This is a Prot Warrior Pre-Raid Best in Slot list for The World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King expansion. You should be able to begin raiding Naxxramas by acquiring one thing for each equipment slot on this list.

Plate Tank Gear

Head

• Arcane Shielded Helm – Heroic Nexus (Grand Magus Telestra)
• Ground Tremor Helm – Heroic Gundrak (Moorabi)
• Armored Titanium Goggles – Engineering (440)
• Tempered Saronite Helm – Blacksmithing

Neck

• Burning Skull Pendant – Heroic Gundrak Random Drop
• Pendant of the Nathrezim – Heroic Culling Random Drop
• Shadowseeker’s Pendant – Heroic Old Kingdom (Jedoga Shadowseeker)
• Titanium Earthguard Chain – Jewelcrafting

Shoulder

• Pauldrons of the Colossus – Heroic Gundrak Random Drop
• Iron Dwarf Smith Pauldrons – Heroic Halls of Lightning (General Bjarngrim)
• Wapach’s Spaulders of Solidarity – Random World Drop
• Crusader’s Square Pauldrons – Heroic Culling Random Drop
• Glimmershell Shoulder Protectors – Oracles Reputation (Revered)
• Tempered Saronite Shoulders – Blacksmithing

Cloak

• Tattered Castle Drape – Heroic Utgarde Keep Random Drop
• Cloak of the Enemy – Heroic Nexus (Commander Stoutbeard)
• Flowing Cloak of Command – Normal Culling (Salramm the Fleshcrafter)
• Durable Nerubhide Cape – Leatherworking
• Cloak of Peaceful Resolutions – Wyrmrest Reputation (Honored)

Chest

• Sun Emblazoned Chestplate – Heroic Halls of Stone (Sjonnir the Ironshaper)
• Ziggurat Imprinted Chestguard – Heroic Drak’Tharon Keep (The Prophet Tharon’ja)
• Breastplate of the Solemn Council – Wyrmrest Reputation (Revered)

Hands

• Horn Tipped Gauntlets – Heroic Gundrak (Gal’darah)
• Refined Ore Gloves – Heroic Halls of Stone Random Drop
• Gauntlets of the Water Revenant – Heroic Violet Hold (Ichoron)
• Fireproven Gauntlets – Kirin Tor Reputation (Exalted)
• Giant Sized Gauntlets – Grenzyheart Tribe Reputation (Revered)
• Daunting Handguards – Blacksmithing
• Tempered Saronite Gauntlets – Blacksmithing

Legs

• Ley Guardian’s Legguards – Heroic Oculus (Cache of Eregos)
• Legplates of the Infinite Drakonid – Heroic Culling (Chrono-Lord Epoch)
• Bolstered Legplates – Heroic Violet Hold (Cyanigosa)
• Special Issue Legplates – Argent Crusade Reputation (Honored)
• Daunting Legplates – Blacksmithing

Wrists

• Bracers of the Herald – Heroic Old Kingdom (Herald Volazj)
• Bindings of Dark Will – Heroic Culling (Salramm the Fleshcrafter)
• Tempered Saronite Bracers – Blacksmithing
• Svala’s Bloodied Shackles – Normal Utgarde Pinnacle (Svala Sorrowgrave)

Waist

• Ancient Aligned Girdle – Heroic Azjol-Nerub (Anub’arak)
• Skadi’s Iron Belt – Heroic Utgarde Pinnacle (Skadi the Ruthless)
• Waistguard of the Risen Knight – Heroic Drak’Tharon Keep Random Drop

Boots

• Greaves of Ancient Evil – Heroic Old Kingdom (Herald Volazj)
• Terrace Defence Boots – Heroic Drak’Tharon Keep (Trollgore)
• Toxin-Tempered Sabatons – Ebon Blade Reputation (Honored)
• Tempered Titansteel Treads – Blacksmthing

