Protection Warrior PvE Guide For Mythic+

Protection Warrior
The War Within Season 2
Based on 50 Characters
44 Colossi
6 Mountain Thanes
From 3074 to 3254 Rating
Updated 4 hours ago
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Welcome to Murlok.io's PvE guide for Protection Warriors in Mythic+ Dungeons. This guide covers the best stats, races, talents, gear, embellishments, enchantments, and gems for Patch 11.1, based on data from the top 50 Protection Warriors in The War Within Season 2 across the US, EU, KR, and TW regions. This includes Sense (Tichondrius US) , who is currently the highest-ranked with a rating of 3254.

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

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 Protection Warrior secondary and minor stats for Mythic+:

Secondary Stats

+12395

24% Critical Strike

+17966

32% Haste

+6304

26% Mastery

+5766

7% Versatility

Haste
Critical Strike
Mastery
Versatility

Minor Stats

+443

1% Avoidance

+2900

10% Leech

3% Speed

Leech
Avoidance
Speed

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:

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

Specialization Talents

Specialization talents provide 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:

Most frequently used talents, highly recommended for optimal performance.
Widely used talents offering flexibility for alternative choices or personal preference.
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:

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

Mountain Thane

Colossus

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 Protection Warriors in Mythic+, tailored for each equipment slot:

Head

Neck

Shoulders

Back

Chest

Wrist

Hands

Waist

Legs

Feet

Rings

Trinkets

Main Hand

Off Hand

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 Protection Warriors in Mythic+:

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 Protection Warriors in Mythic+, essential for optimizing combat effectiveness:

Back

Chest

Wrist

Legs

Feet

Ring 1

Ring 2

Main Hand

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 Protection Warriors in Mythic+:

Citrine Gems

Citrine Gems are a new type of gem socketed into the Cyrce’s Circlet : a powerful ring introduced in World of Warcraft’s The War Within 11.0.7 patch. These gems provide a versatile range of effects to enhance performance in battle.

Obtained through various activities on Siren Isle, Citrine Gems are a compelling choice for adventurers wielding the Cyrce’s Circlet. Here are the best Citrine Gems for Protection Warrior in Mythic+:

Thunder Citrine

Stormbringer's Runed Citrine

33

Sea Citrine

Fathomdweller's Runed Citrine

33

Wind Citrine

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 Dwarf currently being the top race for Protection Warriors in Mythic+, here are the other races that also stand out due to their advantageous traits:

Dwarf

15
Night Elf

7
Orc

4
Dark Iron Dwarf

4
Blood Elf

3