Curated for PvP — enemy cooldown tracking, CC diminishing returns, and Shockwave control with Spell Reflect for both 3v3 Arena and Battlegrounds. Reviewed 28 Jun 2026.
Mountain Thane arena build — Avatar and Shield Slam burst windows with Shockwave stun control. Thunder Blast procs maintain sustained pressure while Spell Reflect and defensive cooldowns enable prolonged fights.
Mountain Thane battleground build — similar burst profile to the arena variant with adjusted pathing for multi-player objectives. Shockwave control on clustered enemies and Spell Reflect countering casters across extended BG fights.
Record your own talent build alongside your addons — it's included when you share your setup. Get a talent string from the Wowhead talent calculator or export directly from the in-game talent tree (press N → share icon). Paste the URL or the raw string — both work.
2.8M downloads
The Midnight all-in-one PvP addon — CC on party frames, audio alerts for major enemy spells, kick timers on nameplates, and a sound when the enemy healer gets CCd. That last alert is your cue to Charge and open with Avatar and Shield Slam.
1.5M downloads
Explicitly labelled Midnight ready. Shows enemy health, mana, cast bars, and DR status per opponent — see at a glance if your next Shockwave lands full or 50%. The healer's cast bar is your Pummel cue.
23.3M downloads
Replaces the small debuff icon on unit frames with a full-size portrait icon when a CC or major defensive lands. Key use for Protection Warrior: seeing Ice Block or Divine Shield before you waste Shield Slam and Avatar on an immune target.
310.5K downloads
Warns when your target is immune — Cloak of Shadows, Ice Block, Divine Shield. Charging into immunity while Avatar is active wastes your main burst window. DontCast stops you before it happens.
7.8M downloads
Places a healer icon above every enemy healer's nameplate so you find them instantly in a crowd. Also alerts you when your own healer is taking damage — your cue to Intervene and taunt the attacker, or drop Rallying Cry to buy time.
507.2K downloads
Scrollable panel showing all enemy players in a Battleground — health, debuffs, cast info. Use it to find the healer, spot low-health targets, and track recent CCs. For Arena use sArena Reloaded instead.
10.5M downloads
Shows node contest timers, flag return countdowns, and capture progress in Battlegrounds. Tells you when to break off a fight and defend, or when a node flip is seconds away. No use in Arena.
345.4M downloads
For Protection Warrior, the damage breakdown shows how much intake was blocked, absorbed by Ignore Pain, or leaked through as real damage requiring healer attention. The Ignore Pain absorption view shows how much intake was mitigated versus how much required active healing from your group.
9.5M downloads
Platynator puts interrupt cooldowns on enemy nameplates, so as the tank pulling packs you can see at a glance which casts are covered by your group and which need your Spell Reflection or a Pummel. For Protection Warrior specifically, the nameplate color shifts as you build threat — which matters at the start of M+ pulls where you're transitioning from initial aggro to positioning for the next cast.
4.1M downloads
Shows class icons directly on enemy nameplates so you instantly identify Pummel and Shockwave targets. CC glow highlights incapacitated enemies — important for timing Shield Slam and Avatar during stun windows.
33.4M downloads
Tracks externals on-screen so you know whether to pop Last Stand on this incoming hit or wait for the Paladin's Blessing to land first. Also tracks your own Rallying Cry cooldown so you know when the group-wide defensive is available again.
938.2K downloads
Protection Warrior has a complex active mitigation rotation: Shield Block needs near-100% uptime, Last Stand is your major oh-shit button, and Spell Reflection has tight sub-25-second windows on specific pull patterns. BetterCooldownManager groups these by priority — active mitigation at the top with audio cues, offensive CDs below — so you're never caught with Shield Block dropped or a defensive wasted on a trivial auto-attack.
6.1M downloads
For a tank, seeing your own health clearly matters more than it does for DPS. BetterBlizzFrames adds castbars to your target frame so you're not reading small text while watching the boss, shows rage as a class-colored bar, and adds incoming absorbs to your health display.
22.2M downloads
Dominos lets you move your action bars anywhere and add extra bars. For Protection Warrior the most common setup is pulling the main bar away from the bottom edge and adding a dedicated secondary bar for Shield Block, Last Stand, and Rallying Cry so your defensive cooldowns are always visible.
Tukui.org addon
Most of what ElvUI covers is now handled better by targeted addons — Platynator for nameplates, Dominos for action bars, BetterBlizzFrames for frames. Only install if you want a fully unified UI aesthetic and are prepared for the configuration overhead.
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Shockwave on focus stun, Pummel on focus interrupt, Spell Reflect cancel-aura, Rallying Cry on party mouseover, Shield Slam + Shield Block macro
Versatility primary for both damage and damage reduction, Strength for Shield Slam and Revenge burst, Stamina trinkets for survivability
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