Seeing prot. warriors struggle in +10 keys compared to demon hunters and prot. paladins is just so disheartening. Playing a prot. warrior myself, it is so hard to justify why even play this spec and why not instead just play a demon hunter and have it 5x easier in m+. It baffles me just how less mobile and utility-rich this spec is compared to DH tank while not being more tanky or having more damage…
Guess youv’e never heard of Bobas hehe
With the current balancing and available talents & abilities protection warriors will continue to struggle in m+ in The War Within.
Heaving no grouping or displacement abilities will make prot. warriors struggle more in pulls compared to other tank specs, especially in big pulls that are required in m+ as key levels increase.
Prot. warrior will remain the pity pick if no vengeance demon hunter is available. Bottom line, pug leaders will always prefer a tank demon hunter over a tank warrior since warrior doesn’t bring anything that is better in comparison. Why invite a warrior if a demon hunter is just flat out better. Bringing Chaos Brand and chaos damage is now even better with the newly presented m+ affixes.
Prot. warriors are disproportionately impacted by the following affixes
- Sanguine: Thunder Clap/Thunder Blast’s passive slow and being the core ability at the same time will make Sanguine ever so more annoying to deal with
- Bolstering: being relatively slow having only Heroic Leap to reliably disengage, bolstering will remain extremely deadly for prot. warriors
- Reckless: will be incomparably more deadly to classes wearing plate armor & a shield, hence warriors
The failure to add some dungeon group utility to warrior for TWW is pretty poor. In fact, they’ve done next to nothing with all the warrior trees to make them fun and useful.
Warrior and Shaman are looking really bad so far tbh.
I dont see where protection warrior has less mobility then Demon hunters: intervene - 2 charge - heroic Leap?..
I don’t understand your sentence, who mentioned mobility, and do you really mean “then” or do you rather mean “than”? All I did, and you are probably referring to that (?) is reliable disengage, meaning you neither need to charge nor to intervene and target somewhere; the latter one you want to save for the purpose of storm shield anyway. Believe it or not, compared to vengeance, prot. is pretty slow.
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