Protection Warrior Stats, Races and Consumables Guide

Patch 11.0.2 Last Updated: 21st Aug, 2024
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Disclaimer: This Guide was written based on the BETA.

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.

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- 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.

Races

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.

Enchants

Cloak: Chant of the Winged Grace

Chest: Crystalline Radiance

Bracers: Chant of Armored Leech / Chant of Armored Avoidance

Boots: Defender’s March / Scout’s March

Legs: Stormbound Armor Kit

Rings: Radiant Haste

Weapon: Authority of Radiant Power

Gems

Unique Gem (Can only use 1): Culminating Blasphemite

Regular Gems: Versatile Emerald or Deadly Emerald

Consumables

Food: Feast

Phials: Flask of Tempered Versatility

Potions: ST: Potion of Unwavering Focus / Multi Target: Tempered Potion

Health Potions: Algari Healing Potion

Weapon Oil: Ironclaw Whetstone