Prot Warrior PvP Video - Prots Potential

[TVGnome]

This is from my WoW Forums post in warrior forums:

Hey,

I made this prot pvp video to show its potential =P This part is just mainly duels - I'll try and make a strictly arena version soon (the matches most of the time take forever lol). This was for fun and again to show off what prot potentially do O_O

YouTube - WoW wotlk Lvl 80 TInytankz Warrior Prot PvP

The quality is eh >< Windows Movie Maker is bad rofl

In the Video:
Im in mostly all shield block value gear; I've tried prot pvp with pvp gear and while I do collect it I found it doesn't work =/ I run with about 1898 Block Value.

Any other Prot PvP people? :

As an update I did manage to hit 1850 as prot war / resto druid =)

[zaon]

Nice video Now time to hit 2k eh? Looks like from your armory you are going back to Arms now?

I have also hit 1850 as prot war/resto druid and I have a feeling we could easily break 2k with more games. Add a few gear upgrades for both of us and I think that could go even higher depending on what matchup we get in the queue (see later). I have tried different gear setups and it honestly doesn't seem to make a huge difference (except in the randomness of games/how long games last):

Heavy block value:
I ran a 1600ish block value set for a while. Problem is that it leaves you with only ~10% unbuffed base crit which makes the matches really really long and it is hard to pressure the other team into using cooldowns. You gain a lot of survivability vs melee, but typically this isn't a huge benefit.

PvP+PvE dps gear:
I dropped down to no gear with block value (and no T7 bonus), 300resilience and all STR/crit/armor pen gear (1100ish block value, 29% crit, 20% armor pen). This made almost every matchup winnable and it significantly reduced the length of matches. Overall more fun too. You do run the risk of being focused by a ret+dps with this setup, but with careful use of cooldowns and a smart healer this isn't a problem.

We absolutely destroy 2dps setups, any kind of caster setup, and can beat most ret/warrior/rogue+healer setups. The only teams that give us problems are DK teams, mainly because DK survivability/peeling is just too high. Most DK matches last 10-30minutes because neither team runs any risk of dying or going OOM. My druid runs dreamstate so we try to find a good time to CC+switch burst, which usually works. However, if it is a paladin or druid healer they can usually recover and basically reset the fight. We have yet to find a strategy to beating DK+pally/DK+druid other than to play for 30 minutes and wait for them to make a mistake.

[TVGnome]

Nice video Now time to hit 2k eh? Looks like from your armory you are going back to Arms now?

Thanks =) I may end up doing that but not until we've gotten walled really hard with our prot 2s combo. I did want to try out this new weapon tho, but to be honest I find my prot burst to be higher atm (not constantly but in spikes). I also want to push 2s as prot because if I go MS in arena I'll just end up being just another warrior with a druid thats MS xD I do like defeating these MS/Druid teams as Prot/Druid >: )

We have yet to find a strategy to beating DK+pally/DK+druid other than to play for 30 minutes and wait for them to make a mistake.

Yes! I hate this lol ; one thing I did find with druids however is they tend to stop hotting themselves when its time for intervate; What I try to do and pray they dont have trinket up is to save recklessness for this momment and they should just drop in between a stun lock. I fear the paladins the most >.< At least running with full block value I really don't do much to make the paladin worry; only thing we can hope for is that they LoS eachother.

I do agree with the double dps teams; they are tasty candy rofl; if mage/rogue contiues to rise this set up alone can be boosted by their success xD (or any other double dps combo)

Thanks for the comments.

[Thagonz]

Unless you guys really like your healers, try running a burst team, that's something, with our stunlock and potential shield slam burst in block gear + recklessness.
anyways try watching my movie, it will show prots potential if you go for shield slam all the way

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q77VDpuGlWM"]YouTube - Thagonzo - Protection warrior 1vs2 skirmish[/ame]

It's awesome

You guys should try playing together with another dps, our stun/silence lock together with another class that might even be able to add something more is quite crazy - I play prot warrior + Blood dk, and a 7 sec stunlock (maybe + charge in the start) add the dk silence then another charge and a gag order + a lucky revenge stun with shield block and recklessness up while your partner blow cd's (such as dancing rune wep and you'll see destruction) if it's a pala you swiftly remove the bubble since you play with tactical mastery and finish him off.

Managed to get 2088 rating together with a deathknight, we just played for fun, but it ended up with us having the 4th highest rating as warrior + dk in the world we changed server to ravencrest(eu) and now we're struggling to get past 1900 though..

together with a dk my experiences with teams is that any healer combos are hard, but possible, it mostly depends if we can get him down in the stun/silence lock and on how good the partner is at protecting the healer (ret pala combos are close to impossible)

Against burst teams we have the advantage, but a well played mage/rogue can win once in a while.