ICC 25 H Plagueworks - 100 Parse Prot Warrior Shows You How It's Done | WOTLK Classic

Playing the Underdog tank of the WOTLK WoW expansion, we have the 30% ICC buff to damage/HP/healing/shields, and notably, I was wearing a crittable set on Rotface/Putricide. A Prot Warrior player has to be educated, aware, and high CPM to truly shine. With that being said, nearly equally in importance, you have to have a good healer core in your raid that understand how Prot Warriors function. If you snooze (don't heal tank), you lose.
WCL Tank parsing is generally skewed due to Feral Druid being able to wear a full DPS cat crittable gearset, and not be in any danger of dying. So, playing the "squishiest" tank in crittable form is dangerous. My personal goal is always to not grief the raid, tank the best of my ability, and do maximum damage while doing the first two. We don't wipe on any of the encounters due to my gearset, and it results in an overall higher damage output for the raid.
Don't try this at home, kids...
Logs: classic.warcraftlogs.com/repo...
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Video Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:16 Rotface
02:17 Festergut
04:28 Professor Putricide

[@irhamullah3572]

At the beginning of the video it is absolutely true why they all don't believe in the prot war

[@CowClassic3]

Haters gonna hate!

[@casanoa7]

What is it about your spec, gear, and stats that allows you to hit for 20K+ per swing? Are there specific buffs involved? I would greatly benefit from your feedback or suggestions!

[@CowClassic3]

30% buff helps, and the gear is all in the logs. Spec is nothing out of the ordinary either, just a lot of DPS gear.

[@casanoa7]

​@@CowClassic3 looking at the gear for these fights, it seems tailored to min-max toward maximizing damage over survivability. Not saying that's wrong, rather the contrary. I think it's exciting and I would like to understand it better so I can also try. I think there is something to be said if you can survive as a tank at a comfortable level but then do massive damage to help take the boss down even faster. It makes total sense. Are you able to gear this way because your raid group are all decked out and stacked? Or would you still be wearing this gear to parse if you were raiding with a group less geared/skilled? For instance, are you wearing this same gear when tanking any other boss like Halion or Sindragosa?

[@CowClassic3]

@@casanoa7 As a tank, when you first encounter a tier, you have to be very aware of boss values - how much they hit for, how often, when is there a risk of dying. With 30% increased HP/damage/shields/healing, if the healers pay attention, i'm very likely not going to die. I definitely don't wear crittable gear on most bosses, just the ones that will likely not result in a wipe because of me. In that log you can still see Sindragosa, and you can see Notcow's Halion logs too for gear.

[@santaclaus4s952]

what addon are you using if possible share us profile code

[@CowClassic3]

On my discord in the video description.

[@BigChopwowTV]

Dude ur healers must be fkn pros I just looked at ur logs from the other night and u got all 100s and on fester gut u where litterly in 0 tank gear hhahah I love it but geeze the amount of dmg prot warrior already takes it alot let alone in no tank gear your group is so absolute pumpers! EDIT: But the logs from this vid show u in alot of tank gear just 2 dps trinkets and maybe like 2 pc dps set and u still got 100s so if im a bit more worried about heals I can just stay def capped and still push 95s+ ?? Also I see u use a slow fist weapon I was debating vs a slow fist weapon or fast 1h sword both have like they exact same stats tho so with = stats u going slower over faster weapon? Thanks!

[@CowClassic3]

Definitely be crit capped if you're new to prot warrior, encounter progression or playing with newer healers. You have to communicate with your healers prior to and during fights to make sure everyone is doing their best. Can't not be casting, can't idle, can't AFK. 95+ is achievable in full mit gear and stam gems... Regarding the slow weapon, I'd always opt to use it because of how smooth rage generation is with them. Also, abilities hitting for weapon damage rather than DPS.

[@BigChopwowTV]

HELL YA THANKS Man Ya im not new to it but healers are big thing esp in pugs I made pumper set for myt 10m heroic an ws doing 95s allday buyt ya i communicate with heals so its allg im talk to my new guild I swapped servers n they recruited my prot war for 12/12H guild so im pumped to play it more@@CowClassic3

[@BigChopwowTV]

Ok ya appericate that so I dont have all the armor pen gear to work with like you do Ive got 5pcs with ARP on it and them im using Needle encrusted ARP trinket from FOS and then the badge trinket the Herkulm War Token since I didnt have alot of armor pen I opt into full 10str/10Crit gems in every slot if I change em to armor pen do you think itll improve my dmg even morelike honestly the FoS trinket and esp the badge trinket are under rated like im doing better parses then some of the warriors under me with dbw and shit so since Im not able to hit armor pen cap well being def capped is it better to just stuff as much str in as possible? EDIT: Forgot to ask how do you feel about the Exacutioneer enchant from tbc giving 120 Armor Pen or just go Berserking? Granted u dont lose armor with exacutioneer not to worried about it if im in this gear set anyway what u think would do better for my overall dmg I no Prot warr already takes a ton of dmg so why parse on them but glad I found ur videos I FKN Love it its so fun ofc I do it on my prot pally n my bear but warrior just so fucking fun.. Sorry for such a long response Thank you forreal for taking the time to reply always@@CowClassic3

[@CowClassic3]

@@BigChopwowTV I think that you'd only get executioner if it completed your ARP cap to reap the most benefit. I don't use a sim, but it could work. I use the same weapon for all boss encounters so I prefer to lose ~1% physical DR (-5% armor) and gain 400 AP multiple times a fight tho.

[@ludorolle6376]

ok mon com a disparu bon pas grave je recommence je vais te traduite avec google car je suis français je te suit beaucoup vidéos et log et je suis tomber sur un war tank qui a explosé les score dps car il tank en stuff dps 0 de def en mt1 comment est-ce possible ? ok my com has disappeared good no problem I'm starting again I'm going to translate you with google because I'm French I follow you a lot of videos and logs and I came across a war tank which exploded the dps score because it tanks in stuff dps 0 def in mt1 how is this possible?

[@CowClassic3]

If you want to wear DPS gear and be crittable, you have to know how much bosses hit for. You can see in my log that I posted in the description that I do get crit from Putricide, but I have external CD - shield wall and lay on hands that makes the hits very small.