With all of the changes coming out in 3.0 and the expansion, it’s a great time to be a protection warrior.  We’ve gotten a lot of buffs, tons of our old problems are being solved and we’re getting some neat tricks to use.

Recently we’ve seen the addition of Armored to the Teeth which is a talent that all warriors, regardless of spec, are now drooling over.  With 3/3 points in the talent, we’ll be getting three points of strength for every 400 points of armor.  Since strength is going to be on all of our gear and nearly every single tanking ability will scale with attack power, this could mean huge gains for us protection-specced warriors!

If you look at my armory page you’ll notice I have 18,415 armor unbuffed.  If you take 18,415 and divide by 400 you get 46 (rounded down), multiply that by three and you get 138 added strength!  That’s more damage absorbed during a block, more attack power which means more threat and more damage output.  Keep in mind this is only looking  level 70 T5/T6 gear levels, T8 and T9 are going to get down-right ridiculous.

If we look at the armor difference between the Tankatronic Goggles and the new level 450 Engineering goggles, the Armored Titanium Goggles, you’ll see that there is a 71% armor increase between the two.  Now, if we assume that this is the normal armor increase from level 70 gear to level 80 gear then we’ll see an approximate 236 stength assuming the warrior is in gear equivalent to what I’m wearing now.

Those are huge increases, it means great things and for a measly three talent points?  Yes, please.