Good to see the game hasn’t changed since I last played
Watch first 10 seconds for 3 crazy kills. No this isn’t normal, as prot only has a 10-15% crit chance and with resilience it will be like 5% in arenas. But when you go up against pve geared people… it’s glorious.
Even with full Wrathful glad gear prot warriors are still a bit silly in PVP. But almost everything in Wrath does crazy damage. That’s just this expansion is.
Resil only fixes it till Arm Pen and T10 come out. Then Resil doesn’t make that much of a difference again when Prot is in BiS. When Prot gets 100% Arm Pen Resil won’t save you.
Prot will hit 20-30k on low resil targets end of expansion. So a good solid 12-15k on Resil players.
Yea it gets nutty cause Prot scales the best with Arm Pen and Tier sets. They use Arms 2pc and Prot 2pc. Then spec into Deep wounds to proc the Arms 2pc 16% attack power boost. Then Prot 2pc is 20% dmg to shock wave which is boost by 16% attack power. So Shock wave and Revenge in that build end up taking over in highest dmg typically.
Shield Slam will still hit 20k ish though. It’s just Block value is capped which is why Prot switched to Arm pen and Arms 2pc set to put damage in other places and still burst with Shield Slam.
Prot also has many % dmg modifiers. Can take imp Disarm so enemies take 10% more dmg. Then 10% dmg from enrage. etc… This all scale the best with BiS gear.
I was trying out prot warrior during the pre-patch and it was the most fun experience I had in PvP and even PvE. It was satisfying to beat and kill those dks in bgs
Cracks me up seeing all these threads pop up about prot warriors being amazing, and invariably, someone comes in “Sure, yes, prot warriors are amazing at leveling, soloing, tanking dungeons, and PvP… but wait till X! Have fun being C-tier.” Okay. I’ll believe it when I see it. For now, I think I’ll stick with being an indestructible bulldozer in every aspect of the game.