It is time, to explore the most broken set bonus in 9.2! The Protection Warrior Shield Slam one.
Armaments of the Infinite Infantry- 2-Set - Accès de rage - Consuming 30 rage grants a stack of Seeing Red, which transforms at 8 stacks into Outburst, causing your next Shield Slam or Thunder Clap to be 200% more effective and grant Ignore Pain.
- 4-Set - Accès de rage - Avatar increases your damage dealt by an additional 10% and decreases damage taken by 10%. Avatar instantly grants Outburst.
This combo is really simple, and it works in Arena! The hardest thing to obtain is the set bonus itself.
We have A LOT of damage modifiers for this. Here is a list:
- 20% from the talent Punish
- 30% from Shield Block
- 30% from Avatar
- 15% from mastery benefits (conqueror's banner and fleshcraft passive)
- 25% from strength modifers (Fireblood and Badge Trinket)
- 20% additional strength from Veteran's repute
- 12% from Plaguey (soulbind)
- 6% from Kevin (soulbind)
- 200% from set bonus!
- 20% from Booming Voice talent
- 75% (if you crit) crit chance is boosted by Sword and Board PvP talent
I also tried out both
Proclamation de Sephuz for stats, and the
Chevalière des rois tourmentés (20% crit if you are able to proc Recklessness).
The whole combo is just to use everything, including
Résolution rigoureuse du gladiateur cosmique (the PvP trinket that makes you avoid 2 incoming CC effects), you charge the enemy and use
Cri démoralisant, followed by a
Heurt de bouclier!
If it crits, it will most likely kill the enemy if they don't have defensives active. A non crit does between 50-70% of their health!
I also tried to change the combo a bit and went Night Fae to do an
Réplique des anciens followed by a Shield Slam. This combo is more reliable crit wise, since you spread the damage over 2 spells instead! You also get access to
Frappe initiale for a 25% damage boost.
We had a really weird bug happen when a
Cocon curatif got killed, and the person rezzed instantly. I believe it was a bug with the timing of Guardian Angel, just as the Podtender died, however Guardian Angel didn't get used up, so it is suspicious. It happened at 7:26.