Blizzard's Midnight API restricts addon access to your personal buffs and cooldowns during M+ and raid — the exact content where aura tracking matters most. The addons listed here work within these restrictions and cover what WeakAuras used to handle.

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Protection Warrior · Raid

Curated for raid tanking — Shield Wall and Last Stand layered across the heaviest tank damage phases, Rallying Cry coordinated with healer externals, and Spell Reflect covering unavoidable magic spikes targeted at the tank. Reviewed 28 Jun 2026.

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Talent Builds

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Mountain Thane Raid

Mountain Thane

Recommended raid build — Mountain Thane's Thunder Blast and consistent Shield Slam pressure create the highest overall damage contribution in cooldown windows. Strong single-target throughput across all raid content.

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Rotation

Links to the Icy Veins rotation page. Select your hero talent build once you're there.

Builds

Colossus Raid

Colossus

Alternative for survivability-heavy raid encounters — Colossus with enhanced Shield Block uptime and raw damage reduction for fights with high sustained physical damage intake where Mountain Thane's burst contribution is less relevant.

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Rotation

Links to the Icy Veins rotation page. Select your hero talent build once you're there.

Builds

Custom build

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.

Addons

Why no WeakAuras? Midnight's API blocks WeakAuras from reading your buffs and cooldowns. The addons here cover what it used to handle.

Boss encounters 2

Deadly Boss Mods (DBM)

Boss timers

613.5M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 17 May 2026

Boss timers tell you when abilities reset your Shield Block charges, when to pop Last Stand before a scripted bleed, and when to keep Spell Reflection ready for a magic nuke. The pull countdown also affects your pre-combat Shield Block rotation — hitting it too early wastes a charge before the first melee swing lands.

Tracks: Boss timers · Mechanic alerts · Pull countdowns
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

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GTFO

Advanced Ground effect alerts

95.9M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 1 May 2026 1 click from this site

For Protection Warrior, as a tank you're often the intended target of mechanics — the alarm signals when a ground effect requires repositioning rather than tanking through it. Install knowing it's significantly more limited than pre-Midnight — it covers specific tracked boss mechanics only, not general ground effects.

Tracks: Ground effect alerts · Audible alarms · Boss hazards
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

Open on CurseForge

Meters & logs 1

Details! Damage Meter

Damage taken

345.4M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 16 May 2026

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.

Tracks: Damage taken · Ignore Pain absorption · Survivability metrics
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

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Nameplates & threat 2

Platynator

Enemy cast bars

9.5M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 19 May 2026

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.

Tracks: Enemy cast bars · Interrupt tracking · Threat display
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

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TargetedSpells

Targeted casts

743.8K downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 2 May 2026

Visual and audio alert when a dangerous ability starts casting at you, giving you time to choose the right response — Spell Reflection for a magic nuke, Last Stand for a sustained window, or Shield Wall for a heavy physical hit. Choosing in the cast window rather than after the hit lands is the difference between proactive tanking and burning the wrong button.

Tracks: Targeted casts · Defensive selection · Spell Reflection · Last Stand · Shield Wall
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

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Cooldowns & tracking 2

OmniCD

External defensives

33.4M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 27 Feb 2026

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.

Tracks: External defensives · Rallying Cry · Group CDs
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

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BetterCooldownManager

Shield Block

938.2K downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 22 Apr 2026 1 click from this site

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.

Tracks: Shield Block · Last Stand · Spell Reflection · Avatar
Requires: Enhances built-in Cooldown Manager · CurseForge

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Raid 1

Northern Sky Raid Tools

Boss timers

6.1M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 5 May 2026 1 click from this site

Displays raid assignments on-screen — coordinates Rallying Cry timing with other major externals so it doesn't stack with Aura Mastery on the same hit. The assignment system lets your raid leader mark Rallying Cry windows on the boss timeline so you're never guessing.

Tracks: Boss timers · Rallying Cry coordination · Raid defensives
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

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Rotation helper 1

TrufiGCD

Advanced GCD timeline

1.3M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 1 Mar 2026 1 click from this site

Scrolling timeline of your recent cast history with GCD gaps visible. For Prot Warrior, exposes the two silent losses — rage-capping (sitting at max rage with Shield Slam available but unpressed) and Shield Block dropping off between Ignore Pain casts — both invisible in spell-damage breakdowns.

Tracks: GCD timeline · Rage capping · Shield Block uptime · Cast history
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

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Frames & Action Bars 3

BetterBlizzFrames

Unit frames

6.1M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 17 May 2026

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.

Tracks: Unit frames · Castbars · Rage bar · Absorb tracking
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

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Dominos

Action bars

22.2M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 10 May 2026

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.

Tracks: Action bars · Bar positioning · Button sizing · Fade out of combat
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

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ElvUI

Advanced Unit frames

Tukui.org addon

Works in Midnight Updated 15 May 2026

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.

Tracks: Unit frames · Action bars · Nameplates · Full UI replacement
Requires: Full UI replacement · tukui.org — not on CurseForge

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Utility & QoL 1

Raider.IO

Player scores

431.7M downloads

Works in Midnight Updated 25 May 2026

Adds every player's Mythic+ score and best runs to their tooltip. As a tank, your score is often the first thing group members check — a visible track record at the key level you're running builds trust before you've pulled anything.

Tracks: Player scores · Raid progression · Player tooltips · LFG integration
Requires: Standalone addon · CurseForge

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Macros Coming soon

Rallying Cry assignments, tank swap macros, boss-specific Intervene targets

Stat Priority Coming soon

Raid-specific survivability thresholds, on-use defensive trinkets

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