Protection Warrior Tank Talents & Build Guide - Shadowlands 9.2.5

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If you are playing Necrolord, 震耳嗓音 is a must-have. 痛宰 is a better choice for sustained AoE damage than 震耳嗓音 as Kyrian or Night Fae, but 震耳嗓音 will be stronger defensively regardless of your Covenant choice. This is a 'players' choice' option more than any other tier. Either option can work well, but 40 Rage every 45 seconds > 0 Rage.

愤怒掌控 is fundamental to the entire Rage feedback loop. You can't make this setup work without it.

The burst damage and threat of 破坏者 is really nice. The constant Haste value from 投入战斗 is great, but not good enough to be very competitive in dungeons.

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灭绝者 provides plenty of extra Shield Slam resets, and a decent, steady DPS increase. It's great.

再度冲锋 brings your mobility up, and 风暴之锤 is a second stun. Both are good, but 再度冲锋's synergy with 复仇心切 is too good to sacrifice.

痛宰 is the best sustained AoE damage talent in the tier. While 震耳嗓音 adds better burst damage synergy and Rage generation, it doesn't add as much sustained offensive value. 痛宰 gets great synergy with 复仇心切, as well.

强力反击 is an excellent defensive choice for pushing keys, and it performs extremely well on Fortified weeks. It sacrifices a decent amount of burst damage, so it's not as good as 愤怒掌控 offensively, but it will substantially increase your uptime on 盾牌格挡, making ~100% pretty easily attainable when using 复仇心切. Once you pick up the 4-piece bonus, this pales in comparison to 愤怒掌控, but until then, it's great.

灭绝者 provides plenty of extra Shield Slam resets, and a decent, steady DPS increase. You can run Punish instead, but it will generate less Rage. Why would you want to keep casting Devastate anyways?

投入战斗 tends to be the best, simplest option in raids. It provides a significant chunk of Haste, and it's always active. There's nothing wrong with that!

愤怒掌控 grants a major chunk of cooldown reduction, 强力反击 adds a substantial increase to Shield Block uptime (approaching 100%), and 激励 adds another Shield Wall-level defensive cooldown to your toolkit. 愤怒掌控 and 强力反击 are pretty competitive choices. Your choice in the final tier depends on your gear level and fight specifics. For dangerous, hard-hitting fights where you are constantly tanking a boss for long stretches of time (upwards of 20 seconds), 强力反击 is usually the right choice. Those kind of fights are pretty rare. Sylvanas is basically the only one in Sanctum of Domination. For the rest of the raid, 愤怒掌控 offers more damage output and cuts Shield Wall's cooldown by about 50%, and that's usually better. It's very good! 强力反击 is also good, but only when you need more than 20 straight seconds of Shield Block uptime. 激励 is rarely competitive in raids right now.

震耳嗓音 is adds more burst damage potential, and an on-GCD Rage generation cooldown, whereas 痛宰 simply adds a passive damage increase. Both can be good, but 痛宰 is simpler for a beginner to handle.

爆裂闪电 and 腾跃步伐 are both good options. Getting more range on 雷霆一击 is generally more useful in Mythic+, and a little more mobility is generally more useful in raids, but both options can be good at any point.

投入战斗 is good in all situations. It's a simple, effective Haste increase. 破坏者 is useful as a burst damage and Rage cooldown, which is great, but requires an extra keybind and has to be used relatively close to on cooldown in order to be effective.

愤怒掌控 and 强力反击 are, again, both great, but 强力反击 adds more direct, passive defensive value. It's a more consistent defensive talent, and a better choice for a beginning player.

How Do Protection Warrior Talents Change with Tier Sets and Double Legendaries?愤怒掌控荣耀愤怒掌控强力反击震耳嗓音愤怒掌控征服者战旗荣耀痛宰Protection Warrior Talent OverviewTier 1 (Level 15) Talents for Protection Warrior

战争机器 is much worse than it looks. As Protection, 50% more Rage from autoattacks means 1 extra Rage per autoattack. That means roughly one more Ignore Pain every 70 seconds. That's bad. The Rage from killing enemies is not bad, and can be useful while leveling or killing large packs of enemies. Otherwise, it's still very bad.
惩罚 is boring, but reliable. It's a strong damage increase to 盾牌猛击, and it interacts nicely with 强力反击. It's a very basic, decent talent that performs better in single target than AoE.
灭绝者 simplifies the rotation, and grants more uses of your best skill (Shield Slam) while removing your weakest filler (Devastate). That's a great trade! This talent is less consistent than 惩罚, but it's much, much, much stronger. It's also more fun to play. 灭绝者 really jumps ahead in AoE, since your autoattacks continue adding damage and granting Shield Slam resets when you wouldn't have many opportunities to use Devastate, and the single-target damage reduction from 惩罚 is less valuable than more Rage to spend on Ignore Pain and Shield Block (and Revenge!).
Devastator's design means Protection Warriors should ALWAYS be in the 风怒图腾 group in raids, as Windfury procs will trigger Devastator. Enhancement Shaman are your best friends in Mythic+ dungeons for this reason. Protection Warrior is the third-strongest Windfury Totem beneficiary in the entire game.
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Tier 2 (Level 25) Talents for Protection Warrior

