Your gear is arguably the most important, your decisions are critical, and having a breadth of knowledge is incredibly valuable to the raid. There is no other position or class that is as frequently in the situation where just one simple mistake can cause an entire raid to wipe, potentially ruining an entire guild’s week. The Main Tank (MT) of any guild is arguably the most important character in a raid. This chapter will be almost entirely opinion – so you can skip past it if you don’t want to hear that. An Introduction to The Protection Warrior Class If you are dying, you may need to sacrifice some potential threat through gear and talents, for overall mitigation. I die too often, what advice might you have to stop this?Ĭheck out the Boss specific guides – and look at section V, VI, and IX. This issue is addressed in each of the talent spec questions of the various styles of warrior: Max Mitigation and Aggressive.ģ. Therefore, your spec depends on that of your team. Either through a warlock, druid, main tank warrior, or offtank warrior, someone should have this ability. If you run a melee heavy group, you may want to use curse of recklessness, this means an improved form of attack power reduction would be prudent. The answer to this question is: it depends.
What is the best talent spec for a Protection Warrior?
#Wow tbc 2.4.3 warrior dps guide free#
As Edgewalker said to me when I was making this guide, “there is a lot of opinion when it comes to tanking.” It is possible that your opinion may not agree with mine, therefore feel free to post anything that you think might contribute to this guide, as I will include any piece of useful information.įirst of all, do not PM me asking questions regarding Protection Warrior gear/advice/etc unless you have thoroughly read through this article, making sure your question is not already contained within.ġ. Just be aware of this, and I will try to limit my own prejudices within each topic. I will try to be as objective as possible, but sometimes math must give way to practicality and reality, and sometimes opinion. This guide would not exist if it were not for the hard work of so many other individuals who gathered the raw data used to create the equations contained herein.Īs Dukes mentioned in his feral-cat guide, I’d like to also preface this article by saying that there will be some opinions made below. Many of these equations are the result of hard work of other individuals. In a number of places in this compendium there will be math involved. Therefore, there are entire sections dedicated to talents and itemization related to a defensive minded maximum-mitigation warrior, and another section for the aggressive threat-heavy warrior. However, as Protection Warriors, you will sometimes need to maximize your threat, and other times maximize your mitigation – two styles which are not often at parity. Itemization is a hugely important issue for the Protection Warrior. The best way to use this guide is to look through the Contents at the beginning of the post, and find the section or subtopic that best relates to the information that you are looking for. Some of the information will overlap between sections as there is no way to concisely define each key topic. This guide is broken up into several sections. There are a few sections in this guide that I know need refinement, but I want to simply release it now. This compendium will be continually updated as patches and hotfixes alter the class. Furthermore, this post will be a work-in-progress.
There is however, a large amount of information on this subject. I have done my best to collect as much information on all of the important topics that relate to protection warriors. This guide is designed for PvE and raiding purposes. Much of this guide is designed for the purpose of the Main Tank role.
This guide will be a compendium of knowledge concerning protection warriors. Maximizing your Aggro – The Aggressive Style Maximizing your Mitigation – The Defensive Style Maximizing your threat – Rotations and Decision making Understanding the Combat Mechanics of WoW An Introduction to The Protection Warrior classĬ. I also did a translation into Polish couple of years ago on old HellGround forums so might share that on Polish forums if there is a need.
#Wow tbc 2.4.3 warrior dps guide archive#
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