I am a brand new prot warrior. I am an Affliction Warlock who rerolled Protection to tank in raid for our guild, geared up and been playing for about a week. We did Heroic these past two nights, and I do well on just about every boss.. that is except Gallywix. I got mechanics down, but got to the point where I just run out of pots, healthstones, victory rush, and defensives. I'm clearly doing something wrong... I noticed when the two adds come up after the initial phase I pop shield wall, but raid lead said they won't hurt me until they enrage, which they usually die by then, so that's a waste. What else can I be doing to help survive and not struggle? I know some things will work themselves out with experience. Here are logs, I am Velrihm : https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/wkmaHfZ3cJzXQM4p
#Survivability and Defensives
flat phoenix
lyric wave
If you're having trouble blocking the tankbusters that are blockable, you absolutely shouldn't be using an execute focused build in raid. You're only blocking half of the ego checks coming in, for example, which is especially bad since 75% of unmitigated damage from ego check hits you again as a dot.
You also should definitely revisit one of the guides on Wowhead or Icyveins to be honest, since you're pressing buttons that shouldn't even be on your bars (Slam, notably). Every single cast of slam should have been a revenge at worst, since it does literally everything better than slam. On top of that, you're not using Shield Charge on CD properly, which is costing you a lot of shield block uptime, as well.
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are you not pressing shield block? Like ever?
the only times on either of these logs it even mentions you have shield block up is when it gets automatically applied with shield charge
You desperately need to visit one of the guides at either Wowhead or Icyveins; if you're pressing Slam and never pressing Shield Block, there is so much fundamental misunderstanding of the spec going on that you need a from-the-ground-up primer
flat phoenix
Thank you. I will do that
sly silo
Plus shield block uptime makes shield slam do more damage.