Wrath tanking equipment (paladin)

Basics of Tanking
The success of a tank depends highly upon his gear. The job of a tank can basically be divided into two things: These are also the basic factors concerned when choosing tankadin gear.
 * 1) Produce a sufficient level of threat so that the mobs keep attacking him;
 * 2) Stay alive with enough mitigation and large amount of health.

Threat Generation
Strength is the primary stat a tankadin needs for threat production. The amount of strength needed depends on your group's DPS. To effectively tank and maintain a threat lead, Righteous Fury must be turned on.

Other stats that improve threat production include expertise rating, hit rating and block. (Hit rating also affects Righteous Defense and Strength affects Touched by the Light.) Haste rating is mostly useless because of skill cooldowns.

Mitigation
The survivability stats you need are dodge, parry and stamina.

Easily Attainable Pre-Heroic Tanking Gear
Gearing up your tankadin is much easier in WotLK than TBC. There is a great Blacksmithing set and with the new Championing system grinding reps is extremely easy and has some very good tanking rewards as well. Below is a list of some easy to obtain yet good tanking gear. If you still need enchants or gems (to meet 535 defense or certain HP for heroics), see the next section.

Head: Tempered Saronite Helm or Helm of the Ley-Guardian or Tempered Titansteel Helm

Neck: Betrayer's Choker or Amulet of Deflected Blows

Shoulders: Tempered Saronite Shoulders

Back: Cloak of Peaceful Resolutions

Chest: Tempered Saronite Breastplate or Silver-Plated Battlechest or Breastplate of the Solemn Council

Wrists: Tempered Saronite Bracers

Hands: Tempered Saronite Gauntlets or Daunting Handguards or Fireproven Gauntlets

Belt: Tempered Saronite Belt or Waistguard of the Risen Knight

Leggings: Tempered Saronite Legplates or Daunting Legplates

Feet: Tempered Saronite Boots or Toxin-Tempered Sabatons or Sabatons of Draconic Vigor

Rings: Solid Platinum Band or Staunch Signet or Gal'darah's Signet or Dragonflight Great-Ring

Trinkets: Regal Protectorate until Seal of the Pantheon

Weapon: Hammer of Quiet Mourning or Eternally Folded Blade

Shield: Saronite Bulwark or Titansteel Shield Wall

Libram: Libram of Zeal until Libram of Repentance until Venture Co. Libram of Protection.

It is also worth noting Armored Titanium Goggles. These are engineer only items and require a Frozen Orb. This head piece is comparable to the Tier 7 10-Man, and so can be used in the early end-game.

Easily Attainable Pre-Raid Tanking Gear
Once you have the above set you should dive into heroics. There are many great gear upgrades, including some epics, that will get you well on your way to tanking Naxxramas successfully. The final boss of each heroic drops an epic item equivalent to 10-man Naxxramas gear.

Head: Ground Tremor Helm or Armored Titanium Goggles

Neck: Chained Military Gorget or Titanium Earthguard Chain or Shard of the Crystal Forest

Shoulders: Pauldrons of Reconnaissance or Iron Dwarf Smith Pauldrons or Pauldrons of the Colossus

Back: Cloak of Peaceful Resolutions or Cloak of the Enemy

Chest: Breastplate of the Solemn Council

Wrists: Bracers of the Herald

Hands: Gauntlets of the Water Revenant or Fireproven Gauntlets

Belt: Skadi's Iron Belt or Waistguard of Living Iron

Leggings: Bolstered Legplates or Special Issue Legplates

Feet: Sabatons of Draconic Vigor

Rings: Gal'darah's Signet or Woeful Band or Band of Torture or Keystone Great-Ring

Trinkets: Seal of the Pantheon and Essence of Gossamer

Weapon: Red Sword of Courage

Shield: Royal Crest of Lordaeron or Titansteel Shield Wall or Crygil's Discarded Plate Panel

Libram: Venture Co. Libram of Protection or Libram of Obstruction

Wish-List after Patch 3.3
This raiding gear can be purchased with Justice Points.

Head: Faceplate of the Honorbound

Neck: Shard of the Crystal Forest

Shoulders: Shoulderplates of Enduring Order

Back: Platinum Mesh Cloak

Chest: Turalyon's Breastplate of Conquest / Liadrin's Battleplate of Conquest

Wrists: Bracers of Dalaran's Parapets

Hands: Turalyon's Handguards of Conquest / Liadrin's Gauntlets of Conquest

Belt: Shieldwarder Girdle

Leggings: Turalyon's Legguards of Conquest / Liadrin's Legguards of Conquest

Feet: Kyzoc's Ground Stompers

Rings: Clutch of Fortification and Signet of the Impregnable Fortress

Trinkets: Glyph of Indomitability and Valor Medal of the First War

Libram: Libram of Defiance

Weapon: Lucky Old Sun or Rimefang's Claw or Falric's Wrist-Chopper.

Shield: Splintered Door of the Citadel.

Back: Sentinel's Winter Cloak

Chest: Cataclysmic Chestguard

Hands: Gauntlets of the Kraken

Belt: Verdigris Chain Belt

Trinket: Corroded Skeleton Key

Libram: Libram of the Eternal Tower

Tier Pieces There are pieces known as the Lightsworn Battlegear available at the blacksmith shop in Dalaran. There is the option of obtaining these gauntlets and leggings both item level 251 and 264 from Vault of Archavon. These can be upgraded to 264 versions upon raiding and obtaining a Mark of Sanctification

Enhancements
Gems:
 * Blue: Solid Sky Sapphire;
 * Red: Sovereign Twilight Opal; Solid Sky Sapphire if the socket bonus is no good
 * Yellow: Enduring Forest Emerald; Solid Sky Sapphire if the socket bonus is no good
 * Meta: Eternal Earthsiege Diamond; Austere Earthsiege Diamond; Effulgent Skyflare Diamond

Enchantments: