Name : Defensive Stance (id=212520) [Spell Family (4)]
Class : Warrior
School : Physical
Spell Type : None
Spell Level : 19
Cooldown : 3 seconds
Category : 2057
Category Cooldown: 3 seconds
Affecting spells : Bladestorm (46924 effect#3), Bladestorm (227847 effect#3), Bladestorm (389774 effect#3)
Name : Defensive Stance (id=197690) [Spell Family (4)]
Class : Warrior
School : Physical
Spell Type : None
Duration : Aura (infinite)
Cooldown : 3 seconds
Category : 2057
Category Cooldown: 3 seconds
Proc Chance : 101%
Affecting spells : Bladestorm (46924 effect#3), Bladestorm (227847 effect#3), Bladestorm (389774 effect#3)
Triggered by : Defensive Stance (212520)
Family Flags : 11, 113
They probably just add defensive stance to the prot aura and then add the prot aura to the affecting spells list like they do with slam/execute/ignore pain. I don’t understand why these three spell ids exist as-is. Do arms/fury/prot all 3 call the first one?
Fury is in 4th place in meta rankings, arms is in sixth. Both arms and fury are getting buffs this upcoming patch. While the classes that do better than warriors are not getting buffed or nerfed. Meaning all dps warrior specs are gonna be in the top 5. No other class in game has all their dps specs in the top 5 meta rankings. Warrior is a S tier class, with their dps spec being S tier. Only warrior mains will complain they can’t insta kill, have divine shield that lasts 5 mins with no cds, and have a button to push to give them 3000 rating in all ranked combat to brag about how good they are, and how much of a better human being they are over everyone else. No other class main cries as hard as warriors this season while performing better than most classes.
Arms, fury, prot all call the first one. The third one is an aura triggered by the second spellid. Looking at the effects, it is -20% damage taken and -10% damage done, flipping to -10% damage taken and -20% damage done in pvp. This means that the second and third spellids are likely related to the arms talent that no longer exists.
This is how Defensive stance has a higher damage taken reduction for protection than arms and fury.
Name : Defensive Stance (id=386208) [Spell Family (4)]
Labels : 2796: Protection Warrior (137048 effect#20)
I could’ve told you that yesterday but I wanted you to be sad instead.
Also, I just confirmed that the defensive stance change is protection only on live. They likely added another effect to the protection warrior hidden passive instead of changing the base ability, so as not to change it for arms/fury.