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Started a warrior last night and i'm at level 10 now. I've never done the warrior thing, so i have no clue.

Any warriors out there that can give advice and some sites i can check out for leveling builds and stuff that can help me out
 
If you are going to level as DPS (prot is viable doing dungeon spam) I would suggest arms till 60 then swap to fury for 60-80 because of Titans Grip. Get yourself some heirlooms ASAP

Chest - 100 HP enchant
Shoulders - Scryer DPS enchant (only works after 60)
Bloodied Arcanite Reaper - Crusader
2 X Swift Hand of Justice = no downtime at low levels

After 60 you simply want to get another Arcanite reaper with crusader.

For arms play style, it's as simple as getting up rend on the target then hitting overpower on proc. Throw in a Victory Rush once in a while followed by a Heroic Strike and mobs feel like butter. Once you get Mortal Strike, You will be almost able to 1 shot mobs

For Fury, the fun doesn't start until you have both Bloodthirst and Whirlwind. Then it's basically a FCFS system that sees you doing two Bloodthirst Strikes after every whirlwind. Also like arms, you have to watch out for instant slam procs from whirlwind.

Tip 1: Do not stance dance. Choose your playstyle and stick to it or you will find yourself rage starved at the beginning of every fight

Tip 2: For AOE grinding it's fine to throw in the occasional Thunderclap, but remember it can only be used in battle and defensive stance.

Tip 3: For early Fury goodness, get the glyph of Bloodthirst that increases healing done by 100%

Tip 4: Create an all in 1 charge / intercept / intervene macro that works in all stances in case you need to suddenly equip a shield and 1 hander during a dungeon to save the group from a wipe.

Tip 5: Warriors cap their hit at 5% due to the talent Precision in Fury, but more about that later.

Talent Build at 20 - http://www.wowhead.com/talent#Lhrcz

Talent Build at 30 - http://www.wowhead.com/talent#LhrcdbI

Talent Build at 40 - http://www.wowhead.com/talent#LhrcdfIt00o

Talent Build at 50 - http://www.wowhead.com/talent#LhrcdfIt00bRzG

Talent Build at 60 http://www.wowhead.com/talent#LZhxe0V0u0eRVzAo

Talent Build at 70 http://www.wowhead.com/talent#LN0cZhxe0V0u0eRVzAo

Talent Buld at 80 http://www.wowhead.com/talent#LA0czfhZhxe0V0u0eRVzAo

This is by NO means a raiding build and is set out for an undergeared level 80 freshly dinged. Due to the obscene amount of hit on some of the items in ICC, you may want to lose the additional hit from Precission and put it somewhere more useful like Commanding Presence for raid buffing. Also if you find you have no rage issues, you can lose Anger Management as well.

Once you are in 251 and higher gear, your play style will change a little from just mashing Whirlwind and Bloodthirst and the occasional instant slam into something a little more hectic. It's at this point that I suggest some well scripted macros to help dump some rage on heroic strike and cleave.

Macros

No cast slam macro

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast Slam
/stopcasting
/startattack

General DPS macro

#showtooltip
/startattack
/castsequence Whirlwind,Bloodthirst,Bloodthirst
/cast Bloodrage
/cast !Heroic Strike

All in one charge

#show [combat] Intercept; Charge
/cast [stance:1/2,combat] Berserker Stance; [stance:3,combat] Intercept; [stance:2/3,nocombat] Battle Stance; [stance:1,nocombat] Charge
/stopcasting
/cast [equipped:Shields] Defensive Stance
 
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Correct it does stack. Currently you can receive 10% More Experience from the Chest and an additional 10% from the Shoulders. In Cataclysm, you can receive another 10% from the head slot item and 5% from a cloak to bring the combined Experience gain to a whopping 35% if you don't already have the unqiue ring which gives another 5%.
 
Nice guide. Is it possible you could also help me with a bit of tanking advice. Currently im lvl 22 and doing the dungeon spam thing.
Sometimes though i find it very hard to keep aggro. for 1 mob no prob, but for multiple mobs its a bit different:

I taunt the first one and make sure the other 3/4 attack me, i then use Thunderclap and Cleave mostly, alternating between my targets and using cleave/revenge.
Any tips would help very much.
 
