I don’t know what you think, but I do think that the WoW paladin is the best class for a tank. They can use shields, they have nice healing spells, and can also deal nice AoE threat. Anyway, if you want to start your journey as a paladin-tank, you should read this short WoW keybinding guide.

Without wasting too much of your time, I’m going to start this short WoW keybinding guide for paladin tanks by telling you what are your most used, threat-generating abilities. These are:

- Hammer of the Righteous
- Judgement
- Crusader Strike
- Holy Wrath
- Consecration
- Avenger’s Shield

Now, the next step of this short WoW keybinding guide is to tell you where to fit them, to be able to use them with ease.

Key 1: Hammer of the Righteous – it’s an AoE spell, with 3 seconds cooldown, which also generates 1 Holy Power. Needless to say, this should be your main combat style.

Key 2: Judgement – the second ability I’m going to speak in this short WoW keybinding guide, although it’s a single target strike, using this combat style is a must.

Key 3: Avenger’s Shield – this is a spell that hits 3 targets. Even if it has 15 seconds cooldown, you must put it in your main bar because as you deal damage with Hammer of the Righteous or Crusader Strike, its CD has a 20% chances to be refreshed, due to the Grand Crusader talent.

Key Q: Consecration – I put this ability here because, although it’s a main tanking spell, it has a long CD.

Key E: Holy Wrath – another ability with long CD.

Note: You can place this abilities in your main bar if you want, but I like to keep Shield of the Righteous on 5 and Word of Glory on 6, as Holy Power damp spells.

Key 4: Crusader Strike – in case you fight only 1 mob or you need to save mana, you should use this strike instead of Hammer of the Righteous.

Now, as a conclusions of this brief WoW keybinding guide, let’s see how your rotation should be:

Start with Avenger’s Shield (3), pop Consecration (Q), hit Holy Wrath (E), then use Hammer of the Righteous (1), Judgement (2), Avenger’s Shield once more (if it procced), then again, Hammer of the Righteous, until you have 3 charges of Holy Power, then damp your charges by using Word of Glory or Shield of the Righteous whatever it should be more useful. Rinse and repeat.

I hope this brief WoW keybinding guide for pala-tanks was helpful. At least, these keybindings work for me.

Anyway, if you want to work with the keybindings of the elite WoW players, complete WoW Keybinding Guide will surely help. Works for any class!

Also, check out this short WoW Keybind Guide for Warrior Tanks.

I don’t know if there’s any other MMO apart from World of Warcraft that’s able to load up so many addons. Last time I checked the most popular WoW addons website, I think I saw about 4200 live addons, which are completely legal. On the other hand, there are other kinds of addons, which aren’t allowed by Blizzard. The cheats! Well, the WoW keybinding addon that I’ve been working with is far from being a cheat.

I haven’t been banned for using it, and believe me, the World of Warcraft Warden program is quite vigilant. For example, a friend of mine wanted to get the fishing achievement “The One That Didn’t Get Away” and since the rare fish is quite hard to catch, he got a fishing cheat. His account was banned after only 1 hour, and on the description of that fishing cheat said it was untraceable.

Anyway, back to the WoW keybinding addon that I’ve been working with. Although only part of it works like an addon, and the main loader of keybindings has to be used before starting the game, there’s no reason for Blizzard to ban any account for using it. That’s because it really is a friendly addon, simply allowing you to load up optimized keybindings, saving you a lot of time.

I was really curious about it, because it seemed something different from the other addons I’ve been using and to be honest that’s why I got it. So, that’s the main reason I got this in-game WoW keybinding addon, and to be honest, I got a bit dependent on it. The new keybindings are much better then my old ones, and have opened new dimensions to the gameplay of my characters.

Learn more about this great in-game WoW Macros Guide, <<< here.

If you play a warrior and you would like to try the tank spec, it’s best to know first what abilities you should use, and how to actually play, to be an effective tank. The secret lies within your key binding. Therefore, here’s a brief WoW keybind guide for a warrior tank.

Before I tell you what abilities and where you should bind them in your main bar, you should know the mechanics of a warrior tank. So, the first part of this short WoW keybind guide will tell you that.

Charge and/or Heroic Throw should be openers for your combat session. As you reach the first target, you must apply Rend on it, immediately, followed by a Thunder Clap to spread the bleed on all targets. By doing this, basically the threat is yours. To seal the pull, a Shock Wave should be enough. Next, you should use Cleave, Shield Slam and Devastate as you like, but every time Thunder Clap is up, use it.

Now, for the second part of this short WoW keybind guide, let’s see how your bar should look like.

Although, you have to use AoE’s like Cleave and Thunder Clap every time they’re up, to keep a large pack of mobs on you, it’s best to have on 1,2,3 abilities with a short global cooldown. So, I use: 1 – Cleave, 2 – Devastate, 3 – Shield Slam. Shockwave should be on 4, followed by Victory Rush, on 5.

Now, your Charge and a Rend + Thunder Clap macro should be placed on keys E and R. That’s how I have them, they work for me.

As a final word to this WoW keybind guide, you should know that this is the key binding I’ve been using on my warrior. Most of the elite players disagree on the order on the quick bar. So, in case you want to look at the most used keybinds for a tank-warrior, I recommend you to download this automatic WoW Keybind Guide.

Also, check out this short WoW key binding guide for DK tanks.