Protection Warrior raid consumables

The consumables checklist for a Protection Warrior in TBC Classic: 8 lines, each naming what it is before it names the item, and why it is on the list.

What a Protection Warrior brings to a raid

• elixir
  Elixir of Major Agility then Spirit of Zanza then Gift of Arthas

  Cheaper than a flask, and you lose it when you die.
• flask
  Flask of Fortification (for progression)

  Lasts two hours and survives death. The one buff you never have to re-apply.
• food
  Fisherman's Feast or Spicy Crawdad

  Well-fed. Half an hour, and it goes when you do — eat after a wipe.
• potion
  Ironshield Potion

  For mid-fight. Every potion shares one cooldown, so you get few of them.
• potion
  Mighty Rage Potion and Free Action Potion

  For mid-fight. Every potion shares one cooldown, so you get few of them.
• extra
  Nightmare Seed

  Situational — worth having in the bag, not worth stressing over.
• scroll
  Scroll of Agility V and Scroll of Strength V and Scroll of Protection V

  A few silver for a small stat buff. Easy to forget, easy to carry.
• engineer
  Super Sapper Charge and Adamantite Grenade and Gnomish Flame Turret

  Engineering only. Extra damage nobody else brings.

From Wowhead’s Warrior Tanking guide — a recommendation, not something this site measured. Skipping one is not a mistake; the list is deliberately thorough. Every name opens Wowhead.

How to read it

This checklist is not something this site measured. It is transcribed from Wowhead's own Warrior Tanking guide, and it is a recommendation: 8 lines, 16 items, covering elixir, flask, food, potion, extra, scroll, engineer. Each line says what the thing IS before it names the item, because the question a Protection Warrior arrives with is "why am I carrying this" rather than "what is it called".

Where a line offers several items joined by or, any one of them satisfies it; then means the second is the fallback when the first is out of reach. A flask lasts two hours and survives death, so it is the one buff a tank never re-applies mid-night; battle and guardian elixirs are cheaper and go when you do. Every potion in the game shares one cooldown, which is why the list names few of them.

Skipping one is not a mistake — the list is deliberately thorough, and a night with the flask and the food is most of the way there. Every name opens Wowhead. The raid gear checker on this site reads the same guide when it asks whether a raider turned up buffed.