Protection Warriors Still The Best Tanks?

Protection Warriors may not always be preferred for 5-man tanking, but when it comes to real raiding, nothing beats a good Prot Warrior.

Wicked threat, wicked taunts, and the life-saving efforts of a well-timed Spell Reflect or Shield Wall describes the typical well-geared and experienced Prot Warrior.

Just coming up to 80, however, you won't be well-geared enough to be truly awesome, but with a bit of focused efforts you can be there in no time!

Do you know what type of gear you're aiming for, and how to tell "DK tanking gear" from "warrior tanking gear"?

What about the gear that doubles as good DPS gear, so you don't have to hunt out two complete sets?

If not, do you want to waste the time looking up where to find it all? Or do you just want to PLAY?

I know my own answer - I developed this gearing guide in advance so I wouldn't have to waste time I could be spending in a more fun manner once I got to 80.

And I'm happy to share this guide and all of its knowledge with you, so you, too, can play instead of spending time waiting for slow, graphic-laden websites to load up.

About This Pre-Naxx Gearing List

This document was written by WoWGrrl of http://WoWGrrl.com based on her own play experiences and online research.

This document is designed to help Prot Warriors get into Heroics and Entry-Level Raids with a solid starting gear set.

The topics of this document include:

• Starting Point (Warrior Leveling and Raiding Builds)
• Gearing Prior to First 10 man Naxxramas Raid
  • Level 68-79, 5-man instances

  • The Violet Hold
  • Halls of Stone
  • Gundrak
  • Utgarde Pinnacle
  • Caverns of Time: Culling of Stratholme
  • Halls of Lightning
  • The Oculus
• Level 80 5-man Heroic instances
  • The Nexus
  • Ahn'Kahet: The Old Kingdom
  • Drak'Theron Keep
  • The Violet Hold
  • Gundrak
  • The Culling of Stratholme
  • Halls of Lightning
  • Utgarde Pinnnacle
• Non-Dungeon Sources of Pre-Naxx Druid Gear
  • Quest Rewards
  • Reputation Rewards
  • Crafted Items and BoEs
  • Heroic Badge Rewards

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Level 80 Prot Warrior Pre-Naxx Gearing List

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