Prot Warrior Phase 1 Bis Gear Breakdown

In this video, I will be covering all the good options for prot warriors that are best in slot or very close.
Example sets:
Value: eightyupgrades...
8% hit - eightyupgrades...
The sets are very similar, and you have many options that you can alternate as discussed in the video.
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[@ryancriswell8216]

I don’t even play warrior but I watch all these because of the content quality

[@YamiYonko]

Loved this guide! hope to see a phase 2

[@nicholasabraham3316]

Hey Zatar! Great work here as usual. I always look forward to your videos. Do you have any plans to release the pre-bis and bis lists for Rogue in phase 1 of wrath? I always liked how you provide alternate gear pieces on your lists. Great stuff!

[@Zatar]

Not sure, simonize is a really good source. Wasn’t a high priority for me because of that.

[@Beerunnoft]

@@Zatar Are there any good creators that cover Feral druid tank/dps in this format?

[@whoopsie321]

Bruh there's people literally saying they ain't gonna play cus Blizz are thinking of lowering the ilvl for ToC/ICC making their class not preform as well cus of it. Please make a video on that cringe.

[@tomasweskamp4272]

Hey Zatar, having trouble capping the soft cap of expertise while getting the gear (not while being full BiS), do u think I should try to keep it capped? Or maybe it doesn't really matter. Thanks!

[@Afasia420]

If you are progressing hitting def cap and maxing ur sta/ehp is most important. Threat is not a problem at all with non-bis dps. But staying alive with healers still gearing is.

[@LeefTV1]

Question about something else regarding warrior. So paladin are said to be the best aoe farmers.. have you tried and lvl80 warrior aoe farms or solo dungeon farms? How efficient is it?

[@seansigal]

Can you explain more about what resil does, why the +15 shoulder enchant is better, how does it help crit immunity cap? For example for those that don’t know you can get away with around 537 def with the shoulder enchant

[@Zatar]

Each point of resilience reduces your chance to be crit by about .01%. You can use resilience instead of some defense to become crit immune. On your character page just combine the crit reduction you get from resilience with the crit reduction you get from defense. They need to total to more than 5.6%

[@fdajax5107]

is Swiftsteel bludgeon good for human warriors in prepatch

[@Nettienite]

Hey man! I’m a warrior main from vanilla to current retail. I’m just now for the first time going prot to tank for a 10 man of RL friends through naxx, would love if you could highlight the 10man stuff a little more here cause I’ve never really geared for a tank and the raid BiS is all 25 here. Did appreciate the pre BiS vid cause I’ve been soaring through world tour heroics everyday with hella ease. Just the 10 man vs heroic gear is grey to me cause the gear looks dope but I lose so much crit immunity. As a 10 man guild am I just already geared minus the 4-set?

[@Zatar]

Honestly, just going with high stamina and 540 defense will get you far

[@veddyveng]

How did it go? I’m in the same boat, hc gear will smash you through nax10 with some pretty good ease tbh, you can already have valour ring and tier set bonus x2 before you even step foot into the raid

[@Fulbor]

Thanks for this! Will have to fight hard to keep my tank spot in my raid and this will help. Any chance of getting a 10man guide to know what items to look out for?

[@Zatar]

Honestly, for early gearing, You can really equip anything based on ilvl. High stam and high defense is good.

[@ErikTaylor]

I'd also love a pure 10 man video tbh. The entire content creator space focuses entirely on 25m which makes a lot of the content less useful.

[@Zatar]

Most 10 man items are on par with heroic items. In wrath a lot of these items are similar, you just go with your characters best stats.

[@theifxxxx]

hmmm there's really no progression in this phase 1 wotlk.. my guild which was 2/6 sunwell pre nerf basically downed everything week 1 of this phase

[@anihroxxor]

tier helm have good stats yes buth 35 stamina is just too good

[@Zatar]

Well you have to factor in the 12 stamina socket bonus, because you need a red for meta anyway. It also has high defense which is hard to get phase 1, and will cost you stamina if end up lacking crit immunity (which you almost always do).

[@craxtaplow4932]

That eyebrow

[@Otaconsps]

Are you going warrior? You made that video about why you definitely shouldn't play warrior lol

[@Zatar]

I am going to main a dk, and alt a prot warrior. The video was not intended as “don’t play prot warrior”, rather was trying to explain why warriors are not preferred for the more difficult content later for those that don’t know why they have a bad reputation. Warriors are still viable and even have strengths the other tanks lack.