M+ Protection Warrior Guide | THE WAR WITHIN Season 1

[@holinessmo-liness2280]

Man most of these creator guides are a similar format to yours my dude BUT the one difference is you have a quick 1 fight run through at the end. That’s why you’re the man. All the other guys just say “there’s no rotation for tanks it’s all situational” but this man shows you a quick gameplay sample to give you an idea of what the rotation would look like. Absolute GigaChad. Thanks for the run down Dorks!

[@allan293-f8c]

the question that I really need to ask, where is the skill bar? all the youtubers/streamers are knowing exactly what to press and dreaming on the skills/macros? I need to see my skills on the bar, where are the skills?

[@raphaelcoelho9466]

@@allan293-f8c No buddy. That 2 line bars at the middle of the screen is an addon that shows all skills and cds he needs to know. And the skill bar he (and a lot of ppl) doesn't need to see because he knows the keybinds. A lot of content creators (and the ppl that are REALLY tryhard) have a keybind logic so they awalys know what kind of skill is binded on each key

[@knots9119]

This is the perfect style of video guides. Literal 10/10 structure. I hope you do this for every spec lmfao

[@knots9119]

also wtf ive watched your videos for years and haven't been subbed. my bad playboy

[@lolcatzat301]

jorkin 🤝 dorkin

[@lezew9546]

Pretty quick, specific and easy to follow guide. Really apreciate the work your are putting to create this type of content. Helped me a lot to progress into the M+ tanking universe. Great Job Dorki!

[@jacobthompson1569]

I appreciate you making content for us mole people.

[@1Atheeleyah]

Im so happy to main prot warrior for the first time! LETS GO!

[@charliek670]

Thank you for building this. This is exactly what I needed. I've been nervous about maining prot warrior, since none of my friends play this spec, but you eased my fears. Your video is easy and clean to follow. I'm going to watch this a few times and put it into practice. Thank you also for the fight at the end. It's so helpful to see you do the things. Look forward to more videos!

[@Essjaybee2934]

Dorki, Champion of the People. S+ tier guide

[@Theliahh]

Love the step-by-step pull walkthrough at the end. Good to see your thought process going into a pull

[@Frederic_104]

Really good info stressing always keeping shield slam and thunder clap on cooldown. Great guide, love prot warrior going into tww

[@nicolashuber1196]

Maybe the best guide I ever seen. Simple, quick, to the point... You are not trying to showoff... Thanks. I'm coming back on WOW since we did M'uru pre nerf, and I'm more confident now.

[@eikonic]

These videos are the perfect primers. All the info you need, well-presented, and not overly long. Great work!

[@sebs6736]

Thanks Dorki keep these coming!! Guardian/VENG/BLOOD DK haha would be awesome!

[@Seismic2oony]

Amazing video, hits all the points without any of the preamble, long winded anecdotes or prerequisite expectations. Please continue to more like this!

[@TonyTheTerrible]

prot warrior is very straightforward. i like everything mentioned in the vid but i'm also leaning more towards colossus because of the bigger ignore pains, the better critical blocks and the option to use demolish as a dmg cd for packs your dps arent using cds for or using it for the 15% DR. theres also play for using it as anti-stun/pushback. lastly, a small thing but i also value crit higher than verse as we all know crit = parry and you get double the parry value when compared to verse dr

[@TonyTheTerrible]

oh and i think theres more value in skipping champion spear's follow up talents and instead picking up roar. also skipping unstoppable force as colossus

[@rodrigorodrigues2855]

Such a good video. Goes precisely into all the important points. Thank you.

[@midkraft7279]

Top tier 👍 I really hope you also make one for blood (well also all the other, but that might be a tall order so close too launch)

[@andreaslivathynos3044]

Thanks for the guide!! very useful and thanks for the tip the charge into a shield charge!! never thought of it

[@Pally-Main]

Thanks for the tips Dorki, I was overthinking this spec w/ Revenge but playing it like you said is awesome, enjoying playing the game and actually getting in with groups now. You’re doing the Lord’s work

[@BacciaTV]

Been waiting for this to drop so I could see how I was doing on build. Thx Dorki

[@talltalltree4659]

Rolled a war today got it to 80 havent had fun tanking ever since TWW prot. sick guide brother

[@amethonys2798]

I find Intervene to be "decent" at least in most dungeons. Yeah, you "lose" the additional stop, but stops are only "okay" now with mobs recasting anyway. At absolute worst it saves the FDK from killing themselves on pull with a gigantic Obliterate and at best you external someone for like 10% of their health on a magic damage raidwide. Also has situational usefulness in terms of getting out of melee without using heroic leap.

