A New Build

[Gudran]

Ok, so Guds hit 70 last night (woohoo!), so I think it is time to reevaluate my talents. Before you ask, no, I am not switching specs. Just shuffling new talents and scrapping ones I never use. Van has suggested I up my parry more to be even more allusive, but I feel that with my shield block rating almost at 20% unbuffed, I may not need it. Also, I want to try to increase my damage output, even the slightest bit. But that may just come down to the gear choice and not talents. Anyways, I have a couple builds I played with, so please check them out and I would appreciate any feedback you could give me!

Current Build

Build 1
With this build, I reallocated the points from my improved shield wall (because I found that I can only use it once every 60 minutes AND in is only a 5 second boost) to improved bloodrage. That 6 extra rage off the bat could get me a quick sunder or two. I also removed my talents in Improved Revenge and Improved Defensive Stance for a total of 6 extra points to be put elsewhere. I do not really need the revenge stun because even at 40% chance, it does not proc often oddly enough. It also NEVER works on boss fights, so I figured I could do without the stun. I got rid of the imp. defensive stance because 6% spell damage reduction is not that much. Plus, I have a silencing shield bash, a concussion blow stun, AND spell reflection. I will not be hit by spells often unless in PvP, of which I do not persue often. I put 5 points into Deflection to increase my parry significantly, and the last point into improved heroic strike, making the total cost for my heroic strike 11. I figured, why not make it ten, so I took one point from cruelty and put it there.

Build 2
With this build I tried to make Guds as beneficial as possible to the group. I have never thought of having better shouts and played around with it. An extra 45% damage reduction from a demoralizing shout is pretty sweet, as well as 25% bonus to Battle and Commanding Shouts as well. Cruelty is at maximum as well. However, I had to give up on my rage builders on Imp. Bloodrage and Tactical Mastery...

Build 3
With this build, All I had in mind was a slight boost in damage dealt. With extra bleeds and a 20% increase in damage on my crits with Impale, I should be able to increase my DPS slightly. Also, the Improved thunderclap would be nice to grab all the initial aggro of a group after charging and before switching to defensive stance. The cons of this build include no Imp. Sunder Armor, no bloodrage and tactical mastery, and a reduced amount of Cruelty and Focused Rage. My main concern with this build is that I would be constantly out of rage... which is why I took Anger Management, but I am not quite sure if that will help significantly enough.

[Vangelis]

First off, I would not recommend build #3, since impale/deep wounds are based on weapon damage, and with a one-hander you won't nearly get the value out of those talent points as you would with a big two-hander. Plus, you're not optimized for critting.

If I were to go pure prot with a warrior, I would ignore the following Prot talents entirely as being not worth the points put into them:

- imp disarm
- imp shield wall
- imp defensive stance

The following prot talents are helpful but you can live without them:

- imp bloodrage
- tactical mastery
- imp sunder

The rest of the prot tree is mandatory.

Outside of the prot tree I'd be looking to improve my one-handed damage, so I'd definitely take 5pts in Cruelty and 3pts each in Rend and Imp Heroic Strike (note that this brings HS down to 9 rage!).

If you do that and take all the mandatory prot talents you'll have 7 points left to spend according to your play style:

- Deflection will give you added damage mitigation vs those level-73 and heroic bosses.

- Imp. Bloodrage is generally excellent for tanking.

- Imp. Demoralizing shout will give better control over groups of trash mobs.

- Iron Will gives you some defence against stun/charm, and can lead up to a point in Anger Management for more rage.

- Tactical Mastery is a must if you switch stances a lot.

If it were me, of those I'd probably go deflection + imp bloodrage, because if I'm pure prot I want to be the ultimate tank.

[Sorcha'Rei]

Disclaimer: I am not a tank. I just heal tanks a lot.

If you intend to go to Karazhan, you will need either a Draenei priest, a dwarf priest, or the ability to stance dance, even on much of the trash. If you don't have access to a priest with Fear Ward, then the rest of your raid will be much happier if you are able to stance dance extensively.

Not, of course, the only consideration, but something to keep in mind. Heroic Shadow Lab also likes you to stance dance.

[Gudran]

Alright, here is what I finally respecced to:

New Build

Got both my Sunder Armor and Heroic Strike down to 10 rage, which is nice. Also got more stance dance ability as well as rage generation.

[Vangelis]

Looks good!