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How to Play a Protection Warrior in the Shadowlands Pre-Patch
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Shadowlands is almost upon us, bringing with it Patch 9.0 and a large chunk of Class changes and updates. In this guide, we will take a look at the most significant changes for Protection Warrior, detailing how you can expect to play the spec during the Shadowlands pre-patch.
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How to Play Protection Warrior in Shadowlands Pre-Patch
Protection Warriors are World of Warcraft’s original tank spec. Along with Protection Paladins, they are one of the two tank specs that use a shield and a one-handed weapon. Protection Warriors are the spec that most fits into the archetypal “tank” role from other RPGs and tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons.
As the original tank, Protection Warriors have a very large, well-established toolkit. They are one of the most versatile tanks, and are a leading class in the following categories:
Damage mitigation
Defensive cooldowns
Dealing damage
Offensive cooldowns
Mobility
Crowd-controlling enemies
Looking very cool -- the most important one!
The chief weakness of Protection Warrior is that it has no self-healing. It also requires a lot of resource and cooldown management. This can be extremely rewarding for an experienced player, but a little bit daunting for a newcomer.
If you'd like more information, you can read the rest of this guide and check out the
beginner's guide
and
rotation guide
to find a more detailed assessment of how to play the spec.
How Different Does Protection Warrior Feel in the Shadowlands Pre-Patch?
Protection Warrior has been changed pretty significantly in Patch 9.0. Several talents that synergized with each other have been moved into the same tier.
愤怒掌控
has been nerfed considerably, and no longer affects
挫志怒吼
or
破釜沉舟
. Other talents have been shifted and rebalanced to compensate, and depending on your talent setup, the class can feel very similar, or wildly different from how it has played in BFA. It’s a whole new tank!
Protection Warrior was the strongest Mythic+ tank for most of BFA. Because Essences and Azerite Traits are still available during the 9.0 Pre-Patch, the class is still in a really powerful state, and can still perform extremely well with a talent setup and playstyle similar to the standard BFA setup.
The nerf to
愤怒掌控
significantly alters the way that you want to approach using your defensive cooldowns, so be prepared to have them available much less often, and to put more of an emphasis on the non-cooldown aspects of your toolkit. While your defensive cooldowns have been changed, the rest of the defensive toolkit is fundamentally unaltered.
盾牌格挡
and
无视苦痛
are still your bread and butter, and using them aggressively will keep your health pool relatively stable. Protection Warrior’s Strength-to-Armor conversion passives (
先锋
&
先锋
) were increased from 60% to 100%, so the class is somewhat tankier against physical damage at all times.
Offensively, there are a few changes.
复仇
has had its Rage cost reduced to 20 and its AP scaling has been increased by ~35%, both of which are solid buffs. The guaranteed free
复仇
casts on dodges and parries has been changed to only be a chance, roughly 3 procs per minute. That’s a nerf.
斩杀
is also available as a powerful offensive Rage dump in single target.
New Abilities for Protection Warriors in Shadowlands Pre-Patch
Protection Warriors have gained several new abilities for Shadowlands, although most of them only have niche impact, and will not be important in standard play.
斩杀
has been added to Protection Warrior, and it functions as a simple Rage dump. It’s useful for increasing your DPS on low-health targets when your defenses are otherwise stable. That’s basically it, it has zero talent integration.
碎裂投掷
- This is generally not useful while tanking. It is good for breaking down absorb shields or frustrating Mages and Paladins in PvP.
援护
- All three Warrior specs now have access to this and
冲锋
, which are on separate cooldowns and have one charge each (
冲锋
can go up to 2 charges with the talent
再度冲锋
). This is a buff for Arms and Fury, and a nerf for Protection. You now need a talent to recover the baseline mobility available in BFA, and your ability to Intervene your allies is outright reduced.
断筋
- It's available to all Warrior specs now. It's a single-target slow. It can be useful for kiting.
旋风斩
- Whirlwind is available to Protection Warriors now. It is literally worthless. Why was it re-added? No one knows!
The talent tree has undergone extensive shuffling and tuning, but there are only two "new" talents available to Protection Warriors.
战争机器
is a new talent in the first tier, and it does not generate a meaningful amount of Rage under normal circumstances. It can be helpful while leveling.
再度冲锋
is a new talent in the second tier, and it can help you regain your lost mobility, albeit at the cost of speccing out of
风暴之锤
.
How Do AoE Target Caps Affect Protection Warriors in Shadowlands Pre-Patch
Protection Warriors are significantly affected by AoE Target Caps in Shadowlands. Both of the spec’s main AoE skills deal reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
Here’s a list of the Protection Warrior skills these changes have affected:
雷霆一击
- Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
复仇
- Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
破坏者
- Hard-capped at 8 targets
Protection Warrior is still capable of dealing AoE damage, and it still has useful AoE skills, but the class’s potential to deal massive damage in large-scale AoE has been heavily reduced.
