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 · Raid

Curated for raid tanking — Ardent Defender and Guardian of Ancient Kings layered across the heaviest tank damage phases, Blessing of Sacrifice on players taking targeted hits, and Divine Toll for burst Holy Power generation mid-fight. Reviewed 28 Jun 2026.

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Talent Builds

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Templar Raid

Templar

The dominant Protection Paladin raid build. Endless Wrath and Divine Exaction create the highest personal damage contribution in your Hammer of Light window, which aligns naturally with boss damage phases.

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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.

Boss encounters 2

Deadly Boss Mods (DBM)

Boss timers

613.5M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 17 May 2026

Boss timers give you precise warning for when to pop Ardent Defender before a scripted burst, when Divine Shield can be used without a tank-swap gap, and when Avenger's Shield is most valuable as a silence versus a single interrupt. The pull countdown also affects your SotR setup — entering with full Holy Power and active Consecration is the difference between clean cooldown usage and scrambling through your first globals.

Tracks: Boss timers · Mechanic alerts · Pull countdowns
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

GTFO

Advanced Ground effect alerts

95.9M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 1 May 2026

For Protection Paladin, as a tank managing multiple mechanics simultaneously, the alarm gives an immediate signal to reposition even when your attention is on cooldown timing. Install knowing it's significantly more limited than pre-Midnight — it covers specific tracked boss mechanics only, not general ground effects.

Tracks: Ground effect alerts · Audible alarms · Boss hazards
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

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 2

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

TargetedSpells

M+ Targeted casts

743.8K downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 2 May 2026

Tanks are frequently targeted by mechanics that require a specific response — a magical hit where Blessing of Spellwarding outperforms Divine Shield, a bleed where Ardent Defender's cheat death is better held in reserve. TargetedSpells fires a visual and audio alert the moment a dangerous ability starts casting at you specifically, so you're choosing the right defensive for the hit rather than reacting after it lands.

Tracks: Targeted casts · Defensive selection · Mechanic alerts
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

Raid 1

Northern Sky Raid Tools

Devotion Aura

6.1M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 5 May 2026

Displays raid assignments on-screen — for Prot Paladin, lets your raid leader schedule Devotion Aura against specific magic damage phases so you're never 45 yards away during a magic burst. Also coordinates tank swap timing and surfaces when Guardian of Ancient Kings aligns with boss burst windows.

Tracks: Devotion Aura · Tank swap timing · Boss phase coordination
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

Rotation helper 2

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

TrufiGCD

Advanced GCD timeline

1.3M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 1 Mar 2026

Scrolling timeline of your recent cast history with GCD gaps visible. For Prot Paladin, exposes the two silent losses — Holy Power overcapping (generating past 5 with spenders available, wasting a GCD) and Shield of the Righteous dropping off (gaps between SotR casts where incoming hits land without mitigation) — both invisible in Details! spell breakdowns.

Tracks: GCD timeline · Holy Power management · Shield of the Righteous uptime · Cast history
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 2

Raider.IO

Player scores

431.7M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 25 May 2026

Adds a tooltip to every player showing their M+ score and raid progression. As a tank your score is often the most scrutinised — group members check it before your first pull and during the key if things go wrong, so a high score builds trust before you've said a word.

Tracks: Player scores · Raid progression · Player tooltips · LFG integration
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

Tank swap macros, Devotion Aura range reminder, Blessing of Sacrifice mouseover

Stat Priority Coming soon

Raid survivability thresholds, on-use defensive trinkets, Devotion Aura positioning requirements

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