Protection Warrior Midnight Stats, Races and Consumables Guide

Stat Ranking

Item level is always king.

Once you start getting the same item level pieces, you can start using Raidbots to sim for the best piece.

Generally speaking, it will be Strength >> Haste > Crit = Vers > Mastery for all situations.

Stat Outline

Haste - Haste is a preferred secondary stat for Protection Warriors as it reduces the cooldown of your rage-generating abilities and global cooldown. This allows you to use them more frequently, which supports the Anger Management rotation.

Critical Strike - Critical Strike increases your parry chance as well as provides you with the chance to deal double damage on spells.

Versatility - Vers is pretty straightforward; it increases the damage you deal and your healing by a flat percentage and decreases the damage you take by half that percentage. Most Protections healing sources are affected by vers, except Indomitable, making vers a decent survivability option.

Mastery: Critical Block increases your block chance and gives you a chance to Critical Block, blocking twice the amount of damage. Additionally, it increases your attack power by a flat percentage. The defensive side of Protection’s mastery is a bit underwhelming. There are already a ton of sources from its talent trees, like Shield Specialization, that increase our base block chance that mastery becomes a bit redundant as a stat to have. By no means does this mean avoiding mastery. It still has its advantages, but you aren’t going to be actively looking for it.

Just like previous expansions, the difference between races is mostly fairly small, so feel free to play whatever you like the most. If you care about min-maxing then here are my recommendations.

Some races perform slightly better for specific situations:

• Dwarf for Stoneform.
• Night Elf for Shadowmeld if you want to utilize it for Mythic+ skips.
• Earthen for the increased base armor value.
• Pandaren: Panda can be great if current food buffs x2 outweighs other racials.

Head: Enchant Helm - Empowered Hex Of Leeching

Shoulder: Enchant Shoulders - Silvermoon's Mending

Chest: Enchant Chest - Mark Of The Worldsoul

Legs: Forest Hunter's Armor Kit

Boots: Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

Rings: Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Alacrity

Weapon: Enchant Weapon - Berserker's Rage / Enchant Weapon - Jan'alai's Precision

In Midnight, the Gem system is the exact same as previously. You have the option to run 1 unique Diamond Gem, and there are 4 to choose from.

The effects of these Diamond Gems in Midnight are much less interesting than previously however, and now you simply opt for either Indecipherable Eversong Diamond for the highest main stat increase, or Powerful Eversong Diamond.

The Powerful Eversong Diamond requires a combination of different coloured Gems to boost the critical strike effect, in which you’ll need 1 Peridot, 1 Lapis, 1 Amethyst and 1 Garnet in other slots:

• Peridot: Flawless Deadly Peridot
• Lapis: Flawless Quick Lapis
• Amethyst: Flawless Quick Amethyst
• Garnet: Flawless Quick Garnet

Food: Silvermoon Parade / Harandar Celebration

Flasks: Flask Of The Blood Knights

Potions: Light's Potential

Health Potions: Silvermoon Health Potion

Weapon Oil: Thalassian Phoenix Oil