I've been reading through the patch notes for protection warriors for patch 5.3...
These are the nerfs and buffs given to protection warriors:
Bastion of Defense now reduces the cooldown of Shield Wall by 1 minute, down from a 3-minute reduction. For Protection Warriors, this results in no net change to Shield Wall's cooldown.
Shield Slam now receives a 50% bonus to attack damage from attack power (down from 100%) for Warriors below level 85.
Unwavering Sentinel no longer increases the damage reduction of Defensive Stance by 10%.
Now, they've basically nerfed the amount of rage reduced from second wind which is good but bad. I'm not complaining, I think warriors deserve a debuff. However!
They still haven't reduced the overall HP Regen of second wind and on top of that it still doesn't stop whilst you're in a stun. " Only your rage does "
Also, they're stating that shield slam will be receiving a 50% Bonus to attack damage whilst using attack power. " This effect doesn't work on players above level 85."
Basically warriors are still going to be one of the most unkillable classes within the 70 bracket " YET AGAIN"
I wish blizzard could mix things up, I miss playing arms in arena...It took so much more skill to play, it makes me sad.
Oh well.
I thought I'd let everyone know.
Elkiva.