Protection Warrior Tank NetherLight Crucible Relic Paths (Legion 7.3.5)
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General Information
This page will help you choose the right paths on your Netherlight Crucible as a a Protection Warriors. It is updated for World of Warcraft Legion 7.3.5. For more information, please read our Guide to the Netherlight Crucible.
The other pages of our Protection Warrior guide can be accessed from the table of contents on the right.
About Our Reviewer
This guide has been reviewed and approved by Treckie, who has been a long-time leading tank who has competed for world first kills for 5 years. He is one of the casters for both last year's and this year's upcoming Mythic Dungeon invitational. You can watch his stream on Twitch and you can follow him on Twitter.
1. General Optimization Advice for Protection Warriors

Optimizing through the Netherlight Crucible is straightforward; you are offered 2 initial paths, Shadow and Holy, and you should determine your path contingent on the following suggestions.
Defensively, you should mostly use the highest item level relic you have and
simply make the best of the traits it provides you with. The exception to this
is Bastion of the Aspects, which is a trait you should try to get in
all 3 of your relics, if at all possible. If you can combine this trait with
Vrykul Shield Training or
Dragon Skin, then that is a
very solid defensive relic.
Offensively (especially for Mythic+), you can sacrifice item levels to make
sure all 3 relics have both Rage of the Fallen and
Thunder Crash.
2. Tier 2 Upgrade Priority for Protection Warriors
As stated above, you should choose your relics based on their trait or on their tier 3 trait, and then simply choose the best path through tier 2 based on this priority.
- Best:
Light Speed,
Master of Shadows, and
Murderous Intent.
- Good:
Refractive Shell,
Chaotic Darkness, and
Shadowbind.
- Bad:
Light's Embrace,
Shocklight,
Torment the Weak,
Secure in the Light,
Infusion of Light, and
Dark Sorrows.
3. Tier 3 Upgrade Priority for Protection Warriors
The Tier 3 upgrades priority has been discussed at the top of this page.
4. ChangeLog
- 12 Sep. 2017: Added Netherlight Crucible page for Protection Warrior.



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