Got a few questions, and generally speaking I am only looking to do +10s-12s to get my vault done then play other stuff.
- Do you only ever use revenge when it has a free proc?
- Do you macro any offensive CD’s together like Avatar and Spear?
- What CD’s do you prio offensively when you have everything up and you’re not worried about surviving the current pull? (since these are pretty mid-level keys let’s assume that I’m never worried about surviving anything I pull)
- Do you take Ravager, why or why not? (the build I have does not take it and it does feel a bit awkward/less efficient to play with it)
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5. Is there any buff I need to be tracking to improve damage? I don’t really care if I’m at 100% of what I could do, but over 85-90% of my potential output would be fair
Depends on what your hero talent build is. Shield slam is your main source of rage so will be very important to use as much as you unless rage capped. Thane you pretty much use revenge when it procs and when nothing else is available. Colossus you use revenge as much as you can use tclap to fill dead globals, Shield slam is where you get rage “violent outburst should be used on shield slam”.
I would play colossus its damage is much higher and I find it a more enjoyable playstyle. Ravager is to help fuel your rage generation and to help with aggro on pulls etc "spam revenge with that rage and build up a good demolish. The non ravager build is just for the very top end and more defensive. Here is an example key was just a NW +10 with very conservative pulls, if going by details it was like 1.1 to 1.2 million dps. I cannot link logs on the forums but if you sent me a bnet friend request I can link it and answer any questions that you have. Tolak#1745, If going Colossus there is a WA I use with sound and a visual tracker that I use to track stacks of colossal might.
Depends on the build and how many targets are present. Thane mostly just uses it only on a free global that isn’t filled in with either Shield Slam or Thunderclap which is practically never.
Colossus will opt to hit Revenge as much as possible rage wise in packs. It’s high damage as Colossus while picking up revenge % nodes you would avoid as Thane makes it a very good button to press. This also feeds into your ignore pain shield extremly well as Colossus since you should be taking Brutal Vitality anyway.
Nope, Prot’s Cooldowns desync enough for both builds that you just run them as separate keybinds. Better that way too in terms of gameplay imo.
Just smack em on cooldown when you’ve rounded everything up. Boost the correct SS or TC with outburst (if talented), spam revenge to CDR Demolish, toss out demolishes for burst but never your first attack of a pull as the first 2 hits are ST and the dps can’t read your mind that you won’t be doing any AoE agro at the start of the pull like you should be doing.
The build i’ve mostly been playing lately when I do a weekly +10 (haven’t really bothered the past month as the season is over 
) has been a Colossus build that excludes Ravager. Honestly it doesn’t feel like it’s necessary and there are better talents to pick that synergise well with a final build for what I was after when I was focusing on maximising damage dealt from myself in the keys I was joining with randoms.
You should join the warrior discord you can share logs etc. Skyhold is very helpful and can go over your logs and help you with specifics in rotation. Trust that your healer will be able to handle what you pull and don’t over use IP as the amount of reduction from each cast is very small have shield block up as much as you can and remember that you get a free a Ignore Pain with Violent outburst procs. So spend lots of rage and shield slam often, try not to cap rage spend it just make sure you have shield block up as much as possible “it also increases your shield slam damage”.
Those are some pretty loaded questions. Im pretty sure what you are going to see in replies is, “it depends.” There is more to playing a Prot Warrior than just keeping Shield Block and Ignore Pain at 100% uptime. You need to be more specific.