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Protection Warrior Gear and Best in Slot - Shadowlands 9.2.5
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Gear is one of the most important elements in WoW to strengthen your Protection Warrior, providing massive amounts of stats as well as armor, procs, and set bonuses.
In this guide, we will explain how to obtain the best gear for your Protection Warrior in and how to check if a piece is BiS, an upgrade or just bad. This guide will help you select the best pieces of gear from Dungeons and Raids in Shadowlands, whether they be weapons, trinkets, or armor.
Should you wish to learn about all the various sources for gear in the expansion, check out our
Gearing Up in Shadowlands Overview
. We have also prepared several other Protection Warrior guides on other gear topics, including best enchants for your new gear, best stats to aim for on gear, and simulation data to make informed choices.
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This guide was written by Llarold! I’ve been tanking since Vanilla. During Mists of Pandaria, I saw an opportunity to begin writing guides, and I took it with the hopes of making myself a better tank and making the community into better tanks with me. I hope it’s working!
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Best Protection Warrior Gear to Buy with Dinars
During Season 4, you'll be able to obtain a total of three
. This item can be exchanged for a raid item in vendors near the Great Vault in Oribos. These vendors sell Weapons, Trinkets, and special items from all three Shadowlands Raids, allowing you to acquire these key items easily.
As Dinars allow you to target items from the season 4 Raid loot tables, you will be looking for your largest upgrades and the items that are most difficult to obtain.
The Dinar system allows you to easily purchase 3 items from a list of all the trinkets, weapons, and shields that drop in Shadowlands raids (Castle Nathria weapons and shields are conspicuously absent due to dropping via a token-based system). Because of this, you will want to prioritize high-value items first – but you will also want to emphasize difficult-to-obtain items as well.
Special Item Notes
is extremely high-value, arguably the single most powerful individual piece of gear a tank can acquire in all of Shadowlands. That being said, it’s pretty easy to acquire. The droprate is not bad, and The Nine is generally regarded as an
extremely
easy early boss. So on the one hand, it’s literally a best-in-slot trinket, why wouldn’t you buy it? Then again: It’s easy to snag, so why spend a very limited resource on it?
is worth buying, but it’s not an ironclad #1 recommendation because it’s easy to obtain, and the pieces ahead of it on the list are extremely valuable
and
harder to acquire.
is also an extremely valuable trinket for Protection Warriors, and it's relatively difficult to obtain (requires killing Sylvanas, and she's pretty stingy with this trinket in particular), so it's an absolute no-brainer as a first-buy option.
Best Raid Upgrades for Protection Warriors in Shadowlands Season 4
Shadowlands Season 4 shakes up how raiding works in WoW. For the first time, all three Shadowlands raids, Castle Nathria, Sanctum of Domination, and Sepulcher of the First Ones, will be available as the highest difficulty raid in the game.
Each week during Season 4, one of the three raids will be
Fated
, meaning this raid will reward higher item level loot and have special mechanics.
To help with loot, for every 20 bosses you kill in a Fated difficulty, you will be able to upgrade a raid item to that difficulty by using
, obtained from Mythic Fated bosses, or
, obtained from Heroic Fated bosses. For instance, once you defeat 20 Mythic Fated bosses in Season 4, you'll obtain 20
which can create a
, allowing you to upgrade any Fated item to Mythic, even if the original piece is just from Normal or even from LFR. You can even upgrade items purchased with
using this system.
into higher item level tier.
into higher item level tier.
Other Tier Set pieces.
All of the items here are available from the three Shadowlands raids. This is a recommendation of the order in which to upgrade these drops as you acquire them. Using the Creation Catalyst on higher item level drops from Sanctum of Domination and Castle Nathria can allow you to acquire higher item level tier than you can get from Sepulcher of the First Ones drops alone. That's pretty neat!
Recommended Protection Warrior Gear
What is the BiS Protection Warrior gear?
With many different sources of gearing and loot scarcity in Shadowlands, targeting your absolute Best in Slot gear isn't entirely realistic; instead, we've created a Best in Slot list from the ideal Protection Warrior raid drops found in Shadowlands, from Mythic Dungeons, to help you decide what to prioritize.
