need help understanding how to optimize my dps as prot

[edgy portal]

Hey all, I am not exactly new to prot warrior but I want to get better and start to do high dmg parses as I do with other tanks.
The problem is that I found myself doing bad parses no matter how much I spam shield slam. This is a log of my first Fractilus mythic kill, so its a pure single target fight.

I focus on maintain block as close to 100% as possible even when not tanking so my shield slam does more dmg, I am probably not managing my Outburst proc properly, any tips would be appreciated about that.

Also, very rarely I loose aggro to our monk tank because I am out of Avatar and have no shield slam, and sometimes I found myself not knowing what to press, like all is in cd and I got no procs, how to avoid that? Am I spamming too much and need to think more?

https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/VY3gtkbwXWNxDd6T?fight=8&type=damage-done&source=12

Thank you very much

[high hawk]

Re: aggro, monks are tough bc harmonic surge is unpredictable

I’ll take a look when I get home if no one else does by then

[high hawk]

Ok so - you had 16 total outburst windows here, of those you spent 5 on thunderblast and 3 on thunderclap.

Technically shield slam will net more dps though thunder blast is close. Thats one item.

You are not capitalizing on burst of power procs - read the part here about burst of power and the pendulum nature of thane gameplay - https://www.wowhead.com/guide/classes/warrior/protection/rotation-cooldowns-pve-tank

You wasted nearly 16% of your rage, during execute windows. This is a huge portion of your missing damage, both the executes and the missing outburst procs driven by the rage expenditure

Youre also playing roar over spear and that specifically on frac may cost you some dps since the boss can't move, so you get high value from spear windows

There are also just not many parses here, so any shortcoming will be amplified majorly given the limited dataset

[edgy portal]

Got it, thank you for reviewing my log. I will try to improve on those things

[edgy portal]

I started to track the bursts of power and that improved my dps, still lose some outbursts adn waste a bit of rage but I will get there
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/j3hJqDQtRxTCkHGF?fight=26&type=damage-done

quick question: how you lok in the logs how much rage I wasted, how was my usage of outbursts and burst of power?

[high hawk]

For rage, go to resources, change the dropdown to rage

For burst of power I looked at the buff panel and pinned the buff to see when you got it and then overlayed that with your casts to see what you were doing when it was proccing