Protection Warrior Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 1 Protection Warrior Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Shield Slam damage increased by 10% and Shield Charge damage increased by 100%
• (4) Set Bonus: Thunder Clap and Revenge damage increased by 10% and Shield Charge grants Revenge!

Tier Set Discussion:

This is a pretty simple set for warriors in season 1, essentially just increasing the potency of our rotational abilities. It is a sizable damage increase at least.

You should still prioritise the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Protection Warrior, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

With the addition of the new Sporefall raid comes higher item level pieces than normal. It’s important to get your hands on as many of these pieces of gear as possible, most notably tier slots that you can catalyse for the highest item level tier possible.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

S - Tier Trinkets

Gaze Of The Alnseer - Stacking main stat procs, great defensive and damage value

Sporelord's Mycelial Insignia - Your spells and abilities have a chance to grant you a large amount of a random secondary stat as well as Leech for 12 seconds. Its proc rate is quite high, and is almost comparable to Gaze in terms of output.

Heart Of Ancient Hunger - A critical strike stat stick with a diminish over time effect, really good damage option and has decent defensive value in large target counts

Radiant Plume - Solid passive amount of secondary stacks, swappable between mastery and crit.

A - Tier Trinkets

Solarflare Prism - A very good Crit proc with targets missing hp.

The Eternal Egg - Very good haste stat stick with a minor defensive component.

Heart Of Wind - Another very good haste stat stick from M+.

Withered Saptor's Paw - Delve trinket that’s a haste stat stick with small mainstat procs.

Magister's Alchemist Stone - A crafted trinket that provides base versatility and a good main stat proc.

Solar Core Igniter - A defensive trinket that provides a large absorb. It absorbs 50% of incoming damage, up to a cap. You also gain a decent amount of Versatility if the Shield has remaining power when it expires. A solid choice on a 1:30 cooldown.

Ranger-Captain's Iridescent Insignia - An on use hit that is increased based on your crit. The cooldown is reduced by your critical strikes and you can get it much lower than the 3 minutes base CD.

Gloom-Spattered Dreadscale - A large on use hit that deals split damage to nearby enemies, before applying an absorb based on damage dealt. The absorb takes 50% of incoming damage, and the damage done is increased by 30% per enemy hit, up to 150%. 2 minute cooldown.

B - Tier Trinkets

Emberwing Feather - On-use haste effect that has a chance to reduce your other secondary stats for 10 seconds.

Algeth'ar Puzzle Box - A large mastery on-use trinket on a 2 minute cooldown. Can be good when paired with Niuzao every 2 minutes.

Vessel Of Tortured Souls - A main stat trinket with a soul collection minigame to get the effect.

Rotting Globule - Defensive on-use trinket that applies a large absorb for 15 seconds. Each time the shield loses 25% of its value, it deals a small amount of damage split among nearby enemies, increasing if the entire absorb is depleted. 2 minute cooldown.

Dragon Games Equipment - On-use minigame damaging effect that requires you to run around and kick orbs on a 2 minute cooldown. Not the best, not the worst.

Mark Of Light - Holy damage procs on your attacks that deal a minor amount of split damage.

Void Stalker's Contract - A simple on-use damage effect that spawns two void stalkers to deal damage to all enemies in their path on a short cooldown.

Latch's Crooked Hook - On use, cleaving strike that deals damage in 2 parts, the hook toss and when it lands. Does decent damage.

Ampoule Of Pure Void - A Void puddle spawns at your feet for 10 seconds, dealing damage to enemies who stand in it and healing you for 300% of that damage dealt.

C - Tier Trinkets

Undreamt God's Oozing Vestige - A stacking damage effect that, once at max stacks (5), deals additional damage that cleaves nearby enemies. The damage is increased per enemy struck, up to 5.

Eye Of The Drowning Void - A damaging proc effect on your abilities that splits damage dealt to enemies, not great.

Kroluk's Warbanner - Damaging effect that procs on melee attacks for a small amount of damage, not great.

Jelly Replicator - A random proc absorb that absorbs 40% of incoming damage up to a cap. It also procs when you fall below 35% Health, with a 1 minute cooldown.

Light Company Guidon - A haste on use that increases allies' movement speed if they also use the other variation of the trinket.

Here are the most notable Embellishments for Protection Warrior:

Loa Worshiper's Band: A unique ring that provides buffs based on your socketed gems. All of the buffs are pretty powerful for Protection Warrior, providing powerful effects to a normally under-weighted piece of gear. The base stats aren’t ideal but the effects more than make up for it.

Arcanoweave Lining: A primary stat increase for yourself and an ally, likely the best if you care about also buffing your teammates.

Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt: A secondary stat proc.

Stabilizing Gemstone Bandolier: All Jewelcrafting embellishments operate at double strength. This is particularly powerful in combination with the Loa Worshiper's Band or Prismatic Focusing Iris since they work together to increase your single target damage massively.

Similarly to previous expansions, what’s best to craft is entirely dependent on what stage you're at in the season and your gear progression. In the beginning when gear is very limited, you’re most likely going to spend your Spark Of Radiance on whatever grants you the most power. Typically, this ends up being a weapon.

Your priority for crafted pieces is:

• Spellbreaker's Blade with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt
• Spellbreaker's Rebuke with Arcanoweave Lining
• Adherent's Silken Shroud with Arcanoweave Lining (once you can replace the crafted weapon/shield with Myth track ilvl)
• Spellbreaker's Bracers with Arcanoweave Lining (once you can replace the crafted weapon/shield with Myth track ilvl)
• Replace low item level gear

Bonus Rolls

With the release of patch 12.0.5, you’ll be able to obtain and use Nebulous Voidcores to easily target specific pieces of gear from either Raid bosses or M+ Dungeons.

Once an item has been looted once via Bonus Rolls, that item is removed from the loot pool from future Bonus Rolls.

With the addition of the new Sporefall raid comes higher item level pieces than normal. It’s important to get your hands on as many of these pieces of gear as possible.

Your high priority items to spend your Bonus Rolls on are as follows:

There is a large amount of nuance in regards to the most efficient use of your bonus rolls since it’s so heavily dependent on what you already have and have access to, but the table above is a solid representation of the main items you desire as Protection Warrior.

If you do not have access to Mythic Raiding, I would prioritise getting a Mythic Track weapon and shield from M+, before then focusing on Mythic+ trinkets or tier slot items that you can catalyze into Mythic Track Tier.

Voidforging

After unlocking the Voidforge, you’ll be able to collect Ascendant Voidcores to upgrade your weapons and trinkets, via Midnight Endgame Content.

The upgrade priority is as follows:

Myth Track Weapon > Crafted Weapon > Myth Track Shield > Crafted Shield > Myth Track Trinkets > Hero Track Trinkets

Once your item is ‘Ascendant Voidforged’ you will no longer be able to upgrade it.

Omnium Folio

The Omnium Folio is a new player power system, released in Midnight Patch 12.0.7 and active for the duration of the Midnight WoW Expansion. By completing a weekly quest, you will unlock more of the Omnium Folio upgrade Tree and can choose from a number of player power enhancements.

Recommended Omnium Folio Powers for Protection Warrior:

• Row 1: Rune Of Void-Touched Orbs
• Row 2: Rune Of Self-Mending
• Row 3: Rune Of Lingering
• Row 4: Rune Of The Versatile Warrior
• Row 5: Rune Of Overload

For more information on this system, check out Method’s Omnium Folio Overview Guide.