Protection Warrior Gear Enhancements for Cataclysm

Here are a selection of available enhancements for the protection warrior.

I'm looking forward to trying out Windwalker and see how that movement speed boost works out. I'm a big fan of run speed enchants, so I've put those above the straight master enchant for boots.

Slot	Enchant	Source
Head	[Arcanum of the Earthen Ring]	Revered - Earthen Ring
Shoulder	[Greater Inscription of Unbreakable Quartz]	Exalted - Therazane
	[Lesser Inscription of Unbreakable Quartz]	Honored - Therazane
Cloak	Protection	Enchant
Chest	Greater Stamina	Enchant
	Stamina	Enchant
Wrists	Dodge	Enchant
	Precision	Enchant
	Expertise	Enchant
Hands	Greater Mastery	Enchant
	Heavy Savage Armor Kit	Leatherworking - Materials
Belt	[Ebonsteel Belt Buckle]	Blacksmith - Materials
Legs	[Charscale Leg Armor]	Leatherworking - Materials
	[Twilight Leg Armor]	Leatherworking - Materials
Feet	Lavawalker	Enchant
	Earthen Vitality	Enchant
	Mastery	Enchant
Weapon	Mending	Enchant
	Windwalk	Enchant

Protection Warrior Starter Gear for Heroics

Here's my guide to gearing up your Protection Warrior for heroic Dungeons as efficiently as possible. There's no drops on the list (aside from a trinket), so as you are gearing up, this guide should help you spend your time and energy outside of those dungeons for maximum return.

Some of the craftable items are extremely expensive. Some are clearly worth the cost, and others are extortionate (where running a normal or heroic dungeon for an equivalent drop is a better use of your time). Items with an asterisk (*) have at least one [Chaos Orb] and at the time of writing these are BoP. I'm not sure why the Devs chose to do this as it seems to be arbitrarily punishing players without armor crafting professions at a time when they tell us they want to even things out.

Items marked with two asterisks (**) are PvP gear. I have included these items where they are generally much better than any alternatives which are easier to get than the items higher up on the list.

On the trinket front, unfortunately the best Darkmoon Card for tanking is Volcano because mastery is just that much better than dodge. The use of Earthquake, with Last Stand could provide a pretty large health pool for a while, so time will tell.

Any questions comments, item suggestions are most welcome so do leave a comment!

Slot	Item	Source
Head	[Crown of Wings]	Revered - Wildhammer Clan
	[Helm of the Proud]	2200 Justice Points
Shoulders	[Pauldrons of Edward the Odd]	BoE
	[Sunburnt Pauldrons]	1650 Justice Points
	[Pharoah's Burial Spaulders]	Quest - Uldum
Neck	[The Lustrous Eye]	1250 Justice Points
	[Elementium Guardian]	Jewelcrafting - Materials
	[Mountain's Mouth]	Honored - Guardians of Hyjal
Back	[Wrap of the Great Turtle]	Exalted - Guardians of Hyjal
	[Twilight Dragonscale Cloak]	Leatherworking - Materials*
	[Cloak of War]	Leatherworking - Materials
Chest	[Hardened Elementium Hauberk]	Blacksmithing - Materials*
	[Chestplate of the Steadfast]	2200 Justice Points
	[Breastplate of the Witness]	Quest - Grim Batol
Wrist	[Sandguard Bracers]	Exalted - Ramkahen
	[Terborus's Rotating Bands]	BoE - Rare Elite Deepholm
	[Bloodied Pyrium Bracers]**	Blacksmithing - Materials
Hands	[Numbing Handguards]	1650 Justice Points
	[Gloves of Gnomebliteration]	Quest - Uldum
Belt	[Hardened Elementium Girdle]	Blacksmithing - Materials
	[Girdle of the Mountains]	1650 Justice Points
	[Belt of Guardianship]	BOE - World Drop
	[Bloodied Pyrium Belt]**	Blacksmithing - Materials
Leg	[Greaves of Splendor]	2200 Justice Points
	[Stone-Wrapped Greaves]	Honored - Earthen Ring
Boots	[Gryphon Rider's Boots]	Exalted - Wildhammer Clan
	[Ramkahen Front Boots]	Quest - Lost City of the Tol'vir
Ring	[Elementium Moebius Band]	Jewelcrafting - Materials
	[Felsen's Ring of Resolve]	Revered - Therazane
	[Red Rock Band]	Revered - Ramkahen
	[Temple Band]	BOE
Trinket	Stamina
	[Za'brok's Lucky Tooth]	Quest - Twilight Highlands
	[Leaden Despair]	Dungeon - The Stonecore
	Mastery
	[Darkmoon Card: Volcano]	Inscription - Materials + RNG!
	[Impatience of Youth]	Exalted - Baradin's Wardens
	[Baradin Footman's Tags]	Honored - Baradin's Wardens
	[Impetuous Query]	BoE - Lost City of the Tol'vir
	Avoidance
	[Darkmoon Card: Earthquake]	Inscription - Materials + RNG!
	[Insignia of Diplomacy]	Quest - Deepholm
	[Binding Promise]	BoE
Shield	[Elementium Earthguard]*	Blacksmithing - Materials*
	[Shield of the Four Grey Towers]	950 Justice Points
	[Truthbreaker Shield]	Quest - Entry to Highlands chain
Ranged	[Sky Piercer]	Revered - Baradin's Wardens
	[Kickback 5000]	Engineering - Materials
	[Volatile Thunderstick]	Engineering - Materials
	[Abatement Cannon]	BoE
Weapon	[Ravening Slicer]	Revered - Baradin's Wardens
	[Dragonscorn Mace]	Quest - Twilight Higlands