These lists should give you several gearing paths and ideas to get you started in Season 3, including
and Mythic+. Give the following guide a read to learn about all gearing options in Shadowlands Season 3:
Shadowlands Season 3 Gearing Guide
Protection Warrior Raid BIS List in Season 4
This gear setup emphasizes Haste and Versatility, as they are your two strongest available stats. Under ideal circumstances, you will want to have one or both of them on every piece of gear. Maximizing your item level is the more important approach in the vast majority of circumstances, so never give up a bunch of item level just to get perfect stats.
The end bosses from each raid will drop gear that is higher than the bosses throughout the rest of the raid. Because of that, we have included suggestions for tier-slot items where you can upgrade high-budget non-tier pieces from Sanctum of Domination and Castle Nathria into tier pieces using the Creation Catalyst.
Season 4's Legendary items are not receiving an item level boost, so you will want to put Legendary gear in relatively low-value slots, such as Bracers, Belt, and Boots. These have been included in this list as a recommendation of where to craft them for maximum value.
Item Slot
Name
Encounter
Weapon
(from
)
Shield
Helm
(from
)
/
Neck
Shoulders
Cloak
Chest
Bracers
Gloves
Belt
The Runecarver
Legs
(from
)
/
Boots
The Runecarver
Ring
Ring
Trinket (Defense)
Trinket (Defense)
Trinket (Offense)
Trinket (Offense)
Protection Warrior Mythic+ BIS List in Season 4
In Shadowlands Season 4 of Mythic+, Dreadlords have infiltrated the dungeons in the Shrouded Seasonal affix. Players will need to unmask and defeat them to earn secondary stat buffs that last for the remainder of the dungeon. in addition, the dungeon pool is being refreshed with 8 returning dungeons including both wings of the
Tazavesh
,
Operation: Mechagon
and
Return to Karazhan
megadungeons, as well as the Grimrail Depot and Iron Docks dungeons.
With new dungeons comes a brand new loot table from these dungeons, and so your Best-in-Slot Mythic+ gear set will be different! Don't forget that Shadowlands Season 4 will also have Tier Sets available right away through the Creation Catalyst making Tier Set bonuses much easier to acquire.
Shrouded Seasonal AffixCreation Catalyst
This gear setup emphasizes Haste and Versatility, as they are your two strongest available stats. Under ideal circumstances, you will want to have one or both of them on every piece of gear. Maximizing your item level is the more important approach in the vast majority of circumstances, so never give up a bunch of item level just to get perfect stats.
The collection of dungeons Blizzard has chosen for Season 4 gives Protection Warrior a pretty small group of competitive options in terms of weapon, shield, and trinket selections. This is the best, and particularly in case of the trinkets, it is better than all the rest.
Season 4's Legendary items are not receiving an item level boost, so you will want to put Legendary gear in relatively low-value slots, such as Bracers, Belt, and Boots. These have been included in this list as a recommendation of where to craft them for maximum value.
Item Slot
Name
Drop Location
Weapon
Weapon (Pure Damage)
Shield
Helm
Creation Catalyst
Neck
Shoulders
Creation Catalyst
Cloak
Chest
Creation Catalyst
Bracers
Gloves
Belt
The Runecarver
Legs
Creation Catalyst
Boots
The Runecarver
Ring
Ring
Trinket (Defense)
Trinket (Defense)
Trinket (Offense)
Trinket (Defense)
Tier Set Bonuses for Protection Warriors
Armaments of the Infinite Infantry
2-Set
-
- Consuming 30 rage grants a stack of Seeing Red, which transforms at 8 stacks into Outburst, causing your next Shield Slam or Thunder Clap to be 200% more effective and grant Ignore Pain.
4-Set
-
- Avatar increases your damage dealt by an additional 10% and decreases damage taken by 10%. Avatar instantly grants Outburst.
This set is composed of five pieces of gear:
(Helm -
)
(Shoulders -
Lords of Dread
)
(Chest -
)
(Gloves -
)
(Legs -
)
Protection Warriors prefer to equip tier set pieces in the
Helm
,
Shoulder
,
Chest
, and
Legs
slots. Tier
Gloves
are fine, but
from
are better-itemized and available at a higher item level. You can use any combination of the four slots, just try to maximize your item level and be sure you keep both Legendaries equipped (once you have double Legendary unlocked).