Rings

• Unsmashable Heavy Band – Heroic Utgarde Keep (Ingvar the Plunderer)
• Band of Torture – Heroic Oculus (Drakos the Interrogator)
• Nerubian Shield Ring – Heroic Old Kingdom (Elder Nadox)
• Keystone Great-Ring – Heroic Drak’Tharon Keep (The Prophet Tharon’ja)
• Woeful Band – Heroic Halls of Stone (Maiden of Grief)
• Titanium Earthguard Ring – Jewelcrafting
• Ring of Earthen Might – Jewelcrafting
• Dragonflight Great-Ring – Normal Oculus (Cache of Eregos)

Trinkets

• Essence of Gossamer – Heroic Azjol-Nerub (Hadronox)
• Offering of Sacrifice – Heroic Gundrak (Gal’darah)
• Lavanthor’s Talisman – Heroic Violet Hold (Lavanthor)
• Seal of the Pantheon – Heroic Halls of Lightning (Loken)
• Figurine – Ruby Hare – Jewelcrafting (400)
• Indestructible Alchemist Stone – Alchemy (400)

Weapons

One-Handed Sword

• Red Sword of Courage – Heroic Utgarde Pinnacle (King Ymiron)
• Infantry Assault Blade – Heroic Utgarde Keep (Prince Keleseth)
• Eternally Folded Blade – Heroic Halls of Lightning (Volkhan)
• Sword of Heartwrenching Slaughter – Wanted: Ragemane’s Flipper

One-Handed Axe

• Cloudstrider’s Waraxe – Heroic Oculus (Varos Cloudstrider)
• Crescent of Brooding Fury – Wanted: Ragemane’s Flipper

One-Handed Mace

• Hammer of Quiet Mourning – Wanted: Ragemane’s Flipper

Shield

• Bulwark of the Noble Protector – Heroic Nexus (Keristrasza)
• Royal Crest of Lordaeron – Heroic Culling (Mal’Ganis)
• Titansteel Shield Wall – Blacksmithing
• Saronite Bulwark – Blacksmithing
• Leeka’s Shield – Normal Culling (Mal’Ganis)

Gun

• Armor Plated Combat Shotgun – Engineering

Thrown

• Weighted Throwing Axe – Changing the Winds Course

This is a DPS Warrior Pre-Raid Best in Slot list for The World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King expansion. You should be able to begin raiding Naxxramas by acquiring one thing for each equipment slot on this list.

Plate DPS Gear

Head

• Chitin Shell Greathelm – Heroic Azjol’Nerub (Anub’arak)
• Planetary Helm – Heroic Halls of Lightning (Loken)
• Fang Deflecting Faceguard – Argent Crusade Reputation (Revered)
• Spiked Titansteel Helm – Blacksmithing
• Charged Titanium Specs – Engineering (440)
• Helm of Command – Blacksmithing

Neck

• Gold Amulet of Kings – Heroic Utgarde Pinnacle (King Ymiron)

Shoulder

• Snake Den Spaulders – Heroic Gundrak (Slad’ran)
• Spaulders of the Giant Lords – Sons of Hodir Reputation (Revered)
• Gold Star Spaulders – Oracles Reputation (Revered)

Cloak

Cloak of Bloodied Waters – Heroic Gundrak Random Drop

Chest

• Bonegrinder Breastplate – Heroic Old Kingdom (Prince Taldaram)
• Engraved Chestplate of Eck – Heroic Gundrak (Eck the Ferocious)
• Chestplate of Conquest – Blacksmithing

Hands

• Gauntlets of Dragon Wrath – Heroic Oculus (Cache of Eregos)
• Gauntlets of Capture – Heroic Violet Hold (Cyanigosa)

Legs

• Staggering Legplates – Heroic Utgarde Keep (Ingvar the Plunderer)
• Legplates of Steel Implants – Heroic Culling (Meathook)
• Legplates of Bloody Reprisal – Wyrmrest Reputation (Exalted)

Wrists

• Golden Limb Bands – Heroic Azjol-Nerub (Krik’thir the Gatewatcher)
• Bands of the Stoneforge – Heroic Halls of Stone (Sjonnir the Ironshaper)
• Vengeance Bindings – Blacksmithing

Waist

• Flame Bathed Steel Girdle – Heroic Nexus (Keristrasza)
• Strategist’s Belt – Heroic Utgarde Keeep (Prince Keleseth)

