The Ghar Station

You do NOT NEED tank gear to tank in 4.x. Only BoS Commander Isiel and maybe Itrop Arakhurn can take more hp to smooth things out.
For any other situation, your DPS set with the Berserker Trinket is fully sufficient. Extreme oneshot overkills (which are honestly all avoidable) are the only thing dangerous to you!
Legendary Light's Balm does NOT count as an attack to keep Berserker stacks up. Stick to #Main if you need hp.


If you decide to stack Tanking gear, focus on the Preserver prefix on gear.
Endurance(1End=10Hp) > Max HP > Dexterity(helps dodge) > Guard(flat mitigation stat) > Dodge(helps absorb caps) > Strength > Physical Crit (until 38%) > Crit Power (until 38%) > Block(does not help against the truly dangerous damage coming in)
(Dexterity gives you dodge- which gives a chance to fully avoid avoidable damage and also increases your maximum absorption cap)
Rogue dodge/ guard Essences are bis for you. Do not get caught up with chasing Guard gear, rather practice cooldown timings.
Note: Anything in Bos that can be dangerous to you cannot be blocked or dodged.
54/58 Vk is a better pick for Arakhurn since all you do there is race against oneshots where massive self heal does not help against.

Optional toy: Spore Guard:
Comet of Ahnket Heriticus (right side) Stats cost you some 10k hp passively. After equipping, it takes 30 seconds before you can sue the effect which then has a 90 sec cd.
Ideally you have it active, use it as first defensive cd and switch to your eternal shield right after using.

Those effects will all work passively through buffs and macros!
But it is important that you do not let your Eternal run out and be stuck on half power in combat!
(If you get stuck, use the #Sweep macro since it has no Jolt in it)

Jolt. Simple heal over time for 12 seconds ticking every second and gets extreme boni from your eternal (up to fully healing you once a second) and can be your #1 self heal.
Apply it properly and have it do the heavy lifting.

Light's Balm. Selfheal with no cooldown. Legendary Balm also splashes high unbounded aoe damage. Manually used Light's Balm can stack with proccs from L. Protector's Fury.
Note: Light's Blam will NOT grant you stacks for your Berserker tanking trinket. 'Spamming' it will deal great aoe damage & self heal but may cost you max
The least situations do require high hp though so it stays a valid option.

Enduring Survival. 61 Mastery that ticks frequent self heals every 3 seconds and gets infused by your Eternal weapon.

Stand Tall! Ticks every 3 seconds and when reapplied @4 second cd. 'Spamming' will increase its effective tickrate but demands more power management from you.
When confident with your Eternal refresh timings and not tanking Commander Isiel (where you would overwrite the Stand Tall! from a Warchanter), you can activate the cast @self Stand Tall! in your macros for more effective tick rates by it.

Starfall Weapon Rune. It's a damage loss for your dps builds and you should have Attackpower on your 1h Eternal. But its 2% healing-taken procc also adds a layer of Eternal-bonus-loops.
(Someone once won a raid-clear-competition due to a clutch Shadow of the Mountain- procc!)

Vampiric Touch. The planar Attunement weapon enchant. Overkill heals and unreliable due to random proccs. No downsides to using it anyways though.

#Main singletarget (Light's Decree isn't really that valuable but you can afford some flavor)


#show Light's Decree
suppressmacrofailures
cast Deep Breaths
cast Retaliation
cast Light's Decree
cast Light's Reprisal
cast Light's Vengeance
cast @focus Retaliation
cast @focus Light's Reprisal
cast @focus Light's Vengeance
cast @lasttarget Retaliation
cast Jolt
//cast @self Stand Tall!
cast Skyfall
cast Seasoned Strike


#Sweep - Use it to reliably bind fresh mobs with aoe. Also decent aoe that keeps your Berz. trinket running.

#show Sweeping Strike
suppressmacrofailures
cast Sweeping Strike
cast Retaliation
cast Light's Reprisal
cast @focus Retaliation
cast @lasttarget Retaliation
cast @focus Light's Reprisal
cast Stand Tall!


#Balm - big heals big aoe damage

#show Light's Balm
suppressmacrofailures
cast Deep Breaths
cast @self Light's Balm
cast Retaliation
cast @focus Retaliation
cast @lasttarget Retaliation
cast Jolt
//cast @self Stand Tall!
cast Light's Reprisal
cast Light's Vengeance


#Interrupt

#show Face Slam
suppressmacrofailures
cast @focus Face Slam


#Bonus - Use it 2 times to stack 10% mitigation for 15 seconds. Does not matter until maintanking Commander Isiel.

#show Light's Benediction
suppressmacrofailures
cast Light's Benediction
cast Pacifying Strike
cast Retaliation

Shield Defense: Your best defensive cooldown.
Sanctuary: Aoe defensive cooldown creating a zone effect. Awkward to use with the gcd but can function as personal cooldown.
Aegis of the Light: Easy defensive Cooldown
Light's Protection: Can add an additional Eternal- loop effect for 12 seconds. (Have incoming heals take ANOTHER +42k bonus)
Amnesty: Your 'Intercept'. Every Tank has this.

I'm With you! Very powerful heal in only 1 second gcd. Can be used on anyone for powerful spot healing. Apply Stand Tall! to a target to increase its effect. This alone may be as strong as a 61 Sentinel xD

Call of the Divine: Place an aoe that taunts and teleports mobs in the zone to you. (has no target limit iirc) Can interrupt spellcasters.
Purify Land: Place an aoe zone that explodes with a delay. Damages and taunts all enemies in it. Combine it with Call of The divine to engage two separated groups of mobs at once.
Pulling a room with Pala can feel like throwing grenades left & right.

