Protection Warrior Mythic+ Guide

Taunt Macro --- This macro either casts Taunt at your target or your mouseover (very handy to pick up mobs)

#showtooltip Taunt
/cast [@mouseover,exists,harm][@target,exists,harm] Taunt

Boss 1 Taunt --- Casts Taunt on Boss1

/cast [@boss1] Taunt

Boss 2 Taunt --- Casts Taunt on Boss2

/cast [@boss2] Taunt

Charge -- Charge your target unless your mouse is over another enemy, then it targets that enemy and charges it.

/target [@mouseover, harm, nodead]
/cast Charge

Intervene --- This macro makes you Intervene a friendly player your mouse is over.

/cast [@mouseover,help] Intervene

Mouseover Focus --- This macro sets your mouseover as your focus

/focus [@mouseover]

Ravager

/cast [@cursor] Ravager

Thunderous Roar and Champion's Spear Macro --- If you have Champion's Spear talented it's used on your cursor. If you have both abilities talented then it only uses Champion's Spear.

/cast [known:376079,@cursor] Champion's Spear; Thunderous Roar

Heroic Leap

/cast [@cursor] Heroic Leap

Defensive Stance and Battle Stance --- With this you can swap stances from 1 keybind.

/cast [stance:2] Defensive Stance; stance[:3] Battle Stance

Intervene --- This macro makes you Intervene a friendly player in the direction you are facing. It is less precise than a mouse over macro, but easier to use.

/targetfriendplayer
/cast Intervene
/targetlasttarget

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• Warrior
  • Developers' notes: We feel that Warriors are in a good place overall, however, there are a few places we'd like to make improvements to each spec, and to the class as a whole. Warrior survivability in particular has been a weak point, and Endurance Training competing against powerful throughput nodes in the bottom of the Warrior tree makes it difficult to talent into. We’re combining Endurance Training and Reinforced Plates to put the choice in the second tier, which has more choice against other utility and survival nodes and thus be easier to spend points on. The Weapon Specialization nodes have been increased to 2 points to keep the tree structure and overall talent build costs similar, and the nodes have been rearranged slightly to make the choice about how to access Avatar more distinct for each spec.
  • Reinforced Plates is now a 2-point talent that grants 5% Stamina and 5% Armor per point.
  • Overwhelming Rage is now a 1-point talent that increases maximum Rage by 30.
  • Two-Handed Weapon Specialization (Arms) is now a 2-point talent that grants 3% damage and 2% reduction of damage from area-of-effect attacks while wielding a 2-hand weapon per point.
  • Dual Wield Specialization (Fury) is now a 2-point talent that grants 3% damage and 2% movement speed while dual-wielding per point.
  • One-Handed Weapon Specialization (Protection) is now a 2-point talent that grants 3% damage and 2% Leech per point.
  • Thunderous Words increases your Bleed damage by 20% on affected targets (was 30%).
  • Cruel Strikes, Wild Strikes, and the Weapon Specialization nodes have changed positions in the tree.
  • Endurance Training has been removed.
  • Protection
    • Developer's notes: Protection Warrior is a very active spec, requiring constant decision-making both for tanking decisions as well as managing cooldown resets and free ability uses. However, there are some elements of the current design that can lead to Protection Warriors requiring more active play than we intend. Frequent Shield Slam cooldown resets are one part of the issue, as they occupy a large amount of the rotation and generate a significant amount of Rage. This leaves little room in the rotation to spend Rage on anything that uses the global cooldown, and coupled with most Protection major cooldowns generating a large amount of additional Rage, leads to using Ignore Pain frequently, even when it provides little or no mitigation value. To address this, we are reducing the frequency of Shield Slam cooldown resets and Rage generated by major cooldowns and in exchange, supplementing Rage generation from passive or rotational sources. It is our goal that this will make Protection easier to approach and play, while still leaving plenty of room for skillful and active play at higher levels.
    • All ability damage increased by 26%.
      • Developers' notes: We have noticed damage dealt by tanks has not been keeping pace with damage dealers, we are adjusting damage of all tank specs to bring them into a closer alignment with DPS specs.
    • Shield Slam damage increased by 20%.
    • Execute damage increased by 10%.
    • Brace For Impact stacks up to 3 times (was 5), and grants 10% Shield Slam damage and shield block value by 5% (was 5% Shield Slam damage and 3% shield block value).
    • Punish reduces damage the punished target deals to you by 3% (was 2%).
    • Bloodsurge now causes damage from Deep Wounds to have a chance to generate 5 Rage.
    • Instigate causes Devastator to generate 2 Rage (was 1).
    • Chance to reset the cooldown of Shield Slam from Devastator and Strategist reduced to 25% (was 30%).
    • Impenetrable Wall no longer increases Rage generated by Shield Slam.
    • Booming Voice causes Demoralizing Shout to generate 20 Rage (was 30).
    • Champion's Bulwark no longer increases the Rage generated by Shield Charge.
    • Violent Outburst has been rebuilt to be easier to understand and track progress towards the next Outburst. Additional Rage generated from Violent Outburst reduced to 50% (was 100%).
    • Shield Wall cooldown reduced to 3 minutes (was 3.5 minutes).
    • Amount of damage ignored from each use of Ignore Pain increased by 30%.
    • Ignore Pain's icon now displays the remaining absorb amount as a percentage of the maximum absorb amount.
    • Barbaric Training no longer increases the Rage cost of Revenge.
    • Frothing Berserker now has a chance to refund 50% of the Rage spent on Revenge (was 25%).
    • Colossus
      • Practiced Strikes increases Rage generated by Shield Slam by 3.
      • Colossal Might is no longer applied by Execute.
        • Developers' notes: Using your hard-hitting rotational ability regularly is core to the Colossus playstyle, and Execute applying Colossal Might pushed Colossus away from that during Execute phases.
      • An issue causing Demolish's animation to not correctly play sometimes is now fixed.
    • Mountain Thane
      • Thunder Blast damage increased by 10%.
      • Avatar of the Storm has a chance to grant 6 seconds of Avatar (was 4 seconds).

