by Matthew Rossi
New Talent Builds
Quite honestly, I can’t imagine there will be a lot of changes to warrior talent builds in patch 3.2. There simply weren’t that many changes to warrior talents and those that were changed were ones that were being taken anyway for the most part. Only four talents and three abilities saw any change in the patch. Armored to the Teeth now grants 1, 2 or 3 attack power for every 108 AP, but it’s unlikely that anyone who wanted the talent wasn’t already taking it at the old value of 180 armor per AP. Bloodsurge will now notify the player in floating combat text when a slam is instant, but again, if you weren’t taking Bloodsurge before it’s because you weren’t fury specced, this change won’t get anyone to take it.
Similarly, while Devastate has been buffed and Shield Specialization is better now (granting up to five rage on a dodge, block or parry rather than 2 rage on a block) if you aren’t heavily invested in the protection tree you’re not going to take them, and if you are, you probably already have them. Shield Specialization is the only talent change that might get people to change their specs around to get it, but even then it’s fairly low on the prot tree, meaning that overall builds are fairly likely to keep the same basic look and merely shift a few points around at best.
Ability Changes
Bloodrage gets buffed to give 20 rage immediately (up from 10) and another 10 rage over 10 seconds. The health costs didn’t change and many warriors have this glyphed, so with the talent Improved Bloodrage and the glyph we’re looking at 30 rage initially and 15 rage over 10 seconds. That’s a nice change all told.
Execute is changed to take at most 30 rage, folding the current Sudden Death change into the baseline talent and removing those changes from Sudden Death itself. This will most likely work out to be a slight DPS increase since it will keep warriors from bleeding out all of their rage when they hit execute range, although the days of massive execute crits are over.
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here’s what you need to do:
Equip the UNIQUE 2 hand weapon you want to DW in your offhand. Equip a trash 2H in your main hand.
Fill your bags and your bank completely with trash.
Spec out of Titan’s Grip. (Now easier with dual spec.)
Logout.
Log back in. Your offhand two hander will be missing. Not in your bank or your bags because there was no room for it.
Equip the other copy of the 2 hand weapon in your MH.
Respec INTO Titan’s Grip. Make sure your bags are full. Relog.
When you return, you should be dual wielding again, with the missing weapon back in place.
This trick may also be good for smuggling a copy of Devastation outside Tempest Keep by shuffling the weapon into limbo, leaving, relogging with it restored. I can’t promise this one. It would be a lot of work for a 15 minute duration item.
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Disclaimer and Credits
This guide was written by Skaven, proud member of MMOwned forums and would-be-main-tank Elfamaja in Hakkar-Eu server.
This guide can be shared and copied AS IS, without modifications and with this section included. If you feel like, you can give credits, and they are hoped for. If you feel like donating, choose a suitable charity near you.
Purpose
This guide has been written for new tanks who want to seriously delve into the wonderful world of tanking instances and raids in World of Warcraft. In this entire guide, the emphasis is for NEW tanks, so most if not all of the methods described below involve spending as less gold as possible, with as less randomness as possible. I will try and include alternative methods for players who have gold to spend, but buying your way to victory is NOT the purpose of this guide.
Also, because of the differences between feral druids and the other tanks, this guide is only for plate wearers. Sorry, my furry friends!
However, the general information and advice are valid for druids, too.
Your new level 80 character and tanking
So you’ve just levelled your tank (Warrior, Paladin, Druid, and Death Knight) and eagerly want to go in the first instance you see with your friends and raze it with all your green and blue equipment.
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by Matthew Rossi
TALENT SPECS FOR LEVELING
Okay, to start with, if this is not your main and you have access to the heirloom shoulders, by all that’s holy get them. Especially now that they give you 10% more experience from quests and from mobs you kill, even if you just have an old pair of the leather or mail ones hanging around, send them to your leveling warrior. When I decided to test leveling on my Draenei warrior this month I didn’t think it would make that big of a deal, but between his rested bonus and those shoulders he went from 70 to 76 in a matter of days. (I’m letting him catch back up on the rested before I try and get him the rest of the way up.)
We’ve covered talent specs for leveling warriors before, but I’ll touch on it again here to say that for leveling either Arms or Prot are probably the easiest to gear for and are both strong for the job. I’m leveling my Draenei Fury purely out of spite. I leveled my Tauren Arms and my human Protection, and so far I’d still give the nod to Protection as a really good leveling spec and my personal favorite for dealing with big trash pulls and group quests you may want to try and solo. A lot of this will depend on the gear your warrior has as you start the climb between 70 and 80, though. If you’re bringing a warrior you started a couple of months ago to Northrend in Outland quest greens, Arms is probably a stronger choice for leveling than Protection since there’s lots of decent Northrend greens that are itemized towards an Arms playstyle. If you’re bringing an uber-geared Sunwell warrior out of retirement, go with whatever your gear supports.
