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Thoughts On Spec For Your Prot Warrior.
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Post by
Mindset
Well I've been wondering how does all my other fellow Warrior Tanks spec as a Protection Warrior?
Like why do you choose to put points in that talent over the other ones? I know some favor certain talents over others. Like I favor putting 2 points in Deep Wounds instead of Cruelty for over all damage.
Here is my Armory now Don't mind the gear I'm still working on it, but as far as spec goes what would you do different?
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/coilfang/volgrin/talent/primary
Post by
Mirrodin13
Personally I would put the 2 points from Deep Wounds into Cruelty. Shield Slam is our heavy hitter and increasing its crit chance is just icing on the cake.
Post by
Porcell
Armory is down at the moment.
There are 39 total points available in the Prot Tree and you need a minimum of 31 points. So lets see if we can eliminate 8 points worth.
Safeguard, 2 points, is of limited usefulness. It's a cumbersome cooldown that isn't "mandatory" in raids. My offtank took safeguard and it seems like he only uses it when he's trying to be clever. Can be useful in PvP.
Impending Victory, 2 points. The heal is pretty marginal, and for maximum effectiveness you need to give up your rotation and instead spam Devastate. The argument I've seen made is that the extra damage you would have from maintaining your rotation would end the fight sooner and negate the need for that extra healing. It's really not that worth it of a talent.
Gag Order, 2 pionts. Totally optional talent. It can be useful in heroics to do a ranged silence, but it's nothing that you couldn't achieve through other means (charge and shield bash, leap, LoS, etc etc). It's a convenience thing. It is useful in PvP however.
So there are the 6 easy points. If you kept everything else in Prot filled out, that leaves 8 points left over, enough to go Arms for Field Dressing and War Academy, and 3 points in Deep Wounds. Then, if you wanted to pick up Cruelty also, you could look for 2 more points to drop.
Vigilance; This is actually pretty marginal. The taunt refresh should NOT be needed, if you are taking this talent for the taunt refresh you should really look at your skill as a tank, you 100% should not need this crutch. The Vengeance stack is... meh. It's not really necessary.
Then if you are looking for one more point to drop in order to pick up Cruelty, I'd look at either Incite or Shield Spec. I dropped a point out of shield spec, so I only get 10 rage per block instead of 15. Not a big deal for me.
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Post by
marklartank
i respec a lot, and there are only a few talents i always take without question:
Bastion of Defense
Last Stand
Devastate
Shockwave
everything else depends on what i'm spec'ing for.
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