

The actual ability damage formula for all non-casters has changed, and now all those abilities use both weapon damage and attack power, even abilities like Shield Slam or Howling Blast.For BfA, Blizzard started to reduce to amount of abilities in this state.Īll melee abilities now scale with both Attack Power and Weapon Damage. Before BfA, many abilities were called "off-GCD" as you could two or more of them at the same time, even in the same button macro.Abilities that are in the Global Cooldown, or GCD, cannot be used at the same time, meaning you must wait for the default GCD, 1.5s reduced by haste, until you can use your next ability.The majority of class cooldowns have been added to the GCD.

Two of the strongest racial effects have received changes in BfA, with Arcane Torrent receiving a new effect and added to the GCD and Will to Survive having its cooldown increased.

While there are many new abilities and spells, there are also returning ones, previously removed during pruning. In Battle for Azeroth, Protection Warriors have received many different changes, ranging from Talent changes to Gameplay and Rotational changes.
