Welcome to our Protection Warrior tank guide for World of Warcraft MoP 5.3. Here, you will learn everything you need to know about playing a Protection Warrior in a raid environment, though most of the content also applies to normal and heroic dungeons.

This guide has been reviewed and approved by Sco, Guild Master of Method and one of the best Protection Warriors in the world. You can watch his stream on Twitch. For frequent updates on his streaming schedule, make sure to check out his Facebook page.

Currently, Protection Warriors are faring very well, making them a worthy choice for your raid's tanking spot(s). Like all Warriors, Protection Warriors provide several useful raid cooldowns (most notably Rallying Cry and Skull Banner).

Protection Warriors have excellent mobility during encounters, and shine in fights where there are a great many adds.

Note that this guide focuses on aspects which are specific to Protection Warriors, and general tanking strategies are beyond its scope. If you wish to know more about the tanking role and what you can do to improve, we recommend that you read our tanking guide.

To make it easy to bookmark the specific sections you are interested in, we have split the guide into 7 pages:

• Builds, Talents, and Glyphs: learn what the best talent trees are and how to customise them;
• Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities: understand how to play your class in an optimal way;
• Buffs, Debuffs, and Useful Abilities: discover your arsenal of useful abilities;
• Statistics Priority and Reforging: read up on the respective values of your statistics;
• Gems, Enchants, and Professions: choose the best gems, enchantments, and consumables;
• Macros and Addons: benefit from useful macros and addons to step up your game;
• Gearing Up and Best in Slot: find the best gear you can wear.