再度冲锋 is a simple, but powerful mobility increase. Unless you need extra crowd control (such as in Mythic+ pushing), this is the go-to talent. If you are using 复仇心切, this is a must-have, there is no viable alternative.
滚石 is simple and effective. CC more often when you CC large groups. 震荡波 isn’t a great stun - it’s only 2 seconds! - but it’s reliable. This talent is a commonly-used option for many Protection Warriors not because it is good, but because it is easy.
风暴之锤 is a decent single-target stun. Plenty of other classes can stun a single mob for longer, but it gives a Protection Warriors two different stun keybinds and has a 30-yard range. That's very nice, and it’s a good option for the high-caliber player looking to maximize the CC capabilities of Protection Warrior.

Tier 3 (Level 30) Talents for Protection Warrior

痛宰 is a simple AoE DPS talent. It provides a decent damage increase in sustained AoE. If you are using 复仇心切, then this talent's value rises enough to become very competitive. The chief downside is that unlike 震耳嗓音, it doesn't generate Rage or provide any defensive value. It's a great offensive option in Mythic+ and sustained AoE damage situations, but not super competitive in more conventional single-target raid situations.
震耳嗓音 is the best direct Rage generation talent in the tier. It also adds a nice boost of offensive and defensive value onto 挫志怒吼. This talent is great in single target, and still very good in AoE! The chief downside is that this pushes you to cast Demoralizing Shout on cooldown as an offensive skill -- which is great for maximizing damage output in raids, but not always line up with your preferred defensive cooldown timings in Mythic+.
If you have unlocked the Tier Set 4-piece bonus, then this talent absolutely rules for generating Rage and helping fuel your Rage generation loop. Take it, and hit Demoralizing Shout on cooldown.

巨龙怒吼 is a decent burst damage cooldown, although it is more of a single-target damage cooldown than an AoE option. It isn't as strong as 震耳嗓音 in terms of Rage generation, and it has generally fallen by the wayside as a burst damage cooldown entirely. There's not really any use case for this talent right now.

Tier 4 (Level 35) Talents for Protection Warrior

爆裂闪电 is a simple range increase to 雷霆一击. It also increases the slow slightly. It’s not huge, but it’s great for making sure you hit every target in AoE. It’s particularly helpful when establishing threat at the beginning of a pull, after an add has just spawned, or while you or the enemy are moving. That makes it fantastic for Mythic+ and pretty good for raids. It's the only option in this tier that has a direct effect on your DPS, and that makes it a clear winner almost all the time. It can also be helpful for kiting.
腾跃步伐 is a good mobility increase if you need it. That being said, baseline mobility for Warriors is solid, so this is almost never a must-have, and giving up potential DPS to get it is often not worth it. In general, it's worth taking in raids to satisfy mobility requirements, particularly on bosses where 爆裂闪电 has minimal effect, but not worth using in Mythic+.
威吓 transforms 破胆怒吼 from a usable, but potentially dangerous CC into a powerful AoE knockback that scatters adds in all different directions and leaves them frozen in place for 8 seconds. This is usually a bad thing, as it is a DPS loss. It can be useful to create space and kite, but it is generally the weakest talent in the tier.

Tier 5 (Level 40) Talents for Protection Warrior

绝不屈服 grants 无视苦痛 between 40% and 100% increased absorb value, based on missing health. This implies that 无视苦痛 could be a useful low-health lifeline, but that doesn't really align with the way the class is played. Between that and the other talents in this tier, this is never worth using.
百折不挠 is the simplest talent ever: +10% health and a steady trickle of self-healing as you spend Rage. It’s good and it makes you much more resilient against spell damage and burst damage. It’s a good talent for beginners and experienced players alike, and given the horrendous talents it's up against, this is an obvious must-have.
胜利在望 grants a modest heal on a 25 second cooldown. It's potentially useful while leveling or soloing, but in organized group content, it is effectively worthless.

