I’ve been playing protection warrior in pvp from vanilla on. Just farming some honor, having a great time running flags defending bases and so on … I’ve had a lot of great fun in the past expansions up until BFA (skipped legion tho).
I noticed a weird mindset in the community lately. Sometime people just call you out in the bg chat : “Why are you prot what are you doing in pvp go back to PVE” … This mildly annoying but oke to manage, but recently people started whispering during games telling me to “fly” off, go back to pve or just stop playing wow. Kinda frustrating but ok.
Now Arena Skirmish there is where the real stuff starts. People just start insulting you right of the bat i quote : “Are you for real you f**** troll? WTF Prot you PVE ****, Grow up play Arms like you should and stop ruining the game for others you …” a lot of things following…
What is going on did i miss a memo that i can’t play a game as i enjoy it the most ? Did i miss a forbidden for protection warriors in Arena?
Are any other protection warriors facing the same unprovoked barrage of insults and threats or am i the only one ?
I’m really not getting what i’m doing wrong here
Sorry for the unloading but it’s kind of taking away the joy of the game. I’m not one to report people for having an opinion or point of view but should i do so in these cases ?
Thank you and have a nice evening.
Regards ,
The Pig made out of Rubber.
(sorry for double post with wrong char first )
Hi there, I am with you :). Although I play almost only PVP, I suggest you don’t play protection in PVP. I do not. There is some use for protection like tanking final boss, or you can prevent flag capture for much longer alone like you would not be able with arms or furry. But that’s about it.
Its much worse with the arena. If you see tank in the arena, what would you do? Certainly you would leave him as last one to kill And the reason is obvious. Its dmg is the least significant, little bit of stun, no harm, but more difficult to kill. So when you appear alongside a dmg dealer, what would be his thoughts? Oh… we lost, and this tank is certainly gonna surpass me in this game fight. Whats the point, we lost, and it is even going to take longer, we could just die now, i would be happy to loose instantly
It might be satisfactory for you that you always last to the end. You survive more than your comerades, but in the end you are predestined to loose the fight for your side. For me, and for most of players, not surviving but winning the game is by far more prior to surviving but not winning
So thats about it. No more magic But yeah you are right, you are free to play your style. Their reaction is to the fact you drag others to play your style with you
I honestly believe the main reason you’re getting hate is because of the prevalence of Prot Paladins in arena right now. As soon as I see the Prot symbol on my arena frames I feel sad in my pants. Everybody knows that Protadins are a headache in arena; they’re essentially healers that don’t like to die. Ever.
Prot Warriors are a completely different story though. There’s very little self-healing, just damage mitigation. You’re not actually a huge threat, more of an annoyance that doesn’t fall over quickly.
Chances are, the people you’re facing are more than happy for you to play prot. Those people you’re playing with though… They won’t be happy because they’re pretty certain they’ll lose before the gates are even open.
Actually faced a Prot Warr/Feral/Disc in Arena at about 1200 rating the other night.
When I saw the Prot Warr I thought “free win”.
In the end, it was.
I feel like if you play Prot Warrior in PvP you dont really bring anything you can really contribute to the team, just not how they aare designed atm.
I think people don’t think of you more than a staller on games or someone who is taking the advantage of being tanky with heal against normal dps. So people will assume that you cannot play the game normally so you found an escape on being a tank.
Almost the whole idea of a tank is almost not doing any dmg but can medicate a lot of it. So if you told them I’m a flag carrier it means that you’re aiming to do something you suppose to be doing so they will be totally okay with that.
It is the same feeling when a healer doing an insane dmg while having the advantage of being able to have his big heals.
It’s funny cause today i was wondering if prot could be viable in 3s in a comp like sp prot warrior and Rsham. You have so much cc and mobility, play with the triple leap lego + talent that stuns on landing a jump… Sp is almost freecasting and with skyfury totem the damages could be quite strong. Plus dragon’s charge to peel, demoralizing shout for more peel, shockwave, stormbolt, fear…
If i manage to find people who are willing to try, i’ll come back for a feedback !
And about bg, prot is perfectly fine, i did rbg as a prot and was welcome, no insults or such
And the reason is obvious. Its dmg is the least significant, little bit of stun, no harm, but more difficult to kill. So when you appear alongside a dmg dealer, what would be his thoughts? Oh… we lost, and this tank is certainly gonna surpass me in this game fight. Whats the point, we lost, and it is even going to take longer, we could just die now, i would be happy to loose instantly 
