Toughness
Paladin · Protection · opens at 10 points spent · 5 ranks
Toughness has been read from Forever footage and matches its Classic Era wording.
Toughness ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases your armor value from items by 2%.
- Rank 2 Increases your armor value from items by 4%.
- Rank 3 Increases your armor value from items by 6%.
- Rank 4 Increases your armor value from items by 8%.
- Rank 5 Increases your armor value from items by 10%.
Where Toughness sits in the Protection tree
Toughness is a Protection talent for Paladin. You need 10 points in Protection before the row it sits on opens.
How often people take Toughness
30 of the 207 public Paladin builds saved here (14%) put at least one point in Toughness. Counted across the 1500 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.
Builds that take Toughness
4 of the public Paladin builds written up here spend points on Toughness.
- Paladin Protection 2/19/5 · 5/5 , 2 up
- Paladin Protection 0/14/13 · 1/5 , 2 up
- Paladin Protection 0/23/8 · 3/5
- Paladin Protection 0/29/7 · 5/5
Where this came from
Same as Classic (verified).
- Forever client build 1.60.1.70790
- the WoW: Forever client's hotfix cache, 6 November 2026 (DBCache.bin, build 70790)