by MATTHEW ROSSI
The Obsidian Sanctum
Also called Sarth or Sartharion for the boss within, this raid is similar to Gruul or Magtheridon (or Onyxia, if you’ve been raiding that long) in that it is a short raid with a single boss encounter. (Technically, Gruul’s had two, High King Maulgar and his council and then Gruul himself, but it was still a short raid along these lines.) Unlike those pervious raids, however, the Obsidian Sanctum has a built-in ‘hard mode’ of sorts, as the three sub-boss drakes Shadron, Tenebron and Vesperon can be killed before engaging Sartharion himself or left alive and dealt with while engaging him for better loot and a chance at a mount. This also leads to one of the hardest boss fights in the current game being 10 man Sartharion with three drakes up. (I’ve only killed him on normal difficulty with one drake up and that wasn’t easy, so when we get around to leaving all three up I expect to get thrashed fairly often.)
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by MATTHEW ROSSI
When coming into a new spec and role, one of the things you find yourself doing at first is making constant small adjustments. Part of this is simply the nature of the beast. You’ve been a PvP arms warrior for most of TBC, for example, but now you’re a raiding Arms DPS warrior and you need different things from your spec, which in addition is pretty significantly changed from what it was at level 70. Or you were a tank for the original endgame, but stepped away for a while and then came back in time to level to 70 just before the expansion, and are now looking at what you need to do to get ready to tank 10 man raids for your small guild, and are realizing that the leveling prot spec you were using isn’t quite up to it.
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by MATTHEW ROSSI
Fury is for killing and killing and killing while the world runs red in ruin around you.
Sorry, but while I am a tank and I love tanking, I’ve discovered two facts in the past week. I can tank pretty much any five man or group quest in my tanking gear as fury and holy heck I enjoy chopping things heads off.My warrior raided throughout vanilla WoW as a DPS build, switching between fury 2h slam and Arms, and it’s been nice to get back to that as a Titan’s Grip build. I often don’t even tell people I’m fury when they ask me to tank, I just show up in the tanking gear and use a 2h weapon and a shield. What it lacks in AoE tanking capacity (no shockwave, no damage shield) it gains in pretty solid single target threat, thunderclap still hits multiple targets, and with the right talents you can even get some solid threat from Bloodthirst. This week we’ll be talking about a fury build that allows for some tanking versatility: it’s not a raiding DPS build but is oriented towards letting you grind and tank or offtank when needed. If there’s room, we’ll then discuss a pure DPS build for five mans and leveling if you have absolutely no desire to tank or offtank.
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by MATTHEW ROSSI
Well, arms partisans, I admit it. The spec may have been overshadowed by the sheer coolness factor of a TG build, but in terms of power and effectiveness grinding your way through mobs to get your quests done, it’s a solid spec. It’s so solid that I even respecced my 80 warrior for the holiday weekend and picked up an Argent Skeleton Crusher to replace my De-Raged Waraxe. What it lacks in prot’s pure refusal to die it gains in the excellent, underrated (by me) spectacle of unleashing a bladestormin the middle of a three mob pull. I’m now eyeing that titansteel I have in the bank and mulling over the merits of making myself a Destroyer.
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by MATTHEW ROSSI
Before we discuss the specs, however, a quick note on gear: I’m gearing for grinding/questing in a mix of DPS and tanking gear. Basically, I’m going for shield block value as high as I can get it while keeping a good mix of offensive stats like crit, hit and expertise, and trying to do as much of the shield block as I can through high strength on gear. I still have a few pure SBV pieces like myCoren’s Lucky Coin equipped, but in general the priority is strength/SBV, crit, hit/expertise. Since I’m still wearing a few high SBV tanking pieces (and some other drops that are just plain high in stam) my health isn’t low for this strategy. At present in defensive stance I’m sitting at about 1700 AP, 950 SBV, 16.5% crit.
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by MATTHEW ROSSI
We’ll be covering tanking and DPS weapons of both the one and two handed variety. Not all warriors will be taking Titan’s Grip, after all. Oh, stop looking at me like that, you know it’s true. I stated a fact, I didn’t kick a puppy, you can turn off the big sad eyes now.
Yes, of course I specced fury for leveling. Oh, I’ll go back to prot once we’re all 80 and raiding again, but there was no way I wasn’t going fury. I’ve written ballads about this talent, you think I’m passing up the chance to use it? Oh my word no.
What follows is all pre-raid gear. 5 mans, quests, heroics and badges, but no raids. It’s light on PvP gear, because I figure you know how to get that stuff. (Hint: you PvP for it.) Sometimes I mention it if it feels like a category of weapon will be very empty without it, though. Axes, I’m looking right at you here.
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Hello and welcome to Ferag¡¯s Warrior Guide. This guide is a compilation of the most important (if not in depth as most cannot understand the math behind it) things about Warriors you need to know to kick some serious ass in WotLK.Note: Sorry to non-prot Warriors, I¡¯ve lost all interest in Arms and Fury so you just get a small section crammed with my thoughts and a bit of info stolen from Corbusier.
This guide will teach you to tank single targets, huge packs of mobs, it will tell you which glyphs are the best for what kind of tanking, what gear you should get, what spec you should have… everything you need to know condensed into as small a text as possible. I spent many hours creating this guide, reading different guides (thanks Tankspot, Evil Empire and Elitist Jerks) and generally learning my Warriors (yes, plural) more back to front than ever.
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A pre raid tank gear overviewWell as I intended to be a tank in Wrath of the Lich king I have compiled a list of tank gear to try to get a hold of as a start set, before moving on to better items from heroics and reputation. So this is my list of items that all should be obtained easy from normal dungeons or other entry level content ways. This list isnt aimed at anyone in particular just generally take a look if ye want to get a overview over plate options. This guide does then of course not cover druid gear. I have also picked the item I see as most ideal in every slot instead of putting multiple options. I might expand it at a later time. I have however added two options in some slots where I have seen it fit. This mainly when theres been one dungeon option at the side of blacksmithing options so those with a lot of gold to spare or with blacksmithing know they don’t need to go for the dungeon one.
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If you block, parry, etc, you can use revenge, but, with this bug/exploit, you can use it as many times as you want for about 4 seconds, seems very helpful 1v1 versus warriors and enhance shammys, shield block and revenge spam all day. With the damage bonus to revenge too, it’s actually decent DPS.
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I play a warrior, and i was playing around and accidently hit the button for charge while i was a zombie, and guess what, I charged an enemy player while i was a zombie!
Warriors can charge enemy players as a zombie, have not tested intervene though.
PS-Warbringer helps a lot
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