Comments on: Patch 3.0

By: Bizzam

Bizzam — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:57:30 +0000

A lot of it is going to depend on your gear and level of content. Pay particular attention to your attack rotation as it has greatly changed from before and being able to rapidly determine your next best threat move is going to be very important.

By: Havek

Havek — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:55:07 +0000

I hear ya Bizzam it was just a thought due to Pallys and Druids. There TPS seems to be really high. It seems to happen to me every once and a while that they pull aggo off me. I notice there TPS on omen hitting over 3k. any suggestions on keeping up a high amount of TPS thx for ur imput

By: Bizzam

Bizzam — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:27:34 +0000

It’s actually not too hard to hit 2500 TPS as it stands.

I have not regemmed any gear for now. I still have all survival gems.

Remember, your role is first and foremost survivability. Threat is not as much of an issue as it used to be (although it still is!).

By: Havek

Havek — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:50:08 +0000

Hey guys with all the points to spend and easy TPS what kind a gem’s seem to be the new choise? Old school was Stam stam stam. Has anyone been trying Stren, AP, hit, crit, combo’s ect. I would love to see my TPS break 2500. Warrior tanks FTW

By: Bizzam

Bizzam — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:01:16 +0000

Nice =)

I particularly like using Intimidating Shout on warlocks ;p

Don’t forget spell reflect also!

By: tron

tron — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:56:17 +0000

So I was doing my dailies at the isle, and there comes a 70 warlock to kill me. so I charge, stun, silence, shockwave, shield slam, devastate, and repeat over and over. Result: I KILLED A WARLOCK??!!!
Amazing new spec for prot warrios.

By: Karl Hungus

Karl Hungus — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:40:12 +0000

Hey Blizzam. I’m kinda wondering if you’ll be doing an entry on inscriptions and how they’ll relate to tanking? I’ve just gotten 2 inscriptions tonight, haven’t had a chance to try them out in an instance yet, but I got one for increased battle shout, which seems like it’ll be very handy, and one that makes your sunder armor hit 2 enemies, which I imagine will be very helpful for keeping groups under sunder armor. What do you think?

By: Gorrack

Gorrack — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:18:11 +0000

I actually didnt take Vigilance even after respeccing a couple of times… I really have not had any problems keeping threat on multiple mobs. Generally if i have some high DPS AoE’ers I will make them focus fire the first target and that is plenty of time for me to lock in all those other ones.

Then again, I rarely AoE tank with my boss gear on. I am running about 1200 AP, 1056 block value unbuffed, and only 443 defense to ensure that rage is coming in hard core.

I also went with the 2 points in imp revenge, instead of imp disciplines just because I think i get a bit more milage out of the increased revenge dmg. It is pretty gross to see that revenge smash something in the face for 2200

By: Herc

Herc — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:14:58 +0000

On my limited time on BGs weekend I had my fair share of getting owned by a prot warrior(they literally chased me). If they do it right they can chain stun a target easily.

So much survivability and the burst that they can do is nothing to joke about.

By: Steele

Steele — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:11:18 +0000

Def Warriors gonna rock the BGs and im confident you will see them even in Arena. I used to crit around 1.2k with my shield slam before the patch, everyone ganked me and i never ever got a kill or last hit. now if i get attacked im just charging and take the sucker out with a few badass heavy crits ranging from 2.5k – 3.5k. and im still geared like a newb, 10k hp and 14k armor, but lots of additional block. Cant wait to see a lvl 80 geared up prot warri running berserk in BG or open pvp zone. No more “oh look a def warri, lets gank him”, but more “oh my god a def warri.. lets hide!” :D