Protection Warrior: Abilities

The warrior shouts, increasing the melee attack power of all party or raid members within 20 yards by 139. Lasts 3 min.

What to know: Cut to 139 attack power at rank 7 (Classic 232), lasting 3 minutes. Improved Battle Shout is baked in. Booming Voice widens it and makes it cheaper. Raid wide.

Ranks at level: 1 1 · 2 12 · 3 22 · 4 32 · 5 42 · 6 52 · 7 60

A strong attack that increases melee damage by 157 and causes a high amount of threat.

What to know: A queued Heroic Strike no longer raises your off-hand hit chance, so the Classic dual-wield trick is gone.

Ranks at level: 1 1 · 2 8 · 3 16 · 4 24 · 5 32 · 6 40 · 7 48 · 8 56 · 9 60

Blasts nearby enemies with thunder, increasing the time between their attacks by 20% for 30 sec and doing 103 damage to them. Will affect up to 4 targets.

What to know: Usable in Defensive Stance too. 6-second cooldown (Classic 4), 20% attack-speed slow (Classic 10%), up to 4 targets. Blizzard gave it big attack-power damage scaling and reduced its threat; the tooltip still shows the flat number.

Ranks at level: 1 6 · 2 18 · 3 28 · 4 38 · 5 48 · 6 58

A defensive combat stance. Decreases damage taken by 10% and damage caused by 10%. Increases all threat generated by 30%.

What to know: Thunder Clap now works in it, and Vanguard adds Charge.

Sunders the target's armor, reducing it by 450 per Sunder Armor and causes a high amount of threat. Can be applied up to 5 times. Lasts 30 sec.

What to know: Tags a mob instantly. Threat scales with attack power (fixed on every rank). It can now be applied over a stronger Rogue Expose Armor; five Sunders and Expose Armor are both 2,250 armour.

Ranks at level: 1 10 · 2 22 · 3 34 · 4 46 · 5 58

Taunts the target to attack you, but has no effect if the target is already attacking you.

What to know: 8-second cooldown (Classic 10): the old Improved Taunt is baked in.

Bashes the target with your shield for 45 damage. It also interrupts spellcasting and prevents any spell in that school from being cast for 6 sec.

Ranks at level: 1 12 · 2 32 · 3 52

Reduces the melee attack power of all enemies within 10 yards by 204 for 45 sec.

What to know: 204 attack power for 45 seconds at rank 5 (Classic 146 for 30 seconds): the old Improved Demoralizing Shout is baked in. Threat: it puts some threat on every enemy it hits. How much is not stated.

Ranks at level: 1 14 · 2 24 · 3 34 · 4 44 · 5 54

Instantly counterattack an enemy for 138 to 168 damage and a high amount of threat. Revenge must follow a block, dodge or parry.

What to know: Much stronger: rank 6 hits for 138–168 (Classic 81–99).

Ranks at level: 1 14 · 2 24 · 3 34 · 4 44 · 5 54 · 6 60

A mocking attack that causes 93 damage, a moderate amount of threat and forces the target to focus attacks on you for 6 sec.

Ranks at level: 1 16 · 2 26 · 3 36 · 4 46 · 5 56

Increases chance to block by 75% for 7 sec, but will only block 2 attacks.

What to know: Blocks 2 attacks over 7 seconds (Classic 1 in 5): the old Improved Shield Block is baked in.

Disarm the enemy's weapon for 10 sec.

A sweeping attack that does your weapon damage plus 50 to the target and a second nearby enemy.

What to know: Raging Blows (Fury, 16 points) makes it 3 rage cheaper.

Ranks at level: 1 20 · 2 30 · 3 40 · 4 50 · 5 60

When activated, this ability temporarily grants you 30% of your maximum health for 20 sec. After the effect expires, the health is lost.

What to know: Protection's 11-point talent, now on a 3-minute cooldown (Classic 10).

Forces all nearby enemies within 10 yards to focus attacks on you for 6 sec.

Reduces the damage taken from all attacks by 60% for 12 sec.

What to know: 60% less damage for 12 seconds on a 15-minute cooldown (Classic 75% for 10 seconds, 30 minutes). Improved Shield Wall takes it to 4 minutes. No longer shares a cooldown with Retaliation or Recklessness.

Stuns the target for 5 sec.

What to know: Protection's 21-point talent: a 5-second stun on a 45-second cooldown.

Slam the target with your shield, causing 640 to 670 damage, increased by your Block Value, and has a 50% chance of dispelling 1 magic effect on the target. Causes a very high amount of threat.

What to know: Protection's 31-point talent, much stronger than Classic (rank 4: 640–670, Classic 342–358) and scaling more with Block Value.

Ranks at level: 1 40 · 2 48 · 3 54 · 4 60

Maims the enemy, causing 45 damage and slowing the enemy's movement by 50% for 15 sec.

Ranks at level: 1 8 · 2 32 · 3 54

Generates 10 rage at the cost of health, and then generates an additional 10 rage over 10 sec.

What to know: Its tooltip no longer says it puts you in combat; untested. The client lists its cost as "20% of base mana", a leftover field: it costs health.

You retain up to 10 Rage when you change Stances.

What to know: Baseline at 14 (an Arms talent in Classic), but keeps only 10 rage on a stance change. Improved Tactical Mastery (Arms) adds up to 15 more.

The warrior shouts, causing the targeted enemy to cower in fear. Up to 5 enemies within 8 yds will flee in fear. Lasts 8 sec.

What to know: The client marks its numbers and wording as changed from Classic: 5 enemies within 8 yards flee for 8 seconds.

The warrior enters a berserker rage, becoming immune to Fear and Incapacitate effects and generating extra rage when taking damage. Lasts 10 sec.

What to know: Learned at 30 (Classic 32).

Pummel the target for 50 damage. It also interrupts spellcasting and prevents any spell in that school from being cast for 4 sec.

What to know: Your only interrupt without a shield, from 38, Berserker Stance only (Shield Bash works in Battle or Defensive Stance but needs a shield). Below 38 an Arms or Fury Warrior has none.

Ranks at level: 1 38 · 2 58