I’ve always played the classes/specs I liked, even if they were mediocre/broken or horribly gear itemized. I was primarily a Shadow Priest in Vanilla-Classic for heaven’s sake. I only switched to a Shaman main in TBC because I never played the class during my original 2004-2012 WoW run & wanted to try something different. My Priest is now a Holy-Disc hybrid dps/heal spec for the 60-70 trek, so that I can alternate playing the healing & dps role in regular dungeon groups, & to take a break from Shadow for a bit.
I always liked playing a 1hnd/Shield Warrior solo & questing, but have never been much for melee or tanking in a full group dungeon/raid setting (though I did it quite a bit in WotLK with my tanking Warrior). I really prefer to stick to range dps or healing these days.
It’s annoying to me because I was a hunter all of classic (hunter main since vanilla) and now I have to deal with all the new huntards giving the class a bad name because they don’t know the first thing about pet dangers (example they move faster when feared and grounding totems don’t work on them), utility, exc.
All they know is dps. And it gives the good hunters a bad reputation to compete with lol.
It’s just not a great class in TBC. Medicore dps with no cc for heroics if dps spec. On the tanking side it’s probably the weakest tank. Rage starved and the hardest to hold threat on more than one mob. Sure they have good mitigation for raid bosses but that’s it. Paladins just aoe threat better and druids are somewhere in the middle with decent aoe threat, higher damage and great single target tps.
Pvp they are still a powerhouse with a pocket healer.
Could it also have something to do with how the playstyle has changed going from Vanilla to TBC? Personally, I didn’t like the feel of Warrior in Vanilla but loved it in WoD.
You are right but regardless of why they switched; they had to switch. Most of the raid slots for warriors (and rogues) will be gone at 70. Hunter is an obvious replacement because it’s also a physical class. Personally I’m moving to warlock, which I also like. I never chased the meters and didn’t even use one.
I, for one, am glad to finally have less people competing for plate + strength weapons. Seemed like every raid I did in Classic had another fresh 60 warrior or four joining each raid.
I might still swap to maining another toon, maybe even my hunter for true TBC nostalgia, but for now I’m enjoying the warrior.
Sad but true, especially in today’s modern parsing culture. I’m maining restosham here in TBC with my friends… but with the problem concerning BG queues…
I’m leveling my gnome warrior (currently lv63) so that I can pvp as arms and also get instant queues to boot!
Exactly why anyone who cares about raid comps skipped playing a warrior in tbc
No threat management, no buffs*, no CC, minimal benefits other than an additional interrupt if for some reason you don’t have shaman, and most fights are not cleave friendly so it’s not even great dps.
So if you want to help your raid, and do a lot of damage you’ll go lock, shaman, mage, hunter, literally anything else.
*unless they wanted to be an arms warrior, which in my experience we had to beg someone to do because it’s kinda boring
