Protection Warrior Tank Mythic+ Tips — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

This build is very similar to the regular Mythic+ build, but it gives up some offensive value to pick up Battle-Scarred Veteran.

Pummel is our main interrupt ability. As tanks, we will take the blunt force of the overall damage intake in dungeons, and while we can deal with the physical damage intake fairly easily thanks to Shield Block, the magic damage is where it can get trickier. Using Pummel effectively to interrupt various dangerous casts will help lower our damage intake greatly and increase our chances of survival.

Disrupting Shout allows you to silence multiple enemies while also Taunting all of them. While on paper, it seems like a great ability, it has a hefty 75 second cooldown and needs to actually interrupt the cast in order for the silence to take effect. It does have potential uses in situations where you are facing multiple deadly casters, or need help grouping packs.

Intimidating Shout is primarily used as an interrupt because the disorient it provides is easily broken by damage. You can also use it as crowd control by using it on a group of enemies and pulling a specific enemy out of that group to focus it down.

Shockwave is your AoE stun. Use it to delay or cancel dangerous abilities, or use it as a survivability tool to stun enemies when your defenses are down. Rumbling Earth helps lower the cooldown of this significantly, and it can be further enhanced by Colossus talents like Boneshaker and Earthquaker.

Storm Bolt acts as another strong single-target stun. Use it instead of Shockwave when you only need to stun one enemy in order to prevent stun DR from kicking in. Mountain Thane has the Storm Bolts talent, which will make this also hit 2 additional enemies.

Shield Charge should mainly be used on cooldown for the offensive part, but it is worth remembering that it also stuns your primary target for 4 seconds when cast.

Champion's Spear allows you to tether enemies hit by the spear to it. As with Shield Charge, you should mainly use this on cooldown, offensively. Some types of situations where you might consider delaying your spear are when fixates come up, or enemies jump around. In such cases, using Champion's Spear for the purpose of tethering these enemies might be more beneficial for the overall group performance.

Spell Reflection is primarily used for the magic damage reduction. In Mythic+, however, many spells can be reflected back to the caster. There are some spells that hit very hard, and if reflectable, you can deal a lot of damage to the enemy. Additionally, sometimes you can apply debuffs to the enemy that normally would have been applied had you been hit by the spell.

Rallying Cry can be used to save teammates during heavy damage intake phases, or to just help ease the pressure off your healer. It has a fairly long 3-minute cooldown, so be sure not to waste it.

Berserker Rage makes us immune to Fear, Sap, and Incapacitate effects. This can be used pre-emptively before the cast goes off or reactively when you are already under the effect. You can further pick up Berserker Shout, which allows you to remove Fear effects also from your party members within 12 yards.

Intervene is an extremely potent tool if there is a use case for it. Preventing your party member from taking damage from, let's say, a fixating enemy is a great way to help your group. This ability is made even better thanks to Mountain Thane talent, Storm Shield. This causes the Intervene target to also gain a magic absorb shield, which can be used as an extra defensive on allies who need it.

Shattering Throw may have niche uses in some dungeons where the enemies either have a magical immunity or an absorb. Just remember that it has a cast time, meaning that you do not want to use it while actively tanking enemies.

Wrecking Throw, similarly to Shattering Throw deals bonus damage to absorbs. While it does not remove magical immunities, it does have a much shorter cooldown, making it a more compelling choice should the situation arise.

Piercing Howl slows enemies near you by 70% while also increasing your allies movement speed by 30%. This can be great to help your team avoid mechanics, or just speed up the run from one enemy pack to another.

Periodically spawns orbs that need to be interrupted or crowd-controlled. Tools to deal with this affix include:

• Pummel;
• Disrupting Shout;
• Storm Bolt;
• Shield Charge;
• Shockwave;
• Intimidating Shout.

Periodically spawns orbs, connected to players. You need to walk into another players orb, and someone needs to walk into your orb to get rid of it.

Places an absorb on players which needs to be dispelled or healed through. As Warriors, we cannot dispel, but we can assist our healer by healing ourselves with Impending Victory.

Spawns a new add, which buffs others. Just swap to this add as soon as possible, and be sure to kill it off as a high priority. As the Void Emissary has 1 health, you can start casting Execute as soon as it spawns since it deals a massive amount of damage.