With the changes in 8.1 Prot Warrior is fun again and also kind of viable.
The most important thing that Prot Warriors still lacking in my opinion is utility, especially in M+.
There is just no real way of moving multiple caster mobs to a desired place unlike DK’s with mass grip or DH with Sigil of Chains.
My idea would be to change Intimidating Shout. Make Intimidating Shout a mass silence instead of a mass fear. It doesn’t have to be long, just a few seconds for the caster mobs to have to walk in mellee range or at least close to it.
It wouldnt be overpowered - still worse than mass grip - but would give Prot Warriors at least some useful utility and a way to deal with caster mobs.
Fear is not so bad if you have some slows, on my priest I use physic scream all the time and I never pull extra, just be careful there are no stray mobs outside aoe range. More important it should be off the GCD…
Sure, maybe it has it’s use. But wouldn’t you agree that Prot Warriors have the most trouble moving caster mobs? A silence instead of a fear would help with that at least a little bit imo.
The fear is actually really good since it serves as a compliment to AoE stuns while not sharing the DR with them.
As for the silence I suggest bringing back the Gag Order talent from Cataclysm. This would make heroic throw have a silence built in, would be much more reasonable for pulling casters than Intimidating shout.
The only issue i have with bringing back Gag Order is, that it’s not a mass silence. and if i remeber correctly there was a CD on heroic throw right? so you could only silence 1 mob, what do you do with the other casters?
I mean there was a CD, there isnt now. And even if it was it would still help, most of the time I don’t find that a problem in m+ tho. Usually someone else in your group can interrupt or you can LoS, it is not one of our strengths but we don’t need all tanks to have everything necesarily.
The silence on Heroic Throw was amazing. More often than not dungeons had groups of 5 mobs with one of them being a caster and you could pull them easily as a whole.
I do agree that switching one of our many useless talents for a range silence would be the most reasonable option.
Either way, using corners is hardly an issue and silence range mobs should be a prio of those reta… Lovely rDPS anyway, is called a team game for a reason.
I like intimidating shout as it is aswell. I use it all The time to interrupt skills that cant be kicked or pummeled.
I also really likes gag order from cata. I would be fine with a comprimice, like an azurite trait kinda like deafing crash that it has a usefull mechanic like ranged silence and increase dmg by heroic throw by xxx amount of damage.
Or make it so that mobs affected by semi shout are silenced if hit by a heroic throw.
Permanent gag order like we had in cata might be asking for to much in todays standard. But it sure would be Nice
