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
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
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Blackwing Lair (Phase 5) Protection Warrior Best in Slot
Molten Core (Phase 4) Protection Warrior Best in Slot
The reason why this BiS list looks almost exactly like a Fury DPS list is because it assumes you have access to the Tier 1 DPS set, Unstoppable Might bonuses:
- (2) Set: You gain 10 Rage when you change stances.
- (4) Set: For 5 sec after leaving a stance, you can use abilities requiring that stance as if you were still in that stance.
- (6) Set : For the first 10 sec after activating a stance, you can gain an additional benefit: Battle Stance/Gladiator Stance: 10% increased damage done. Berserker Stance: 10% increased critical strike chance. Defensive Stance: 10% reduced Physical damage taken.
With this set you can deal massive amounts of damage like a Fury Warrior by stance dancing for temporary buffs which also enable the usage of powerful damage abilities such as Whirlwind while in Defensive Stance, which will provide you with 10% less Physical damage taken and more threat generation! Rotationally wise, it plays similar to a Fury Warrior but with much more stance dancing involved to keep buffs up and high damage abilities enabled to be used while on Defensive Stance.
Pre-Raid Protection Warrior Best in Slot
During the pre-raid period you will not have access to the powerful Tier 1 bonuses, and thus should play Deep Protection to take advantage of the new Shield Slam 4 Attack Power per each Defense point beyond 300 bonus.
This bonus will make Defense a stronger stat than usual, allowing it to scale you both offensively and defensively!
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
- 05 Dec. 2024: BiS list adjustments.
- 29 Nov. 2024: Phase 6 BiS list added.
- 23 Sep. 2024: Phase 5 BiS list added.
- 14 Jul. 2024: Further fleshed out options for Phase 4.
- 13 Jul. 2024: First batch of Phase 4 gear updates.
- 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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