Is Prot Good again?

Classes Warrior
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is prot warrior bk in 8.1!? just curious…

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The removed ignore pain from global cooldown which makes a huge difference. Much more confortable to play now.

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Still bad …

AGAIN BLIZZ IN SLOW MOTION:

WE … NEED … SELF … HEALS … GIVE… US … LEECH… TALENT … AND … INCREASE … EFFECTIVE … HP

Lets hope this gets in

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I was curious myself, but haven’t seen a stampede of warrior tanks (or druids) all of a sudden.

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Because they have to defeat the hardest boss first, the community perception boss.

Prot already has probably 2nd highest EHP against physical damage.

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Nop

Also , you see how are BFA mythic dungeons are designed ???

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Cause they are still bad ,

Don’t listen to these monks mains coming here saying Prot is back , its not , it is still bad and tbh blizz is just holding a carrot infront of us fooling us again

Legion was much better than this

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I do play warrior too, I just choose to post on my monk since all my progress can be seen from it.

But hey, keep on going Mr. Armchair expert, all that pointless non-constructive QQ’ing sure will make prot godlike

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The “community perception boss” is no joke.

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It’s better. Not good, but better.

The IP change and stamina increase did its part, and im back in HC Uldir and some M+ now. Its still challenging and requires alot of focus and ability control, but its much smoother. I like it!

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The rage starving still keeps me enraged…

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From my point of view prot is better, the extra HP and armour, reduced SB cooldown and IP off the GCD were all much needed changes that have been a step in the right direction for prot.

but my complaint for prot from the start was that for me anyway, it FEELS bad to play the rotation feels clunky and even after the above changes its still clunky, just slightly less clunky than it was pre patch, devastate feels bad to press and take up a valuable GCD slot, maintaining Demo shout every 45 secs is lame, Avatar is a cool ability but feels out of place to me in the prot tree and feels like just another ability we have to press to inflate our damage numbers.

and the worst crime of all in my eyes.

PROT TALENT OPTIONS ARE GARBAGE

we still only really have one viable talent build, options like Punish, Impending Vicotry, Best served Cold, Dragon Roar, Never Surrender, Indomitable, Vengance, Devastator, Heavy Repercussions and Ravager are all bad when compaired to the 5 talents that they share a row with that allmost everyone takes, Into the Fray, Unstoppable Force, Bolster, Booming Voice and Anger Management

the only 2 rows where we have some kind of choice are 30 and 75 and these are the two rows with probably the 6 least interesting talent options.

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You’re running completely sub-optimal talent setup without Into the Fray, Booming voice and Anger management, of course you will be rage starved.

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Basically this !

Now IP change lone on paper is a really good thing , but lets see :slight_smile:

  1. Cost of IP
  2. Rage Generation Per min compared to Legion
  3. We must keep SB up , from there its ether have bad DPS cause we are saving for IP or just AOE Damage and find your self @ 30% HP and not enough Rage build to get an IP

My point is:

Since Blizz don’t wanna bring back Legion’s Devastator OR AT LEAST lower IP Cost we will remain on the edge of our chair in Mythic + OR have very bad DPS and relaxed .

Just give us a Leech talent if you don’t wanna bring back Legion’s Devastator build and lower IP COST … that is it ! , I am not even gonna ask to improve our effective health : >>>>> LEECH TALENT + IP COST REDUCTION <<<<<<<<<

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yes the survival very good.

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I’m going to try playing a protection warrior. I played one in Legion and enjoyed him, in BfA changed to a DH because I heard warriors were bad. I don’t know how bad warriors really were, though; oftentimes people exaggerate.

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Warriors had a really rough start of the expantion. We were papertanks, geting oneshotted by alot of stuff in dungeons. Then we got a small buff that made them some what playable but with a much greater hassle for The same result as other tanks. Now with 8.1 I think warriors have become alot better. It Hard to beat blood dk op skill deathgrip, but warriors have some great tricks up their sleaves aswell.
I myself use stormbolt talent for an extra stun to interrupt mobs, so we have 4 instant interrupt with that. Alot of mobility for those pesky necrotic weeks. Maybe The highest aoe damage in game? (sry dpsers, you got beaten by a tank)

I would say a blood dk is probably still better in some aspects, but a warrior is still a very good tank and alot more fun to play.

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our weakness is against magic damage. There where i find my prot is really weak at.

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With the Unstoppable Force talent, our Avatar skill makes our AoE damage really strong! Against dungeon trash mobs, I’m mostly #1 DPS when I get to use Avatar. :smiley:

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Prot warrior tanked world first underrot +22

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