Best in Slot Unhittable (Warrior)

It's been a while... a long while. I have been very busy in game, working on beefing up the guild for both 10 and 25 man progression. We have had a fantastic influx of new members, and balancing the raid schedule for a casual guild that wants it all has been a terrific mind puzzle.

In any case, we're 12/14 Ulduar 10, 6/14 Ulduar 25 and 4/4 TotC 10 (with the final boss still to come). Now that we're caught up (not really, but I'm sure there'll be more of that to come) onto the inspiration for this post.

Wowhead. Is there nothing they can't do?

The wowhead profiler should have itself warranted a post, just to promote their aesthetic which blows all other armory tools away... but at least it got a plug on the guild website.

Unhittable. It's a fairly useless concept to a protection warrior, but a fun one none the less. The idea is that any time you are attacked with melee, at worst the mob is going to attempt to break through your shield to get at you.... Block, Dodge, Parry, Miss. That's it. I've been having a look at BiS unhittable lists over at tankspot.com, but what if you want to put a set together that's the best of the stuff from your bag and bank? (Prot warriors don't vendor gear, they just sublet yet another commercial shipping container)

Wowhead's "create a weight scale" tool to the rescue. Plug in weighted values for block, parry, dodge and defense for mitigation (not avoidance) and bam:

Ranked list of best unhittable pieces for a Protection Warrior.

It doesn't take diminishing returns into account, particularly regarding the benefits of dodge vs. parry... but it gives you a fantastic guide to where the best pieces are!

Jondy's Badge Gear [for Resto Druid]

Introducing my wife's main, Jondayla. A fully resto tree of life druid, whose lifeblooms have sustained me through many an instance.

I wanted to get a proper, concise, relevant badge gear list for Jondy and since wowhead linking works so well on the blog, the best way to compare them all is to present them here.

Slot	Item	Current	Badges	Upgrade?
Back	Bishop's Cloak	White Remedy Cape	25
	Kharmaa's Shroud of Hope	White Remedy Cape	60
Chest	Blessed Elunite Coverings	Moonglade Robe	75
	Shroud of Nature's Harmony	Moonglade Robe	100
Feet	Moon-walkers	Boots of the Pious	60
Hands	Oakleaf-Spun Handguards	Gloves of Preservation	75
Head	Mask of Primal Power	Hood of Primal Life	75
Legs	Pants of Splendid Recovery	Pants of Living Growth	75
	Grovewalker's Leggings	Pants of Living Growth	100
Shoulders	Gnarled Ironwood Pauldrons	Lunar-Claw Pauldrons	60
Waist	Starfire Waistband	The Sleeper's Cord	60
Wrist	Gargon's Bracers of Peaceful Slumber	Bracers of the White Stag	35
Ring	Band of Halos	Violet Signet	25
	Anveena's Touch	Spiritualist's Mark of the Sha'tar	60
Off Hand	Voodoo Shaker	-	35
	Tears of Heaven	-	25
Main Hand	Gavel of Naaru Blessings	Seer's Cane	150
Neck	Necklace of Eternal Hope	Sethekk Oracle's Focus	25
Idol	Idol of Budding Life	Harold's Rejuvenating Broach	20
Trinket	Essence of the Martyr	Alchemist's Stone	41
	Battlemaster's Perseverance	Scarab of the Infinite Cycle	75

... Now to decide on an order to purchase these... badge's of justice don't just grow on trees. Although Jondy just got one today in a package from the new 2.4 dailies!