First time warrior here, I kinda speed leveled this dude just to try something new. I plan on using this guy in duels, 1v1 wpvp or random BG shenanigans.
I don’t know anything about warriors, I just wanted to go prot and be a brick wall.
Doing damage isn’t a huge goal of mine, moreso I just want to be an unstoppable monster absorbing all kinds of punishment.
I’m not really aiming for any kind of rated PvP or minmaxing CC/DMG.
I’m just looking for any kind of advice on talents or how I actually play this dude in PvP.
Macros, tips, things like that.
Like would I ever cast rend when I can thunderclap for free?
Why whirlwind when I can Revenge?
I feel kind of lost because I leveled as prot and never really needed to learn how to use my defensives since I was a monster the whole leveling process.
Sorry for the wall of text.
TLDR: I have no idea how to play prot warrior and want to PvP, pls help
A couple things.
- Never rend it is applied by thunderclap.
- Revenge replaces whirlwind for AoE pretty much
- If you care mostly about being a live lord, focus more on mastery (on my geared prot warrior I have a 52% chance to critically block and with colossus hero spec it blocks 100% damage when I critically block)
- Take spell block as a talent for fighting casters, 30 seconds of blocking spells with the above mastery focus basically makes you almost immune to casters (I have this macroed into my shield charge so it’s up as soon as I jump into an enemy team)
- Macro shield block and ignore pain into other abilities as they are not on the global cooldown
- I also macro avatar with demoralizing shout (with the PvP talent you can use this a lot and it’s a nice bump in rage when you hit avatar)
I’m sure there are a lot more tips and tricks others can share but these are some of the top ones I used for my prot warrior focussing on survivability.
Some of these are genius, thank you! I’ve got some testing to do for sure!