All AoE Target Caps
How Do the GCD Changes Affect Protection Warrior in Shadowlands?
天神下凡
is being removed from the GCD. That's terrific! That's all that's changing.
How Strong is Protection Warrior in Shadowlands Pre-Patch?
Potential alternate talent setups built around
强力反击
and
激励
can yield major increases to Shield Block uptime, over 25% more uptime as compared to the standard
愤怒掌控
setup. This can keep your health pool incredibly steady, and it potentially makes Protection Warriors the best tank at mitigating physical damage. It does come at the expense of losing a lot of sustained DPS and cooldown uptime, so there’s a tradeoff.
Ultimately, the class has less damage output and less cooldown uptime than it did in BFA, and that’s a major loss in power. The class isn’t bad or weak now, but it’s no longer the dominant tank in Mythic+. It’s still incredibly versatile and capable of tanking anything, but it will require some minor re-learning of the class. Adjusting your talents to deal with a variety of content has not really been a major part of playing Protection Warrior in BFA, but it will be in Shadowlands.
What are the Big Gameplay Changes for Protection Warrior?
The changes to Protection Warrior are somewhat of a mixed bag. The offense has received a combination of buffs to small-scale AoE and single-target damage, but large-scale AoE DPS has been substantially reduced.
愤怒掌控
has been nerfed, but its effect on
天神下凡
uptime has been unaltered. The knock-on effects (talent, Azerite, & Essence synergy) that come with high
天神下凡
uptime are still in the game and extremely powerful, so you should try to take advantage of them for as long as you can.
Defensively, you will have to adjust to having significantly reduced
破釜沉舟
and
挫志怒吼
uptime, and your defensive toolkit will generally be weaker without them.
百折不挠
will provide a steady stream of self-healing, so it isn’t all bad.
灭绝者
can yield substantial Rage generation through Shield Slam resets, and potentially increase your ability to use Ignore Pain, which is great!
Protection Warrior has to choose between cooldown uptime or Shield Block uptime in talents -- essentially making a choice between offense or defense. You will have to choose between whether you want to spec your talents offensively or defensively. This can potentially add two offensive cooldowns into your rotation, or change the way you use your defensive cooldowns.
How does the Loss of Corruption Affect Protection Warrior in the Shadowlands Pre-Patch?
Not at all. Losing Twilight Devastation and Versatile means you will deal less damage and have less overall stat budget, but these were both passive effects. They have no real impact on the gameplay of the class.
Best Talent Builds for Protection Warrior in Pre-patch
There are a few potential talent setups that can be very effective at handling different types of content. Rather than differentiate them as Raid and Mythic+ setups (because they can both be effective in either type of content), they are categorized as Standard and Alternate. The former should be more familiar to players who know the BFA setup, and the alternate playstyle offers something new and different.
This playstyle handles pretty similarly to how Warrior has played in BFA, and it’s still very good. It is absolutely qualified to handle any BFA content, and it should feel pretty comfortable.
灭绝者
provides plenty of extra Shield Slam resets, and a decent, steady DPS increase.
惩罚
is a viable, reasonably competitive alternative that doesn’t perform quite as well in AoE. Feel free to take it if you really want to keep using Devastate, you weirdo.
再度冲锋
brings your mobility back up to the BFA level, and
风暴之锤
is a second stun. Pick your poison!
震耳嗓音
will be the better option in Shadowlands due to Legendary synergy, and it is more comfortable for BFA players. Because Demoralizing Shout no longer interacts with Anger Management,
巨龙怒吼
is probably the superior option in this tier during the 9.0 Pre-Patch, but it requires an extra keybind and learning something new.
威吓
was redesigned, and it makes Intimidating Shout a weird ~20-yard knockback that scatters enemies and locks enemies in place where they land. It’s a major DPS loss in AoE. It could be useful as a faux-interrupt, but it will probably do more harm than good. And the other options in the tier are great! Just use them!
百折不挠
absolutely destroys the other talents in its row. Don’t even look at them.
This setup is actually capable of much higher DPS over a short period of time, due to having two additional offensive cooldowns. Over the course of a longer encounter, its damage tends to fall off, and its sustained AoE DPS is pretty low. It doesn't take advantage of talent synergy with remaining BFA Essence and Azerite bonuses, so it's probably not going to be as interesting or powerful of a talent setup until Shadowlands proper. At that point, it will become pretty competitive, so learning this playstyle isn't a bad idea!
灭绝者
provides plenty of extra Shield Slam resets, and a decent, steady DPS increase. Because this build features two extra on-GCD offensive cooldowns,
灭绝者
is clearly the superior option in the tier. You will spend GCD’s casting
巨龙怒吼
and
破坏者
, and losing Devastate casts to do so cuts into their value.