The 2-piece bonus is really powerful. It grants a 200% boost to your next Shield Slam or Thunder Clap's damage, Rage, and slow (Thunder Clap only) every time you spend 240 Rage. It also casts Ignore Pain for free. It's great.
The 4-piece bonus is also incredibly strong, It causes using Avatar to trigger the 2-piece bonus. Triggering the 2-piece bonus by casting Avatar does not consume stacks of Seeing Red from the 2-piece that you already have, so be sure to spend Outburst quickly so you can generate another by spending Rage. The 4-piece also makes Avatar a stronger offensive cooldown and grants 10% damage reduction while it is active. This is great!
This whole set grants a a massive amount of Rage generation, about 40% more compared to base Protection Warrior. The extra damage, free Ignore Pain casts, and Avatar power are all really valuable bonuses on top of that. WIth this set and
, Avatar uptime should realistically be over 55% in most situations. Cool!
Tier Set Bonus for Protection Warrior
Best Protection Warrior Trinkets in Shadowlands
Tanks have limited choices when it comes to good, useful defensive trinket options. Additionally, due to the diminishing returns of defensive gearing (you can't block a boss to death), and tanks naturally having considerably higher attack power than melee DPS specs due to Mastery, DPS trinkets are very competitive.
The following table assumes equal item level where applicable. Difference in item level will affect their value relative to each other.
Throughput & Defensive Trinkets
Grade
Trinket
Drop Location
Notes
S++
-
This absorbs a flat damage amount from every hit that originates from a source in front of you while it is active. The damage reduction is calculated after all damage reduction from armor, block, and Critical Block, which rocks. It's very good -- defensively. It's a pretty worthless trinket offensively, but the defensive value is unparalleled for most tanking situations.
S+
-
Offers an absolutely gargantuan amount of stat budget, all you have to do is stay in combat. Has a 15-second window when you drop out of combat, too. Just exceptional. This trinket is receiving a 10% reduction to its Haste value in Season 4. That doesn't really change how good it is.
S
This will no longer be available at a competitive item level in Season 4, since De Other Side is no longer in the Mythic+ rotation. Old versions of this trinket are still fine, at least initially, but they will be eclipsed by other options over time.
A+
-
Great in any situation where you're constantly tanking, but slightly undertuned for taunt-swap encounters from an offensive perspective. Defensively, it's really solid, and provides a good lifeline at low health on a relatively short cooldown.
A+
-
Excellent single-target damage on-use trinket. The tuning is great, it's a good trinket.
A
-
Excellent damage, but the Mastery is a little underwhelming.
A-
-
Since Patch 9.2 this is a regular, normal Cheat Death trinket. It's great if you really need a Cheat Death trinket, or you just want a passive defensive lifeline to pair with a more direct defensive trinket like Shard of Annhylde's Aegis.
B+
-
This is a simple stat trinket. It's good and fairly reliable.
B+
-
This trinket provides a moderate amount of your highest secondary stat. This will typically be Haste or Versatility. It also shares some of that stat budget to party members who share your Covenant. That's all nice, but the tuning on this is a little low, so it's not super special. It's one of the better trinkets available from Sepulcher of the First Ones, but not better than the options listed above.
B+
-
This trinket grants you passive stat budget. The Versatility is nice. It's not necessarily as appealing as Haste, but the amount this trinket provides is very good.
B
-
Grants you stat buffs, with downsides. It's not terrible, but not good, either. Despite a 25% buff with Season 4, this trinket is still a little bit on the mediocre side.
B
-
Uses your Covenant Signature Skill (e.g., Fleshcraft) and grants you a large amount of Versatility for 20 seconds. The 5-minute cooldown is excessive in normal circumstances, but this can be a really good option for dealing huge burst damage in short fights.
B
-
Deals direct damage initially, and can be yanked to deal a big chunk as AoE, as well.
B
-
Deals direct damage. That's pretty much it. It's a simple, decent trinket.
B
-
It's a really simple damage trinket. You use it, you stomp on some pools on the ground to deal damage. That's it!
B
This deals a large burst of damage to the primary target, and a decent chunk of AoE damage to all nearby enemies. It's not bad.
