New to protection warrior, i have a few questions!

I brought my warrior to level 60.

  • I choose necrolord because i read in logs that this covenants is the meta. Is their active ability conqueror’s banner any good or pro players only pick necrolord because of flashcraft ?

  • Do you like prot warriors kit ? Dont you miss abilities that can control and reach distant mobs like avengers shield, paralysis, ring of peace, death grip, vortex, typhoon, sigils… ?

-There is an ability called raise banner when you join the necrolords. In its tooltip its written only ‘brandish the banner of the necrolords’. Does it actually provide any type of buff ?

-Is prot warrios damage high? I have a 276 paladin and my damage in dungeons is 10 - 11 k. Will i be dealing the same damage with my warrior if i bring it to the same ilvl.

Thank you.

I love prot warrior , it’s my preferred tank . I have other geared tanks but alwsys come back prot . I feel I do a lot of single target damage . Most of the other questions get answered in guides from icy veins etc . And for kiting I usually shockwave and then heroic leap outta there and wait for them to get back to me but they’re all usually dead by then .

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Necrolord banner provides a huge mastery buff that can have high uptime. Mastery increases attack power so banner is supposed to be good for damage but I havent been able to get it to work.

As far as damage comparisons to paladin, you will do 2k+ less. I can do 10k in dungeons like mists, but on average i do 8-9k.

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With all my heart! Been playing it since 2007 and let me tell you its been rough for us this expansion coming from our bfa status. Those abilties you touched on are part of the issues we face currently.

I am a powerhouse

I haven’t done huge keys but I can pull 10k overall at 240 ilvl in lower keys if running damage build. Generally though you will probably not do that until higher ilvl because you will sacrifice some revenges for shield block/ignore pain.

Yes, it gives 400 mastery, 30% move speed, and you can’t be slowed below 100% move speed.

I feel like it could have a better utility, like aoe grip, typhoon, or even a ranged silence to group casters…

Really good when paired with things that get a huge benefit out of mastery, like ret paladin for example. Once you get enough haste and practice you can have almost a 100% uptime on banner.

Unfortunately, protection has the lowest damage of all tanks in the game in most circumstances.