巨龙怒吼
offers a big burst of AoE damage -- absolutely huge when it crits. It’s a really good offensive skill that generates a decent chunk of Rage. You can run
震耳嗓音
instead, but you will sacrifice a good bit of damage for a pretty minor Rage difference.
破坏者
deals a good amount of AoE damage, generates 60 Rage over 12 seconds, and it will
slowly
chase enemies. It’s surprisingly good now. No, really, it is!
激励
adds zero damage, unlike
强力反击
, but it is simpler and more forgiving.
强力反击
is absolutely a viable alternative, but it requires more focus and can be more susceptible to bad Shield Slam reset RNG.
Best Rotation for Protection Warrior in Pre-Patch
Your actual rotation can vary heavily depending on talent choices. Here is a basic ability priority, along with some instructions on abilities to prioritize while tanking:
盾牌格挡
and
无视苦痛
are your core defensive skills, and you should always be using them to the fullest.
Try to keep
盾牌猛击
on cooldown at all times. It is your strongest Rage generator and your best source of single-target damage. Use it!
雷霆一击
is your second-most important offensive skill. Keep it on cooldown at all times. In AoE, or if you are using the standard talent setup and Avatar is active, it is your highest-priority skill, and all other abilities should be weaved in between
雷霆一击
casts.
复仇
whenever it is free, or whenever you need to dump Rage and can afford to not spend it on Ignore Pain.
Try to use
挫志怒吼
liberally. It’s not doing you any good if it’s not up!
If you are specced into
破坏者
or
巨龙怒吼
, prioritize them ahead of all other skills. If you are specced into both, use
破坏者
first.
Use
法术反射
to reflect as many spells as possible. Reflecting spells reduces your damage taken and increases your damage output. What’s not to love?
Fill with
毁灭打击
-- if you’re not using
灭绝者
.
The
Rotation guide
has further information on the abilities and how to use them, so check it out if you feel like learning!
Best Stats for Protection Warrior in Pre-Patch
As in BFA, Protection Warriors want to prioritize Haste and Versatility. Nothing here has really changed.
The priority when gearing goes like this:
Item Level
Sockets
Haste
Versatility
Mastery ~= Crit
Best Azerite Traits for Protection Warrior in Pre-Patch
Azerite Traits still function during the pre-patch, so enjoy them while you can!
千钧堡垒
- The best Azerite Trait around. It makes your strongest cooldown much, much stronger!
黑暗之心
- It still works during the pre-patch. It’s terrific. Keep using it!
雷音贯耳
- It is still an excellent one-point trait, but still generally not worth taking multiple ranks. Grab one and enjoy it!
抵御冲击
- Now that Devastator is much easier to justify taking, this trait should rise in value slightly.
Best Essences for Protection Warrior in Pre-Patch
Essences will also continue to function during the pre-patch, and you will continue using the same ones you have during BFA, with one notable exception: Corruption Minor Powers are no longer very good.
Raiding
Major Power:
烈焰熔炉
Minor Powers:
冲突与斗争
,
完美愿景
,
无形虚空
(Strength and Haste is still valuable, and competitive with the next option),
虚无粹源
(magic damage reduction + damage)
Mythic+
Major Power:
完美愿景
(DPS, standard setup),
清醒梦境之忆
(max defense, high-level pushing)
Minor Powers:
冲突与斗争
,
完美愿景
/
清醒梦境之忆
(whichever isn't your Major Power),
深渊之护
,
烈焰熔炉
(can be used instead of Aegis of the Deep for more DPS -- tons in ST, still good in AoE!)
All Shadowlands Protection Warrior Changes
For a detailed list of everything changing in Shadowlands for Protection Warrior, check out our full Shadowlands Changes guide.
All Protection Warrior Changes in Shadowlands
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评论
评论来自
obbig
Great guide so thanks.....and go Dodgers!
评论来自
Scyne01
The 'only' benefit of Prot Warriors having
旋风斩
is to also hit enemies behind you when you are surrounded and need to further establish threat, assuming you have
雷霆一击
on cooldown and can't reposition all enemies to be in front of you within a global cooldown. Otherwise,
复仇
and its forward facing cone should ALWAYS be the go to and your rage is better spent on all other Warrior abilities.
评论来自
Joekage
Is anyone else finding it difficult in pre-patch to tank 1-50? I am getting crushed as a lvl 36 warrior doing dungeons.
评论来自
romantan
So for Paladins, they got the free self healing with 3 holy words (which you removed.). For Death knights they got a free pet + healing from said pet (which you also removed.) Not to mention that resto druids got their favorite and best CC in game back. (Having been moved from free spell to a talent.) Can I ask when Warriors will get the Gladiator stance as well since Shadowlands seems like an expansion that is recycle friendly?
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