Protection Warrior Tank Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — Shadowlands Pre-Patch 9.0.1

You should use Leviathan's Eye of Strength in one socket, Kraken's Eye of Strength in another socket, and Quick Sand Spinel (or the cheaper Quick Owlseye) in all other sockets.

To better understand the suggestions above, you can take a look at our Stats page. This will explain every stat in-depth, so you can get a better understanding of why these specific ones are the best for Protection Warriors.

Use Greater Flask of the Undertow as your flask.

Use Superior Battle Potion of Strength as your "pre-pot" and combat potion. If there are at least 4 enemies nearby, Potion of Empowered Proximity grants more Strength than Superior Battle Potion of Strength.

If you are trying to maximize damage, use Potion of Unbridled Fury instead.

During combat, your combat potion should generally be used in combination with Bloodlust/ Heroism, if those are used later in the fight, during periods of high damage as a defensive tool, or during your offensive cooldowns to further increase damage.

You should use Abyssal Healing Potion for in-combat healing.

Additionally, Healthstones do not share a cooldown with normal healing potions, so if you have access to a Warlock make sure you are using both.

You should eat Famine Evaluator And Snack Table for the Strength buff. If these are unavailable, eat Baked Port Tato instead.

Honey Potpie can be very useful in Mythic+, as it improves your ability to kite enemies.

If you can afford it, you should use Battle-Scarred Augment Runes to increase your primary stat. Since there is a finite amount of these runes available, you should make sure to use them wisely and to stock up on them for when you need them.

Starting in patch 8.3 you can also use the re-usable Lightning-Forged Augment Rune to increase your primary stat by an equal amount.