B
The Haste is very good. The on-use damage effect can be good, especially when combined with another player using the corresponding Critical Strike trinket (
). Without that synergy, this trinket is mediocre. With that synergy, it's decent, but still not amazing.
B
-
This trinket was redesigned in Season 4 to generate its stacks on the player, rather than on targets. This is a massive improvement, and makes it a totally decent option in any kind of content. That being said, it's not amazing. It's fine, though, and that's a positive change!
B-
Fantastic trinket while gearing up, but quickly replaced with non-crafted trinkets as item level increases.
B-
-
It's a pretty simple absorb trinket. It has a chance to proc when you take damage, giving you a shield. That's good, but the proc rate is a little low, so it inconsistent. It also doesn't do anything except absorb damage. There's no damage output or anything interesting to consider. It's not bad, but it's not great.
B-
-
The shielding values are decent, but not amazing when compared to trinket options like
(goodnight, sweet prince). The 1-minute cooldown is good. Unfortunately, it splits its damage evenly among all targets hit, rather than dealing real AoE damage, so the damage contribution is pretty poor. Even worse, the line is VERY thin. The 3-second windup was changed to a 1.5-second windup with Season 4, which helps, but doesn't really fix the problem. It's still slow. Getting a shield on demand as a tank is great. Getting a shield on a delay is not. Use it if you dare, but be sure to plan ahead!
C
The stat budget on this trinket is pretty decent for DPS. Switching targets forces you to re-stack the buff. That is a minor problem, but it's a decent trinket despite that limitation.
C
The stat on-use is decent, but not amazing. This trinket is not great.
D
-
It's a totally passive defensive trinket, and while it can work well for some other tanks (Blood DK, Vengeance Demon Hunter), it doesn't do offer a lot of value to Warriors for a few reasons. First, it reflects 10% of
post-mitigation
damage. Because Warriors have such powerful mitigation, the left-over reflected value is pretty small. We're talking literally dozens of damage per proc at times. Second, it applies
after
Ignore Pain, which means it often does nothing if you're playing well.
This was a popular trinket during Season 3 prior to receiving a nerf. Before the nerf, it was good for Blood DK's, Vengeance Demon Hunters, and Monks. The nerf gutted its value for Monks.
It was never good for Warriors
, but Blood DK's used it and that tricked a lot of other classes into using it, too.
D
The Versatility is nice, but the proc chance is extremely low, and the value is also low. This trinket is not very good.
D
Grants a pretty minor Armor buff. This trinket is not very good.
D-
This trinket combines Stamina, Mastery, and a group cooldown into a package that does a little of everything, but mostly: Nothing. It's not good.
D-
-
This goofy trinket got a big buff in Season 4, but it didn't change anything. It leeches some health and grants a small amount of dodge. The damage is still just okay, the cooldown is long, and the dodge is mediocre. It's not
actively harmful
, so it's at least better than some of the options below, but that's about it.
F+
Removed in Season 4, RIP Bozo, You Won't Be Missed.
F+
I kept these three terrible trinkets on the list because I wanted to make fun of them some more.
F-
We're putting this bad boy in the Trinket Hall of Shame. Find a trinket made in the last 10 years that is more actively harmful than this one, I dare you.
F--
-
This trinket sims extremely well, but it is horrendous. It's atrocious for the raid fight it comes from (THE ONE TIME IT WOULD BE USEFUL!), and deliberately CC'ing yourself while tanking is IDIOTIC! NEVER USE THIS!
Best Items to Upgrade with Valor Points in Shadowlands
Points is a currency used by players to upgrade items from Mythic+ Dungeons, either from running Mythic Keystones or from the Great Vault, up to item level 298.
You can obtain Valor by completing Mythic+ dungeons or completing daily callings. You can learn more about Valor in our in-depth guide.
Earning and Spending Valor Points
Upgrading gear with Valor Points is a great way to shore up pieces that are lagging behind in item level compared to the rest of your armor, or to prioritize special pieces that provide something you can’t get from raid gear. As for the former, that’s going to be a case-by-case basis, but for the latter, the main candidates are trinkets, weapons, and shields.
Slot
Item
Source
Notes
Trinkets
A fairly simple Tazavesh trinket, this one gives you static Haste, as long as you use it on a party member who is also stacking Haste. It's pretty basic, but very good.
