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As I'm sure anyone who has attempted to do BGs, Darkmoon Arena or 2v2 Arenas you've encountered your share of Blood DKs, Prot paladins and Feral Druids; Namely Blood DKs. As you are getting stomped by these people you may be wondering: How are they doing so much damage as prot? How can I stop this damage? And what should I put on my sandwich...no wait thats wrong...

To break it down, all Protection specs get a passive stacking buff called Vengeance, what it does is each time you take damage, you gain 5% of that damage taken as Attack Power and it will stack to a max of 10% of the Tanks health. I'm not aware of what the cap is, but I've seen upwards of 14k Attack Power given, which for a lot of these PvP Prot gives them 30k or more Attack Power. With the kinda damage people do now, most Prots can gain full Vengeance stacks in 2-3 seconds.

How can you win? Well, if you aren't a Druid, Hunter, Rogue or have none of these classes as an Arena partner, there isn't much you can do aside from wait for a nerf. BUT, if you are or have a partner who is a Druid, Hunter or Rogue here is how to beat every Prot you ever meet.

Vengeance is considered an Enrage effect and to the three respective classes I've listed that means A single Druid's Soothe, Hunter'sTranquilizer Shot or Rogue's Shiv will remove all the Vengeance Stacks AND each of these abilities apply a 20 second debuff which prevent the Prot from gaining Vengeance. So with this in mind, I wait with fingers crossed to see some of these Prots start losing more often =D

Ooo..things not known! You forgot also Kiting and hit and runs! Some of the stuff at least for blood relies on hitting (or swinging at) your target for heals and if you can keep them from doing that they have a hard time healing! There's also the anything that slows their attack speed annoyance since it also affects rune regeneration speed which utterly blows their survival down...

Be careful when kiting Protection Warriors. They have all sorts of crafty ways of raining on your parade if they are skilled enough to do Arenas.

I actually didn't include Prot Warriors in here because after trying it myself I can assuredly say it is a horrible spec, if you face a Prot warrior in arenas just sit on his partner and the prot will have no rage at all.

Prot warrior is the weakest arena spec out of the tank specs due to lack of damage, but is decidedly the best tank spec for RBGs by a wide margin.

The key to beating double tank in 2s is to make sure you ignore one the entire game. Even non-direct damage like very weak AOE will stack vengeance quickly and force you to face two terminators instead of just one.