Boots

• Rift Striders – Heroic Nexus (Anomalus)
• The Obliterator Greaves – Heroic Violet Hold (Zuramat the Obliterator)
• Spiked Titansteel Treads – Blacksmithing
• Death-Inured Sabatons – Ebon Blade Reputation (Exalted)

Rings

• Band of Frosted Thorns – Heroic Nexus (Ormorok the Tree-Shaper)
• Ring of Kirin Tor – Dalaran Vendor

Trinkets

• Sphere of Red Dragon’s Blood – Heroic Nexus (Keristrasza)
• Meteorite Whetstone – Heroic Utgarde Pinnacle (King Ymiron)
• Incisor Fragment – Heroic Drak’Tharon Keep (King Dred)
• Vestige of Haldor – Heroic Utgarde Pinnacle (King Ymiron)
• Fezzik’s Pocketwatch – The Last Line of Defense
• Gnomish Lightning Generator – Engineering (425)
• Figurine – Emerald Boar – Jewelcrafting (400)
• Mighty Alchemist Stone – Alchemy (400)
• Frenzyheart Insignia of Fury – Frenzyheart Tribe Reputation (Exalted)
• Oracle Talisman of Ablution – Oracles Reputation (Exalted)
• Darkmoon Card: Greatness – Inscription
• Darkmoon Card: Death – Inscription

Weapons

Two-Handed Swords

• Runeblade of Demonstrable Power – Ebon Blade Reputation (Revered)
• Sword of Justice – Heroic Halls of Stone (Brann Bronzebeard)

Polearms

• Whale-Stick Harpoon – Kalu’ak Reputation (Revered)
• Icier Barbed Spear – The Champion of Anguish

Two-Handed Maces

• Mojo Masked Crusher – Heroic Drak’Tharon Keep (The Prophet Tharon’ja)
• Hammer of Grief – Heroic Halls of Stone (Maiden of Grief)
• Argent Skeleton Crusher – Argent Crusade Reputation (Revered)
• Titansteel Destroyer – Blacksmithing
• Saronite Mindcrusher – Blacksmithing

Two-Handed Axes

• Colossal Skull-Clad Cleaver – Heroic Halls of Lightning (Loken)
• Edge of Oblivion – Heroic Old Kingdom (Jedoga Shadowseeker)
• Wyrmclaw Battleaxe – Normal Oculus (Cache of Eregos)

Crossbow

• Drake-Mounted Crossbow – Heroic Utgarde Keep (Ingvar the Plunderer)
• Amanitar Skullbow – Heroic Old Kingdom (Amanitar)

Bow

• Titanium Compound Bow – Heroic Old Kingdom (Herald Volazj)
• Trophy Gatherer – Normal Utgarde Pinnacle (Gortok Palehoof)

Guns

• Pierce’s Pistol – Heroic Culling (Mal’Ganis)
• Zombie Sweeper Shot – Argent Crusade Reputation (Revered)
• Nesingwary 4000 – Engineering

Welcome to our PVE Protection Warrior Tank guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Warrior class as Protection Tank. If you follow this build you should have healers begging you to tank for them.

Talents

This first build is optimized for 5-man dungeons. It improves your shouts and reduces the cooldown of your defensive abilities.

This second build is for raids. This build improves your threat generation but you lose the shout improvements. Your defensive cooldowns are shorter and so is your shield slam. Shield slam is a very high threat generating ability, so you should use it often.

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

• Shockwave
• Blocking
• Revenge
• Shield Wall is another option.

Minor Glyphs

• Thunder Clap

Gems

Gems can change based on your build, equipment and caps. You may need to adjust your gems to account for your gear.

• Meta: Austere Earthsiege Diamond or Eternal Earthsiege Diamond
• Red: Defender’s Dreadstone
• Blue: Defender’s Dreadstone or Enduring Eye of Zul
• Yellow: Enduring Eye of Zul

Enchants

You may need to adjust your enchants based on your gear but these are the standard enchants.

