Protection 3.3.5 PVE Tank

2019.02.10

Introduction

Protection warriros are underestimated, but it is a really good tank and on retail most main tanks were warriors, but it can be because of the facts that most of the tanks were warriors since the vanilla legacy was still there. But as a summary, keep playing warrior tank, it is fun it is good so why not?

Talent

1. Option

This build is great for dungeons, with stronger shouts.

2. Option

This build is for the raiding content, provides high threat, good damage and survivability.

Glyphs

1. Major

- Glyph of Taunt Increases the chance for your Taunt ability to succeed by 8%.
- Glyph of Last Stand Reduces the cooldown of your Last Stand ability by 1 min.
- Glyph of Blocking Increases your block value by 10% for 10 sec after using your Shield Slam ability.

Other options :
- Glyph of Shield Wall Reduces the cooldown on Shield Wall by 2 min, but Shield Wall now only reduces damage taken by 40%.
- Glyph of Enraged Regeneration Your Enraged Regeneration ability heals for an additional 10% of your health over its duration.
- Glyph of Vigilance Your Vigilance ability transfers an additional 5% of your target's threat to you.
- Glyph of Cleaving Increases the number of targets your Cleave hits by 1.
- Glyph of Shockwave Reduces the cooldown on Shockwave by 3 sec.

2. Minor

- Glyph of Thunder Clap Increases the radius of your Thunder Clap ability by 2 yards.
- Glyph of Command Increases the duration of your Commanding Shout ability by 2 min.
- Glyph of Battle Increases the duration of your Battle Shout ability by 2 min.
- Glyph of Charge Increases the range of your Charge ability by 5 yards.
- Glyph of Bloodrage Reduces the health cost of your Bloodrage ability by 100%.

Gems

Meta: [Austere Earthsiege Diamond] +32 Stamina and 2% Increased Armor Value from Items

Red: [Guardian's Dreadstone] +10 Expertise/+15 Stamina
(Option 2 : [Shifting Dreadstone] +10 Agility / +15 Stamina, not advised)
You need 1 red gem for your meta, and if you can have a good socket bonus, it can be worth of course. Your threat benefits from your expertise, and some bosses needs you to have enough expertise anyway.

Yellow: Solid Majestic Zircon +30 Stamina

Blue: Solid Majestic Zircon +30 Stamina

You want to match your caps like defense, hit and expertise, so you should gem according to that.

Enchants

Head - Arcanum of the Stalwart Protector +37 Stamina +20 Defense (there fire, frost, shadow resist + stamina enchants as well, feel free to use them if you think you might them for a couple scenarios)

Shoulder - Greater Inscription of the Gladiator +30 Stamina +15 Resilience
Greater Inscription of the Pinnacle +20 Dodge +15 Defense (only if you need defsense)

Cloak - Mighty Armor +225 armor
Titanweave +16 defense

Chest - Super Health +275 health
Greater Defense +22 Defense
Powerful Stats +10 All Stats

Bracer - Major Stamina + 40 Stamina

Gloves - Glove Reinforcements +240 Armor
Heavy Borean Armor Kit +18 Stamina
Armsman Permanently enchant gloves to increase threat caused by 2% and increase parry rating by 10.

Waist - Eternal Belt Buckle + 1 belt socket

Legs - Frosthide Leg Armor +55 Stamina +22 Agility

Boots - Greater Fortitude +22 Stamina

Weapon - Mongoose Permanently enchant a Melee Weapon to occasionally increase Agility by 120 and attack speed slightly.
Blade Ward Permanently enchants a weapon to sometimes grant Blade Warding when striking an enemy. Blade Warding increases your parry rating by 200 and inflicts 600 to 800 damage on your next parry. Lasts 10 sec.

Shield - Titanium Plating +81 Block Value
Major Stamina +18 Stamina
Defense +20 Defense

Stat priorities

1. Defense cap 540 for all raids, 535 for dungeons.

2. Hit cap 263 = 8%

3. Expertise cap 26, not that important for basic tanking, but it helps a lot to hold aggro and if you tank bosses with parry-haste mechanic like Sindragosa or Halion, whenever you parry against them their melee attack speed doubles for a couple hits.

4. Armor and Stamina stacking! If you have all your stats capped, you can go and stack stamina and armor. Both can be stacked limiteless (armor is worth less if you reach 75 000 which you can't achieve anyway so it does not matter).

5. Block value increases the amount you can block and increases your Shield of Righteous' damage.

6. Block rating increases the chance to block.

7. Agility gives you armor and crit.

8. Parry

9. Dodge (in ICC your dodge is reduced by -20%)

Profession

Jewelcrafting : 3 big gems >> +63stamina

Engineering : Gloves enchant +885armor / 885-240 = +645 armor

Leatherworking : +62stamina

Blacksmithing : +2socket >> +60stamina

Mining : +60stamina

Enchanting : ring enchant +60stamina