Protection Warrior Sanctum of Domination Raid Tips

By Llarold Updated: 2022/11/28

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Bounding Stride and Crackling Thunder are both decent options, but the mobility added by Bounding Stride tends to be more valuable across the spectrum of raid encounters.

Into the Fray tends to be the best, simplest option in single-target encounters. It's a good chunk of stat budget, and it's always active. There’s nothing wrong with that!

Anger Management grants a major chunk of cooldown reduction, and synergizes incredibly well with Tier Set Bonuses. Once you have acquired those, Anger Management is basically a must-have talent. Until then, Heavy Repercussions can offer a decent degree of defensive consistency at the expense of a lot of DPS potential.

Protection Warrior Sanctum of Domination Boss Tips

Talents Changes: No changes.

Soulbinds & Conduits: Necrolord

Legendaries: Reprisal

This fight mostly consists of using anima powers granted by the trash mobs around the boss.

Try to pick powers that give you a mixture of defensive and offensive power. Stun immunity is particularly nice.

Taunt-swap the boss after each cast of Overpower to ensure he does not kill your other tank while they are stunned. Try to have Shield Block, Ignore Pain, and a defensive cooldown up each time The Tarragrue hits you with it.

Stack with the raid during each Hungering Mist sequence.

Be prepared to kite the boss during Phase 3!

In Heroic and Mythic difficulty, The Tarragrue summons pools that must be soaked. That will generally not be your responsibility, but you can help out by soaking the spell damage (purple) or Fire DoT (orange) pools. Just be prepared for the increased damage he is going to do.

Unstable Form can remove any debuffs from you during the fight, including the debuffs above. It can also remove the tank debuff from Overpower, or its stun. It's a great power!

Ever-Beating Heart is also a decent defensive power that reduces the danger of the boss' main tank ability considerably.

Mythic: The boss summons twice as many soak circles, and their debuffs are permanent on Mythic difficulty. Unstable Form can help with removing them as the fight progresses. It's not required, but it can very be helpful if you're struggling at all defensively.

Talents Changes: No changes.

Soulbinds & Conduits: Necrolord

Legendaries: Reprisal

Taunt the boss back and forth to split your damage taken between tanks.

Use Shield Block, Ignore Pain, and defensive cooldowns to mitigate the damage from Deathlink -- this will reduce the damage the raid takes!

On Heroic mode and higher, be prepared to pick up adds as they spawn during Phase 1.

In Phase 2, pick up your assigned eye and keep it away from the other eye.

The Phase 2 eyes spawn damage pools on players, so be ready to move away if you are debuffed, and keep the eyes clear of the pools so your DPS can hit them.

Mythic: There's nothing very different for tanks in this fight. During Phase 1 and Phase 3, be sure to spread out for the slowing debuff, and in Phase 2, don’t touch players who are the opposite color from you. Pretty straightforward!

Talents Changes: No changes.

Soulbinds & Conduits: Necrolord

Legendaries: Reprisal

During phase 1, taunt the two bosses back and forth so that both tanks can reset their debuffs (roughly every 2-3 stacks).

During phase 2, taunt-swap Skyja back and forth so that both tanks can reset their debuffs.

Be ready to quickly move and taunt bosses out of Annhylde's Bright Aegis.

It’s a very simple fight for tanks.

Mythic: Again, while this fight is more difficult mathematically on Mythic, mechanically, very little changes for tanks.

Talents Changes: No changes.

Soulbinds & Conduits: Necrolord

Legendaries: Reprisal

Aim Suffering at Orbs of Torment, and taunt-swap after each cast. Be sure not to cleave the raid. Ner'zhul has a fairly wide butt, and his lines are pretty forgiving in terms of hitting orbs. I've hit many orbs that were behind the boss.

Stack with the raid to get knocked back safely when Malevolence is dispelled.

Heroic Leap and Charge can help you stay safely on the platform when you might otherwise be punted to your death!

Mythic: The main change is that Ner’zhul performs more casts as he loses health. At 80% health he detaches his helm, which shoots a second Suffering cast. The helm's cast deals half the amount of the boss', but be sure not to get hit by both, as they will each deal damage, and there's no reason to take extra.

Mythic: As the fight progresses, the boss will summon three Orbs of Torment at once. You can determine where the orbs will spawn by watching the helm reposition around the room. It will move to a roughly 45 degree angle from where the next set of orbs will be located. They will spawn in an "L" shape, and you should position the boss so that he is at the middle orb. The helm will shoot the boss, which will trigger the first and second orb, and the boss will shoot the third orb. The lines are wider than their animation, and extend beyond their target by a few yards, so you can aim in between two orbs or have the boss slightly closer to the helm than an orb and still typically make contact.

Talents Changes: No changes.

Soulbinds & Conduits: Necrolord

Legendaries: Reprisal

Mitigate the boss’ Ruinblade casts with Shield Block, Ignore Pain, and defensive cooldowns.

Help the raid DPS and interrupt adds as they spawn.

Mythic: Mythic difficulty adds new adds that spawn when adds are spawned, and these new adds make the old adds immune to CC. Adds, adds, adds. Just help burn everything down as well as you can. This fight is overly simple for tanks.

Talents Changes: No changes.

Soulbinds & Conduits: Necrolord | Night Fae (if needed)

Legendaries: Reprisal

When the boss throws his weapon at you, it applies Blackened Armor and causes a pattern of spikes to emerge from where you were standing when the weapon connected. The weapon and pattern change based on the boss’ health, but they have no effect on how you should handle it from a defensive perspective. Use Shield Block, Ignore Pain, and defensive cooldowns to mitigate the damage of the weapon hits.

