Prot Warrior 11.1 PTR Feedback

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@Linxy

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 Warrior being 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 to start while still leaving plenty of room for skillful and active play at higher levels.
• Chance to reset the cooldown on Shield Slam from Devastator and Strategist reduced to 25% (was 20%).
• Ignore Pain’s icon now displays the remaining absorb amount as a percentage of the maximum absorb amount.
• Punish reduces damage the punished target deals to you by 3% (was 4%).

This feels better but. It would be nice that when our abilities proc, we could use them immediately instead of waiting for the GCD. The Abilities light up, and we have to wait. Can we get the procs to just reset the GCD?