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I found out a few simple tactics to help you win if you decide to get a warrior teammate or a hunter teammate (This only works if you are the opposite A.K.A you have to be a hunter and he/she has to be a warrior or vice versa…)
TIPS FOR WARRIOR OR HUNTER
1:The hunter is mainly used as the bait! Coming from a /played time of 233 days, I’ve noticed that in arena in Pre WoTLK most of the time hunters would never get attacked, they would only get CC’d. Now that people have found out that the hunters are whats really screwing them over, they are getting killed first most likely.
2:The warrior is pretty much assisting the hunter take down the healer or clothie. (If there is no clothie or healer then you attack the one he attacks.)If a healer is getting piled by a Surv/AimShot hunter and an MS warrior there is no way the healer will survive to long!
3:Make sure that the hunter uses frost trap IMMEDIATELY!! Remember a trinket can’t help when its an AOE snare or AOE immobilization effect! (HoF or Hand of Freedom is the only thing that can free this Including Bubble ^_^)
4:The warrior must use Rend + Hamstring as soon as you attack the target the hunter attacks or the hunter tells you to attack! Slowing down your enemy can confuse and make his reaction time a bit slower. (This can also cause your opponent to Bubble, Trinket or waste CD’s that he shouldn’t waste.) You want to rend because this will keep the opponent in combat for an extra few seconds and will cause him/her to be unable to use Bandages until the rend is finished proccing.
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Many people like to solo old instances for Mando’s raptor, Thekal’s tiger, Attumen’s Horse or just for fun. To do this as a warrior at first you need a tankequip(blockequip is the best), Glyph of Bloodthirst, Glyph of Enraged Regeneration and talents like this:
Talent Calculator – World of Warcraft
How to fight:
Go in Defense Stance, equip a tankgear and use the following skills,
1. Commanding Shout up
2. Bloodthirst>Revenge>Shield Slam
3. if you want: 5x Sunder Armor
4. if you have low HP use: Enraged Generation/Shield Wall/Last Stand/Trinket
5. if you have full HP you can use Deathwish
6. Use Shield Block on cooldown
7. Renew Commanding Shout when needed
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This is mostly an explanation of warrior PvP basics, so those of you rated 1800+, disregard plz. Also, those here for macros, scroll to the bottom.
A bit about myself, to show I (sort of) know what I am doing;
I’ve been Gladiator (Never #1 /sadface) five times, on four different characters, and by far the most fun was playing Warrior/Shaman, Warrior/Enhshaman/Druid and Warrior/Rogue. (We ended at 2150, duelist. QQ)
I am currently the #1 warrior on my server, and the #4 warrior on my BG.
I was 1950 rated on my warrior in 2′s, 3′s in s5.
(I was 3rd on the BG as Hpal/Hunter on my FotM reroll paladin.)
Enough E-peen shaking. Down to business!
The warrior class has changed a LOT since the glory days of warrior+healer = GG. With the high burst potential of every class in WotLK, the warrior is not as popular as, say, the almighty Death Knight. Thus, the first rule of warrior PvP is:
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Gems
Avoidance
* Thick Dragon’s Eye – 27 Defense, jewelcrafter only, any slot
* Eternal Earthsiege Diamond – Meta – 21 Defense and 5% increased Shield Block Value
* Thick Autumn’s Glow – Yellow – 16 Defense
* Stalwart Monarch Topaz – Yellow or Red – 8 Defense and 8 Dodge Rating
* Enduring Forest Emerald – Yellow or Blue – 8 Defense and 12 Stamina
Effective Health
* Austere Earthsiege Diamond – Meta – 32 Stamina and 2% armor increase
* Solid Sky Sapphire – Blue – 24 Stamina
* Regal Twilight Opal – Blue or Red – 12 Stamina and 8 Dodge
* Enduring Forest Emerald – Blue or Yellow – 12 Stamina and 8 Defense
Threat
* Sovereign Twilight Opal – Red or Blue – 8 Strength and 12 Stamina
* Champion’s Monarch Topaz – Red or Yellow – 8 Strength and 8 Defense
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You have problems generating threat? You need some more initial aggro? Are those damage horny DPS’ers constantly overnuking at the start of a battle? Or are you looking to find a way to increase your DPS? Fear no more!
You can start off a boss fight having 80 rage, without even having to fight or take a huge hit for it! All you have to do is get the following 2 items;
chestpiece from a level 20 warrior quest called;
[Alliance] Furen’s Armor (http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=1782)
[Horde] Brutal Hauberk(http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=1848)
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Here I will try to maintain a list of what and where you can find the best starter plate tanking gear in Northrend.
In this “guide” I pressume that you are after some starter tank gear which will be enough for running lvl 80 dungeons.
DUNGEON
The Nexus
Hands:
Gauntlets of the Disturbed Giant
1095 Armor
+27 STR
+57 STM
+38 Defense Rating
+21 Hit Rating
Complete the quest Reading the Meters from Archmage Berinand @ 33.0 34.3 in Borean Tundra.
Take follow up Postponing the Inevitable and head into The Nexus in Borean Tundra. For this quest to work, you have to stand at the edge of the platform that Anomalus is on and use the quest item.
Feet:
Boots of the Unbestowed Protector
1205 Armor
+38 STR
+55 STM
+27 Defense Rating
+22 Dodge Rating
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