Thunderclap, learn to love it. I also have a warrior around the 22 mark and I out DPS the entire group by spamming Vengeance (glyphed) and Thunderclap. I don't bother with Sunder armor for multi mob pulls. Keep Thunderclap on cooldown, Save your heroic strike for Vengeance procs and throw a Victory Rush in once in a while.
 
S7wede said:
If you are going to level as DPS (prot is viable doing dungeon spam) I would suggest arms till 60 then swap to fury for 60-80 because of Titans Grip. Get yourself some heirlooms ASAP

Chest - 100 HP enchant
Shoulders - Scryer DPS enchant (only works after 60)
Bloodied Arcanite Reaper - Crusader
2 X Swift Hand of Justice = no downtime at low levels

After 60 you simply want to get another Arcanite reaper with crusader.

For arms play style, it's as simple as getting up rend on the target then hitting overpower on proc. Throw in a Victory Rush once in a while followed by a Heroic Strike and mobs feel like butter. Once you get Mortal Strike, You will be almost able to 1 shot mobs

For Fury, the fun doesn't start until you have both Bloodthirst and Whirlwind. Then it's basically a FCFS system that sees you doing two Bloodthirst Strikes after every whirlwind. Also like arms, you have to watch out for instant slam procs from whirlwind.

Tip 1: Do not stance dance. Choose your playstyle and stick to it or you will find yourself rage starved at the beginning of every fight

Tip 2: For AOE grinding it's fine to throw in the occasional Thunderclap, but remember it can only be used in battle and defensive stance.

Tip 3: For early Fury goodness, get the glyph of Bloodthirst that increases healing done by 100%

Tip 4: Create an all in 1 charge / intercept / intervene macro that works in all stances in case you need to suddenly equip a shield and 1 hander during a dungeon to save the group from a wipe.

Tip 5: Warriors cap their hit at 5% due to the talent Precision in Fury, but more about that later.

Talent Build at 20 - http://www.wowhead.com/talent#Lhrcz

Talent Build at 30 - http://www.wowhead.com/talent#LhrcdbI

Talent Build at 40 - http://www.wowhead.com/talent#LhrcdfIt00o

Talent Build at 50 - http://www.wowhead.com/talent#LhrcdfIt00bRzG

Talent Build at 60 http://www.wowhead.com/talent#LZhxe0V0u0eRVzAo

Talent Build at 70 http://www.wowhead.com/talent#LN0cZhxe0V0u0eRVzAo

Talent Buld at 80 http://www.wowhead.com/talent#LA0czfhZhxe0V0u0eRVzAo

This is by NO means a raiding build and is set out for an undergeared level 80 freshly dinged. Due to the obscene amount of hit on some of the items in ICC, you may want to lose the additional hit from Precission and put it somewhere more useful like Commanding Presence for raid buffing. Also if you find you have no rage issues, you can lose Anger Management as well.

Once you are in 251 and higher gear, your play style will change a little from just mashing Whirlwind and Bloodthirst and the occasional instant slam into something a little more hectic. It's at this point that I suggest some well scripted macros to help dump some rage on heroic strike and cleave.

Macros

No cast slam macro

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast Slam
/stopcasting
/startattack

General DPS macro

#showtooltip
/startattack
/castsequence Whirlwind,Bloodthirst,Bloodthirst
/cast Bloodrage
/cast !Heroic Strike

All in one charge

#show [combat] Intercept; Charge
/cast [stance:1/2,combat] Berserker Stance; [stance:3,combat] Intercept; [stance:2/3,nocombat] Battle Stance; [stance:1,nocombat] Charge
/stopcasting
/cast [equipped:Shields] Defensive Stance
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Bumping this thread just for this little bit of win! Nice one!
 
Elitist jerks and tankspot are good places for guidance. At this early stage they won't be much help other than to drool. Heroic strike is your friend. If you wanna tank get a shield and a fast one hand. Use any gear that is "... Of the bear". Stamina and strength are the important stats. Do all of the warrior quests that come up. There should be one at level 10, I think. Around level 40 you get a quest for an overpowered 2h. Take the axe. Don't be tempted the sword. The axe will last till Outland.

