I am questing in classic as a Warrior and I was wondering if its better to quest grind in Battle Stance or Defensive? I’ve been questing in 1000 Needles in battle stance. If I get jumped by 2-3 mobs I get destroyed. Any tips on how to quest as a Warrior? I almost always solo so don’t have access to a partner that heals.
The best advice I can give you is don’t fight 3 mobs. If you get jumped, run.
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Spec fury and get piercing howl. It has saved my behind a million times.
Stick to stuff two or more levels below you and do only green quests if you can help it.
I am only 27 as a warrior, so take what I say with a huge grain of salt.
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Not really necessary, you just have to do a lot of single pulls. Always kill casters first.
Use Battle stance unless you’re getting low on health but you think you can still kill the mob, then you can hit Def to finish him off without dying. Always use buff food, level your cooking. Pots are great.
Don’t forget to train ranged weapons so you can pull safely.
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Was doing Grimtotem quests and some are in groups of 3 on a plateau so you can’t get around it without getting 3 at once and I got owned. Hence why I made the thread. Thank you for the responses.
You will spend most of your time in Battle Stance. Only using Defensive Stance if you’re tanking an elite mob in a group or tanking a boss in a dungeon. Berserker Stance you’ll get later and will almost exclusively be used for PvP encounters or when you’re a DPS warrior in a group and not the focus of mob damage. (You’ll also eventually start “stance dancing” to be able to use Whirlwind in Berserker and bounce right back to Battle for regular hits).
As others have said, try to stay ahead of the leveling curve before advancing beyond your zone. Ideally, any time you start a new questing zone most of the mobs and quests should already be green to you. This will provide the smoothest experience and easiest time overall.
How do you do that? Well, make it a point to try to 100% clear a zone of all quests before moving on and always always always kill all trash between you and your quests. So, if you pick up a quest that is to go gather 10 items from the other side of the zone, kill every mob you encounter between you and the objective - even if it doesn’t matter to the quest. This basically helps break up the “grinds” by spreading them out into smaller parts during the entire experience.
One personal rule that I operate by is that I will always finish out my current XP bubble + one bar before turning in a quest once I finish whatever objective I had. It goes a long way to making sure I’m always ahead of the curve.
Before you get sweeping strikes, try to avoid multiple mob encounters. Sometimes it’s inevitable, but the best way to deal with that is to kite. Use your ranged weapon to pick a single mob in a pack, stand at max distance and shoot. When they run, stay focused on a single mob, don’t do any AoE abilities, and walk backwards fighting. The others will eventually reset and you’ll still have your one. Rinse and repeat to clear an entire camp.
Good luck!
Don’t spec protection until after L50. You don’t need it for lower level dungeons or leveling.
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That’s just your life until you hit mid 30s and access to WW and SS. IMO level as Arms not Fury because after 30 and access to SS it really saves your bacon for those kind of pulls.
Once you ding 30 get WW Axe ASAP, the sooner the better. It’ll last you at least level 45 if not into the 50s. I didn’t replace it until I got twig of the world tree which is a low 50 item.
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Stack spirit.
Actually.
At 78 spirit(or higher) you regen 0.55 HP/sec out of combat(That’s around 160 HP/sec at 78 HP).
Only fight single mobs and try to only fight against green mobs.
If you want to get really fancy, learn how to hamstring kite.
Generally Battle Stance > Zerker Stance > Def stance while soloing.
Also:
Arms is pretty alright for leveling.
I was arms until after I got both the 1h swords from the Horde side quests at level 35-40ish.
I would honestly ignore anyone that tells you to level 2h over DW because “2h is better because parses.”, by the numbers 2h is better, but in practice you die less with DW because a miss with a 2H is much more detrimental than it is with DW(you miss so much that it doesn’t matter).
I leveled arms back in Vanilla, it was great because PVP server, but I found leveling as Fury on this character was much easier because DPS output of Fury vs Arms is a no contest thing.
