Protection Warrior Artifact Weapon: Scale of the Earth-Warder – Legion 7.3.5

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Scale of the Earth-Warder grants the ability Fureur de Neltharion.

Fureur de Neltharion deals AoE damage and is a potent defensive cooldown against autoattacks, particularly strong when tanking large packs.

You can cast other defensive abilities while channeling, but moving will cancel the cast. It is also canceled by CC and knockbacks, so be careful when timing it!

Important Traits

Écailles de terre gives Critical Blocks a 25% chance to deal damage to enemies in front of you and gives you a 30% armor buff for 6 seconds. This is an incredibly strong trait, both offensively and defensively, and adds a lot of power to Fureur de Neltharion.

Écailles de dragon gives Blocks a 20% chance to increase your next Dur au mal by 40%. This is the strongest defensive trait in the tree.

Voix grondante and Puissance des Vrykuls each make Cri démoralisant a stronger cooldown, both offensively and defensively.

Plaque réfléchissante massively buffs Renvoi de sort, turning it into a consistently strong magic defense cooldown with a short cooldown.

Rage du déchu and Fracas de foudre are the best dps traits.

Peau de dragon is the strongest defensive minor trait available. It's worth 2% more self-healing per rank, and that's great.

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Defensive Value

Vitesse de la Lumière/Maître des Ombres

Carapace réfringente

Intention de nuire

Ombrelien/Ténèbres chaotiques

Étreinte de la Lumière

Lumière foudroyante

Tragically, Lumière salutaire and Imprégnation de lumière only proc from "Healing spells and abilities." Despite being a great absorb, Dur au mal does not count as a heal.

Vitesse de la Lumière and Maître des Ombres are must-haves for the defensively-minded tank. The damage reduction value of movement speed from Vitesse de la Lumière is underrated, but the Avoidance provided by Maître des Ombres is a serious amount of damage reduction against AoE damage. If they are up against each other in the tree, base your choice on the traits below. If the best trait is in the middle, you're simultaneously lucky and unlucky. Avoidance is solid damage reduction and slightly more reliable than movement speed, so Maître des Ombres is a slightly safer choice unless you already have a ton of Avoidance on your gear. (Also, how are you so lucky?!)

The self-healing provided by Ombrelien & Ténèbres chaotiques is pretty modest. They are both excellent DPS traits, but their defensive value is near the bottom of the pack. They do provide about as much healing as Étreinte de la Lumière, which doesn't grant *any* damage, so they are better choices in that situation.

Carapace réfringente is a good defensive gain, (~600k shielding/minute, so ~10k HPS), but its lack of offensive value is a drawback.

Offensive Value

Ombrelien/Ténèbres chaotiques

Imprégnation de lumière/Lumière salutaire

Vitesse de la Lumière

Tourment des faibles

Chagrins noirs

Intention de nuire/Lumière foudroyante

Maître des Ombres

Vitesse de la Lumière is good for both offense and defense.

Ombrelien and Ténèbres chaotiques are hands-down the two best offensive traits, and unlike Tourment des faibles and Chagrins noirs, they have modest defensive value.

Mastery isn't a great offensive stat, making Maître des Ombres not a great offensive trait.

Tourment des faibles is a great trait for single-target DPS, but it has some problems for tanks. In addition to its lack of defensive value, it is predicated on maintaining a DoT on a single target as much as possible. Because Prot Warriors deal near-constant AoE damage, that can become an impossible feat in multi-target scenarios, resulting in a lot of lost DPS in the place tank damage actually matters most.

Chagrins noirs was buffed to deal 40% increased damage, but its 8-second fuse and the low proc rate of 1 PPM still make it a niche choice at best. It can deal a lot of damage in large-scale AoE, but it can't do much of anything in other scenarios.

Intention de nuire/Lumière foudroyante can increase the offensive value of Concordance if you line up your cooldowns with it, but that can require some luck and the results aren't that big even in the best-case scenarios.

