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What level do I go Prot?
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Post by
Ertis
I'm a 59 Fury warrior, and I'm wondering at what level specing Prot won't make soloing painful?
Post by
Sakkura
As soon as you can get devastate, the DPS loss from speccing prot drops a LOT. So from level 50 you can spec prot and solo decently. It does help to get another 5 levels first though, so you can add 5/5 cruelty in the fury tree.
From that point you can put the rest of the points in the arms tree as you level, eventually ending up at a fairly standard tank spec (eg. 12/5/44) at level 70.
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Post by
Ertis
Thanks for the reply, but can you please link an exact spec? (when people put numbers, I'm not sure which talents to choose)
Post by
Ertis
Btw, the question was to Sakkura
Post by
Sakkura
Well, a level 55 build could look like
this
, and then you could put points in as you level toward a spec like
this
at level 70. The points in prot can be moved about a bit depending on preference.
The thing about the prot tree is that your grinding ability isn't improved much by the first 10-15 points you put in, but after that it gets better and better. Devastate becomes the main ability used for DPSing, and you get a lot of talents that lower rage costs and improve damage, like 10% damage from one-handed weapon spec and 10% strength from vitality. So generally, if you feel you tank enough to benefit from speccing into prot, it will most often be better to simply spec fully prot instead of trying to mix the first few tiers of prot with a fury build. You get similar DPS with obviously much better tanking.
Post by
Ertis
Similar DPS, interesting. Thanks for the replies.
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Post by
Ertis
I just respeced, and it looks really good :) One question, the Devastate tooltip
http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=20243
is a bit unclear. Ignoring the "plus x", does it mean that 5 applications will cause 250% of weapon damage?
Post by
marklartank
does it mean that 5 applications will cause 250% of weapon damage?
no, the weapon damage does not increase - it remains 50% each strike.
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Post by
Sakkura
the 15 damage increases with each stack.
While it might be nice to mess around with prot i don't feel like its needed until 70. A nice fury/prot mix could do very, very well if you want to do a bit more tanking than the average grinder.
At 64, something like
this
would put out dps very close to full fury/arms as well as having the valuable
defiance
talent to help tank.
At 70, the complete build would look like
this
(0/43/18)
As I explained above, a full prot build will do DPS comparable to that of a fury/prot hybrid build, but will be much better for tanking.
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