[@Richard-lc3jc]

Crazy clean understandable guide thanks dorki and wanna ask if you gonna do VDH guide also thanks !

[@mohammad-zabih]

Hey Dorki Ty for the Vid :) i wish there was someone to make a WA for that blockable / reflect info tho to shout in situations which u can pop to help

[@randonm99]

Great Format. Get the information you need and get out. Top tier content creator.

[@Epicmission48]

Bind Ignore pain to Mousewheel down!!!! It will help so much!

[@supra1102]

keeping everything on cooldown exept for revenge ! got it ! thanks man . great guide .

[@godsfaithinhumanity]

ONLY DORKI PUT PROT WARRIOR #1 ON HIS TIER LIST

[@dragondrew]

Nope been seeing it 😤

[@dragondrew]

Susanaoo

[@blazzyng]

His mitigation is insane

[@kayladecant7332]

Bruh prot feels gooood. Not my main due to raid, but it’s such a good time

[@realTempix]

Yessss! Thank you

[@serge2cool]

I'm guessing you'll update them, but your MDT routes are all from past season FYI. I'd either update that or remove from the video links. Ty for the vid Dorki!

[@MrToastyTank]

Thank you for this Dorki much love ❤️

[@Urachian1]

Great video! Helps a lot

[@its7bm]

Amazing video as always / There will be any guide for Blood DK or brewmaster monk ?

[@Rabano94]

thanks for the guide!

[@nejmus]

Really thanks for this one! I've leveled my war to 70 in prepatch to get it ready as alt for TWW but I was a bit concerned about not being able to keep up with rage overcap/procs and it felt so wasted... Now I now I've put too much focus on Revenge (was mostly farming echos so Ignore Pain wasn't that useful since I've barely took any dmg).

[@Krustikus]

Doesn't matter if its useful or not. You are doing most damage with your rage generators und ignore pain is perfect to dump a lot of rage to reset your shield slam and get your avatar cd down fast, so it lines with your other cds perfectly.

[@Georgy-vs1qe]

Awesome as alwayys. Thank you

[@djj949]

Great guide, hope you do one for prot pally

[@IAttackYou]

Dorki of the mole

[@Theliahh]

dorkiRoll

[@PrecursorLegend]

I’m a bit behind already (still getting used to returning to retail and catching up on everything, took my time leveling, etc) but I’m really looking forward to tanking some dungeons on my warrior main this week. Thanks for the great primer.

[@mickmckillop4516]

Thanks, a very useful guide helped me a lot. was having problems grouping up mobs. This has helped me improve my tanking a lot

[@Mindflaywow]

Love you dorki, if you ever need Ketchup, ill send you some!

[@Tyberes]

So my GF asked me to tank and I've been sampling prot. Thunder Blast is hitting for 500k a target and I'm not even high enough ilvl to get into heroics yet. I think I'm gonna like this class lmao.

[@randomman2060]

really good guide , you dont juste talk about ability you also show the icon associated with each one with nice animation , really important for new , also one question at 3:00 - 3:14 , i dont understand , the biggest the shield is , the more i block ?? , what is the biggest shield transmo you use mate

[@jbarlak]

Prot warrior hype prot warrior hype mole men unite

[@staniolfyi]

Dorkin

[@IsAMank]

fuck yeah im jorkin over this

[@Akeelian]

dorkin warrior

[@chrishipple4419]

Great guide. thank you! In BFA we had a WA to track what % our IP was at since each cast only did 70% of the total ignorable amount. I still have that same weakaura but seems like it doesn't matter anymore, do you track that? I don't see it on your bars but you could just know based on the amount

[@mobinenayty6901]

Its so good

[@Thandwar]

don't play warrior, watched anyway! nice vid hope a bdk one comes soon!

