Warriors have long been a staple in World of Warcraft as one of the most popular classes. After all, they are the first class type you think of when you think of an MMO. The Dragonflight expansion released a talent system overhaul that adds complexity and flexibility to the way you build your character. Today we dive into the projected best talent builds to try for the Protection Warrior.

Best Overall Talent Build for the Prot Warrior in WoW: Dragonflight

You will need to fill out both the Warrior Class Talent Tree and the Protection Specialization Talent Tree when choosing talents for your warrior in WoW Dragonflight. The warrior class tree represents a tree that all warriors can use regardless of their specialization. The protection tree will be specific to prot and only active when you have that specialization chosen.

In this guide, we will go over what we recommend as the best overall talent choices for the Protection Warrior in the Dragonflight expansion. As new data and tank rankings are gathered, we will add in additional talent builds with specific targets such as a Meta Raid Talent Build, and PvP talent builds as well.

Class Talents: Protection Warrior

This set of class talents for the Protection Warrior should allow you to excel as a tank in multiple avenues of raiding and mythics. We focus on optimizing Shield Slam and offering some AoE options such as Thunderous Roar, while also providing defensive choices such as Avatar. We throw in Heroic Leap and Bounding Stride to make sure you can use the leap more often to keep up the pace in fast-moving groups.

Prot Warrior Talent Raid Build (Single-Target)

For your raid build, you will want to focus on damage mitigation and single target damage. You should care less about AoE in this raid setting. For this reason, focus on obtaining Champion's Bulwark and Shield Charge to get right into each new pull efficiently and generate a lot of threat. Grab Battle-Scarred Veteran as a life-saving option in case you take massive damage, to help you survive those tough moments.

If you feel like this doesn't generate enough AoE threat and you need more in raids, you can always swap out Battle-Scarred Veteran for Ravager.

Prot Warrior Talent Mythic+ Build (AoE)

The AoE build for the protection warrior in a mythic+ setting should definitely include the Ravager talent. Most of the other choices remain the same, though here we swap out Show of Force for Disrupting Shout. This will add some AoE utility to your build when dealing with large packs of caster enemies. You can also change out Fueled by Violence for Brutal Vitality if you feel safer funneling the mitigation into Ignore Pain.

Stay tuned for more WoW Dragonflight content as we'll be adding more content and guides just like we've done with our WotLK Classic Directory!