Righteous Charge: Default charge with nice visual effect. Generally redundant with ranged attacks.
Elude: Versatile 'leap backwards'. Jump + turn 180° mid air before pressing Elude to 'jump forward'.

Earthen Shards: Planar Attunement unlock to enchant your shield.
Only Earthen Shards, the one with '+28 dmg' in the tooltip can be supercharged when you apply it to your shield WHILE your Eternal is running.
(Bonus: double eternal) Watch it's damage being 42k eternal + 28 base damage. With ca. a 50% procc rate and 60% block chance, this can accumulate a lot of damage for you. Apply it like a weapon Stone or Vampiric Essence but make sure your eternal is active while doing so.

With L.Light's Balm proccs > L.Protector's Fury > L. Retaliation > Infused Earthen Shards, a lvl 70 Paladin has 4 strong effects that strike-back on attackers- and have no maximum target limit in doing so!

Paladin used to have nearly no aoe. Light's Decree proccing some aoe damage used to be the only real option. Later came Sweeping Strikes at some 10 second cd. Also, a lot of it's damage was dependent on successful blocks.
To make up for this clumsiness, Paladin got a lot of aoe taunts.
Void Knight was mainly used to be the main raid Tank - while Paladin was able to contribute to more 'ballsy' approaches and strategies with it's unique set of cooldowns.

Now, Paladin's aoe is great, it's not dependent on blocks anymore and still has all the taunts.
Void Knight may still be the 'more serious' Tank.

Why Trash Panda: Best independent tank performance on bad gear
When Trash Panda: You need a strong Tank while leveling or while being on terrible gear at 70.
When not Trash Panda: With better 70 gear.

Meant to tank available content on terrible gear without needing a healer. 25 SPE go faster with 4 dps and you can take over the tank+ healing job.


This one has a little pov video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB4k6DtQ1CI

Design decisions: We want to utilize your early 2h Eternal weapon by combining high block with 'block without shield' while focusing on absorptions and threat.
This is a balance between tank gameplay, survivability, healing and threat.
You have amazing direct healing potential for a badly geared tank. If for example in the SPE Tuath De, the BEar bloom does not get interrupted, you can heal everyone and yourself through the damage.

#Main - target an enemy for damage and self heals or an ally (self) for extra st healing.

#show We Stand United!
suppressmacrofailures
cast We Stand United!
cast Seasoned Strike
cast I'm with you!
cast @self I'm with you!
cast @self We Stand United!
cast Retaliation
cast Light's Reprisal
cast Light's Vengeance
cast @focus Retaliation
cast @focus Light's Reprisal
cast @focus Light's Vengeance
cast @lasttarget Retaliation
cast @lasttarget Light's Reprisal
cast @lasttarget Light's Vengeance

#Sweeper - raw aoe

#show We Stand United!
suppressmacrofailures
cast Sweeping Strikes
cast @self We Stand United!
cast Retaliation
cast Light's Reprisal
cast Light's Vengeance
cast @focus Retaliation
cast @focus Light's Reprisal
cast @focus Light's Vengeance
cast @lasttarget Retaliation
cast @lasttarget Light's Reprisal
cast @lasttarget Light's Vengeance

#Interrupt

#show Face Slam
suppressmacrofailures
cast @focus Face Slam

-> Light's Balm does great damage and nice healing- but generates no combo points, which are very important for you!
Use #Sweeper to aggro packs of mobs. Otherwise stick to #Main and focus of your hp balance, positioning, targets and allies status.

Gameplay on 70:

Use Deep Breaths, then use Shield of the Hero. Apply Stand Tall! onto yourself (or on allies) while your eternal is running.
Your absorptions do not get any bonus from the eternal. Make sure to not interrupt the use of We Stand United!
When you want to popp a Deep Breaths mid fight, use one I'm With you! and then Deep Breaths. this gives We won't Falter 3 attack points to eat from while rebuffing.

Be liberate with your defensive cooldowns!! Most tanks die with a lot of cooldowns unused.

Phalanx! unlocks quite early and can be used on yourself or allies.
Shield Defense is the next best cooldown.
Light's Domination is a frontal aoe stun. This can also act as a tool to reduce incoming damage.
Touch of Life: Easily fully heals yourself in emergency situations.
Purify Land can interrupt Spellcaster when they get teleported.

-> When you stand in a lot of melee mobs and suddenly leave their melee range with side steps, you can also avoid a lot of incoming hits for a second. Doing a little bit of kiting without moving the pack of mobs from their location.
-> When pulling multiple caster mobs, use Sergeant's Order, Call of the Divine or- tag them and break line of sight- as long as you keep aggro they will be unable to damage you and will have to run to you. Playing around something that can break line of sight (like a little wall) can have you switch sides and the caster interrupting a lot to follow you.
Just make sure you don't sabotage your dps with those moves.



For anything before level 70, simply do not use Deep Breaths at all.
But running 18 Warchanter with Paladin makes for an insanely powerful healing-tank for any leveling challenge. Dungeons or IA.
(This was able to tank+heal all leveling dungeons undergeared+underleveled with only 2 dps, like Golem Foundry on 56 in old 51 gear)
While leveling, I recommend 7 Riftblade for the power cost reduction. When We stand United! crits, I'm with you! becomes free which makes it another way to conserve power.
Example what i runned on mid levels (We did a lot of dungeons while being heavily under leveled and under geared later on):