
Either they're like now, with not enough pressure offensively, yet hard to kill and provide utility or they're easy to kill (which sort of kills the whole point of being a tank) with proper offensive pressure and utility and you might as well be running arms or fury for the same effect. Finding a good balance for tanks is really hard. Not sure which one is worse dps wise, -20% all the time or fury without off-hand and raging blow.Īs for hating blizzard, WoD had Gladiator spec for warriors, which was hugely popular in PvP, where a lot of people would be running it in favor of the other, actual dps specs as it was outperforming dps specs in all categories. OR if you're really into gimping yourself, run fury with equipped shield as you'll only lose Raging Blow (and of course, off-hand dps and rage generation). Seeing as activating defensive stance actually gives you a visible shield to your off-hand. Should be noted, that if sword & board is the only thing you want to achieve, then running Arms in defensive stance works just as well. It goes through all basic talents and azerites with good reasoning on why and why not. Joe has a decent looking basic guide written in wowhead. Pre-intervene stuns and go attempts on allies, harass enemy dps/healers while trying to maintain a resemblence of pressure so your teammates can freely setup and follow through on kills. Keep demo on all relevant targets all game. I would personally also want to play prot warrior in arena, but there are not that many people willing to give such niche comp a try.Īs for the actual question. There are also some prot warriors hovering around 2.5k

That being said, African Trutle Cleave (Survival, Prot Warrior, Holy Paladin) has worked in the past and there is no real reason why you wouldn't get to 2k+ with it.


Replace with prot with arms warrior and you have almost as much defensive utility (duel, disarm, storm bolt, defensive stance) with higher kill potential. TLDR: People hate tanks, because they mean long games that often still end in the non-tank team winning anyways.
