How to die? Let me count the ways…
- Run out of a mine, thinking you can take the beating.
- Drop all of your talent points…see what happens.
- Wait until you get to 1000HP and try to heal yourself.
- Spam the Bubble key over and over again to deflect damage.
- Aggro too much and try to Psychic Scream.
- Hit Bloodrage instead of Executeย with 8% health left.
- Run onto the platform at Telredor in Zangarmarsh before it slides over to the edge.
Try all of these in your first hour of playing and see how happy you are.
[tags]warrior, talents, abilities[/tags]
Yeah I am gonna take that I have seen Thodin he looks way netter equipped than I am. I don’t think warriors suck but they are a little rough to level pre 55 after that I noticed that mobs drop quicker and the warrior really seems to come into his own. I know now why you always read on the forums people say get your warrior to 60 and than say they suck as a class.
Well I agree, leveling a warrior isn’t one of the easiest things in the game. It’s tough. I had it a bit easier while I leveled 1-60 because I basically did EVERYTHING together with my roommate who was a hunter. We were a badass tag team.
But once you hit the higher levels, get some good gear, and figure out how to play, warriors can kick some major butt. When I was Arms I cut through mobs like butter baby, and the 26.10 % crit chance in my DPS gear doesn’t hurt either.
I would totally hate to be Prot spec as a 60 and have to get all the way to 70. I would think that would give me about as much dps as I had when I started this session, only worse, because I would probably need a shield to mitigate the whupping I’d take.
I was keeping up with rogues that were evenly geared to me when we’d go to MC, so I’m not at all convinced that a Fury warrior has to suck as a class.
Well, I was prot specced when I quit at 60. When I came back to the game with TBC I went Arms spec. Mortal strike and a hard-hitting two hander is where it was at for me. I loved it.
I’ve never really given Fury much of a chance, pretty much just personal preference. If I wanted to d/w I’d have rolled a rogue; it’s a warrior’s job to bash things senseless, not make with the ninja skillz.
Also, if you’re serious about leveling your warrior to 70, keep some things in mind:
1. Non-prot spec warriors CAN tank. They might not be able to tank like a prot specced warrior, but if you know what you’re doing, you have a shield, and you use def stance, you can handle anything up to (and maybe including, but… not really so much) the lvl 70 instances.
2. This is an addition to #1 sorta. Try to keep two sets of gear. I know it can get to be annoying taking up bag space, but having a decent set of tanking gear as well as a DPS (leveling) set can be a godsend. No warrior can tank when all his gear is mail with +crit and +AP, it just can’t be done. I always tried to strike a balance between gear when I leveled, getting DPS gear from some quests and tanking gear from others. wow-loot.com helps with this. Two sets of gear + ItemRack proved to be quite helpful.
If you have any warrior questions, I might be your guy. I can’t give you formulas and stats, but I can give you common sense and know-how. You may have inspired me to write my first guide for my blog, woo.
Write it Thodin I will read it religiously.
Basically, all of my experience in any of the 55+ instances were as a tank. I’ve never been anything but Fury, so there is definitely no reason why they can’t hold aggro.
Here is the gist of tanking as a Fury warrior, but I’ll leave most of it to Thodin: