Tank Warrior Consumables List
This guide covers all of the popular consumables that you'll want to use as a Prot Warrior in Classic WoW. There are many consumables that I left out when writing this guide in an effort not to overburden you with information. Items like Elixir of Greater Agility could be used instead in place of Elixir of the Mongoose, but that's only recommended if you're on a really tight budget.
On this page when you see a small line, such as this one: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - what it means is that the items in that grouping share a cool down or don't stack with each other. Longer lines separate the different categories on the page.
**Important** If you're a Fury/Prot tank, your spec is basically built around heavy consumable usage. You'll want to use Elixir of Superior Defense & Greater Stoneshield Potions on many fights to make up for your lack of a shield along with every other important consumable available. Expect to spend upwards of 200 gold per raid.
Mandated Tank Consumables
This section is the consumables that you should be using on every single "difficult" raid or boss. Use your best judgment to determine if the raid requires consumables or not.
- Flask of the Titans
- Elixir of the Mongoose
- Elixir of Giants (or Juju Power)
- Elixir of Superior Defense
- Rumsey Rum Black Label
- Stam Food Buff (Tender Wolf Steak or other) - VERY high end elite guilds will want to use a STR buff instead for more threat
- Greater Stoneshield Potion (some fights); Major Health Potion; Mighty Rage Potion (some fights)
- Free Action Potion (some fights)
- Goblin Sapper Charge & Dense Dynamite (For more threat - only elite guilds will require these)
Honorable Mentions: Winterfall Firewater/Juju Might, Elemental Sharpening Stone, Juju Escape, Elixir of Fortitude, Greater Protection Potions (Fire, Frost, Shadow, Nature)
With all of the mandated consumables out of the way, let's take a look at every useful available consumable for Tank Warriors. Below is a complete list of every consumable you could use as a Tank, there are a few consumables below that aren't mentioned above.
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Pre-fight Consumables
These are the consumables that you will be using before fights even begin.
Flask of the Titans (One of the most important consumables for any tank)
Elixir of the Mongoose (2% Crit helps keep Flurry up longer and increases rage generation)
Elixir of Fortitude (A measly 120 Health but very cheap/easy to make)
Elixir of Superior Defense (450 Armor; helps make up for lacking a shield for Fury/Prot specs)
Juju Power or Elixir of Giants (Both increase Strength and stack with every STR buff (including totems). For Warriors 1 STR = 2 Attack Power)
Juju Might or Winterfall Firewater (Both increase your Attack Power outright and stack with every other AP buff)
Gift of Arthas (Situationally useful, fights like Razorgore or on trash it helps a lot. Otherwise it takes up a debuff slot and hinders the raid more than it helps)
Juju Chill or Juju Ember (Situationally useful, fights like Vael or Ragnaros that use a lot of fire I would recommend Ember, fights like Sapphiron that use a lot of frost I would recommend Chill)
Rumsey Rum Black Label (Extremely cheap and useful stam buff to use before any difficult boss)
Elemental Sharpening Stone (Extremely expensive but useful consumable. Crit is extremely important for Fury Warriors. Horde should only use 1 of these on their off-hand so they can still benefit from Windfury)
Crystal Ward (Un'goro Crater consumable - stacks with ALL other Armor buffs)
Major Troll's Blood Potion (Not very good. Does not work during Combat)
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Greater Protection Potions
These are situationally useful and which one you use is highly dependant on your raid. For the most part, these are much less useful to tanks since they're consumed within a matter of seconds. Other classes that don't have as much incoming damage as tanks benefit much more from them.
Greater Fire Protection Potion (Very useful for some fights in Molten Core and BWL)
Greater Nature Protection Potion (Very useful for some fights in Aq40 and Aq20)
Greater Frost Protection Potion (Used during the Sapphiron fight in Naxx)
Greater Arcane Protection Potion (Useful for the Shazzrah fight in Molten Core)
Greater Shadow Protection Potion (Useful for Nefarian/Naxx fights)
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Food Consumables
Throughout all of Classic WoW the food buff will last 15 minutes and is one of the cheapest/easiest ways to boost a stat of your choice. For the first half of Classic (Phases 1 - 3) Tender Wolf Steaks and Monster Omelets reign supreme. Later on when Smoked Desert Dumplings and Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops are added you'll be using one of those in Aq40 or Naxx.
Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops (25 Stamina)
Smoked Desert Dumplings (20 Strength - Phase 5 Recipe from Silithus)
Tender Wolf Steak (12 Stam & Spirit; Budget consumable)
Monster Omelet (12 Stam & Spirit; Budget consumable)
Blessed Sunfruit (10 Strength - Argent Dawn Reputation)
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Combat Consumables
These are consumables that you'll use during combat or immediately before combat (usually on the pull). You should have most of these on you at all times for any situation that requires them.
Greater Stoneshield Potion
Mighty Rage Potion
Major Healing Potion
Restorative Potion
Free Action Potion
Living Action Potion
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Healthstone
Whipper Root Tuber
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Juju Escape
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Engineering Consumables
While many of the Engineering items don't share a cooldown, they do share a "use" cooldown of 1 minute. What this means is, if you use an Engineering like Goblin Sapper Charge it'll trigger a 1 minute cooldown on other items like Dense Dynamite.
Gnomish Battle Chicken (Occasionally uses Battle Squawk which increases the group's Attack Speed by 5% for 30 seconds)
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Blasted Lands Consumables