Welcome to our PVE Protection Warrior Tank guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Warrior class as Protection Tank. If you follow this build you should have healers begging you to tank for them.

Talents

This first build is optimized for 5-man dungeons. It improves your shouts and reduces the cooldown of your defensive abilities.

This second build is for raids. This build improves your threat generation but you lose the shout improvements. Your defensive cooldowns are shorter and so is your shield slam. Shield slam is a very high threat generating ability, so you should use it often.

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

• Shockwave
• Blocking
• Revenge
• Shield Wall is another option.

Minor Glyphs

• Thunder Clap

Gems

Gems can change based on your build, equipment and caps. You may need to adjust your gems to account for your gear.

• Meta: Austere Earthsiege Diamond or Eternal Earthsiege Diamond
• Red: Defender’s Dreadstone
• Blue: Defender’s Dreadstone or Enduring Eye of Zul
• Yellow: Enduring Eye of Zul

Enchants

You may need to adjust your enchants based on your gear but these are the standard enchants.

• Head: Arcanum of the Stalwart Protector
• Shoulder: Greater Inscription of the Pinnacle or Greater Inscription of the Gladiator
• Back: Mighty Armor or Titanweave
• Chest: Super Health or Greater Defense
• Bracers: Major Stamina
• Gloves: Heavy Borean Armor Kit or Armsman
• Waist: Eternal Belt Buckle
• Legs: Frosthide Leg Armor
• Boots: Greater Fortitude or Tuskarr’s Vitality
• Weapon: Blade Ward or Mongoose
• Shield: Major Stamina, Titanium Plating or Defense

Stat Priority

Survivability

1. Defense (540 for raids, best avoidance stat)
2. Effective Health (more is better)
3. Dodge (second best avoidance stat)
4. Parry (not worth getting vs dodge.)
5. Block (not a pure avoidance stat)

Threat Generation

• Weapon Speed (2.6, Slow means 5% more threat due to Devestate)
• Expertise (26)
• Hit (8% cap)

Rotation

Don’t forget to face the boss away from the raid. The raid needs to attack the boss from the back and not be hit by their frontal attacks. Dragons are the exception as they need to be hit from the side due to tail swipe.

• Heroic Throw followed by Charge are used to begin the fight.
• Once in melee range use Shield Block and start using Shield Slam since it builds a lot of threat.
• Revenge should be used when possible.

Always use these:

• Demoralizing Shout
• Devastate
• Thunder Clap

(Sometimes other warriors will apply them for you.)

In a perfect world you will be able to replace every white attack with a Heroic Strike.

Shockwave can be used in emergency situations, if a lot of monsters aggro or aggro is lost.

Welcome to our PVP Protection Warrior guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Warrior class as Protection. If you follow this build you should be king of the arena in no time!

Talents

This is the standard Protection Warrior build when you have BiS gear and the required T-10 pieces.

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

• Blocking
• Intervene
• Shockwave

Optional replacements for Intervene

• Last Stand
• Enraged Regeneration
• Spell Reflection
• Shield Wall

Minor Glyphs

• Charge
• Bloodrage
• Battle or Command

Gems

Gems can change based on your build, equipment and caps. You may need to adjust your gems to account for your gear.

• Meta: Relentless Earthsiege Diamond
• Red: Fractured Cardinal Ruby
• Blue: Puissant Dreadstone (2 max) fill with red gems.
• Yellow: Mystic King’s Amber or Fractured Cardinal Ruby (depending on resilience)

Enchants

You may need to adjust your enchants based on your gear but these are the standard enchants.

Armor

• Head: Arcanum of Triumph
• Shoulder: Inscription of Triumph
• Back: Major Agility
• Chest: Exceptional Resilience
• Bracers: Greater Assault
• Gloves: Crusher or Precision
• Waist: Eternal Belt Buckle
• Legs: Earthen Leg Armor
• Boots: Tuskarr’s Vitality

Weapons

• One-handed: Berserking or Executioner
• Shield: Titanium Plating

Stat Priority

1. Armor Penetration (50% minimum)
2. Hit Rating (6%)
3. Health (30k min)
4. Critical strike (30%)
5. Resilience (at most 500)

You want to keep your resilience low so you can gem/enchant for more damage. Your armor and defensive CD’s will keep you safe from most threats. Prot warriors use mostly PvE gear for PvP. Most good players use mostly PvE gear and double damage trinkets, so you can start with PvP items and work your way backwards.

