I would hope by now you know that the Defense cap for becoming uncrittable is 540 points or 5.6% if you’re looking at the tooltip, Defense is still useful in increasing your Dodge, Block and Parry, and also increases your chance to be missed by the boss. Gear is pretty abundant for tanks as there’s not much competition usually but that doesn’t mean you should just equip anything with a higher ilevel than what you have.įirst you will need to know some useful stats and caps for your class. Now that we have talents and glyphs taken care of we need to make sure your picking up the right gear. You can also use the Last Stand glyph to reduce the ability's cool down by 60 seconds.Īs far as the minor glyphs go, make sure you have Thunderclap and Bloodrage and the get whatever you want for the third. You will need to use the Taunt glyph if you want to make sure you never miss a taunt. If it’s a fight like many in ICC where tanks taunt off each other, than having a glyph of Taunt is invaluable, keep in mind that taunt is considered a spell and thus has a higher miss rate than melee strikes. Blocking glyph provides you good threat and some mitigation with the increase to block value, Shield Wall glyph when combined with the Improved Disciplines talent reduces your shield wall to two minutes, that means you can use it twice, maybe even three times during a boss fight, and Devastate helps you stack those Sunders on target twice as fast and improves threat generation as well. Now let’s look at those glyphs, there are a couple that are interchangeable but the ones that I use 90% of the time are Glyph of Blocking, Shield Wall, and Devastate. Make sure you pick up 3 points of Armored to the Teeth in your fury tree, and for the arms tree pick up Deflection, and work your way down to 3 points in Deep Wounds and there you have it, you have the necessary talent build for effective tanking. For the most part the 51-53 points you spend in the protection tree is not going to vary by much.

Obviously most of your talent points are going to be spent in the protection tree. The first thing you will need as you step into tank is a good talent build, there are a few that work depending on what your role is, but this video is basically going to be about main tanking progression content, so I will not go over gimmick builds like Unrelenting Assault. This is a great guide with accompanying video covering information all warrior(THE BEST) tanks should know and thought I would post this here(All credit goes to Pullverizer)

Battle for azeroth warrior tanking