• Head: Arcanum of the Stalwart Protector
• Shoulder: Greater Inscription of the Pinnacle or Greater Inscription of the Gladiator
• Back: Mighty Armor or Titanweave
• Chest: Super Health or Greater Defense
• Bracers: Major Stamina
• Gloves: Heavy Borean Armor Kit or Armsman
• Waist: Eternal Belt Buckle
• Legs: Frosthide Leg Armor
• Boots: Greater Fortitude or Tuskarr’s Vitality
• Weapon: Blade Ward or Mongoose
• Shield: Major Stamina, Titanium Plating or Defense

Stat Priority

Survivability

1. Defense (540 for raids, best avoidance stat)
2. Effective Health (more is better)
3. Dodge (second best avoidance stat)
4. Parry (not worth getting vs dodge.)
5. Block (not a pure avoidance stat)

Threat Generation

• Weapon Speed (2.6, Slow means 5% more threat due to Devestate)
• Expertise (26)
• Hit (8% cap)

Rotation

Don’t forget to face the boss away from the raid. The raid needs to attack the boss from the back and not be hit by their frontal attacks. Dragons are the exception as they need to be hit from the side due to tail swipe.

• Heroic Throw followed by Charge are used to begin the fight.
• Once in melee range use Shield Block and start using Shield Slam since it builds a lot of threat.
• Revenge should be used when possible.

Always use these:

• Demoralizing Shout
• Devastate
• Thunder Clap

(Sometimes other warriors will apply them for you.)

In a perfect world you will be able to replace every white attack with a Heroic Strike.

Shockwave can be used in emergency situations, if a lot of monsters aggro or aggro is lost.

Welcome to our PVP Protection Warrior guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Warrior class as Protection. If you follow this build you should be king of the arena in no time!

Talents

This is the standard Protection Warrior build when you have BiS gear and the required T-10 pieces.

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

• Blocking
• Intervene
• Shockwave

Optional replacements for Intervene

• Last Stand
• Enraged Regeneration
• Spell Reflection
• Shield Wall

Minor Glyphs

• Charge
• Bloodrage
• Battle or Command

Gems

Gems can change based on your build, equipment and caps. You may need to adjust your gems to account for your gear.

• Meta: Relentless Earthsiege Diamond
• Red: Fractured Cardinal Ruby
• Blue: Puissant Dreadstone (2 max) fill with red gems.
• Yellow: Mystic King’s Amber or Fractured Cardinal Ruby (depending on resilience)

Enchants

You may need to adjust your enchants based on your gear but these are the standard enchants.

Armor

• Head: Arcanum of Triumph
• Shoulder: Inscription of Triumph
• Back: Major Agility
• Chest: Exceptional Resilience
• Bracers: Greater Assault
• Gloves: Crusher or Precision
• Waist: Eternal Belt Buckle
• Legs: Earthen Leg Armor
• Boots: Tuskarr’s Vitality

Weapons

• One-handed: Berserking or Executioner
• Shield: Titanium Plating

Stat Priority

1. Armor Penetration (50% minimum)
2. Hit Rating (6%)
3. Health (30k min)
4. Critical strike (30%)
5. Resilience (at most 500)

You want to keep your resilience low so you can gem/enchant for more damage. Your armor and defensive CD’s will keep you safe from most threats. Prot warriors use mostly PvE gear for PvP. Most good players use mostly PvE gear and double damage trinkets, so you can start with PvP items and work your way backwards.

You need 4 T-10 items.

• Helmet and Chest – (Fury Warrior T-10)
• Shoulders and Gloves – (Prot Warrior T-10)

These set bonuses grant a huge damage boost and are basically required for this build to work.

Rotation

You don’t really have a rotation, so here is a list of abilities and when to use them.

DPS Skills

• Shield Slam  is your top priority ability. If you don’t have enough rage, wait for Sword and Board to proc.
• Revenge does great damage to two targets.
• Devastate when the first two are on cooldown. Spam this with Heroic Strike for solid damage.
• Shockwave is an AOE stun for 4 seconds in a cone which also does nice damage.
• Concussion Blow  is a 5 second single-target stun.
• Rend  is a Damage over Time that is really useful against Rogues and Druids.
• Thunderclap is not a top priority but it is useful when everything else is on cooldown.