You need 4 T-10 items.

• Helmet and Chest – (Fury Warrior T-10)
• Shoulders and Gloves – (Prot Warrior T-10)

These set bonuses grant a huge damage boost and are basically required for this build to work.

Rotation

You don’t really have a rotation, so here is a list of abilities and when to use them.

DPS Skills

• Shield Slam  is your top priority ability. If you don’t have enough rage, wait for Sword and Board to proc.
• Revenge does great damage to two targets.
• Devastate when the first two are on cooldown. Spam this with Heroic Strike for solid damage.
• Shockwave is an AOE stun for 4 seconds in a cone which also does nice damage.
• Concussion Blow  is a 5 second single-target stun.
• Rend  is a Damage over Time that is really useful against Rogues and Druids.
• Thunderclap is not a top priority but it is useful when everything else is on cooldown.

Defensive Skills

• Last Stand is a 30% Health increase. Great when you are about to die.
• Shield Wall is a 60% Damage reduction but cannot be used while disarmed.
• Shield Block is 10 seconds of 100% blocking physical attacks. This may just sound like a defensive ability but it gives you the ability to spam Revenge. This will result in proc’s of Sword and Board, which give you 10% Shield Slam damage, which is one of your top damaging abilities.
• Enraged Regeneration  is our only self heal.
• Intimidating Shout – Fears a target for 8 seconds, he is locked in place and can’t move or use abilities.

Utility Skills

• Intervene  is a very useful ability when trying to save your partner. When talented it reduces the damage your partner will take by 30%. Best used when he is vulnerable or being focused down.
• Charge rushes to the target and applies a 2 second stun while also generating rage.
• Intercept rushes to the target and applies a 3 second stun and does a small amount of damage, doesn’t generate rage.

Arena Team Comps

Here are some partners for 2s and 3s in arena.

2v2 Arena

• Retribution Paladin
• Holy Paladin
• Arms Warrior
• Mutilate Rogue
• Enhancement Shaman

3v3 Arena

• Elemental Shaman + Holy Paladin
• Marksmanship Hunter + Holy Paladin
• Arms Warrior + Holy Paladin

Welcome to our PVP Arms Warrior guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Warrior class as Arms. If you follow this build you should be king of the arena in no time!

Talents

This is the standard Arms Warrior build. Optionally, Orcs can re-allocate the points you would normally put into Iron Will somewhere else due to their racial. This is primarily a 2v2 / dueling build.

This second build sacrifices survivability for more damage. This build works better in 3v3 arenas and battlegrounds.

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

• Rending – Required
• Mortal Strike – Required
• Bladestorm or Sweeping Strikes  – Used in Arena
• Hamstring  – All around great glyph, useful anywhere
• Overpower – Better for duels

Minor Glyphs

• Charge
• Bloodrage
• Battle or Command

Gems

Gems can change based on your build, equipment and caps. You may need to adjust your gems to account for your gear.

• Meta: Relentless Earthsiege Diamond
• Red: Fractured Cardinal Ruby or Bold Cardinal Ruby
• Blue: Puissant Dreadstone or Sovereign Dreadstone
• Yellow: Mystic King’s Amber or Rigid King’s Amber

Enchants

You may need to adjust your enchants based on your gear but these are the standard enchants.

