Blizzard's Midnight API restricts addon access to your personal buffs and cooldowns during M+ and raid — the exact content where aura tracking matters most. The addons listed here work within these restrictions and cover what WeakAuras used to handle.

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Protection Paladin · Essentials

Addons and talent builds for Protection Paladin — Shield of the Righteous spending for Armor of the Righteous, Avenger's Shield as both interrupt and pull tool, and Ardent Defender timing that transfers into M+ and raid. Mark your setup and share it with one link. Reviewed 28 Jun 2026.

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Talent Builds

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Templar Single Target

Templar

The standard Protection Paladin build — Templar hero talent, Hammer of Light burst every minute aligned with Shield of the Righteous uptime. Solid single-target mitigation and AoE threat across any content type.

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Rotation

Links to the Icy Veins rotation page. Select your hero talent build once you're there.

Builds

Custom build

Record your own talent build alongside your addons — it's included when you share your setup. Get a talent string from the Wowhead talent calculator or export directly from the in-game talent tree (press N → share icon). Paste the URL or the raw string — both work.

Addons

Why no WeakAuras? Midnight's API blocks WeakAuras from reading your buffs and cooldowns. The addons here cover what it used to handle.

Meters & logs 1

Details! Damage Meter

Damage taken

345.4M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 16 May 2026

For Prot Paladin, the damage-taken breakdown shows which abilities are bypassing active mitigation and need more deliberate Ardent Defender or Guardian of Ancient Kings coverage. In M+, your healer can see your Word of Glory self-sustain and redirect attention to the group when you're handling your own health.

Tracks: Damage taken · SotR absorption · Self-sustain · Threat
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

Nameplates & threat 1

Platynator

Enemy cast bars

9.5M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 19 May 2026

Cast bars and debuff icons on enemy nameplates — lets you time Avenger's Shield for the cleanest interrupt before the cast fires, choosing between it and Hammer of Justice rather than reacting after. Also helps with Consecration positioning by showing where multiple enemies are casting simultaneously.

Tracks: Enemy cast bars · Interrupt timing · Avenger's Shield · Consecration
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

Cooldowns & tracking 2

OmniCD

Blessing of Protection

33.4M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 27 Feb 2026

Tracks group cooldowns from the combat log — for Prot Paladin, most valuable for knowing when Blessing of Protection and Blessing of Sacrifice are available and when healer externals like Pain Suppression or Ironbark are already deployed. Critical for knowing whether Ardent Defender is your only safety net or a healer CD is already on its way.

Tracks: Blessing of Protection · Blessing of Sacrifice · Healer externals
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

BetterCooldownManager

Ardent Defender

938.2K downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 22 Apr 2026

Configurable timers for your major cooldowns on screen. Lets you prioritise Ardent Defender at the top with an audio cue — the one most often forgotten mid-rotation — with Divine Shield lower as a caution since using it drops threat, and offensive CDs grouped separately so they don't compete for attention during damage spikes.

Tracks: Ardent Defender · Guardian of AK · Divine Shield · Avenging Wrath
Requires: Enhances built-in Cooldown Manager · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

Rotation helper 1

SenseiClassResourceBar

Holy Power bar

2.4M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 22 Apr 2026

Renders Holy Power and Mana as solid horizontal bars — Holy Power with a threshold highlight at 3 (the SotR minimum) and Mana scaled to show when you have enough for a Word of Glory emergency heal. Fully resizable to fit alongside your existing tank frames.

Tracks: Holy Power bar · Mana secondary · Shield of the Righteous threshold · Word of Glory
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

Frames & Action Bars 3

BetterBlizzFrames

Unit frames

6.1M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 17 May 2026

BetterBlizzFrames improves the default Blizzard frames without replacing them. For Protection Paladin it clarifies the Holy Power display, adds a castbar to your target frame so you see what the boss is casting at a glance, and tints your health bar with class color.

Tracks: Unit frames · Holy Power · Castbars · Class color bars
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

Dominos

Action bars

22.2M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 10 May 2026

Dominos gives you full control over action bar layout — move, resize, and add extra bars. For Protection Paladin, a dedicated secondary bar for Ardent Defender, Divine Shield, and Guardian of Ancient Kings keeps your defensive toolkit visible at a consistent location on screen.

Tracks: Action bars · Bar positioning · Button sizing · Fade out of combat
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

ElvUI

Advanced Unit frames

Tukui.org addon

Works in Midnight Updated 15 May 2026

Most of what ElvUI covers for Protection Paladin is better handled by BetterBlizzFrames (frames), Dominos (action bars), and Platynator (nameplates). Only install if you want a fully unified UI aesthetic and are prepared for the configuration overhead.

Tracks: Unit frames · Action bars · Nameplates · Raid frames · Full UI replacement
Requires: Full UI replacement · tukui.org — not on CurseForge

Open on Tukui.org

Utility & QoL 4

Leatrix Plus

Auto-repair

63.9M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 1 May 2026

Auto-repairs gear, auto-sells grey items, removes NPC dialogue delays, and blocks duel requests. As the tank you're often first to pull — Leatrix ensures durability is always at 100% without breaking your pre-pull routine.

Tracks: Auto-repair · Auto-sell greys · UI automation
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

Bagnon

Combined bags

159.9M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 29 Apr 2026

Replaces your five separate bag windows with a single searchable panel — type any item name and it highlights instantly across all bags. Useful for tanks managing consumables, gear sets, and Augment Runes before a key starts.

Tracks: Combined bags · Item search · Inventory management
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

Pawn

Gear scoring

125.6M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 14 May 2026

Adds an upgrade arrow to item tooltips based on your stat weights. For Prot Paladin, Stamina and armor set the survivability floor while Haste (Holy Power generation and SotR uptime) and Versatility (flat damage reduction) involve real tradeoffs — Pawn handles the quick upgrade question without needing to sim every drop.

Tracks: Gear scoring · Upgrade arrows · Stat weights
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

Clique

Click-casting

19.3M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 15 Apr 2026

Bind spells to mouse button and modifier combinations on any unit frame — right-click for Blessing of Protection, shift-click for Blessing of Sacrifice, alt-click for Lay on Hands, all without breaking your target or stopping your rotation. When a healer is about to die mid-pull, a one-click BoP is the difference between saving the pull and a wipe.

Tracks: Click-casting · Mouseover spells · BoP · BoSac · Lay on Hands
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

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Macros Coming soon

Avenger's Shield on focus, mouseover Blessing of Protection, Hand of Reckoning taunt macro

Stat Priority Coming soon

Stamina vs secondary tradeoffs, Haste breakpoints for Holy Power generation, Versatility floor

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