Protection Warrior - Phase 1 + Nature ResistanceĪll sets are crit immune when accounting for the 10 defense rating provided by Flask of Fortification.įire Resistance Items for Protection Warrior in Phase 2 Protection Warrior - Phase 1 + Frost Resistance Nature Resistance Items for Protection Warrior in Phase 2
Be aware that most of these items are quite expensive to craft and, as such, building a resistance gear set is meant to be a guild effort funded by your guild bank.įrost Resistance Items for Protection Warrior in Phase 2 As much as possible, try to avoid green items of resistance as their overall stats are much lower and will require sacrificing more slots to achieve similar resistance levels.īelow are a few efficient items you should consider to raise your Frost or Nature resistance. Using more resistance-efficient items means you need fewer items to achieve your resistance goal and thus can maintain more items from your normal tank gear for survival, threat and crit immunity. Ideally, you will want to use primarily epic items such as the Iceguard and Wildguard gear, for their higher resistance per slot and very high stamina. Similarly to how guilds first approached Ragnaros back in Classic, the usual recommendation is to err on the side of caution and start with high resistance (300+) and progressively remove some of the least efficient items as your guild familiarizes with the encounter week by week, until you find the sweet spot of survival and threat for your own raid team. Some guilds will prefer a conservative approach with resistance cap at all cost, while other guilds will prefer a moderate amount of resistance to not sacrifice too much of the threat potential of their tanks. The amount of resistance you need to achieve is purely dependant on your raid group. Racials, such as Dwarf's Frost Resistance and Tauren's and Night Elf's Nature Resistance, do however stack with auras and totems. It is important to note that auras and totems do not stack with 's resistance, so only the strongest effect (70) will be active on your character. Each point of resistance between the 244 mark and the resistance cap at 365 is also linear, however, they provide 25% less average mitigation per point, for a maximum average reduction of 69% at cap, not 75%.Īssuming you have a Paladin ( ), a Shaman (, ) or a Hunter ( ) in your group providing you 70 resistance to an element with their aura or totem, the minimum amount of resistance you need from your gear to achieve the cap is 295. Like traditional melee attacks they can also be missed, dodged and parried but not blocked.īetween 0 and 244 resistance to an element, the average damage mitigation for each point of resistance is linear, from 0 to 50% average reduction. However, they can be partially resisted to reduce incoming damage. Hydross swings for 8-10k unmitigated damage and puts a debuff on the entire raid every 15 seconds progressively increasing elemental damage taken by 10%, 25%, 50%, 100%, 250% and 500%.Įlemental attacks ignore armor and can not be fully resisted. For this reason, it is recommended to bring at least one tank wearing a good amount of Frost resistance and another tank with similar Nature resistance. Hydross' melee attacks do purely magic damage that can only be mitigated by resistance and he alternates between Frost and Nature attacks everytime he changes form throughout the encounter. The most notable encounter in phase 2 requiring resistance gear is Hydross the Unstable in Serpentshrine Cavern. Resistance Gear for Protection Warrior in Phase 2 Protection Warrior Tank Best in Slot HubProtection Warrior Tank Pre-Raid Best in Slot We have created many different Best in Slot Lists, Raid Best in Slot lists, including a TBCC pre-raid BiS list, containing gear you can obtain without doing any raid content. This guide will list the recommended gear for Protection Warrior Tank to acquire while they progress in The Burning Crusade Classic. Welcome to Wowhead's Best in Slot Frost and Nature Resistance Gear list Protection Warrior Tank in The Burning Crusade Classic.