Defensive Skills

• Last Stand is a 30% Health increase. Great when you are about to die.
• Shield Wall is a 60% Damage reduction but cannot be used while disarmed.
• Shield Block is 10 seconds of 100% blocking physical attacks. This may just sound like a defensive ability but it gives you the ability to spam Revenge. This will result in proc’s of Sword and Board, which give you 10% Shield Slam damage, which is one of your top damaging abilities.
• Enraged Regeneration  is our only self heal.
• Intimidating Shout – Fears a target for 8 seconds, he is locked in place and can’t move or use abilities.

Utility Skills

• Intervene  is a very useful ability when trying to save your partner. When talented it reduces the damage your partner will take by 30%. Best used when he is vulnerable or being focused down.
• Charge rushes to the target and applies a 2 second stun while also generating rage.
• Intercept rushes to the target and applies a 3 second stun and does a small amount of damage, doesn’t generate rage.

Arena Team Comps

Here are some partners for 2s and 3s in arena.

2v2 Arena

• Retribution Paladin
• Holy Paladin
• Arms Warrior
• Mutilate Rogue
• Enhancement Shaman

3v3 Arena

• Elemental Shaman + Holy Paladin
• Marksmanship Hunter + Holy Paladin
• Arms Warrior + Holy Paladin

Welcome to our PVP Arms Warrior guide for WoW WotLK. This guide will show you what you need to know to play the Warrior class as Arms. If you follow this build you should be king of the arena in no time!

Talents

This is the standard Arms Warrior build. Optionally, Orcs can re-allocate the points you would normally put into Iron Will somewhere else due to their racial. This is primarily a 2v2 / dueling build.

This second build sacrifices survivability for more damage. This build works better in 3v3 arenas and battlegrounds.

Glyphs

Major Glyphs

• Rending – Required
• Mortal Strike – Required
• Bladestorm or Sweeping Strikes  – Used in Arena
• Hamstring  – All around great glyph, useful anywhere
• Overpower – Better for duels

Minor Glyphs

• Charge
• Bloodrage
• Battle or Command

Gems

Gems can change based on your build, equipment and caps. You may need to adjust your gems to account for your gear.

• Meta: Relentless Earthsiege Diamond
• Red: Fractured Cardinal Ruby or Bold Cardinal Ruby
• Blue: Puissant Dreadstone or Sovereign Dreadstone
• Yellow: Mystic King’s Amber or Rigid King’s Amber

Enchants

You may need to adjust your enchants based on your gear but these are the standard enchants.

Armor

• Head: Arcanum of Torment
• Shoulder: Inscription of Triumph
• Back: Major Agility
• Chest: Exceptional Resilience
• Bracers: Greater Assault
• Gloves: Crusher or Precision
• Waist: Eternal Belt Buckle
• Legs: Earthen Leg Armor
• Boots: Tuskarr’s Vitality

Weapons

• Two-handed – Berserking
• One-handed – Blood Draining
• Shield – Resilience

Stat Priority

1. Resilience (950-1050)
2. Hit Rating (5%)
3. Armor Penetration (60%)
4. Strength

Tip

You should be using an AXE! It gives the biggest benefit of all 3 specs. Swords can be used for sudden one-shots or if you get kited often. Maces can be used when you don’t have other options…

Rotation

1. Hamstring / Piercing Howl
2. Rend
3. Mortal Strike
4. Overpower
5. Mortal Strike
6. Overpower

To fill space when your skills aare on cooldown you can use these filler abilities.

• Heroic Throw
• Heroic Strike
• Thunderclap

Arena Team Comps

Here are some partners for 2s and 3s in arena.

2v2 Arena

• Discipline Priest
• Holy Paladin
• Restoration Shaman
• Restoration Druid

3v3 Arena

• Restoration Shaman + Holy Paladin
• Discipline Priest + Holy Paladin
• Elemental Shaman + Holy Paladin
• Frost Mage + Holy Paladin
• Destruction / Affliction Warlock + Holy Paladin
• Frost / Unholy Death Knight + Holy Paladin