Protection Warrior Torghast Guide and Best Anima Powers — Dragonflight 10.2.5

This page will guide you on how to get the most out of your Protection Warrior in Torghast, Tower of the Damned. For more information about Torghast in general, check out our dedicated pages below.

Playing Protection Warrior in Torghast is fairly easy as our tankiness and decent damage output provide us with the means to advance fairly easily. One of our greatest strengths is that we can pull big packs of enemies together and burst them down with our powerful AoE abilities like Ravager, Thunderous Roar, Avatar. We do have to be careful though as some enemies are dangerous and we do not have any emergency recovery healing in our kit outside of Victory Rush / Impending Victory. While our AoE is great we are lacking a bit in single target department so choosing talents and Anima Powers that help with this is preferable.

In addition to your Covenant-specific Legendary provided by Unity you should use one of the following Legendaries for best results.

1. Reprisal
2. Seismic Reverberation
3. The Wall

Reprisal is a solid all-purpose legendary for Torghast. It provides us with a mix of defensive and offensive benefits which makes it a great option. It also goes well with Double Time.

While not being so useful on lower floors The Wall will gain value in higher ones. Once the damage of enemies goes up we are in need of more defensive value and this is where The Wall comes in. Reducing the cooldown of Shield Wall while also providing a significant amount of extra Rage via Shield Slam makes it a desirable option. The cooldown reduction part can further be enhanced by picking Anger Management making this even better.Only pick this if you are really struggling with survivability.

Seismic Reverberation is another great option for Torghast. This one is mainly AoE focused as it only works on 3+ enemies. As Revenge deals a lot of damage getting another cast for free will make quick work of your enemies. It does come with the downside of having to use a lot of Rage for Revenge but there are plenty of Rage generation increasing Anima Powers that help resolve this issue.

If you wish to see about other available Legendaries or more in depth information about them please look at our Legendary guide.

Kyrian is the best all around option for Torghast. It provides us with a extra heal with Phial of Serenity and a 1-minute cooldown damaging ability that can further be empowered by Anima Powers.

While Kyrian is the preferred choice you can also freely do Torghast as any other Covenant. To get a better understanding of all 4 Covenants and what they provide us take a look at our Covenant guide.

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While in Torghast you have access to Anima powers which modify how the class plays and provides useful benefits to various skills. Due to there being so many options out there choosing the correct one can be difficult. Below you can find a tier list for Anima powers to help make the choice a bit easier

Do not blindly follow this tier list as a lot of Anima powers strenghts depend on your playstyle and talent choices. There is no point picking Anima Powers that increase the damage of Whirlwind if you never use it.

For a complete list of Anima Powers available to Warriors, please refer to the pages linked just below.

Twisting Corridors is a lot harder and more time consuming than your regular Torghast runs. The upside to this is that you will be provided with a lot more Anima Powers which makes for some significant stacking possibilities.

While the regular Torghast run does warrant the usage of defensive Anima Powers they are highly encouraged in Twisting Corridors due to the increased damage intake. There is one particular setup of Anima Powers that provides us with very high uptime on Shield Wall with little to no effort. This setup is highly recommended for Twisting Corridors.

• Unbound Fortitude
• Bladed Bulwark
• Gibbering Skull

Unbound Fortitude increases the duration of your Shield Wall, depending on how many Soul Remnants you have collected. Bladed Bulwark provides Ignore Pain a 50% chance to cast Shield Wall. Gibbering Skull makes getting hit have a 10% chance to grant you Ignore Pain. All of these Anima Powers together give you an insane uptime on Shield Wall reducing your damage taken by a significant amount. You can further increase the power of this build by taking Succulent Carpaccio, which increases the value of your Ignore Pain.

In general, you should aim to get as many single target enhancing powers as possible. Bosses take the longest time and are often the deadliest enemies in the run so killing them faster increases the chances of a successful run.

• Smoldering Inertia
• Scratched Knife
• Voracious Culling Blade
• Shrieking Flagon
• Spearheads of Eternity — Kyrian
• Overgrowth Catalyst — Night Fae
• Pridebreaker's Anvil

• Shadehound Tooth
• Edge of Hatred
• Livingwood Pommel — Night Fae
• Elysian Shoulderwrap — Kyrian
• Brawler's Brass Knuckles
• Zovaal's Warbanner
• Resonant Throatbands
• Warlord's Resolve
• Pleonexian Command
• Stonepiercer Signet
• Spattered Soles — makes navigating the Tower a lot quicker

• Petrified Wildseed — Night Fae
• Bloodstained Whetstone
• Writhing Noose — Venthyr (S-tier together with Voracious Culling Blade)
• Ancient Prolegomenon — Kyrian
• Fan of Longswords
• Kyrian Warhelm
• Signet of Tormented Kings
• Soulwrought Studs

• Repulsive Pennant — Necrolord
• Distillation of Sin — Venthyr
• Hateful Fetish
• Sinew-Sewn Tassels
• Umbral Ear Trumpet (A-Tier with Resonant Throatbands)

• Hurricane Heart
• Ragemote — Prevents healing from Indomitable and Anger Management cooldown reduction.(S-Tier on bosses together with Voracious Culling Blade).
• Champion's Decree

From the Talent providing Anima Powers these should be placed above B-Tier Anima Powers.

If the Anima Power you look for is not in the list above then it is because we have not been able to fully test it yet. The list will be updated as we get more experience with various Anima Powers.

There are some Anima Powers that either grant you Phantasma or provide you with a increase to your Phantasma generation. These are very situational and hard to rank as their strength depends on the Anima Powers you already have. You might want to get a few of them early on if there are no other solid options just so you can buy something from the vendors. Once you get to the higher levels these lose value.

Stable Phantasma Lure is a Legendary that increases your Phantasma earned. If your goal is to get as much of it as possible then you should definitely use this, otherwise it provides you with no real benefits.

Generally following the normal rotation in Torghast is all you need in order to be successful but below you can find some reminders to help you get the most out of your Warrior.

• Remember to keep Shield Block up when tanking enemies to reduce the incoming damage.
• When running multiple Brawler's Brass Knuckles keep a close eye on your Rage so you do not waste any.
• If you have your cooldowns up, pull big and burst all the enemies down. Due to being Tanks we can survive big pulls fairly easily.
• Spell Reflection can be very strong on certain bosses so be sure to test out which abilities are reflectable and which not.
• Pay close attention to your cooldowns as some Anima Powers reduce them significantly. Stacking multiple Shadehound Tooth makes it possible to cast Shield Slam every other global cooldown.
• There are various environmental traps inside Torghast, be sure to avoid these as they deal heavy damage.
• There is no need to rush in Torghast as there is no Timer. You can wait for your cooldowns between packs if needed and just move on then. No point in dying an unnecessary death.