Armor

• Head: Arcanum of Torment
• Shoulder: Inscription of Triumph
• Back: Major Agility
• Chest: Exceptional Resilience
• Bracers: Greater Assault
• Gloves: Crusher or Precision
• Waist: Eternal Belt Buckle
• Legs: Earthen Leg Armor
• Boots: Tuskarr’s Vitality

Weapons

• Two-handed – Berserking
• One-handed – Blood Draining
• Shield – Resilience

Stat Priority

1. Resilience (950-1050)
2. Hit Rating (5%)
3. Armor Penetration (60%)
4. Strength

Tip

You should be using an AXE! It gives the biggest benefit of all 3 specs. Swords can be used for sudden one-shots or if you get kited often. Maces can be used when you don’t have other options…

Rotation

1. Hamstring / Piercing Howl
2. Rend
3. Mortal Strike
4. Overpower
5. Mortal Strike
6. Overpower

To fill space when your skills aare on cooldown you can use these filler abilities.

• Heroic Throw
• Heroic Strike
• Thunderclap

Arena Team Comps

Here are some partners for 2s and 3s in arena.

2v2 Arena

• Discipline Priest
• Holy Paladin
• Restoration Shaman
• Restoration Druid

3v3 Arena

• Restoration Shaman + Holy Paladin
• Discipline Priest + Holy Paladin
• Elemental Shaman + Holy Paladin
• Frost Mage + Holy Paladin
• Destruction / Affliction Warlock + Holy Paladin
• Frost / Unholy Death Knight + Holy Paladin

Welcome to our PVE Arms Warrior guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Warrior class as Arms. If you follow this build you should be at the top of the DPS chart in no time!

Talents

This first build is for newer players with low gear scores. It assumes you don’t have any of yours stats capped. This build focuses on rage generation with Unbridled Wrath and Anger Management. It also includes Weapon Mastery to make up for not being hit or expertise capped. Slam gets excluded from our rotation making us more mobile but capable of less damage.

This build does the most single target DPS. It also assumes you have hit your stat caps and have close to BiS gear.

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

• Execution
• Mortal Strike – Can be changed if using the 1st build
• Rending

Minor Glyphs

• Charge
• Enduring Victory
• Bloodrage

Gems

Gems can change based on your build, equipment and caps. You may need to adjust your gems to account for your gear.

• Meta: Relentless Earthsiege Diamond
• Red: Fractured Cardinal Ruby or Bold Cardinal Ruby
• Blue: Nightmare Tear (1x max) or Bold Cardinal Ruby
• Yellow: Inscribed Ametrine or Etched Ametrine

Enchants

You may need to adjust your enchants based on your gear but these are the standard enchants.

• Head: Arcanum of Torment
• Shoulder: Greater Inscription of the Axe
• Back: Major Agility
• Chest: Powerful Stats
• Bracers: Greater Assault
• Gloves: Crusher
• Waist: Eternal Belt Buckle
• Legs: Icescale Leg Armor
• Boots: Cat’s Swiftness or Greater Assault
• Weapons: Berserking

Stat Priority

1. Hit Rating (8%)
2. Expertise (18+)
3. Armor Penetration (1400 max)
4. Critical strike
5. Strength / AP
6. Critical strike

You need 8% hit rating to be melee hit capped.

Expertise cap is 26, so if you have no expertise, it’s a very valuable stat. Some warriors don’t cap expertise to increase the number of Overpower procs. There is a point where having your main attacks dodged outweighs Overpower procs, so a safe bet is to stay above 18.

After you are hit capped and have the expertise you were aiming for, Armor penetration should be your next stat. You want to eventually reach 100% without a Proc but at first aim to get it to 100% while your trinket procs are up. Also keep in mind that battle stance increases your ArP by 10% and mace spec gives another 15%.

Here are a list of ArP caps:

• 1400 rating without Battle stance & Mace Spec (Not relevant to Arms since you’ll spend most of your time in Battle Stance)
• 1260 with Battle Stance
• 1050 with Battle Stance + Mace spec
• 1177 with 2p t9
• 967 with 2p t9 + Mace Spec

Strength is always a nice DPS increase. Once you have your Armour pen sorted, you can gem for strength or strength + Crit (with a socket bonus of +6 str or more).

Rotation

Arms doesn’t really follow a rotation, you use abilities when proc’s happen.