Weapon & Shield
This is a decently-itemized weapon. It is the best Mythic+ weapon available to Protection Warriors in Season 4.
This is another decently-itemized weapon. It's very close in value to
, and you should use whichever you have at higher item level.
This weapon has no secondary stats, but it does have a pretty hefty DoT effect. This is a great DPS-first option.
This shield has a solid amount of Versatility. The itemization isn't perfect, but it's the best you can find in Season 4 of Shadowlands Mythic+.
Rings
This pair of rings requires both parts of the set to function. The Logic Loop creates the trigger condition, and the Bit Band determines the reward once the trigger condition is met. The trigger condition is pretty simple -- just play normally -- and the reward is free Haste! That's great!
Items to Prioritize in The Great Vault
You don't have a ton of control over the pieces that are available in The Great Vault, but the priority should be pretty simple:
Tier Set Gear
Weapons
Trinkets
High Item Level Upgrades
That's it.
For more information on how the Great Vaults works, please see our Great Vault Guide.
Sources of Gear for Protection Warrior in Shadowlands
There are many ways to gear in Shadowlands, each with its own item level range. Below we give a detailed list of possible sources of gear and their related item level.
In addition to the occasional weekend quests, reputation vendors, and other semi-unique sources of gear, the common repeatable sources of gear are:
Gear and Item Levels Available during Season 4
Source
Item Level
Availability
LFR Fated Raid
265-272
Season 4
Normal Fated Raid
278-285
Season 4
Heroic Fated Raid
291-297
Season 4
Mythic Fated Raid
304-311
Season 4
Valor Upgrades
262-297
Season 4
Great Vault
278-304
Season 4
Mythic+ (End of Dungeon)
262-288
Season 3
Unrated PvP Conquest Gear
275 (288 in PvP)
Combatant I PvP Conquest Gear
278 (291 in PvP)
1000 Rating
Combatant II PvP Conquest Gear
282 (294 in PvP)
1200 Rating
Challenger I PvP Conquest Gear
285 (297 in PvP)
1400 Rating
Challenger II PvP Conquest Gear
288 (301 in PvP)
1600 Rating
Rival I PvP Conquest Gear
291 (304 in PvP)
1800 Rating
Rival II PvP Conquest Gear
294 (307 in PvP)
1950 Rating
Duelist PvP Conquest Gear
297 (311 in PvP)
2100 Rating
Elite PvP Conquest Gear
301 (311 in PvP)
2400 Rating
Unrated PvP Honor Gear (1-3)
229-242(265-272in PvP)
Unrated PvP Honor Gear (4-5)
249-255(275-278 in PvP)
Renown 43
Unrated PvP Honor Gear (6-7)
262-268(282-285 in PvP)
Renown 59
Zerith Mortis World Quests
233-252
Zerith Mortis Rares
242
Zerith Mortis BoE Greens/Anima Gear
226
Sandworn Gear
246
Normal Dungeons
210
Heroic Dungeons
223
Mythic Dungeons
236
Antros World Boss
259
Season 3
Legendary (Rank 1)
190
1250
Legendary (Rank 2)
210
2000
Legendary (Rank 3)
225
3200
Legendary (Rank 4)
235
5150
Legendary (Rank 5)
249
1100
Legendary (Rank 6)
262
1650
Legendary (Rank 7)
291
2000
World Quests
145+
Profession Crafting
151- 233
Additionally, Mythic+ dungeons offer their own scaling rewards. Each completion awards gear from that dungeon upon completion, plus credit for your Greater Vault. The item level of your rewards in the great vault is based on your highest keys for the week.
Learn More About Great Vault Loot
Note that completing higher keys beyond +15 doesn't increase the item level of the rewards.
Keystone Level
End of Dungeon
Weekly Great Vault
Mythic 2
262
278
Mythic 3
265
278
Mythic 4
268
278
Mythic 5
272
282
Mythic 6
275
282
Mythic 7
275
285
Mythic 8
278
288
Mythic 9
278
288
Mythic 10
282
291
Mythic 11
282
294
Mythic 12
285
297
Mythic 13
285
297
Mythic 14
288
301
Mythic 15
288
304
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