Tier 3 TraitsBastion des AspectsEntraînement au bouclier vrykul

Defensive Value

Peau de dragon

Bastion des Aspects

Entraînement au bouclier vrykul

Peau de dragon is not the best defensive trait in every situation, but it is the best all-around choice. It will also synergize well with the Tier 21 4-piece bonus (Item - Warrior T21 Protection 2P Bonus - the link is correct, the title is currently bugged) as it currently exists.

Bastion des Aspects is the best damage reduction against autoattack damage, but it is useless against everything else. This trait is still very good, the best in some situations, but it's not as versatile as Peau de dragon. This trait will synergize wonderfully with the Tier 21 2-piece bonus (Item - Warrior T21 Protection 2P Bonus) as it currently exists.

Intolérance is pretty much worthless, and should never be taken. NEVER! If it's on the relic itself and the relic is a decent item level upgrade, then it's probably still worth it, but you should never voluntarily take Intolérance in the Netherlight Crucible.

Offensive Value

Fracas de foudre

Rage du déchu

Briser les os

Briser les os is good in single target, but weak in AoE. Considering tank DPS has the biggest impact in AoE, this trait falls behind pretty quickly.

Rage du déchu and Fracas de foudre are great in AoE and single target. They are reasonably competitive with each other, dependent on how aggressively you are playing and how much AoE you are handling. If you are super aggressive, Rage du déchu outweighs Fracas de foudre. If you are playing very defensively, then Fracas de foudre is the clear winner. Vigueur du dieu du tonnerre and Fracas de foudre synergize very well, particularly against large-scale AoE.

Early TraitsEmpowered TraitsAccord du Déclin

Protection des Valarjar is a 1-pointer, and the first new trait. It's great! Get it ASAP.

Bastion des Aspects is the new minor trait, and will noticeably reduce autoattack damage intake. It's good, not great, due to its lack of effect against spell or ability damage. You will need to put in all 4 points to reach the following traits, so it is still a rather high priority.

Écailles miroitantes greatly increases the damage reduction value of Renvoi de sort, giving Warriors a 50% damage reduction tool on a fairly short cooldown. Strong overall, and helps fix a hole in the class' defensive toolkit.

Tonnerre de Neltharion provides solid damage reduction against targets that will be alive for a while. Stacking it fully can take some time, so its value won't be as good against low-health enemies. As such, it will be best for pushing higher level Mythic dungeons, or tanking add packs during raid encounters. Against single targets, it's cool. Not earth-shatteringly great, but pretty helpful.

Accord du Déclin is a random Versatility proc. It can only be unlocked once you have put 4 points into every single minor trait in the tree.

Peau de dragon is one of the best minor traits available, and should be at the top of the list for putting in a 4th trait.

Briser les os and Rage du déchu are the two best DPS traits, and should be high 4/4 priorities as well.

Intolérance remains one of the weakest traits in the tree, and should be your lowest priority.

Recommended build pathsRage du déchuFracas de foudreRésistanceempower your weaponRelics

Fracas de foudre - This trait scales at a higher rate than Rage du déchu, but Thunder Clap is used less frequently than Revenge. This trait plays extremely well with Vigueur du dieu du tonnerre!

Rage du déchu - Although Revenge was nerfed in 7.2.5, this trait is still valuable for DPS.

Briser les os - The best minor trait for single-target DPS, but not great for AoE.

Rage du déchuFracas de foudreDévastateurRevanche

Peau de dragon - The premiere minor trait for survival.

Bastion des Aspects - Autoattack damage is generally not that dangerous, but it all adds up and this reduces it very effectively. At this point, it definitely appears to supplant the following trait as a backup defensive option. Against large-scale AoE packs, this is the best defensive trait.

Entraînement au bouclier vrykul - Kinda weak, but reliable against physical damage.

Intolérance - The value of a larger Rage pool falls off quickly.

Géants bondissants is a fun Relic trait for dungeons and some raid encounters. With a few Relics and Marche bondissante, you can bring its cooldown to 20 seconds, and make even Monks and Demon Hunters envy how mobile you are! Beyond that, it's not great, so this trait should never be a high priority.

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