Protection Warrior Glyphs
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Glyphs, glyphs and more glyphs!
It can be a daunting task wading through all the glyphs available on the auction house. So out of the kindness of my own tanking heart I’ve decided to compile a glyph guide! We will look at all the possible Warrior class glyphs that relate to tanking (stuff the dps ones, were here to tank baby). Each glyph will be broken down and explained, we’ll look at the best combinations and must have glyphs.
In themselves glyphs can look ‘minor’ yet they have a profound impact on how well your Warrior will perform.
Lets continue inside my office, after the break!
First off lets list all the glyphs.
Major
- Glyph of Blocking
- Glyph of Revenge
- Glyph of Heroic Strike
- Glyph of Resonating Power
- Glyph of Cleaving
- Glyph of Rapid Charge
- Glyph of Devastate
- Glyph of Last Stand
- Glyph of Sunder Armor
Minor
These are the only glyphs worth speaking about when it comes to Prot spec. Lets look at what the best Heroic tanking and above, glyph builds would contain.
Ok, we have 3 major and 3 minor glyphs to work with (level 80).
This is a must have, I would include this in any type of Protection build.
So a Heroic tanking and above build could look something like this:
Major
Minor
This is what I would consider to be the best threat glyph build along with mitigation. However changes can be made here, for example you might want to work in Glyph of Cleaving or Glyph of Devastate
For Protection grinding, getting those quests done or grinding mob drops then something like this will work wonders:
Major
Minor
This set should work wonder for dropping mobs a lot faster. With the 100% rage reduction on Heroic Strike after landing a Revenge you can’t go wrong. Then throw in some increased Charge refresh rate…you can see what I’m getting at here. I think that’s the best build for sheer dps Protection mode when solo. Again if your looking for a AoE dps spec then throw in some Glyph of Cleaving along with Glyph of Resonating Power on the Major side. Then you could drop in Glyph of Thunder clap when it comes to the Minor side of things.
As with everything you can chop and change based on the situation your in, there’s no definitive ‘best’ build when it comes to glyphs. But I hope this little list and explanation will help!
4 Comments
January 8th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
I think there is a big problem with the resonating power glyph, because in raids and dg the big problem with the use of thunderclap is not the rage cost. The real big problem with thunderclap is its cooldown being so big. if the cooldown was a bit low i think this had to be a must glyph for tanks. Well im with the opinion of using these ones:
- Glyph of Blocking (A MUST REALLY)
- Glyph of Devastate (reduces the time to put all 5 five stacks and a great single mob aggro handler)
- Well the third is when i really got undecided because there isnt really a must glyph except the two above. im using the sunder armor glyph. only because it makes a great combination with glyph of devastate.
April 7th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
adding glyph of sunder armor is good too, cause it can gain aggro with one cast of devastate on 2 targets, & with adding glyph of devastate u got 4 casts with one click, so that should greatly increase the rate u make threat with, in an instance u always have alot of mobs attacing u so u can dont need to reduce the cost of ur thunderclap, coz by the time it cools down u got more rage than what u need. & ofcourse glyph of blocking is a MUST
adding
Glyph of Bloodrage
Glyph of Charge
Glyph of Thunder clap
would add up, the thunderclap one will do good when things get a ltl messy & the party is a bit scattered, helps u reach out a bit further gaining the other mobs aggro, bloodrage gives a boost generating threat when u start with 0 rage
June 5th, 2010 at 1:31 am
Major:
Glyph of Devastate
Glyph of Blocking
Glyph of Last Stand
Minor:
Glyph of Command
Glyph of Charge
Glyph of Thunder clap
I’m a little surprised Glyph of Bloodrage has been given priority over Glyph of Command. The last thing I’m thinking when I have only 500 hp is how much rage I have. In my experience the pool of health we tend to have nowadays, I enjoy not having to constantly be refreshing Commanding Shout every other minute without having to talent for it.
I came here seeking for a potential change for Glyph of Last Stand, but having weighed up the options I think I’m gonna stick with it. Because I also spec into Safeguard, I bring a feature rich warrior tank, something that doesn’t tend to exist in ‘Cookie Cutter’ builds.
Who knows, maybe I’ll bin the lot and go for a Glyph of Cleave spam aoe build. Anybody have an opinion on this? I tend to have little problems with threat for AE pulls to dps, but DK tanks have this awful habit of whoring the aggro, leaving me rageless… unless it’s just me?
Cheers.
June 5th, 2010 at 3:30 pm
This guide is more suited towards the heroic tank really.
The build you have outlined looks great for damage absorption.
As for the AE cleave threat build, if you know what your doing you should be able to hold AE threat pretty easily. You say AE threat is no problem so why change? I guess you could change for the hell of it haha!
Some glyphs are also missing from this, it was produced right at the start of wrath, its due an update.