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Introduction
Hey everyone, I’m Nate, 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 further into Midnight!
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Strengths:
- 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
What has changed
Patch 12.1 Changes for Protection Warrior
With Patch 12.1, Protection Warrior received a handful of changes and Hero Talent buffs.
Here is a full list of these changes:
- Rend is now a part of the “Blood And Thunder” talent
- No Stranger To Pain now causes Ignore Pain to prevent 30% of damage (was 20%).
- Dominance Of The Colossus now causes enemies affected to deal 20% reduced damage to you for 10 seconds (was 10%) and no longer reduces the cooldown of Demolish
- Demolish cooldown reduced to 30 seconds (Was 45).
- Thunder Blast damage increased by 20%.
- Crashing Thunder increases Thunder Clap damage by 10% (was 30%).
- Devastating Focus now increases both Revenge and Execute damage (was Revenge only).
- Bloodborne now increases all bleed damage (was only Rend and Deep Wounds).
- Ravager damage increased by 50% and its duration is no longer reduced by haste.
- Ravager no longer increases Revenge and Thunder Clap damage while active. Now causes all enemies it damages to take 50% increased damage from bleeds for 12 seconds. Duration reduced to 4 seconds with Whirling Blade.
- Successful dodges, parries and auto attacks have a chance to make your Revenge cost no Rage (was only dodge and parry). Damage increased by 20%.
- All ability damage increased by 11%
- Fueled By Violence heals you for 125% of Bleed damage dealt (was 110%).
- Ignore Pain absorb amount increased by 25%.
- Brutal Vitality adds 10% of damage dealt to Ignore Pain (was 8%).
- Unyielding increases the damage reduction bonus of Defensive Stance by 6% (was 4%).
- Practiced Strikes now causes Shield Slam to generate an additional 4 Rage (was 3).
- Tide Of Battle increases the damage of Revenge and Execute (was Revenge only).