I agree, for tanking, the Bulwark of Azzinoth is hands down kickass. For tanking, a paladin needs to do damage to hold aggro, so it's not ideal. Another obstacle to face, what's the chance a paladin will get this shield over a warrior? Very slim chance that your raid party will not have a warrior to tank in Black Temple. For a paladin, I would just give up on getting this shield unless ALL the warriors in your raid already has it.

Now back to the Antonidas's Aegis of Rapt Concentration discussion. This shield clearly is ideal for a Prot Paladin as with the high block, Stamina, Intelligent, and Spell Damage/crit. As for Pally have no use for spell crit is a load of BS. spell crit kicks off our holy damage from judging SoC and smacking with SoR. The +spell damage is calc into your concentration ticks, so the more damage the bettter you hold aggro. So this shield's stats is ultilized by a Paladin in everyway.

Now who gets this? I would say, both Prot Paladin and elemental shammy takes priorty and it's ultimately up to the raid to decide. If none then it goes to a Holy Paladin, then the rest.

Between the two, I truly feel, the Paladin will be of more use to the group with this shield than an elemental shammy will.
The primary reason you have an elemental shammy in group is for dps/buff/backup healer. Lets face it, Elemental shammy fall short in damage comparison to a Mage and Lock & healing vs a resto spec shammy/druid, holy paladin and priest with similar quality of gears on.
Where as a protection paladin is for main or off-tank/buff/aura/de-aggro bubble for Mages & Lock and sometime the healers. Which most of the time will save the group from wipe. Nothing worst than having your healer getting attacked.

So in short, I say give it to the guy who will improve the group as a whole for future raids.

A lot of people are under the wrong misconception that going from lvl1-70 means you know how to play your class. Sadly for some if not more, it merely means you put alot of time into WOW. If someone is telling you to do something, try it and see if it works, instead of "i've played from lvl1-70, I know what I'm doing." (Ignorance & Arrogance is bliss)


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