Protection Warrior Review of Colossus Hero Talents - Aggression Not Enough? Demolish!
06.03.2024 - 22:05
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This past week, Blizzard revealed 8 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion.
Our Protection Warrior guide writer, Nomeratur, offers an early review of the Colossus Warrior Hero Talents for Protection addressing a lot of the interesting talent interactions but falls a bit short delivering on the fantasy of a tank that not only knows how to take a hit and keep going but also how to strategically use their strikes to dismantle their enemies.
Hero Talents are an extension of the Talent system designed to explore class fantasy with a third talent tree, separate from your class and specialization. Blizzard has revealed an early preview of Hero Talents coming in the next expansion, The War Within.
The War Within Hero Talents Overview
Our Guide Writers have provided initial first impressions on the Hero Talent Trees revealed so far. Check out all of our released editorials below.
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Colossus Protection Warrior Review
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Bigger Numbers and Bigger Player!
The Colossus Tree is a very straightforward one. It focuses on gaining stacks of to gain benefits via other Passive Talents in the Tree to increase damage output of most of your Abilities and reduce the cooldown of the New Ability. It also comes with an increase in your character size!
Colossus and Avatar
When thinking of Colossus and Warrior in the same sentence one does automatically think of Avatar, which is a very important tool to every Warrior Specialization, but there is no mention of it, which is a little disappointing. With how centered and involved the use and interaction of Avatar is in all 3 Warrior Specializations I would have hoped Colossus would in 1 way or another interact with Avatar in interesting ways and further augment the playstyles in all of the Hero Talent Trees.
Talent Interactions
The Talent Tree has within itself and with a handful of Talents some interactions that are worth considering.
Shockwave &
The first and most apparent one, if you are familiar with the current iteration of Warrior, is. While Shockwave in itself is an already potent stop in Mythic Plus given its incredibly short cooldown it does bring a relatively