Protection Warrior PvP Talents and Builds — The War Within (11.1.7)

Colossus Protection Warrior focuses on delivering high burst damage with Demolish, making up for your otherwise low damage output, and giving you a window of opportunity to kill in. You want to lock enemies down with Champion's Spear and guarantee the burst damage.

There are several talents in the Protection Warrior tree that you will want to change regularly based on matchups, which are:

• Wrecking Throw / Shattering Throw: This node comes down to whether or not the enemy has magical immunities, such as Divine Shield or Ice Block. If they do, pick Shattering Throw, otherwise use Wrecking Throw for shield breaking, and if the enemy team has none of both, simply skip this node and pick something else in the talent tree.
• Immovable Object / Unstoppable Force: In general, you want to play aggressively, but should you find yourself in a situation where you need another defensive cooldown, then you can afford to give up Unstoppable Force to get another one through Avatar.
• Berserker Shout / Piercing Howl: Both are situational and really powerful. You should default to Piercing Howl, but choose Berserker Shout in situations where you can break fears with cooldowns on your healer, such as Intimidating Shout or Psychic Scream, reliably, or if you're confident you will have full uptime on your target.

Be sure to make use of the 'Copy Export String' button to import the best build directly into your game!

Mountain Thane Protection Warrior relies more on sustained damage output and lacks burst damage. Thunder Blast does a lot of damage, especially against armored enemies, and can make you do well on cleave damage. However, since you lack burst damage to finish the fight, with Protection Warrior already lacking on damage output, this build may just prolong the fight into anything that is not a melee cleave.

There are several talents in the Protection Warrior tree that you will want to change regularly based on matchups, which are:

• Wrecking Throw / Shattering Throw: This node comes down to whether or not the enemy has magical immunities, such as Divine Shield or Ice Block. If they do, pick Shattering Throw, otherwise use Wrecking Throw for shield breaking, and if the enemy team has none of both, simply skip this node and pick something else in the talent tree.
• Immovable Object / Unstoppable Force: In general, you want to play aggressively, but should you find yourself in a situation where you need another defensive cooldown, then you can afford to give up Unstoppable Force to get another one through Avatar.
• Berserker Shout / Piercing Howl: Both are situational and really powerful. You should default to Piercing Howl, but choose Berserker Shout in situations where you can break fears with cooldowns on your healer, such as Intimidating Shout or Psychic Scream, reliably, or if you're confident you will have full uptime on your target.

Be sure to make use of the 'Copy Export String' button to import the best build directly into your game!