Tier 6 (Level 45) Talents for Protection Warrior

投入战斗 grants up to 10% more Haste, which is a pretty good bonus. It's not really as interesting as the other options in the tier, but it is currently the best choice in single target, and that's good enough to get it plenty of use.
无坚不摧之力 transforms 天神下凡 from a solid, boring DPS cooldown into a solid, awesome DPS cooldown. 雷霆一击 like there’s no tomorrow. It's good for Rage generation and AoE damage, and it is a really fun playstyle. Unfortunately, it's not really competitive in terms of damage output, which is a real shame. It's fun, but not very good.
破坏者 is a great burst DPS and Rage generation cooldown, and it's an extremely competitive talent in AoE now. It is not as good as投入战斗 in raids, but it is the best option for Mythic+.

Tier 7 (Level 50) Talents for Protection Warrior

愤怒掌控 is still a powerful talent that greatly reduces the cooldowns of 天神下凡 and 盾墙. It is useful in single target, but generally performs better in AoE. While it is weaker than it was in BFA, it's still pretty fun, and still pretty good. It's the default talent in most situations. Not always the best, but always useful. If you have the 4-piece Tier Set bonus, it is always the best, and it's very, very, very good. Lock it in, and never change.
强力反击 is a good defensive and Rage generation talent. 盾牌格挡 is an amazing damage reduction skill, and extending its duration can provide a ton of damage reduction, and a decent increase to damage output through its synergy with Shield Slam. When combined with 复仇心切, ~100% Shield Block uptime is very attainable. It performs pretty well in both raids and Mythic+ dungeons. It is also a big offensive sacrifice compared to running 愤怒掌控, so bear in mind that you will be giving up a lot of damage to keep your health pool more stable.
激励 is a purely defensive talent, and it offers a very significant defensive cooldown to your already-large cache of defensive cooldowns. Reducing the cooldown of Last Stand is good, and the 15 seconds of free Shield Block buff it grants is a significant increase in Active Mitigation uptime. Unfortunately, the Rage generation and Shield Block uptime provided by 复仇心切 tends to overlap with its value pretty heavily.

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巨龙冲锋 is a nice mobility skill that also CC’s and deals a very sizeable chunk of burst damage on a short cooldown. It’s pretty cool, and using it to knock enemies around is equal parts fun and hilarious. Scrapping outside an instance? Throw those pesky scumbags through the portal!

士气重挫 reduces the cooldown of 挫志怒吼 to 30 seconds. Given the nice synergy with 震耳嗓音 and 愤怒掌控, this is a very nice talent, and the potential value in reducing damage dealt to your allies is also solid!

盾击 deals damage very similar to 盾牌猛击. It also reduces your target’s damage by 15%, and if they are casting (this includes cast-time physical spells, such Aimed Shot!), it will instantly reset its cooldown. The 3 Rage is a small gain, but it's still a good talent in terms of overall value. It's a good offensive and defensive skill.

剑盾猛攻 is a simple, effective damage increase that greatly increases the Crit chance of 盾牌猛击 and 毁灭打击 while 盾牌格挡 is active. It synergizes well and will buff your damage - big time.

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评论来自 11unone11

M-m-m-m. Nah b.

评论来自 Elfstan

Guides are usually boring as hell. This one was entertaining. In my best Sam Elliot voice, "I like your style, Dude."

评论来自 Villion

Why would anyone use 威吓 on raid. taking 腾跃步伐 would much be better option for mobilty. Using 威吓 and waiting the adds fear is just a waste of hope you would waste on a talent. And if there is a cleave go for 爆裂闪电 would be much easy to do more dps.

评论来自 fizlor

How does Sword and Board contribute to Devastator?

评论来自 yusuf

Thank you very much for writing this guide, LLarold.

I highly, highly recommend adding an extra build for "Soloing Elites" or a title like that, and using Impending Victory with any other talents you recommend for that build, since the Protection Warrior is probably the only tanking spec that needs to fine-tuned, at the very least by activating Impending Victory, for the sole purpose of soloing elites, especially when slightly overgeared.

I speak from personal experience, by the way. I rarely — if ever — have any trouble soloing challenging mobs in the other tanking classes and specs, while just using the standard dungeons or raiding build (but raiding applies more often naturally since soloing elites and raiding have more similarities than soloing elites and dungeons have). However, when slightly undergeared, I cannot solo certain challenging mobs as a Protection Warrior without Impending Victory at the very least, so I think any Protection Warrior guide should be highlighting this for new and returning players via a specialized build for the purpose of soloing elites.

Thank you.

Protection Warrior Tank Talents & Build Guide - Shadowlands 9.2.5

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