Season of Discovery Protection Warrior Tank Gear and Best in Slot
On this page, you will find the best PvE gear and best in slot items for your Protection Warrior Tank in WoW Classic - Season of Discovery.
Protection Warrior Tank Season of Discovery Best in Slot
We recommend using the gear listed below for Phase 3 as your main goal in the current phase of Season of Discovery. Also, as many people still run Gnomeregan regularly to level up and are likely to have a lot of good gear from there equipped, the Phase 2 list can also be found below for reference.
These lists assume a stat priority of:
Weapon DPS > Weapon Skill > Hit Chance > Critical Strike > Strength or Attack Power > Agility > Stamina
For the threat / DPS setup and a stat priority of:
Weapon Skill > Hit Chance > Stamina > Defense > Parry > Dodge > Strength > Agility
For the defensive setup.
For more information on the stats that you should be looking for, check out the stats page listed below.
To help with presentation clarity, items that have Alliance and Horde versions with similar acquisition methods but different names will only have one of the versions listed in the tables below.
Phase Best in Slot
Sunken Temple (Phase 3) Protection Warrior Best in Slot
This list is made up of Sunken Temple raid drops, world drops, profession gear, quest rewards and dungeon drops.
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Defensive Best in Slot for Protection Warriors in Phase 2
This list is made up of defensive Gnomeregan raid drops, world drops, profession gear, quest rewards and dungeon drops.
With the added damage intake in Phase 2 and addition of Spirit of the Alpha and Blessing of Salvation for easier threat management, defensive play is more viable than it was before, and the gear listed here has much lower competition than the offensive gear listed in the alternative BiS gear further down below.
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Neck | Dragon's Blood Necklace | Into The Scarlet Monastery in Scarlet Monastery dungeons |
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Hands | Plated Fist of Hakoo | World drop bind on equip |
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Legs | H.A.Z.A.R.D. Legplates | Power Depleted Legs which drops from multiple bosses in Gnomeregan |
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DPS / Threat Best in Slot for Protection Warriors in Phase 2
This list is made up of DPS / Threat Gnomeregan raid drops, world drops, profession gear, quest rewards and dungeon drops.
If you want to lean even more into DPS we would recommend you to follow the Arms Warrior or Fury Warrior gear lists and skip the shield entirely, but we will assume shield usage in this list, to enable Devastate usage as explained in the rotation page.
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Neck | Gnomeregan Peace Officer's Torque | Mekgineer Thermaplugg in Gnomeregan |
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Hands | Plated Fist of Hakoo | World drop bind on equip |
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Legs | Insulated Legguards | Power Depleted Legs which drops from multiple bosses in Gnomeregan |
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Threat and DPS-oriented Best in Slot for Protection Warriors In Phase 1
This list is made up of world drops, quest rewards, dungeon and raid drops. As a rule of thumb, of the Tiger green items with level requirements close to 25 will be threat / DPS setup best in slot in any slot they can drop for.
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Wrists | Pugilist Bracers | Trash Drop in Razorfen Kraul |
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Waist | Cobrahn's Grasp | Lord Cobrahn in Wailing Caverns |
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Defensive Best in Slot for Protection Warriors in Phase 1
This list is made up of world drops, quest rewards, dungeon and raid drops. At this level any green items with Stamina and / or Defense will do the job as well.
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Waist | Twilight Defender's Girdle | Twilight Lord Kelris in Blackfathom Deeps |
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Changelog
- 08 Apr. 2024: Further Phase 3 updates.
- 02 Apr. 2024: Updated for Phase 3 with Sunken Temple gear.
- 15 Feb. 2024: Updated for Phase 2 with Gnomeregan gear.
- 21 Dec. 2023: WSG neck tooltip fixes.
- 11 Dec. 2023: Ring origin typo fix.
- 07 Dec. 2023: Added item drop locations and improved the list further.
- 04 Dec. 2023: Revamped BiS with currently known BFD raid items.
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This guide has been written by Seksi, original vanilla player and multi-class player, currently playing on Gehennas Horde. You can find him on the Classic Warrior, Mage and Shaman Discords, as well as the Icy Veins Discord.
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