Level as dps. Whether you do arms or fury is a matter of personal preference, although the axe above will probably mean arms until at least lvl 60. I have always been partial to duel wielding fury spec. Enjoy. It's a fun class.
 
poffle said:
Nice guide. Is it possible you could also help me with a bit of tanking advice. Currently im lvl 22 and doing the dungeon spam thing.
Sometimes though i find it very hard to keep aggro. for 1 mob no prob, but for multiple mobs its a bit different:

I taunt the first one and make sure the other 3/4 attack me, i then use Thunderclap and Cleave mostly, alternating between my targets and using cleave/revenge.
Any tips would help very much.
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For multiple mobs, Mark one with a skull. Usually the most dangerous caster. Charge at it. Thunderclap, smack it twice with sunder armour, then tab to next targets and apply a sunder each, switching back to your skull every time. So hit skull, hit mob2, hit skull, hit mob 3, hit skull etc, use thunderclap whenever it's up. When skull is about to die, hit the next mob and spend a few more seconds on it, it will become the next dps target. The important thing is that the tank must basically direct the fight and guide the fight. Of course it's much more difficult because dps love to aoe and nuke a nano-second before you charge :)
 
Zippy he is 22, Nobody has more AOE at 22 than a prot warrior. Thunderclap is all he needs to do while the DPS nuke down his main focus. I find binding the dungeon marks to my numpad works like a charm. 1 = Skull, 2 = X and 3 = Square etc.
 
sweet ty zippy.

I was joling last night and kinda figured out how to do it. Glyph of cleave helps ALOT with that extra hit. So im basically spamming Revenge, ThunderClap, Sunder (for bosses or single mobs),Cleave & HS after revenge cause its free :D Seems to be working for me now. Leveling in dungeons is awesome. Very quick.
 
I lvled as Fury and I found the self healing of fury in combination with the heirloom trinkets and crusader really reduced downtime significantly. In fact I don't recall having any downtime, apart from maybe the odd bandage here and there.
 
poffle said:
sweet ty zippy.

I was joling last night and kinda figured out how to do it. Glyph of cleave helps ALOT with that extra hit. So im basically spamming Revenge, ThunderClap, Sunder (for bosses or single mobs),Cleave & HS after revenge cause its free :D Seems to be working for me now. Leveling in dungeons is awesome. Very quick.
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yr welcome, things get really fun later when you get groups where there are 2 casters and they are spread apart. By this time you should have shield bash and maybe even shield slam. The trick is to mark one caster as skull, charge at it, thunderclap, shockwave(if you have it), sunder it, then dash off the to the 2nd caster, shield bash to interrupt. This usually causes the mob to melee. You can then back up and pull the mob to the first caster so that its in melee range so that you can tab to it easily. or even shield bash the first caster and pull it to the 2nd caster.

Might be good idea to ask dps to wait until you have pulled this caster to the main grp. If you are tanking 2 casters, then use spell reflect if you have it. Lovely spell that. If you have a rogue or another warrior, they can also interrupt and pull the 2nd caster to you. Carefull with mage or shadow priest silencing the caster as the mob may run to them, away from you. Currently I am fury spec and this is exactly what I do in ICC 5man where the are groups like this. I cant remember if there are mobs like this in vanilla, tbh. I think blackrock mountain has some interesting trash. Sunken Temple also. Marauden is one of the hidden gems while leveling. Annoying because everyone gets lost after a wipe, but one of my favorite tanking instances. Also in ICC raids. the first thing I do on the trash pulls is intercept to caster who is furtherest and interrupt and pull them into the aoe killing zone. In fact in ICC, I generally focus exclusively on casters to stop them doing aoe and such. It might gimp my own dps but it saves the healers and speeds up the trash clearing. I only worry about maxing dps on bosses :D
 
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glyph victory rush for the first couple of levels (30 or so) ****s so cash.
 
i got so frustrated last night, i eventually logged onto my other account just to help my baby out.

Level 11 quest, you have to kill miners to get their ears, they are so close together that i could never get a pull of just one, when at full health i could handle 2 mobs, but most time i had 3 on me and i died about 10 times in a hour, got really really pissed, logged my hunter, got in her chopper rode into the mine and in the words of Anakin Skywalker,

"I killed them. I killed them all. They're dead, every single one of them. And not just the men... but the women, and the children too. They're like animals! And I slaughtered them like animals! I hate them!"
 
Ahaha thats a funny story.

How did you pull the mobs, by charging in or using a bow to pull them out of their groups? Sometimes you just have to give up the charge rage and let them come to you where it is safer to fight. Especially while leveling. If you have a healer, by all means charge in.
 
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