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Colossus Protection Warrior PvP Guide For Solo Shuffle

Warrior class icon Protection Warrior specialization icon
Protection Warrior
Colossus icon
Colossus
The War Within Season 1
Based on 1 Character
From 2190 to 2190 Rating

Welcome to Murlok.io's PvP guide for Colossus Protection Warriors in Solo Shuffle Arenas. This guide covers the best stats, races, talents, gear, embellishments, enchantments, and gems for Patch 11.0.5, based on data from the top 50 Colossus Protection Warriors in The War Within Season 1 across the US, EU, KR, and TW regions. This includes Memphisrains (Thrall US) , who is currently the highest-ranked with a rating of 2190.

Updated every 12 hours with the latest data from the Battle.net API , this guide also examines each character's recent playtime, specialization frequency, and equipment choices for greater accuracy.

Top Protection Warriors

  1. 1
    Memphisrains's icon
    Memphisrains
    Thrall (US)
    Colossus - 598 ilvl
    2190

Stat Priority

Stats are crucial attributes that influence a character's power in World of Warcraft. They determine the character's strength and overall playstyle. Stat bonuses can be found on various equipment pieces, consumables created by Alchemy, certain foods, some enchantments, and gems.

Each stat experiences diminishing returns once its equipped bonus reaches +20%. Optimizing a character's performance involves finding a balanced distribution. Here is the optimal way to balance Colossus Protection Warrior secondary and minor stats for Solo Shuffle:

Secondary Stats

+2390
11% Critical Strike
+14551
27% Haste
+519
13% Mastery
+13082
17% Versatility
  1. Haste
  2. Versatility
  3. Critical Strike
  4. Mastery

Minor Stats

+0
0% Avoidance
+0
8% Leech
+1500
9% Speed
  1. Speed
  2. Avoidance
  3. Leech

Class Talents

Talents are the main element defining a character's build, significantly influencing playstyle by adding, modifying, and enhancing abilities and behaviors. They are crucial in shaping how a character functions in battle.

Class talents represent a common tree shared across all Warrior specializations. These talents provide foundational skills and enhancements essential to the Warrior class. They offer a range of abilities that lay the groundwork for a Warrior's overall capabilities. The following tree reproduces the in-game class talents disposition as a heatmap. Each color represents the usage frequency and general recommendation level of the talents:

  1. Most frequently used talents, highly recommended for optimal performance.
  2. Widely used talents offering flexibility for alternative choices or personal preference.
  3. Less commonly selected talents, typically chosen to fill necessary slots for advancing to the next tier.

Specialization Talents

Specialization talents provide Colossus Protection Warriors with unique abilities and enhancements tailored to their combat style. The following tree reproduces the in-game specialization talents disposition and shows the best talents as a heatmap:

  1. Most frequently used talents, highly recommended for optimal performance.
  2. Widely used talents offering flexibility for alternative choices or personal preference.
  3. Less commonly selected talents, typically chosen to fill necessary slots for advancing to the next tier.

Hero Talents

Hero talents allow deeper customization of the Protection Warrior class fantasy, enhancing character builds. The following trees show the Mountain Thane and Colossus hero talents as a heatmap, highlighting the most effective choices:

  1. Most frequently used talents, highly recommended for optimal performance.
  2. Widely used talents offering flexibility for alternative choices or personal preference.
  3. Less commonly selected talents, typically chosen to fill necessary slots for advancing to the next tier.

Mountain Thane hero talent icon Mountain Thane

Colossus hero talent icon Colossus

PvP Talents

PvP talents are tailored for player-versus-player combat scenarios. Activated in arenas, battlegrounds, and the open world with war mode enabled, these talents optimize a Colossus Protection Warrior's performance in PvP encounters. They provide specialized enhancements that give players an edge in combat against other players, reflecting the unique demands of PvP gameplay. The following shows the best PvP talents as a heatmap:

  1. Most frequently used talents, highly recommended for optimal performance.
  2. Widely used talents offering flexibility for alternative choices or personal preference.
  3. Less commonly selected talents, typically chosen to fill necessary slots for advancing to the next tier.

Best In Slot Gear

Gear consists of items that directly determine a character's power level. It can be acquired from various sources: dungeons, raids, world drops, crafted through professions, obtained from PvP vendors, or chosen as rewards from the Great Vault.

