Best Protection Paladin Conduits - Shadowlands 9.2.5

By Lincoln Updated: 2022/11/28

Conduits

Potency conduits enhance your class' throughput potential

Endurance conduits focus on your defensive toolkit, by providing things like cooldown reduction or amplification to sustain/defensive cooldowns

Finesse conduits enhance niche parts of the spec's toolkit

Conduit OverviewBest Potency Conduits for Protection Paladins

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Notes

Ringing Clarity

Kyrians should use this conduit to buff Divine Toll. This conduit is even more important in ST as it props up Divine Toll's key weakness.

Hallowed Discernment

Venthyr Paladins should use this to add more damage to Ashen Hallow. This is just a passive damage increase.

Righteous Might

Necrolords should use this to make Vanquisher's Hammer a big hitter and give it a heal.

The Long Summer

Night Fae Paladins should avoid this conduit because it doesn't line up with how Blessing of Summer is used. You will get nothing of value from the extra duration. And sims are inaccurate since it self-casts Blessing of Summer.

Punish the Guilty

This is a good conduit for Protection Paladins. It makes Shield of the Righteous a very hard hitter! It only affects targets which have the Judgment debuff so you potentially tab target Judgment for even more damage.

Vengeful Shock

This is a consistent offensive conduit that buffs most of your damage. It's not as good as Punish the Guilty.

Adaptive Armor Fragment

This is a consistent conduit that gives some primary stats.

Best Potency Conduits for Raiding and Mythic+

Ringing Clarity - This is a the first potency conduit you should use as a Kyrian.

Hallowed Discernment - This is a the first potency conduit you should use as a Venthyr.

Punish the Guilty - This is a the first potency conduit you should use as a Night Fae or Necrolord.

Best Finesse Conduits for Protection Paladin

Trait

Notes

Echoing Blessings

This is a solid conduit that gives you some extra utility on your blessings.

Light's Barding

This is a strong conduit that will be useful for extra mobility.

Pure Concentration

This is more of a PvP focused conduit that has little use in PvE. For the situations where it is useful in PvE, you might have another Fear break like a healer dispel or Tremor Totem which makes this conduit less valuable.

Wrench Evil

This is a super situational conduit that will be used for fun. It's not a serious conduit for raiding or mythic+.

Best Finesse Conduits for Raiding and Mythic+

Light's Barding - As a slow class, a longer Divine Steed will be super useful to get around faster. This will be favored in scenarios where you need extra movement.

Echoing Blessings - Makes your Blessing spells even better! You'll want to take this in other situations where movement isn't as critical.

Best Endurance Conduits for Protection Paladin

Trait

Notes

Divine Call

This is an interesting Endurance conduit. It's worth ~20s - ~40s of CDR on Divine Shield depending on rank and talents. It could be combined with Final Stand and Unbreakable Spirit for greater effect.

Golden Path

This is a very consistent self healing conduit that can be more HPS on average than Shielding Words.

Shielding Words

This is a good conduit that will add damage smoothing to your kit when you heal yourself with Word of Glory. Its effectiveness depends on how much you use Word of Glory on yourself and in low damage intake scenarios, it won't be that much. It will be much more effective in more difficult content where self-healing becomes more important.

Resolute Defender

This is the best Endurance conduit available. It gives you access to more Ardent Defender more often and will just help smooth your damage intake. You should use this one first when you have an open Endurance slot.

Royal Decree

This is a dependable conduit. It lets you passively use GoAK more often and combine it with a free WOG cast. If this is something you can plan around for a raid boss or M+, it might be worth considering at higher conduit ranks. If you can’t plan around it, don’t use it. You can pair it with Righteous Protector for increased effect.

Condensed Anima Sphere

This conduit is just a very low amount of passive healing. You shouldn't use this at all as its clearly bested by other options.

Best Endurance Conduits for Raiding and Mythic+

Resolute Defender - This is the best defensive conduit available. If you have an open Endurance slot, pick this one first.

Shielding Words - This is a good conduit as it gives you a free absorb for Word of Glory even when cast on other people.

Royal Decree - This gives you more access to GoAK and a free heal to boot!

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Best Protection Paladin Conduits - Shadowlands 9.2.5

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