[@konter4323]

Well structured Guide! but I´m missing a sentence or two regarding Violent Outburst and Execute. I tryed this build and it can take like twice the punishment of my favorite Colossus build, however it also deals like only halv the dmg, so... I gues for content you outgear (Mid-Low tier m+) Colossus is way stronger (where/for this talent build and playstyle does not work at all btw).

[@Dorki]

yeah those were a little less important to cover but ya colossus is big dam

[@Burstylez]

Playing as an alt and seeing prot wars with 10% shieldblock uptime is pain

[@thomaskrabacher9772]

thanks sir. pls vengeance dh next. love you sir honored

[@JSIguess]

Looking forward to a prot pala one (yeah i know spec is dead)

[@nthopk]

I'm gonna need a waxmaxxing guide dorki

[@javidanmehr6386]

Dont macro everything to ignore pain but macro shield slam into your ignore pain

[@bluemammothwarcraft3431]

Any prot warriors know of an add on or wa which shouts at you if you cap on rage? I'm always over capping, especially when ravenger is down

[@cuneytbolkan2374]

Great video thanks Dorki, is there a chance that you make for dk too? Also i guess i have to dump my rage on ignore pain even tho if i had max absorb thanks for the insight

[@SquishAlan]

Ty.

[@selephius]

Guardian Druid next?

[@Skarrows]

Great tutorial! You just forgot to mention Impending Victory or maybe it's intentional?

[@joeywilcox278]

I thought you had said you were maining BDK. I'm pumped you did the warrior video first though. Definitely helped me on a few things I was ignorant about. Great vid homie

[@tinit5190]

Never knew that about battle stance.. TIL

[@emrecakar7595]

Hi dude, Can I ask question? My shield block duration 6 sec. you have 15 sec or sometimes 20 sec. How does that work?

[@Dorki]

use it multiple times

[@danielstrychacz9546]

What about swapping the Bloodsurge talent for Disrupting Shout in the class tree. So far I haven't missed the bit of extra rage from Bloodsurge... In fact it's easier to not over cap. But having an instant cast aoe interrupt is MASSIVE. Slightly shorter cooldown than sigil of silence even.

[@Dorki]

bloodsurge is too valuable in higher keys but you can drop ravager/bsv for disrupting shout. the way disrupting shout works requires interrupting the actual cast instead of silencing like vdh

[@TheChuky18]

@@Dorki yea and its only 1 spell school not every cast after it..

[@seth3681]

All I got from this is, ‘Warrior is lo-fi rage’

[@Briansgate]

great vid

[@EnzoTiezzi]

my friends play just meelee on retail, would it be better to tank with warrior because of it ? or just go with druid for safe pick ?

[@yazan80]

Great vid. Can you please do vids for the other tanks?

[@frankmesh5280]

Is everything in the middle of the screen you're tracking a weak aura? I imported your UI pack from the wago link and I only have the rage bar and aura bars/icons above it.

[@frankmesh5280]

Should add I don't use elvui, so if all bars below the rage bar is just elvui I'll have to build out the rest of the WAs

[@Dorki]

yeah you can just add your own bars below(its action bars)

[@ChronicHabit42]

nice thanks

[@cruxofthesubject1402]

A question on macroing ignore pain - is it at least ok to macro it to shield slam? You said no to the specific question "should I macro it to everything" but is there anything that it would be "acceptable" to macro it to?

[@Dorki]

yea if you really want to lower the amount of button pressing required

[@Marevrick]

W

[@nicolasrosales6163]

is there a way to make your taunt shout also silence without losing too much?

[@j.r.6271]

It is usually recommended to snipe macro ignroe pain where you do /cast ignore pain /cast shield slam so that if you SS resets off devestator while ignore paining it will auto cast SS with the ignore pain. Saves some time.

[@mathiaswlarsen5617]

COOL

[@avramstefan7982]

i have macro'ud ip and sb and when i finish a heroic dungeon like 10 minutes or so.. overall it says to me:92%ip used 90-93%sb used so i guess is ok :) no longer need to track the ignore pain or shield block

[@victorgasiul5813]

Btw currently with only heroic dungeons available colossus slaps, it deals more dmg than thane. You can do over 1mil dps overall with good big pulls. This may also be true for m0 week. Thane is better for survavibility, rage generation and consistent damage, but at the moment when survavibility isnt the issue you can use colossus for faster dungeons and just flexing how much dmg you have as a tank:)

[@fkaroundhandleit]

yeah it's wild. On some of the pulls I did I was doing like 3-4mil.

