5 days straight like this spending an hour / hour and a half every day to find a group for +15. You simply don’t.
Edit :
Fun fact is that if you wanna go dps when it’s tyranic week. You still don’t :
Because you’re not Ven’thyr.
Not gonna lie, the guy in charge of prot warrior / tank balanced should get fired.
Especially when you cannot scale M+ properly enough that you have to kite mobs that are dealing too much dmg for your gear and you’re rewarded for a gear that has lower item lvl than what you have. Big clap on that. 3 expansions of mythic + and that’s what you have to offer to tank players big gg guys you doin’ great.
Kiting mobs is ok when you doin +15, it’s not when you doing +12 - 13 - 14 - 15.
Just switched to guardian druid from prot warrior, and I must say… The difference in terms of survivabilty no matter what affixes you deal with is mindblowing. Tanking higher keys on my warrior (10-12s) was a constant stressful experience where I had to be on my toes and kite 24/7. And often needing to pop multiple cds before charging into a normal pack just to avoid being gibbed. On the druid however, everything feels so much more relaxed and far less stressful. It is absolutely ridiculous how the state of prot warriors is atm. The specc needs a real overhaul, not just a % buff here and there. I’ve always loved playing prot warrior and this is actually the first expansion where I bench this toon because how unbalanced the tank speccs are overall. It’s gonna be interesting to see how long I will play guardian before swapping back to the class I (used to) enjoy the most.
In my personal opinion protection warrior is the most fun tank to play because of his complexity and constant decision making you have to make between Ignore pain, shield block and revenge. (If you are a BFA lover thunderclap spammer I’m not talking to you.)
Now good things are the survability of protection warrior is not an issue. He is really good at mitigate dmg taken (I find myself sometimes better than other classes in raid)
Bad things are the facts that he just doesn’t have the dmg to do high keys because his sustain comes from casting ignore pain that cost a LOTS of rage forcing you to simply not use revenge.
Healers loves having a war tank instead of DH or DK because your hp don’t go full yoyo. But if they can’t time their key because you don’t deal enough dmg overall compare to a prot pal or a dh or a drood you just gtfo nobody want you here.
Prot warrior HAVE the sustain in m+ in order to do high keys.
Prot warrior HAVE the ability to kite mob in m+ in order to do high keys.
As a conclusion :
Most fun tank to play
Hardest tank to master
Equals if not better sometimes to mitigate dmg on raid (and some mythic +)
0 dmg forcing others to bench you.
Mastering war tank is making you equals with some tank with only 5 buttons to press (aka drood and DH) which make it not rewarding at all at the very least. It’s insulting in my opinion. Like a dev pee*ng on my face without trying to make me believe it’s raining.
It’s not like this is an issue only you have. I’ve got a 1300 rio Boomkin friend who says he regularly gets turned down for 10-12 keys. The fact is that if it’s a desirable key posted from a high RIO character (most 15 keys are) they will have over 100 dps players sign up and probably 10+ tanks.
The highest my Warrior has been accepted to in a pug is +10, at ilvl210. I’ve never been accepted higher than that, I have to play with friends. That’s just the reality of it, each week goes by and the gear requirement + rio requirement increases because people want easy runs and will try their best to pick the most experienced, geared and meta classes.
Warrior isn’t one of them, it’s a shame but the solution is there you must find a regular group/guild that will play with you. Easier said than done I know, but that’s how most people manage.
Physical damage mitigation is very good, yes, I agree on that. The big problem with prot warriors is that they can’t handle magic damage as well as the other tank speccs, due to the lack of self healing, magic reduction abilities and absorbs. Buffing IP and making shield block taking less magic damage would be a good start. The SL dungeons are overflowing with magic dealing enemies, compared to earlier expansions, which is one of the biggest reasons we feel like paper when charging into packs in M+. Of course, it helps with a group who knows what to interrupt and such, but lets face it - that’s not where the problem lies. Statistics shows how unpopular this class/specc is right now, and the numbers don’t lie.
Morim
I agree in alot. I have benched my prot warrior and are now playing prot pally. However, more than often i feel keys getting gibbed because of the lack of interrupts and stuns. I see it all the time, in a group where interrupts are prioritized its so much easier. Another thing, my prot pally is better then the warrior, i love to close to on demand heal, but my warrior in the correct enviroment is better due to alot more armor, matter not if there is alot of magic casters like Necrotic Wake. More…several of you have already on timed several +12-+14 keys, as a 210 warrior i think thats pretty good?! In the end, i hope we will see warrior reworked later, i will drop my paladin at once if they do