Each piece of gear significantly boosts a character's overall strength and capabilities. Here are the top items for Colossus Protection Warriors in Solo Shuffle, tailored for each equipment slot:

Head

  1. Warsculptor's Barbute icon
    Set
    Warsculptor's Barbute
    1

Neck

  1. Algari Competitor's Amulet icon
    Craft
    Algari Competitor's Amulet
    1

Shoulders

  1. Forged Gladiator's Plate Pauldrons icon
    Forged Gladiator's Plate Pauldrons
    1

Back

  1. Forged Warmonger's Cloak icon
    Forged Warmonger's Cloak
    1

Chest

  1. Warsculptor's Furred Plastron icon
    Set
    Warsculptor's Furred Plastron
    1

Wrist

  1. Forged Gladiator's Plate Vambraces icon
    Forged Gladiator's Plate Vambraces
    1

Hands

  1. Warsculptor's Crushers icon
    Set
    Warsculptor's Crushers
    1

Waist

  1. Forged Gladiator's Plate Greatbelt icon
    Forged Gladiator's Plate Greatbelt
    1

Legs

  1. Warsculptor's Cuisses icon
    Set
    Warsculptor's Cuisses
    1

Feet

  1. Forged Gladiator's Plate Warboots icon
    Forged Gladiator's Plate Warboots
    1

Rings

  1. Algari Competitor's Signet icon
    Craft
    Algari Competitor's Signet
    2

Trinkets

  1. Forged Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity icon
    Set
    Forged Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity
    1
  2. Forged Gladiator's Medallion icon
    Set
    Forged Gladiator's Medallion
    1

Main Hand

  1. Forged Gladiator's Sword icon
    Forged Gladiator's Sword
    1

Off Hand

  1. Forged Gladiator's Shield icon
    Forged Gladiator's Shield
    1

Embellishments

Embellishments are unique effects associated with crafted items, either as predefined elements in a recipe or added with an optional embellishment reagent, creating embellished gear. These enhancements diversify and amplify characters' capabilities.

Given that only a maximum of two embellished items can be equipped at a time, here are the best embellishments for Colossus Protection Warriors in Solo Shuffle:

  1. Algari Competitor's Amulet icon
    Elemental Focusing Lens
    2

Enchantments

Enchantments provide minor yet valuable enhancements to various items, including Back, Chest, Wrist, Legs, Rings, Feet, Main Hand, and Off Hand.

Most enchantments are crafted via the Enchanting profession. However, Legs enhancements are crafted by Leatherworkers.

Enchantments are usually available at the auction house, making them accessible for upgrades. Here is a list of the top enchantments for Colossus Protection Warriors in Solo Shuffle, essential for optimizing combat effectiveness:

Back

  1. Chant of Burrowing Rapidity icon
    Chant of Burrowing Rapidity
    1

Chest

  1. Crystalline Radiance icon
    Crystalline Radiance
    1

Wrist

  1. +1000 Speed icon
    +1000 Speed
    1

Legs

  1. Defender's Armor Kit icon
    Defender's Armor Kit
    1

Feet

  1. Scout's March icon
    Scout's March
    1

Ring 1

  1. Cursed Critical Strike icon
    Cursed Critical Strike
    1

Ring 2

  1. Cursed Critical Strike icon
    Cursed Critical Strike
    1

Main Hand

  1. Authority of the Depths icon
    Authority of the Depths
    1

Gems

Gems are crafted stones from the Jewelcrafting profession that provide stat bonuses to improve gear and fine-tune character stats. These gems can be socketed into various item slots, including Head, Neck, Wrist, Waist, and Rings.

While the availability of sockets on these items is generally random when they drop, Head, Wrist, and Waist items can have a single socket added using the Nerubian Gemweaver , which costs 6 Algari Token of Merit obtained from the Great Vault.

Additionally, for non-PvP Neck and Rings items, sockets can be added with the Magnificent Jeweler's Setting . This item, crafted by Jewelcrafters, can increase the number of sockets to 2 for Neck and Rings slots.

Available through both the auction house and the crafting order system, the following are the top gem choices for Colossus Protection Warriors in Solo Shuffle:

  1. Quick Emerald icon
    Quick Emerald
    8
  2. Determined Bloodstone icon
    Determined Bloodstone
    1

Races

Each race in World of Warcraft has unique traits that enhance abilities or improve in-game quality of life. Although these racial traits offer minor advantages, they can provide a competitive edge in certain scenarios.

With Tauren currently being the top race for Colossus Protection Warriors in Solo Shuffle, here are the other races that also stand out due to their advantageous traits:

  1. Tauren icon
    Tauren
    1