Protection Warrior Mists of Pandaria: Remix Guide — The War Within Pre-Patch
On this page, you will learn the best Gems to use for your Protection Warrior in Mists of Pandaria: Remix, as well as the best leveling talents and rotation, whether you are leveling in the open world, or through raids and dungeons.
If you were looking for our normal leveling guide for Protection Warrior, please check out our Leveling page.
Remix: Mists of Pandaria Guide for Protection Warrior
Welcome to our MoP Remix Guide for Protection Warrior! This page contains everything you need to know about getting the most out of your Protection Warrior in the Patch 10.2.7 special feature, Mists of Pandaria: Remix.
This page is focused only on Protection Warrior in MoP Remix. If you want to know more about MoP Remix in general, such as its rewards, check out our dedicated page below.
Best MoP Remix Leveling Talents for Protection Warrior
Below, you will find our recommended leveling build and talent pickup order for your Protection Warrior in MoP Remix. There are various ways of leveling in MoP Remix, and we offer some builds for the most relevant ways.
Note that this Leveling section is specific to MoP Remix. For our Dragonflight Leveling Guide for Protection Warrior, please check our dedicated Leveling page.
Best MoP Remix Leveling Build for Protection Warrior
Dungeon and Raid Leveling Build
This build works great everywhere, be it Raids, Dungeons or just open-world content. It provides you with decent single-target and multi-target damage, while also providing utility, like stuns and fears, which you might need in dungeons.
Best Gems for Protection Warrior in MoP Remix
Gems are one of the unique ways to augment your character in MoP Remix, offering offensive, defensive, and utility benefits. On this page, we list the best gems for each type. To learn more about Gems in MoP Remix in general, check out our dedicated page below.
- Meta Gem: Thundering Orb
- Meta Gem for group supporting: Lifestorm
- Generic Cogwheel Gem: Blink
- Defensive Cogwheel Gem: Dark Pact
- Prismatic Gems:
You will have a tremendous amount of stats as you start unlocking all Gem slots, and there is no single best stat to stack. Follow the general stat priority for Warriors, which is Haste, with a mix of Versatility and Critial Strike and then Mastery. Most Tinker Gem effects do not scale with Mastery.
- Tinker Gems:
- Brittle
- Explosive Barrage
- Fervor
- Memory of Vengeance
- Bloodthirsty Coral
- Quick Strike
- Slay
- Sunstrider's Flourish
- Victory Fire
- Wildfire
- Windweaver
- Lightning Rod
Level by Level Rotation
To keep things simple while leveling and learning the spec, use the slider to select your level, and watch as the leveling rotation grows with each level!
Move the slider below to make the guide update to your level!
Leveling Rotation for Protection Warriors
When using our slider, note that some talents may appear sooner than you expect them to in the rotation. This is because we have two recommended builds above, each taking talents at slightly different times, and sometimes entirely different talents.
Starting at Level 1, you only have one active ability: Slam.
- Cast Charge to initiate combat whenever possible.
- Victory Rush activates whenever an enemy is killed. Use it to heal yourself.
- Use Impending Victory to heal yourself when needed.
- Cast Avatar to generate a bit of Rage and greatly increase your damage.
- Cast Demoralizing Shout to reduce the damage you take, and increase the damage you deal (when using the Booming Voice talent).
- Cast Shield Charge.
- Cast Thunderous Roar.
- Cast Ravager.
- Cast Shield Slam to deal a lot of damage.
- Cast Shield Slam to generate Rage and deal damage.
- Cast Thunder Clap to generate Rage and deal damage, particularly during Avatar with Unstoppable Force talented.
- Cast Execute when enemies are below 20% health.
- Spend Rage on Whirlwind to damage multiple targets if you do not need to spend it on your active mitigation to survive.
- Spend Rage on Revenge to damage multiple targets if you do not need to spend it on your active mitigation to survive.
- Cast Devastate to fill empty global cooldowns, and reset the cooldown of Shield Slam.
- Cast Slam as your filler spell.
Active Mitigation
- Cast Shield Block as much as possible when tanking something and taking heavy physical damage.
- Further smooth out your damage intake by spending Rage on Ignore Pain.
Changelog
- 24 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 14 May 2024: Page added.
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This guide has been written by Mwahi, a Protection Warrior theorycrafter and moderator of the Skyhold Warrior Discord.
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