Protection Warrior Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 2 Protection Warrior Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Your free Revenge deal 15% additional damage and cause your next Shield Slam to deal 20% additional damage.
• (4) Set Bonus: Ravager and your free Revenges cause all targets to bleed for damage over 12 seconds. Ravager’s cooldown is reduced by 30 seconds.

Tier Set Discussion:

The Protection Warrior Tier set for Season 2 of Midnight revolves around Revenge and Ravager, which pairs nicely with the changes to Ravager that are also coming this season. The tier set doesn’t have any defensive benefits at all, so Warriors weaknesses are still the same and as prevalent as ever.

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

Voracious Heart Of Ula'tek - A 1:30 on use trinket that provides a large amount of main stat. It also has a secondary damaging effect that provides a small amount of main stat randomly. It’s a very powerful trinket and makes your Avatar burst window significantly stronger.

Zul'jin's Guillotine Technique - A passive trinket that has a set bonus paired with a 1 handed weapon from the raid. The trinket on its own does amazing single target damage, which has an amplifying execute effect. It’s perfect for progression raiding and the set only makes it hit 2 targets, so it’s not fully necessary to make the trinket amazing but as a lot of the raid encounters are multi-target, the set is very appealing as well.

A - Tier Trinkets

Gebbo's Bottomless Bag - Passive stat stick, has very high uptime on a good amount of stats.

Font Of Venomous Rage - A 4 minute cooldown on-use nuke trinket. It has a 2 second channel and deals massive damage to your main target, as well as splash damage to additional targets. The damage of this trinket is increased by Versatility, and can also crit.

First Mate's Shellward - The best defensive trinket of the tier. A large absorb on a 1 minute 30 second cooldown that prevents 40% of incoming damage for 30 seconds. It also reduces damage taken by 80% when below 40% health.

Keeper's Seething Core - Very good Haste stat stick.

Blazebinder's Hoof - On-use 2 minute CD trinket that provides a large stacking mainstay buff with a decent damaging effect at max stacks.

Here are the most notable Embellishments for Protection Warrior:

Polished Ammolite: Critical Strikes provide a Crit buff that stacks to burst for a large amount of damage.

Adorned Fang: Haste buff that provides more haste when a target is lower HP.

Stabilizing Gemstone Bandolier: All Jewelcrafting embellishments operate at double strength. This is particularly powerful in combination with Polished Ammolite, the Loa Worshiper's Band or Prismatic Focusing Iris, since they work together to double the effects.

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.

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 Adorned Fang
• Masterwork Sin'dorei Band with Polished Ammolite (to replace weapon embellishment)
• Spellbreaker's Bracers with Adorned Fang or Stabilizing Gemstone Bandolier (instead of Shield Embellishment)
• Replace low item level gear

Nebulous Voidcores (Bonus Rolls)

The Midnight Season 2 Bonus Rolls (Nebulous Voidcore) will be available from the start of the season as an alternative reward from your Great Vault. More sources for the bonus rolls will become available later into the Season.

Nebulous Voidcore Bonus Rolls let you target specific loot from a Raid Boss or Mythic+ Dungeon; once an item is received via Bonus Loot, that item is removed from the Bonus Loot Pool.

Below are the High Priority bonus roll target items and where they drop from:

An important thing to note in season 2 is that the final 2 bosses of The Venomous Abyss on Mythic difficulty drop higher item level gear than what is otherwise attainable from the rest of the game.

With this in mind, almost every item from the final 2 bosses are BiS if you have access to them on Mythic. At difficulties below Mythic, you’ll want to avoid The Coiled Altar loot entirely outside of the trinket and cantrip weapon.

Kings’ Rest has 9 pieces of loot as Protection Warrior with 8 of them being useful to you in some way, whether that is easy catalyst tier pieces or solid stat jewellery.

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.