TBC Classic Protection Warrior Enchants and Consumables

Here is a complete list of the recommended Protection Warrior enchants, followed by some notes for certain slots.

Slot	Enchantment
Head	Best: Glyph of the Defender Best: Glyph of the Gladiator
Shoulders	Best: Fortitude of the Scourge Recommended: Greater Inscription of Warding Recommended: Greater Inscription of the Knight
Back	Best: Enchant Cloak - Greater Agility Optional: Enchant Cloak - Steelweave Optional: Enchant Cloak - Major Armor
Chest	Best: Enchant Chest - Exceptional Health Option: Enchant Chest - Major Resilience Option: Enchant Chest - Defense Threat: Enchant Chest - Exceptional Stats
Bracers	Best: Enchant Bracer - Fortitude Threat: Enchant Bracer - Stats Optional: Enchant Bracer - Major Defense
Gloves	Threat: Enchant Gloves - Threat Well Rounded: Enchant Gloves - Superior Agility Tanky: Glove Reinforcements Stamina: Heavy Knothide Armor Kit
Legs	Best: Nethercleft Leg Armor Option: Clefthide Leg Armor
Feet	Enchant Boots - Boar's Speed
Finger	Enchant Ring - Stats (Enchanting only)
Weapon	Best: Enchant Weapon - Mongoose Threat: Enchant Weapon - Executioner Option: Enchant Weapon - Greater Agility
Shield	Enchant Shield - Major Stamina

Glyph of the Defender is the recommended head enchant as it offers more stats overall. Glyph of the Gladiator is a great option offered in Phase 5, giving a large amount of stamina and crit immunity.

Choose either Greater Inscription of Warding or Greater Inscription of the Knight, depending on your faction choice between The Aldor or The Scryers. Fortitude of the Scourge is still a very strong option and is the better enchant when you no longer need the defense rating from the other options.

Enchant Cloak - Greater Agility is the recommended enchant for your back, as it offers a nice balance of offense and defense. Enchant Cloak - Steelweave is a new enchant available in Phase 5.

Enchant Chest - Exceptional Health is your go-to chest enchant, offering a sizable amount of health. Enchant Chest - Exceptional Stats may also be used when threat is more of a concern than being tanky. Enchant Chest - Major Resilience remains a solid option for hitting crit immunity. Enchant Chest - Defense is available in Phase 5 and helps reach the defense cap while offering some avoidance.

Enchant Bracer - Fortitude is your recommended bracer enchant, offering a high amount of Stamina. Enchant Bracer - Major Defense can be used if you are struggling to reach defense cap, especially if wearing resistance gear. Enchant Bracer - Stats is a decent threat option.

Enchant Gloves - Superior Agility is a very well-balanced glove enchant, offering you everything you want. Glove Reinforcements is a lesser used enchant, but is actually the tankiest glove enchant you can get. Heavy Knothide Armor Kit offers 10 Stamina, which can help on specific magic damage-based fights.

Lastly, Enchant Gloves - Threat can be used for the threat increase, although it is minor, especially when looking at the Critical Strike you could have gained from the Agility enchant. I recommend using Threat to gloves for your main gloves.

Nethercleft Leg Armor are massive, granting a huge amount of stamina and agility. Unlike other enchants, these are obtained from Leatherworking.

Enchant Boots - Boar's Speed is recommended for the stamina and the 8% movement speed it offers.

Should you choose to pick Enchanting as a profession, Enchant Ring - Stats is the ring enchant you will want to get.

Enchant Weapon - Mongoose offers a nice mix of offense and defense capabilities through the proc. Enchant Weapon - Greater Agility is a viable cheaper alternative if you have an inferior weapon or cannot afford Mongoose.

Enchant Weapon - Executioner is the weapon enchant available in Phase 5. It offers higher threat than Mongoose, but has no defensive side to it.

Enchant Shield - Major Stamina is the only real option for your shield, offering a very large amount of health.

In this section we will give you all of the gems you want to use as a Protection Warrior. Typically, you will want to ignore socket bonuses unless they offer 3 or more Stamina, or 4 or more of Defense/Dodgy/Agility, and just use Solid Star of Elune.

Sockets	Gems
	Powerful Earthstorm Diamond (make sure to meet the requirements for it to be active)
	Shifting Shadowsong Amethyst (best) Glinting Pyrestone (for Hit Rating)
	Enduring Seaspray Emerald (tanky) Steady Seaspray Emerald (for crit cap) Jagged Seaspray Emerald (some threat) Glinting Pyrestone or Rigid Lionseye (for Hit Rating)
	Solid Empyrean Sapphire

Here is a full list of the recommended Protection Warrior consumables by category, and their uses.

If using a flask, you should use Flask of Fortification. Flask of Chromatic Wonder are great for resistance fights. While flasks persist through death, it is recommended to use Elixirs.

• Elixir of Major Agility has great offensive stats.
• Elixir of Demonslaying should be used against demon bosses.

• Elixir of Major Fortitude is your main Guardian Elixir.
• Elixir of Major Defense is slightly stronger than the health from the Fortitude Elixir on pure Physical damage fights.
• Elixir of Ironskin can be used if you are not immune to critical strikes.
• Gift of Arthas if you aren't worried about increasing your defensive stats, this is great to increase your raids damage output, and even gives you a small amount of threat per second from the proc.

Fisherman's Feast is the recommended food buff. Alternatively, you can eat Spicy Crawdad. Spicy Hot Talbuk is useful to help with the Hit Cap and threat.

Scroll of Strength V, Scroll of Protection V, and Scroll of Agility V can and should all be used at the same time. Try to find them for a decent price from the auction house, or get them off Field Repair Bot 110G.

There are many potions a Protection Warrior can make use of.

• Mighty Rage Potion should be used liberally on trash.
• Ironshield Potion is your survivability potion.
• Haste Potion is used for boss threat.
• Free Action Potion is great for avoiding stuns or slows.
• Super Healing Potion is a cheap potion that can be used in dungeons or easier raids.
• Swiftness Potion is useful for high movement bosses.
• Invisibility Potion can be used for skipping trash.

• Crystal Charge is an instant cast AoE damaging bomb.
• Stratholme Holy Water can be useful for AoEing Undead mobs.

Here is a list of the unique consumables provided by each individual profession.

Oil of Immolation helps with AoE tanking.

• Adamantite Weightstone (blunt weapons) should be used if you are not getting the benefit of a Windfury Totem, with Adamantite Sharpening Stone being the equivalent for sharp weapons, or on your off-hand weapon if you are dual wielding.
• Greater Rune of Warding is a temporary chest buff that absorbs some Physical damage periodically.
• Greater Ward of Shielding can only be used outside of combat on your currently equipped shield, which absorbs some damage at the start of combat.

• Super Sapper Charge is great for AoE snap threat.
• The Bigger One deals high damage in a large radius.
• Dense Dynamite deals damage in a large radius, can be used while moving.
• Arcane Bomb provides 5-second AoE silence and can be useful in many situations.

Heavy Netherweave Bandage is great for healing and useful to generate some threat in dungeons if used after a Bloodrage while line ofsighting.

• Nightmare Seed is something you should always have a large surplus of; they are an amazing low-cooldown mini version of Last Stand.
• Flame Cap's procs offer a small threat increase.