Warrior in WoW Classic

WoW SoD Prot Warrior

In this WoW SoD Warrior Tank Build Guide, you will find the best spec for Warrior tanks in the Season of Discovery in WoW Classic. The build shows the best talents, runes, BiS gear, and enchants to tank dungeons and raids as a Warrior.

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📅 Last updated on February 2, 2025.

WoW SoD Prot Warrior Talents & Runes

Choose the following talents and runes as a Prot Warrior Warrior with Shield for Phase 7 at level 60:

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Learn where to find each rune in our guide WoW SoD Warrior Runes.

SoD Phase 7 Prot Warrior BiS List

The following Protection Warrior Warrior BiS list contains the best items you can get in Phase 7 of Season of Discovery:

Use Soul of the Battle Forecaster Soul of the Battle Forecaster or Soul of the Sentinel Soul of the Sentinel as your new shoulder enchantment.

SoD Phase 6 Prot Warrior BiS List

The following Protection Warrior Warrior BiS list contains the best items you can get in Phase 6 of Season of Discovery:

SoD Phase 5 Prot Warrior BiS List

The following Protection Warrior Warrior BiS list contains the best items you can get in Phase 5 of Season of Discovery:

SoD Phase 4 Prot Warrior BiS List

The following Prot Warrior Warrior BiS list contains the best items you can get in Phase 4 of Season of Discovery to tank raids and dungeons:

Items for an offensive Fury Spec are marked with Icon. Items that focus on high mitigation are marked with Icon.

Fire Resistance for Heat Level 2 and Heat Level 3

To raid the more difficult heat levels in Molten Core you need to hit Fire Resistance thresholds. For Heat Level 2 you need at least 96 Fire Resistance and for Heat Level 3 you need at least 226 Fire Resistance. To increase your Fire Resistance you can equip gear, utilize enchantments, use consumables, and get buffs from your Druids Druids, Shamans Shamans 1, and Paladins Paladins 1.

Use the following sources to increase your Fire Resistance to the required threshold:

Using Fire Resistance items often results in a DPS loss in comparison to your BiS list. After you’ve acquired new raid items recalculate your Fire Resistance and re-optimize your gear loadout.

🔥 Since the boss Garr from Molten Core can dispel magic effects, you should make sure your Warrior Warrior is hitting the Fire Resistance threshold without Mark of the Wild Mark of the Wild for that specific fight. This might require you to have some off-pieces for that boss fight.

1 For most guilds, it is not recommended to rely on Shaman Shaman totems or Paladin Paladin auras to hit the minimum Fire Resistance thresholds. If the aura or totem is out of range or the player dies, you will lack Fire Resistance. Use the totems or auras as additional mitigation, but calculate your Fire Resistance without them.

SoD Prot Warrior Pre-Raid BiS List

The following Protection Warrior Warrior BiS list contains the best items you can get in Season of Discovery before entering the endgame raids at level 60.

1 This quest requires Helm of Valor Helm of Valor from Scholomance and Breastplate of Valor Breastplate of Valor from Upper Blackrock Spire to complete.
2 This quest requires Boots of Valor Boots of Valor from Scholomance, Legplates of Valor Legplates of Valor from Stratholme, and Spaulders of Valor Spaulders of Valor from Blackrock Spire to complete.
3 This quest requires Gauntlets of Valor Gauntlets of Valor and Belt of Valor Belt of Valor to complete. Both items drop in Stratholme.
4 This quest requires Bracers of Valor Bracers of Valor from Blackrock Spire to complete. Additionally, you need 15 Silithus Venom Sample Silithus Venom Sample from Stonelash Flayer and Rock Stalker in the southern half of Silithus as Horde Horde player or 15 Winterspring Blood Sample Winterspring Blood Sample from Frostsabers like Frostsaber Cub and Frostsaber Stalker in the northern corner of Winterspring as an Alliance Alliance player.
5 To obtain Radiant Gloves of the Dawn Radiant Gloves of the Dawn, you need to buy or craft Gloves of the Dawn Gloves of the Dawn with Blacksmithing 300. Bring Gloves of the Dawn Gloves of the Dawn, 3 Skin of Shadow Skin of Shadow from Scholomance, and 4 Corruptor's Scourgestone Corruptor's Scourgestone from Scholomance or Stratholme to Quartermaster Miranda Breechlock at 81.6 60.0 in Western Plaguelands.
6 To obtain Radiant Girdle of the Dawn Radiant Girdle of the Dawn, you need to buy or craft Girdle of the Dawn Girdle of the Dawn with Blacksmithing 300. Bring Girdle of the Dawn Girdle of the Dawn, 3 Skin of Shadow Skin of Shadow from Scholomance, and 4 Corruptor's Scourgestone Corruptor's Scourgestone from Scholomance or Stratholme to Quartermaster Miranda Breechlock at 81.6 60.0 in Western Plaguelands.

Prot Warrior Rotation

The rotation of a Warrior Warrior Tank in WoW SoD is not a strict rotation but a priority list. Use the following priority list as a tank Warrior Warrior:

  1. Keep Battle Shout Battle Shout up if you’re the only Warrior Warrior.
  2. Queue Heroic Strike Heroic Strike if you have 35 Rage or more.
  3. Cast Cleave Cleave, if you have 2 or more targets and 35 or more rage.
  4. Cast Thunder Clap Thunder Clap if you have 2 or more targets.
  5. Cast Shockwave Shockwave if you have 2 or more targets and it’s available.
  6. Cast Shield Slam Shield Slam whenever it’s available.
  7. Cast Bloodrage Bloodrage whenever it’s available.
  8. Cast Sunder Armor Sunder Armor (Devastate Devastate).

Use Bloodrage Bloodrage at the beginning of a fight for initial rage.

Prot Warrior Consumables in SoD

The following list of consumables can be used by Tank Warriors Warriors in endgame raids at level 60:

Don’t use Consecrated Sharpening Stone Consecrated Sharpening Stone on your main-hand weapon, if you have Windfury Totem Windfury Totem or Wild Strikes Wild Strikes in your party. Always use it on your off-hand weapon, if you’re dual-wielding.

Protection Warrior Stat Priority

As a Protection Warrior Warrior you want to prioritize gear with the following stats:

  1. Up to 9% Hit Chance against level 60 raid bosses.
  2. Crit Chance.
  3. Parry Chance.
  4. Strength.
  5. Agility.
  6. Attack Power.

Due to your finger runes, you only need to get 6% Hit Chance to reach the hit cap. After reaching the hit cap, more Hit Chance has no value.

DPS Build for Warriors in Season of Discovery

To play as a DPS in dungeons and raids, use the WoW SoD DPS Warrior build. The build is optimized to maximize your damage.

Additional Resources

You can find more resources about the WoW SoD Warrior here, including Warrior Macros for WoW Classic. Special thanks to the WoWSims team for providing an invaluable simulation tool to optimize BiS lists. If you want to learn more and optimize your gameplay, visit the Discord community Fight Club for discussions and insights.