Run with your raid during the intermission.

Dodge spikes and dodge spiked balls.

Mythic: Mythic difficulty makes positioning a lot tighter for the rest of the raid. The timing of abilities changes during phases, as well, and running through balls (with or without Blessing of Protection) in order to safely drop weapons in the corner of the room becomes a necessary strategy during phase 3. Blackened Armor deals substantially more damage and is the most dangerous attack of the fight for tanks.

Covenant Swap: Night Fae provides an extra movement cooldown (Soulshape) that can help you easily pass through waves of Spiked Balls.

Talents Changes: No changes.

Soulbinds & Conduits: Necrolord

Legendaries: Reprisal

The boss’ main tank mechanic is a combo of hits. He casts Sunder multiple times, and on Heroic difficulty and higher, he also uses Obliterate.

Sunder must be soaked separately from other players, you should not eat two in a row, and you should use Shield Block, Ignore Pain, and defensive cooldowns to mitigate its damage.

Obliterate must be soaked together with other players, and again, you should not eat two in a row, and you should use Spell Reflection, Ignore Pain, and defensive cooldowns to mitigate its damage. It is the more dangerous hit of the two-hit combo, so emphasize it more than Sunder.

Outside of this mechanic, your goal as a tank is to control the boss’ positioning throughout the fight. Be ready to move him to the batteries around the room so that he can charge up, otherwise he will wipe the raid after he has been at 0 power for a long enough time.

Mythic: The primary Mythic difference is damage output. He hits very hard. Also, batteries all start at 0 power and must be charged via boss abilities. Not much changes for tanks.

Talents Changes: No changes.

Soulbinds & Conduits: Necrolord

Legendaries: Reprisal

Invoke Destiny is a standard “taunt swap and tank runs away” mechanic. If it’s on you, run away from the raid to reduce the damage they take. Be ready to slow the spirit that spawns and begins chasing you. Don’t let it touch you.

When you taunt Fatescribe Roh-Kalo, he will deal a large burst of extra damage on his first several autoattacks. Be prepared to mitigate a lot of damage with Shield Block, Spell Reflection, Ignore Pain, and defensive cooldowns.

Be prepared to move the boss so that the raid will not be hit by the room-wide lines of damage.

In Phase 2 and Phase 3, be ready to pick up adds.

Mythic: You may be required to help spin The Weave of Fates during Phases 2 and 3. This may occur while you are tanking adds.

Talents Changes: No changes.

Soulbinds & Conduits: Necrolord | Night Fae (if needed)

Legendaries: Reprisal

Soul Fracture is a tank-swap mechanic. Be sure to taunt immediately after it is cast -- unless it is cast on you.

Warrior's mobility makes it a decent option as the full-time Soul Fracture debuff tank. Monk and Demon Hunter are arguably better options, but Warriors are pretty good at running around the room, definitely better than Paladin or Death Knight.

While you are affected by Soul Exhaustion, do not tank anything. Just run around the room, help kill the clones of yourself, and grab up their essence before time runs out and you die.

Help your group deal AoE damage while you are not actively tanking, or position the boss to maximize their safety if you are actively tanking.

During the transition phase, help pick up adds. Face them away from the raid so that no one gets cleaved.

Mythic: Very little changes for tanks on this fight mechanically. Soul Fracture spawns 5 fragments, up from 3, so be ready to run, run, run. Literally consider using movement speed gems (even BFA gems). Beyond that, the damage and health values get much, much higher, but that’s about it.

Covenant Swap: Night Fae provides an extra movement cooldown (Soulshape) if you are playing the role of picking up every set of Soul Fracture.

Talents Changes: No changes.

Soulbinds & Conduits: Necrolord | Kyrian (if needed)

Legendaries: Reprisal

Use Shield Block, Spell Reflection, Ignore Pain, and defensive cooldowns to mitigate bursts of damage from Ranger's Heartseeker.

Move quickly to avoid taking unnecessary damage from Domination Chains, and help AoE them down once they are attackable.

Run out from the raid when Sylvanas uses Wailing Arrow on you.

Quickly move to dodge Veil of Darkness.

During the intermission phase: Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, and Dodge.

In Phase 2, chase after Sylvanas and pick up packs of adds as you encounter them. Be ready to taunt-swap the Souljudges and Goliath to mitigate their damage output.

In Phase 3, be ready to move between platforms as Sylvanas destroys them. Continue moving out with Wailing Arrow and mitigating her huge bursts of damage from Ranger's Heartseeker!

Good luck!

Mythic: Lots of changes.

Mythic: In Phase 1, Wailing Arrow instead becomes Black Arrow. Your group will need to be ready to burn down the Sentinels it spawns.

Mythic: In Phase 2, your raid will split into two groups and navigate across both sides of the platform simultaneously.

Mythic: In Phase 3, the boss deals enormous burst damage. While not actively tanking you will need to help scoop up debuffs from not-yet-active platforms so that they will be clean later in the phase.

Covenant Swap: Necrolord can have some difficulty with the amount of downtime in this encounter. Kyrian can be a little more consistent if you are struggling to maintain your Conqueror's Banner.

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Comments

Comment by greenmachine1123

"Rotation can have downtime. Sometimes it's a boring tank."

Just no. The only downtime current prot warrior has is cause by player error such as waiting for shield slam to come back off cd while you have an outburst proc. Other than that you are ALWAYS doing something. Doing nothing means your banner drops and you are now a sad prot warrior.

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