Protection Warrior Leveling Guide
Protection Warrior Leveling Guide
11.0.5 - The War Within
Last Updated:October 27, 2024|Changelog
Welcome to the Protection Warrior leveling guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.0! In this guide, you find a small overview of good talents to pick, a simplified rotation as well as a shopping list to prepare you for your leveling journey!
If you are already level 80, don't hesitate to check out the Mythic+ or Raid guide instead!
It is highly recommended to level as Fury or Arms Warrior!
Talents
Protection Warrior
Mountain Thane Level 70
Spec Tree
- Ravager
- Does big AoE damage and with Storm of Steel has 2 charges to be used more efficiently.
- Bloodborne
- Gives your bleeds even more value.
- Thunderlord
- Demoralizing Shout becomes ready for often.
Class Tree
- Heroic Leap + Bounding Stride
- The main way to get around. Use it as often as possible.
- Second Wind
- Provides passive healing while not being in combat.
- Thunderous Roar + Avatar
- Your main offensive cooldowns.
Hero Talents
- Mountain Thane provides a great passive damage increase to Thunder Clap and just buffs your baseline rotation making it the best option to level.
Leveling Talent Points
Milestones: 0 / 10
- Choose Mountain Thane as your Hero Talent.
- Pick Crashing Thunder
- Pick Thunder Blast
- Pick Flashing Skies
- Pick Avatar of the Storm
- Pick Ground Current
- Pick Storm Bolts
- Pick Thorim's Might
- Pick Strength of the Mountain
- Pick Keep Your Feet on the Ground
- Pick Burst of Power
Rotation
Protection Warrior
Single-Target
- Utilize Heroic Throw to pull enemies and Charge them after.
- Keep Shield Slam on cooldown.
- Don't overcap on Rage spent it on Revenge.
- Use Thunderous Roar, Avatar and Shield Charge as often as possible.
AoE
- You want to pull as many mobs as possible as a tank and AoE them down with your cleave abilities.
- Utilize Heroic Throw and Heroic Leap to pull as many enemies as possible.
- Keep Thunder Clap on cooldown.
- Don't overcap on Rage spent it on Revenge.
- Use Thunderous Roar, Avatar and Ravager as often as possible.
Shopping List
Protection Warrior
Milestones: 0 / 12
- 20x Phial of Tepid Versatility
- 40x Fried Bonefish
- 40x Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power
- 80x Potion of Withering Dreams
- 4x Howling Rune
- Dreambound Augment Rune -- Requires Reputation
or - 10x Draconic Augment Rune
- 20x Goblin Glider Kit
- Nice to either prevent yourself from dying to fall damage or to fly over small gaps without mounting up.
- 20x Gunshoes
- Use to gain a 200% movement speed & water walking buff for 25 seconds.
- Use the "walk" toggle to slow down if you want to hand in quests.
- Buy 1x Light-Step Hoofplates and use it as your mount equipment.
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Banner of Cooperation
- Alliance/Stormwind: Banner of Cooperation
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Standard of Unity
- Alliance/Stormwind: Standard of Unity
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Battle Standard of Coordination
- Alliance/Stormwind: Battle Standard of Coordination
Credits
Written by: Meeres
Reviewed by: Rycn