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The Care and Feeding of Warriors: PVP with a PVE spec — protection

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Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Care and Feeding of Warriors , the column dedicated to arms , fury and protection warriors . Despite repeated blows to the head from dragons, demons, Old Gods and whatever that thing over there was, Matthew Rossi will be your host. This is part 2 of our look at PVPing with a spec mainly thought of by others as a PVE spec. Protection has waxed and waned in popularity as a PVP spec since Wrath of the Lich King launched. Its mobility, stun potential and kite resistance (as well as some nice spell interrupt utility), combined with excellent survival, weigh against its lack of raw burst potential. Protection can do many things well in PVP, from carrying a flag or protecting a tower or cap point to tanking in Alterac Valley or the Isle of Conquest, but its strengths are balanced by one factor. Compared to other warrior specs, protection in PVP just plain lacks the raw killing throughput of arms or fury. This doesn’t mean a prot warrior can’t get off a Shield Slam that will make another player cross-eyed, because it can and does. But unlike arms, when prot charges a target and stuns it, even using Shockwave immediately afterwards, it simply isn’t likely to burst out anything close to the raw damage of the non-tanking specs. If you’re prot in PVP, you should be maximizing your strengths, not dwelling on your weaknesses. Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Warriors: PVP with a PVE spec — protection Filed under: Warrior , Analysis / Opinion , (Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors , Cataclysm The Care and Feeding of Warriors: PVP with a PVE spec — protection originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sat, 17 Sep 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink