What do you think is the best spec for a warrior in classic? Which talents did you choose?
Thanks in advance.
In general arms is the better bet for pvp. Mortal strike hits very hard. Reduces healing and the arms tree offers a lot of utility. Fury can work but in general you want slow heavy hitting weapons as that will allow you to get the most amount of damage while requiring the least amount of time in melee range.
I don’t have a number spread for you but there are plenty of resources out there if you’re looking for a pvp warrior spec.
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Arms, spec all the way in for Mortal Strike and use some spare talent points in the Fury tree. Try to grab Death Wish if you can aswell.
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Arms. Fury is o.k., but isn’t really that great until you acquire your PvP set bonus for the Intercept cooldown reduction. Then it comes into its own, but Arms as a baseline is just easier to use.
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I’m sure I’ll switch to fury stance from time to time, but yes I’ll stick with arms.
You can’t grab death wish with MS (except that one patch during vanilla).
Arms is the defacto pvp spec though. It’s burstier and is the main healing debuff making it a hard staple in group PvP. Fury is better PvE damage and can certainly hurt, but it’s not the same and if they have a healer fury could struggle to get the kill.
However if you run around with a healer you’ll be fine either way, and as a warrior that’s what you want to do anyways. Right now in AV I don’t mind being fury either because it’s pretty hectic most of the time anyways. If WSG and AB dont stay dominated by premades I’ll probably want to play arms for that.
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They havnt added that patch yet? I didn’t know as i am not playing Classic, been there done that… however
I highly recommend Arms through-out Vanilla PvP, best class in game with a pocket healer and is excellent at reducing healing for the group since MS was what it always should be, -50% healing reduction, not some crappy -25% bs of modern WoW.
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That patch was a bug that gave warriors an extra talent point, never intended and Blizzard isn’t running a patch cycle that would recreate it. We are running with patch 1.12 with blizzard trying to use a phase schedule to emulate the release of content.
Ahh thats a shame. I use to love running Death Wish/Mortal Strike combo. Either way, to me… Arms was very limited as a solo player but in a group they were the unstoppable forces every group wanted. Makes me miss playing Vanilla actually.
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I’m really enjoying arms spec in the battlegrounds as I can help my teammates better. I think Prot would be good too but there’s better classes for CC (crowd control) than a prot warrior I think.