Method Protection Warrior Guide - Stats Races And Consumables

Stat Priorities

Stat Ranking

Item Level > 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.

Vers - 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, block 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.