You could do 2H fury as well and the Whirlwind weapon is basically an epic if you get help doing the quest at 30. I’m just relating my experiences, some of the people here might disagree with me.
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always carry a stack of swiftness potions
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I will vouch for the dw over 2h fury. The rage generation as dw far outweighs the damage increase over a long fight.
A single miss with a slow 2h is murder when grinding mobs. Also, the overpower procs! Oh the overpower procs!
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Always keep your bandages up to date, keep about 10 level appropriate potions on you just in case.
It’s pretty rough up til 30 or so, then it starts getting better as you can get deeper into the talent trees.
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Easy solution only fight green level mobs
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Warriors more than other classes rely on being able to land hits because of rage. Your chance to miss/glance is a lot lower against low level mobs, so in addition to it being safer, you generate more rage and kill stuff faster.
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While I do agree that DW is better than 2h.
Leveled 20-34 DW, 34-37 2h, 37-57 DW and 57-60 Prot.
Rage gen in DW is far greater and seemed to more than make up for the “dps loss” of DW miss chance( with 3/5 DW spec DW does more white dmg than 2h)
However Overpower is procced off dodges not misses, so you have the same proc chance with DW as 2h, and while more attacks means more procs each one is also hitting for less.
Oh and prot is fine for leveling once you hit 40 and can get shield slam. You kill a bit slower but you take less dmg and pulls tended to go smoother.
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My suggestion would be to always quest in area’s lower level than you and chain pull from one mob to the next. Just use sunder and auto attacks for the most part, unless you are at high rage. Make sure you stay on your first aid and can always bandage yourself to keep going.
If I pull multiple mobs, it’s not a problem. I just demo shot and thunderclap before killing. This only issue is I have to sit down and eat to get my HP back. Keeping up with cooking for a stam boost helps too.
My alt is a level 41 warrior and I’ve only been playing it for a couple weeks now. I haven’t had the horrible experience warriors leveling talk about.
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I couldn’t agree more with the people suggesting using 2 one-handers while questing. Do that and save the 2 hander for instances. Missing with a 2 hander sucks while questing without a healer. Furthermore, like others said, kill mobs when they are lower than you. It’s not so much that you avoid the risk of dying, but you avoid eating as often.
One last thing I would do if I had to do it all over again, would be to keep 1 type of each weapon in my bags and swap it out whenever I reached a new level or 2. Keep them in the bank if you want to do it every 2 levels. But, just keep the skills up so that if you get a new weapon, it’s not completely useless. People tend to frown if you are leveling weapons in an instance and doing little damage.
You should be able to handle 3 greens, 2 yellows or 1 orange without drinking a healing potion - or so that has been my experience using one-hand/shield (just a personal preference) in battle stance, w/my hodgepodge 3-tree leveling spec. Try to stick to one green or yellow mob at at time though to pretty much eliminate downtime.
Ive done prot to arms and arms to prot. I dislkie fury, so…
I agree with Worst, and pretty much everyone here.
Once you get to thirty, youll appreciate the mitigation more in small groups or solo tough content
But yeah: greeens greens…its so rough. I remember using my calculator to estimate how many mobs to level 
Pick alch to save $ on pots, or engineering for range, duels
Use general chat, and try to find questing buddies.
e.g.
/1 Warrior, new in this zone, anyone want to party up and quest?
# or
/1 LFM <Quest Name> Let's go!
You’ll want to stay in Battle Stance most of the time so you can Charge and use Overpower. Defensive Stance nerfs your damage done too much… it is for tanking in groups. Zerk Stance increases your damage taken too much, and is for DPSing in groups when someone else is tanking. If you get Tactical Mastery, you will be able to stance dance to Zerk and Def stance to use certain abilities and then back to Battle.
As others have said, unless you have a healer, always pull one mob at a time when possible. Use a ranged weapon to pull any time it’s too dangerous to Charge without risking getting more than one mob… pull them back to a safe kill area away from other mobs.
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