• After Sudden Death procs, you use Execute
• When Rend procs Taste for Blood, you use Overpower

Priority List

1. Execute 
2. Overpower
3. Mortal Strike or Heroic Strike

Welcome to our PVE Fury Warrior guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Warrior class as Fury. If you follow this build you should be at the top of the DPS chart in no time!

Talents

There are two viable specs for a fury warrior and both specs are 18/53/0. One has enrage and the other doesn’t.

This second build has less burst on the opening but more overall damage by 2% to 3% percent.

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

• Heroic Strike
• Whirlwind
• Cleaving

Minor Glyphs

• Command – A must have
• Bloodrage – Recommended
• Battle – Not required

Gems

Gems can change based on your build, equipment and caps. You may need to adjust your gems to account for your gear.

• Meta: Relentless Earthsiege Diamond
• Red: Fractured Cardinal Ruby or Bold Cardinal Ruby
• Blue: Nightmare Tear (1x max) or Bold Cardinal Ruby
• Yellow: Inscribed Ametrine or Etched Ametrine

Gem strength until you hit around 50% to 60% passive armor penetration. once you get to that point, gem the rest as armor penetration until you get to 1400 arp (100%).

At the point of arp cap, start gemming for strength or strength/crit or strength/hit.

Enchants

You may need to adjust your enchants based on your gear but these are the standard enchants.

• Head: Arcanum of Torment
• Shoulder: Greater Inscription of the Axe
• Back: Major Agility
• Chest: Powerful Stats
• Bracers: Greater Assault
• Gloves: Crusher or Precision
• Waist: Eternal Belt Buckle
• Legs: Icescale Leg Armor
• Boots: Cat’s Swiftness or Greater Assault
• Weapons: Berserking

Stat Priority

1. Hit Rating (5%)
2. Expertise (26)
3. Armor Penetration (1400 max)
4. Strength
5. Critical strike
6. Haste

Expertise cap is 26 and Armor Penetration cap is 1400 you should not go over these.

Never gem haste.

Rotation

Fury has a simple rotation:

• Use Bloodthirst and then use Whirlwind, rinse & repeat
• When Bloodsurge procs, use Slam
• Use Heroic Strike and Cleave as often as possible

The key to maximizing your DPS is not interrupting you main combo with global cooldowns from other abilities.

Macros

/equipslot 16 Glorenzelg, High-Blade of the Silver Hand (your mainhand)
/equipslot 17 Cryptmaker (your offhand)

Weapon Macro

/equip Bloodvenom Blade (your mainhand here)
/equip Icecrown Glacial Wall ( your shield here)
/cast Defensive Stance
/cast Shield Wall
/cast Battle Stance

Shield Wall Macro

/cast Heroic Strike(Rank 13)
/cancelaura Hand of Protection
/cancelaura Divine Intervention

Heroic Strike Macro (USE THIS TO DEAL WITH TROLLS)

/cast Defensive Stance
/cast Intervene
/cast Berserker Stance

Intervene Macro

#showtooltip Rend(Rank 10)
/cast Battle Stance
/cast Rend(Rank 10)
/cast Berserker Stance

Rend Macro

BIS Gear List

Armor

• Head – Sanctified Ymirjar Lord’s Helmet
• Shoulder – Sanctified Ymirjar Lord’s Shoulderplates
• Cloak – Recovered Scarlet Onslaught Cape
• Chest – Sanctified Ymirjar Lord’s Battleplate
• Bracers – Toskk’s Maximized Wristguards
• Gloves – Sanctified Ymirjar Lord’s Gauntlets
• Waist – Coldwraith Links
• Legs – Bladeborn Leggings
• Boots – Blood-Soaked Saronite Stompers

Misc

• Neck – Lana’thel’s Chain of Flagellation or Sindragosa’s Cruel Claw
• Rings – Ashen Band of Endless Vengeance Frostbrood Sapphire Ring
• Trinkets – Deathbringer’s Will Death’s Verdict

Weapons

• Main-hand – Glorenzelg, High-Blade of the Silver Hand
• Off-hand – Glorenzelg, High-Blade of the Silver Hand
• Ranged – Fal’inrush, Defender of Quel’thalas