I’ve been a warrior main for years on both classic and retail, yes it sucks in general but with SoD I felt like MAYBE they will add some cool stuff. Anyone else notice the severe lack of fun for warriors this season? No Avatar, No Bladestorm, No leap or even heroic throw. Meanwhile locks are getting perma meta, hunters (not that its new) can solo just about anything and druids have a full toolkit. The best rune warriors have lets you clap in def stance. Neat quality of life rune ill admit. Warbringer requires you to farm 28 oils 20 ore or something and something else. After that’s all done, you are invited to purchase your rune from a vendor for 5g. Super.
Yes, our current runes will be great… around level 45ish. So till then we get to chill and watch meta locks and druids our preform in every way.
Idk what people were expecting for level 25. Warriors unless twinked out beyond belief were never going to top dps in low level bracket. No gear no weapons to scale = no damage
So, they changed all of the classes. Added a bunch of abilities called runes. Not sure you’re aware. Turns out other classes are way better than they used to be, so. No one could have predicted anything. Not sure what your point is. Warriors are bad, and there’s every indication that most of the other classes, given the changes, will continue to be much better.
These abilities weren’t needed for warrior leveling. The quick strikes is already helpful as well as victory rush and the tanking runes too. The abilities you listed are waaaay too strong for lvl 25. Huge mobility on top of warbringer, big damage cooldowns. No one has that yet. I’m sure we’ll see something bigger at lvl 40 but the entire idea is “Does it feel classic” I think titan’s grip as one example will not feel classic. Avatar also not working. Bladestorm very possible. Most of the runes released now are to improve the lvl 1-25 experience. Warriors, as well as rogues and mages, are maybe the most fleshed out classes with best scaling and dps design/rotation. There wasn’t much to add. Rogues added mutilate so you’re not backstab dependent when solo and a backstab energy reduction rune for group play or if you really want to backstab, not to mention the ranged KS. Some classes just needed less, but SoD wouldn’t make sense if they only buffed the rest of the weak classes and specs.
And those runes will literally never change the fact you are playing a heavily gear dependent class. Which by the way is not even going to be bad when warriors start getting the bfd raid weapons. I swear warriors have the biggest victim complex of all time.
A lot of people are missing the point, warriors don’t need a buff at 25 they just need something fun to use. Or something flashy. Literally every rune is just a passive. So we just auto attack…
It feels awful when playing solo, but in group content it feels pretty solid. Ran a Stockades a bit ago and as long as I could sustained cleave, I was consistently in the middle of dps on the low end, and way in the lead on the high end
i dont get all the warriors crying lol. Classic warrior are always grabage until end game…Ive played warrior since 2005, 2019 classic, era and now in SOD. Trust me it will be top by time were 60…who knows what other runes are getting added. Warriors are starting to sound like cry baby Ret pallies
Unless they do nerfs, warriors will be doing 3k dps in naxx gear with these runes.
I’m expecting they’ll add more runes and possibly more rune slots, but just with SMF+Flagellation+CBR alone they’re going to lead every other class by 1000+dps at end game.