Welcome to our comprehensive Protection Warrior guide. Here, you will learn everything you need to know about playing a Protection Warrior in a raid environment, though most of the content also applies to normal and heroic dungeons.

At the present time, all tanking classes are fairly well balanced. Warriors bring various buffs and debuffs to the raid, although none of them are unique or even rare. In addition, they bring Rallying Cry, a raid-wide cooldown provided only by other Warriors.

Protection Warriors have excellent mobility during encounters, and shine in fights where there are a great many adds. They also deal some of the highest damage, among all tanks, especially to multiple targets at once.

Note that this guide focuses on aspects which are specific to Protection Warriors, and general tanking strategies are beyond its scope. If you wish to know more about the tanking role and what you can do to improve, we recommend that you read our tanking guide.

To make it easy to bookmark the specific sections you are interested in, we have split the guide into 7 pages:

• Talents, Builds, and Glyphs: learn what the best talent trees are and how to customise them;
• Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities: understand how to play your class in an optimal way;
• Buffs, Debuffs, and Useful Abilities: discover your arsenal of useful abilities;
• Statistics Priority and Reforging: read up on the respective values of your statistics;
• Gems, Enchants, and Consumables: choose the best gems, enchantments, and consumables;
• Macros and Addons: benefit from useful macros an addons to step up your game;
• Gearing Up and Best in Slot: find the best gear you can wear.