[@Caliban743]

dorkin

[@tobsynator8703]

I have a questions for the Talents why are we not playing Rumbling Earth (better shockwave) or Disrupting shout? Mot people complain that warrior doesnt have enough Utility and this would give more cc and an aoe kick.

[@optimizedlaziness6183]

The interesting thing about tank trees is that, since they don't have access to an objective performance metric that dictates what the best build is like DPS, they are a lot more open to experimentation and personal choices. So give it a try and see if that qol is better, and then try other setups. Who know, you might end up with a different build template per dungeon

[@Dorki]

warrior utility is fine but also there are a lot of stuns atm so it gets heavily DR'ed easily. disrupting shout can be ok but will give up some throughput

[@DerwinIRL]

Can you share the weak aura please? :)

[@user-kc2gt7yo7r]

when blood dk?

[@DaveTheeMan-wj2nk]

on AOE tho if shield slam and thudnerclap are both up, which should I hit first? What is the priority in that case. ANd on single target as well.

[@notrwoo]

by the looks of this i been using revenge way too much..

[@gerardouron3590]

Hi Dorki, on your gameplay section i saw that on your right side there is a tracker of enemy habilities incoming, which addon shows that?

[@crazybil150]

Press these on cooldown.

[@dwightk.schrute3920]

Can I change Rend for Instigate? I never use Rend, my question is, will Instigate apply to Auto Attacks or is it a wasted point?

[@CryonautGaming]

You take rend so your thunderclap applies it...

[@dwightk.schrute3920]

@@CryonautGaming Ohh, I did not know it does that, thanks a lot! Learning everyday something new.

[@SirSnoozebutton]

Very nice guide. What about disrupting shout? I know it's a long CD, but given how they changed spell casting so other CC will just delay the cast, wouldn't disrupting shout be a solid choice for big pulls? Or is just that you can't spare the 1 point from anything else?

[@Dorki]

you can drop ravager/bsv for disrupting shout. the way disrupting shout works requires interrupting the actual cast instead of silencing like vdh which can be useful but i wouldn't play it that often

[@SirSnoozebutton]

@@Dorki Yeah I guess it's very situational if multiple casts are happening at once, but at least it's gonna put them on CD like a normal interrupt would. Might also be good in less coordinated groups or pugs, where people might interrupt the same casts, or no interrupts at all.

[@amethonys2798]

​@Dorki the other issue with it requiring to interrupt is it only locks out of the same spell school (so it might not even bring the casters in) and Blizzard loves desyncing important casts anyway so you probably aren't getting huge value.

[@DirewolfNB]

Blood DK guide when?

[@Zeerekbloodhoof]

Quick question: can you move points from shield charge into other talents if you dont like that skill?

[@mwaffi]

You have Impending Victory on your top ability row, but you don't seem to be using it? Is there a reason for that?

[@Idkidkidkidk456]

u dont realy rotationaly need it

[@Dorki]

you press it as a little healing potion whenever you need to

[@vaels5682]

How does higher ilvl shield = stronger blocks? Or is he just talking about the damage reduction provided by armor?

[@10Bagel]

Has block (value) stat on shields, higher ilvl = higher amount of value

[@feniva9]

is it still viable to play roar? i dont wanna play spear

[@zugetzuzu]

Hi Dorki. I wanted to ask you what healer you prefer to get healed by as a Prot warrior. I've currently leveled 4 different healers and I want to make my tank friend feel as comfy as possible with me healing him. The only healers I haven't leveled up yet is Monk and Evoker. Thanks if you take your time to read and especially if you respond. Love, a returning healer main

[@solemvow6281]

Shaman

[@Dorki]

rsham is nice with the skyfury buff but doesn't really matter what healer honestly

[@Pohuist6666]

Any weak auro for spell reflekt ? Aktuel season ?

[@ΠαναγιωτηςΣταυριανιδης]

what's the addons or WA called that shows you the groups interupts and cd's?

[@tomtimko9185]

When, if ever, should you use impending victory?

[@Dorki]

you press it as a little healing potion whenever you need to

[@redmasamune1]

Do you ever not use whirlwind for mobs or just spam thunderclap