Protection Warrior

The order abilities first landed across 4 top-parsing pulls, with the median time into the fight. The percentage is how many of those parses used the ability at all — a step at 100% is the opener, one at 60% is a choice some players make.

1. 1Light's Potential+0.4s75%
2. 2Shield Charge+0.6s50%
3. 3Charge+0.8s50%
4. 4Avatar+1.2s100%
5. 5Shield Slam+1.7s100%
6. 6Thunder Blast+1.8s75%
7. 7Shield Block+2s100%
8. 8Ignore Pain+2.5s50%
9. 9Demoralizing Shout+3.4s100%

What was pressed next, counted over every observed pair. This is the closest a log gets to a priority list — but it describes behaviour, not a rule: a player casting Execute because it lit up looks the same here as one following a plan.

• Shield Slam52 casts→Ignore Pain25%Shield Block16%Thunder Clap16%
• Revenge38 casts→Shield Slam27%Revenge22%Thunder Clap19%
• Ignore Pain34 casts→Shield Slam31%Thunder Clap25%Revenge13%
• Thunder Clap26 casts→Revenge27%Shield Block19%Shield Slam19%
• Thunder Blast21 casts→Revenge38%Shield Slam33%Ignore Pain14%
• Shield Block19 casts→Thunder Blast42%Revenge21%Shield Slam16%

Casts per minute across 20 top-parsing kills in The Venomous Abyss. Per minute rather than totals, so a long fight does not read as a heavily used ability.

Fights are sorted by how much damage landed on boss units rather than by a hand-kept list of which encounter is the AoE one, so the split stays right after a retune. Fights in between are left out of both columns.

Updated 31/08/2026. These are observed casts, not a recommended priority — the order reflects how often an ability came up, which is not the same as when to press it.

Secondary stat split across the 21 best-geared synced characters. Averaged per player, so one heavily geared character cannot define the answer for everyone.

• Versatility34.9%775 avg
• Haste31.4%737 avg
• Mastery17.3%408 avg
• Critical Strike16.3%395 avg