Protection Warrior Midnight Introduction Guide

Hey everyone, I’m Nate, a former analyst and main Tank for Method, and welcome to the Protection Warrior Guide for Midnight! Warrior has been a staple tank within WoW since the dawn of time and I’m here to help you master everything you need to know as we move into Midnight!

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Strengths:

• Durable
• Strong Offensive Output
• Solid Crowd Control
• Very Mobile
• Spell Reflection
• Battle Shout

Weaknesses:

• Defensive Management is very important
• Weak against DoT damage / unblockable damage
• Lack of meaningful group utility

Midnight Protection Warrior 12.0.5 Changes

With Patch 12.0.5 Protection Warrior didn’t get many changes, however we did receive notable buffs to the Colossus Hero talent in an attempt to bring it in line with the more dominant spec of Mountain Thane. The changes don’t shift the power imbalance much but Colossus should deal much more damage now!Changes:

• Practiced Strikes now increases Shield Slam, Revenge and Thunder Clap damage by 15%.
• Demolish’s AoE radius increased to 10 yards (was 8).
• Dominance Of The Colossus reduces the CD of Demolish by 5 seconds when you would gain a stack of Colossal Might whilst at max stacks (was 2 seconds).