to work with my dk priority system spam, this is what i have so far:

button 1: avenger's shield
button 2: hammer of wrath
button 3: divine protection
button 4: /castsequence reset=5 Judgement,Hammer of the Righteous,Shield of the Righteous,Hammer of the Righteous,Crusader Strike

[lans83]

I typically use AS to pull my mobs instead of Judgement and the Hammer and Crusader strike that close to one another in a rotation with nothing being cast between them will cause you to have to sit and wait on them to come off cooldown. Hammer and CS both share a cooldown, Hammer is meant for mobs, CS for single targets/bosses. Don't mix them in the same /castsequence unless you're tryin to fill up the character limit allowed. Best to have one macro for each. But the way I have mine set up is my main spam button is the first macro. I spam that which makes it click my /castsequence macro first, then my AS between spells or during the global cool down. This way I can pop off AS alot more than tryin to do it manually unless I chose to. I also have an AS /cast [@mouseover] macro for adds, pulling, or whatever. But with this, I'm using it also in my rotation. People on the other forums keep sayin that with this over their original style, they're losing TPS with this, but it's not that different from my original macro before the 4.1 change to WoG and Elitist Jerks never came up with anything for either from what I read as far as macros unless they couldn't get it for some reason, and nothing was/is posted since the change. I might've overlooked it, but this is what I have workin for me. Feel free to change it up if you want, add anything to it if you want, I don't care. With WoG in there and the talent for it, you're pretty much guaranteeing yourself the added damage bubble from the over healing if the healer bothers to keep you topped off. Especially with raiding. Again, the 1hp SotR may be week, but the constant damage from them back to back and AS in between should make up for it. If you put AS in the rotation, you're setting yourself up for a hangup in the rotation if you use it when it's refreshed before it reaches it in the sequence, or wasted chances if you only use it in the sequence and not as a filler.

[Kekkerer]

Ok I've mended my macro to this:

Single target:
button 1: /castsequence reset=combat Crusader Strike,Crusader Strike,Crusader Strike,Shield of the Righteous
button 2: judgement
button 3:hammer of wrath
button 4:/use 10 /cast divine protection /cast Avenger's Shield

AOE:
button 1: /castsequence reset=combat Hammer of the Righteous,Hammer of the Righteous,Hammer of the Righteous,Shield of the Righteous
button 2: judgement
button 3:Holy Wrath
button 4:/use 10 /cast divine protection /cast Avenger's Shield

I spam 1 button that spams all 4 of these, got two now one for aoe and one for bosses.

Edit: The aoe one works well but I have large gaps in my single target one.

[Heavyd]

you should put holy wrath in both rotations. if you're going up against one target all the damage goes to the one target.

Your button2 should be judgement, holy wrath

[lans83]

I came up with this in a hurry, but yes, you can swap out the second SotR with Holy Wrath to cast so you'll have 2hps for the third SotR in the rotation I've listed. Haven't tested it yet or timed it, but the downtime between each HW shouldn't be no more than 20 seconds, so you'll only have about 5 or so seconds of downtime between each use. If you swap HW with Hammer of Wrath, you should cast it as a filler also like AS is, but not sure if it'll get hung up and not cast it if AS is on cooldown. Been a while since I had HW in a rotation for my pally. I've been using that and Cons as situational spells due to the cooldowns on them, so I don't use them constantly. Boss fights, I hit them every second they come off cooldown tho. If anyone from here wouldn't mind putting this to the test like EJ does, could you post the results? Other forums are still givin me shit for it.

[Kekkerer]

I came up with this in a hurry, but yes, you can swap out the second SotR with Holy Wrath to cast so you'll have 2hps for the third SotR in the rotation I've listed.

I am not sure what you mean by this.

Both for my AOE and single target rotation I added the following macro:

/castsequence reset=8 judgement, holy wrath

My rotations now are:

Single target:
button 1: /castsequence reset=combat Crusader Strike,Crusader Strike,Crusader Strike,Shield of the Righteous
button 2: /castsequence reset=8 judgement, holy wrath
button 3: hammer of wrath
button 4: /use 10 /cast divine protection /cast Avenger's Shield

AOE:
button 1: /castsequence reset=combat Hammer of the Righteous,Hammer of the Righteous,Hammer of the Righteous,Shield of the Righteous
button 2: /castsequence reset=8 judgement, holy wrath
button 3: /use 10 /cast divine protection /cast Avenger's Shield

I personally like that divine protection and avenger's shield are used in the rotations. Conse i like to keep out though since it has some very good situational uses.

Edit: Sometimes my holy power does not get used up does that mean that my shield missed or is it being skipped over somehow?

[daanji]

you should put holy wrath in both rotations. if you're going up against one target all the damage goes to the one target.

Your button2 should be judgement, holy wrath

Heavyd? Are you the same Heavyd that used to play on firetree and was once a member of the guild called Shadow?

[Heavyd]

Nope. That's not me. I box(ed) on Doomhammer for a while.