Since the initial Season 3 Tier Set bonus reveal, Protection Warriors have gotten some additional changes to their bonus coming in Patch 10.2. Our Protection Guide Writer, Llarold, discusses the changes and whether they're an overall buff or nerf.
Protection Warrior Season 3 Tier Set Revisited
- 2-Set — Warrior Protection 10.2 Class Set 2pc — Spending Rage has a chance to cause your next Shield Slam to consume your bleeds on a target, instantly dealing 40% of remaining damage and reducing your damage taken by 10% for 5 sec.
- 4-Set — Warrior Protection 10.2 Class Set 4pc — For each bleed effect consumed from a target, your damage taken is reduced by an additional 2%. When Shield Slam consumes a bleed, the cooldown of Thunder Clap is reset and the cooldown of Thunderous Roar is reduced by 3.0 sec.
What’s Changed?
Let’s start with the basics.
The Protection Warrior Tier Set bonus from Amirdrassil and Dragonflight Season 3 is all about blood – specifically consuming your bleeds by casting Shield Slam. This tier set bonus was heavily single-target focused in its initial design, but it received a big set of changes in the past week that have made it much stronger across a broad variety of content.
So what’s changed? More importantly, were the changes a buff or a nerf?
Here are the old tier set bonuses for reference:
- (2) Set Bonus: Spending Rage has a chance to cause your next Shield Slam to consume your bleeds on a target, instantly dealing 100% of remaining damage and reducing the target’s damage dealt to you by 10% for 5 seconds.
- (4) Set Bonus: When your bleeds are consumed on a target, their damage dealt to you is reduced by an additional 2% per bleed consumed, the cooldown of Thunder Clap is reset, and the cooldown
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