Prot build recommendationFollow

You're also forgetting raid buffs and talent buffs to crit chance. In my standard tanking gear (not DPS oriented) I'm sitting at between 9-10% crit. Add in rampage/LotP and a ret pally. That's 8% more to crit. Throw in a Mark, Kings, we'll be conservative and say I'm at 19% crit. Then of course, we have crit modifiers on key abilities in the prot tree. Sword and Board, Incite, and Critical Block all give me 15% crit to devastate, heroic strike, shield slam, and thunderclap. That puts me up to 34% crit on staple warriors abilities. I can throw on more DPS oriented tanking gear and ramp that crit chance up to nearly 40%. Doesn't Deep Wounds start to sound a lot more attractive when you look at it that way?

Edit: Deep wounds isn't just every 6 seconds now, either. It stacks and rolls now. If you get 4 crits in a row, each crit will stack and roll on top of the previous one before it, and each will fall off in their own 6 seconds window.

Edited, Jan 22nd 2009 4:30pm by FletusSanguine

The 10% comes from recount. In a 5 man it'll typically be lower, such as 6% or so but that's because everything dies so fast. In raids I'll typically get 10% or more. For instance, in 25 man Naxx my total dps for the run this week had Deep Wounds in the #1 spot with 16% of my dps, but that number was inflated as I dpsed as prot during Loatheb, Sapphiron, and Thaddius. I got 4k, 2.4k and 4.5k respectively with Thaddius dps being 30% deep wounds. If I had not dpsed those fights, I would've seen my regular 10% value.

As this is my prot build thread, I decided to post this comment here rather than make a new thread. This is purely discussion only as I am not going to try this build.

Anyway, after that disclaimer, there's a new build making the rounds. In it, many prot talents are given up in the favor of arms talents. Before any more dicussion I will link an example of this kind of build. Understandably it's in the works, has limited viability, and can be tweaked in any number of ways. This is just one example, so no arguing over the finer points.

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=LA0I0fht00rR0bZZMItrx0zid

What's the purpose in this build? Main tanking. It has absolutely no viability as a trash tank. It should only be used if there's another prot warrior in the raid stacking devastates. It should ONLY be used in a 25 man raid where your offtanks can keep up sunder and can adequately tank the trash.

Why this build? Well let's go back to what I said about how a tank needs to increase their dps. This build does not give up much in the way of survivability. What it does give up is a lot of the prot threat tools while picking up Arms single target massive threat / damage increases.

There are prot warriors, main tanking, pushing 4.5k dps with this build on Patchwerk. The reason why is you can chain Revenges and Shield Slams almost nonstop for incredible damage and TPS. You won't see anyone, ever, pull threat off you with this build.

You will also be a garbage offtank and you will be worthless on fights like Sarth + 3 Drakes / Gothik. You need to respec for Sarth + 3 Drakes and you need offtanks to pick up the adds in Gothik. But on fights where you are single target tanking bosses, you will be the IDEAL main tank. Most damage, most threat, and perfectly fine on survivability.

When dual specs come out you may see more and more warriors taking this as their boss tanking build with a more traditional 15 / 5 / 51 build for trash tanking.

Any ideas or comments? I personally will not be taking this build. I do not always MT bosses in my guild and frequently dps because I am one of the best dpsers in my guild even when I'm prot. When dual specs come out my second will be fury.

Can we get some more info on this hybrid build? I cant find anything.