• Warrior
  • Thunderous Roar now deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets (was 8).
  • Champion's Spear icon has been updated.

• Warrior
  • All talent trees have had many talents move locations or have had their pathing updated.
  • Honed Reflexes has been redesigned – Cooldown of Die By the Sword, Enraged Regeneration, Shield Wall, Pummel, Intervene, Spell Reflection, and Storm Bolt reduced by 5%.
  • Second Wind gains an additional effect – While you are below 35% health, restores 1.0% health every 1 second. The amount restored increases the closer you are to death (max 2%).
  • Berserker Rage is now learned at level 12.
  • Slam damage increased by 130%. Arms Slam damage bonus reduced to 50% (was 75%).
  • Bladestorm damage increased by 70%.
  • Ravager damage decreased by 10%.
  • Sudden Death can now stack 2 times.
  • Thunder Clap Rage cost reduced to 20 (was 30) and now applies Rend by default if it is known.
  • Frothing Berserker now refunds 10% Rage for Arms and Fury, and 25% Rage for Protection.
  • Shockwave no longer generates Rage on cast.
  • Champion's Spear generates 10 Rage on cast (was 20).
  • Thunderous Roar no longer generates Rage on cast.
  • Thunderous Roar now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets. The tooltip will reflect this change in a future update.
  • Thunderous Words now causes Thunderous Roar’s Bleed effect to increase damage targets take from all the Warrior’s bleed effects, rather than passively increasing it all the time.
  • Odyn's Fury now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets. The tooltip will reflect this change in a future update.
  • Uproar now reduces the cooldown of Thunderous Roar by 45 seconds (was 30 seconds).
  • Champion’s Might now causes you to deal 25% increased critical strike damage to targets chained to your Spear.
  • Piercing Challenge now increases all damage dealt by Champion’s Spear (was only initial damage).
  • The visual for Shockwave will now properly match its radius, both with and without the Rumbling Earth talent. Impact visual has also been updated.
  • The visual for Thunderous Roar has been adjusted.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Rallying Cry to increase maximum health by 15% instead of the intended 10%.
  • The following talents have been removed:
    • Titanic Throw
    • Sonic Boom
    • Blood and Thunder

• Protection
  • New Talent: Fight Through the Flames – Defensive Stance additionally reduces magic damage you take by 5%.
  • Battle-Scarred Veteran has been updated – When a damage event reduces your health below 30%, the portion of that damage event that would apply to the last 30% of your health is also reduced by 80%.
  • Dance of Death has been redesigned – When an enemy dies while affected by your Ravager, its duration is extended by 2 seconds. This effect can trigger a maximum of 3 times per use of Ravager.
  • Whirlwind base Rage cost reduced to 20 (was 30).
  • Whirlwind damage reduced by 33%.
  • Execute damage increased by 15%.
  • Rend base Rage cost reduced to 20 (was 30).
  • Defensive Stance no longer reduces damage dealt by Protection Warriors.
  • Immovable Object tooltip updated with detailed information. No functional changes.
  • Improved Heroic Throw has been removed.

A: You probably had downtime on your Shield Block which is required for Spell Block to work.