WoW Warrior Guide

The Warrior is an extremely popular class of character when it comes to World of Warcraft. Warrior is one of the best known characters because of its usefulness and strength in close range fighting and group combats. This WoW Warrior guide will help you get to know the fundamental things you need to know when using the Warrior as your WoW character.

Basic Warrior Play

Basic Warrior play is intended for individuals who like being the center of attention when it comes to Raids, Instances, PvP, and field fights. All of the battles that you fight as a Warrior are likely to be on the winning side for the simple fact that you can deal out an immense level of damage overall. In addition to this, there are many different gear types that you can choose from – and all of them are especially powerful! By customizing the unique Talent Tree for the Warrior Class, you can create many different types of fighting styles and moves that you can call your own!

Warrior Race

Warriors are the only class where you can be any race in the game. The wide range of choices does cause some people to think that one race choice is superior to another, but every race class makes a very effective warrior.

Alliance

Dwarves: Dwarves have a nice PvP ability that has some use in raids, but their other abilities add little to being a Warrior.

Gnomes: Gnomes, also the ultimate PvP warrior race despite what you might think at first glance, purely because of escape artist: a handy 1-minute 45 sec. cooldown racial ability allowing Gnomish Warriors to free themselves from a root or snare effect. Their small size also makes them more difficult for some people to target (especially compared to, say.. Taurens.)

Humans: The ability Diplomacy grants you a solid 10% increase to all faction reputation gains. Initially you might scoff at this being a warrior racial, but quite honestly since WoW incorporates so many faction grinds with each new expansion this ability’s been elevated to a nigh ‘must have’ status.

Night Elves: Night Elves gain both Shadowmeld and Quickness as far as effective abilities go, the wisp spirit racial(increased movement speed when dead) is fairly pointless unless you plan on dieing frequently, which you shouldn’t as long as you play your cards right.

Horde

Orc: Orcs are the race most consider the deadliest warrior race at 80. Orcs possess an interesting racial ability called Bloodfury, which increases their attack power by a significant amount. However, this also reduces healing effects by 50%. A good ability for leveling and certain PvP situations, not so good as a tanking ability, where heals are essential..

Tauren: Taurens are the greatest tank race, for all those wishing to focus on maximising potential as opposed to looks, a 5% increase to base health becoming amazingly useful at high levels for any prospective tank.

Trolls: Trolls are something of the weaker choice, although I must admit they gain innumerable points for style and uniqueness. Despite this their abilities are some of the weakest when considered as a Warrior.

Undead: Undead, another race with one great PvE ability and one great PvP to match. Will of the Forsaken is one of the greatest racials PvP wise, granting a free break from fear, sleep, and charm effects every 2 minutes, yet PvE wise it’s almost useless, aside from specific boss fights.

Warrior Talent Builds

There are three Talent Tree Specs in which you can choose from when it comes to playing a Warrior. First, you have “”Arms””, and then it is followed by both “”Fury””, and “”Protection””. The following details the benefits of each of these Talent Specs:

Arms Warriors – Individuals who want to work on improving the amount of damage that is dealt will focus on placing their Talent points in this spec. This is also an excellent choice when it comes to players who want to play PvP in World of Warcraft.

Fury Warriors - Fury is a great choice when it comes to players who want to develop a tank-like character that can not only take a lot of damage, but deal out a lot of damage at once as well.

Protection Warriors – Protection is appropriate for the Warrior that wants to actually serve as a major tank in World of Warcraft. This seems to come in handy in Raids, Instances, and even player vs. player modes.

Warrior Leveling

The Warrior class is an incredibly dynamic class who has been endowed with 3 vastly different play styles to include Fury, Arms and Protection. With the release of The Burning Crusade, the distinction is made even more clear with some significant 40 warrior point talents. However, we won’t worry about these while we focus on leveling.

While leveling a warrior you will want to maximize dps, wear high armored gear, and carry food with you when grinding. I strongly recommend going Fury to do all of these. However I will outline all three warrior trees to provide you with the choice.

Warrior Professions

For a heavy class like a warrior, mining and blacksmithing are the most suited tradeskills. Being a blacksmith, the warrior can craft his own stuff, especially the weapons just by saving up the materials looted and gathered while doing quests. Blacksmithing is also good for enhancing all the equipment you have by adding sockets to apply more jewels. The crafted high level gear is just good enough to get you started for instance farming with your guildies.

Warrior Weapons and Armor

Arms spec is the spec for predictable frontloaded DPS. It does not produce as much sustained DPS as a pure DW fury, however it will provide you with reasonably predictable aggro management and damage without being so gear dependant. With the exception of some hybrid PvP specs with very specific equipment restraints, 31 Arms / 20 Fury is the king of all PvP builds as Mortal Strike inhibits healing and predictable burst DPS allows a warrior to frontload DPS as needed. I won’t go too deep into talent builds as they are pretty well hashed over at this point, I will stick mainly to the primary Arms skills and tricks. The following are my experiences on how to be viable in raids with this PvP spec.

Arms spec and more to the point Mortal Strike is made for the big slow two-handed weapons in the game. While Mortal Strike adds the same damage to a fast 1h weapon as it does to a slow 2h weapon the 6-second cooldown is not affected by weapon speed. Your plans for your weapon should be a 2h with the highest low-end and top-end damage you can find, this unfortunately will also be the slowest weapon you can find as well.

Warrior PvE and PvP

The Warrior can provide a lot of benefit to both PvE and PvP. In PvE as well as PvP the Warrior can supply the group with much needed buffs such as Battle Shout which adds attack power to your group members or Commanding Shout which adds additional health to your party. Warriors also have the ability to apply debuffs to your enemies. Demoralizing Shout reduces the attack power of all enemies in a 10 yard radius. Thunder Clap decreases the time between your enemy’s attacks, and Sunder Armor reduces your targets armor for everyone in your group. The Warrior also has a great arsenal of crowd control abilities, such as Hamstring which slows and enemy down and Piercing Howl which dazes your enemies and reduces their movement speed. In PvP one of your greatest tools is the ability to Intercept which allows you to charge your enemy, closing the distance with your opponent in the blink of an eye and stunning them briefly.

1-80 Warrior Leveling Guide

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