I will remain cautiously optimistic about warrs in Shadowlands. Might be time to sideline my current main for awhile
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For sure their will be complaints blaming how they are “forced” into whichever sims higher and its gate keeping them from content.
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Nice. Now I’ll be able to mog claws on my warrior.
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Nah I would have said this as any other class, that’s the realism behind M+ and raiding, your not gonna get far if you go one-handed. Remember 8.0 and how bad shaman were? No one took them for anything, and if you were a feral druid you’d be kicked just for existing. Going one handed dual wield is an auto kick in SL in serious content, cause your holding back needlessly.
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The term is flourentine. Forgive spelling.
It’s both more common, historically, than most think. It’s also less common than most believe. Many knights were trained in the use of off hand weapons. Except they weren’t used all the time. They were used more for surprise strikes than regular combat.
I study the history of weapons and armor. It’s a hobby.
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But, u would attack faster, combined with covenant attack speed plus wind fury totem I think it’ll be good.
I wish they would make Single Minded Fury work on each hand separately so wielding a 1h weapon would give +8% dmg to that weapon and +2.5% movespeed. That would be the freest way to make all weapon fantasies possible.
Only if you have a shaman in party, and even then…you’d attack slightly faster with 2 handed and deal even more damage. More attack speed isn’t good.
I might actually play my worgen warrior again. Hype.
I’m so stoked about this! Time to blow the dust off of my dwarf fury warrior who looks terrible with dual 2h weapons.
Very Good I was wondering if anyone would catch that. The one exception to this rule was in the Highlands of Scotland where they trained it from the traditional age of 7, using the Dirk inplace of a targe (small round shield) with typically a hand and a half sword known as a Claybeag (litteraly “Sword Small” several types used depending on the local smith). This later developed into a very fluid fighting style that lasted until the last recorded Highland Charge at the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge in North Carolina in 1776.
It is both impressive in its speed and fluid motion, properly trained and employed one man could tear through 3 ranks of pike or bayonet equipt infantry in seconds leaving a bloody mess behind him, a shock experienced by both French and British troops (where this style was largely forgotten) in the mid 1740s with the introduction of the first Highland regiment in the British Army, and the last Jacobite Rebellion in Scotland. The unfortunate side effect of the speed was parts were not always completely severed and many English officers lost their lunch picking through the grisly aftermath.
I study Highland culture and traditions from before the bans. ;D
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Yeah yeah yeah like it matters ill just make my own groups and so my own thing as my SMF warrior alt.
+8% damage is NOT going to close the gap between one-handed and two-handed weapon damage and stats… They need to have the buff directly buff the stats provided by the one-handed weapons to make it no different than titan’s grip…
Thats awesome!
It’ll be hilarious seeing worgen going around wacking everything with their big meaty claws.
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Whoah! I can tell. I focus more on the history of medieval weapons and armor. Still, quite interesting.
But yes, dual wield by and large, wasn’t the musketeer style of fighting that modern movies and games make you think it is. There we exceptions, like you mentioned. And I’m sure they were able to pull this off because they were extremely lightly armored (or not armored at all). IE the focus was more on speed and mobility than relying on armor as a defense.
Obviously, you’re the one who’s studied Highland culture, so you’d know more about that than I would.
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meh. i dont like the change but whatever. i guess blizzard wants to having a balancing nightmare again.
It was just unusual to see someone who knows about that style of fighting for me. The training is still practiced in some families with that heritage as a tradition that has been handed down. As a general rule the Highland Scots went lighter on the armor than most, although there are exceptions to that rule and many would hodgepodge what they could afford together for protection. Full plate or mail would have been atypical to say the least. Mostly boiled leather or quilted mail. By the 18th Century though it was restricted to just the Targe.
On a side note while everyone was trained in this method it still was not the most common outside the Highland Regiments as good swords were expensive and highly prized. The common employment of the tactic only the first two ranks would be composed of swordsmen followed up by the rest of the clan armed with pole arms and axes to mop up the newly taken ground. Just neat to come across another history geek on the forums here. Slainte 
Not as big into history as I used to be. Real life kind of murders that.
I guess the thing I like is that unlike guns (with exceptions) you could have two knives that look almost identical, but have radically different histories. And that I found fascinating.
Obviously I focused more on typical “western” style weapons and armor. Something I’ve been meaning to correct of course. Just never seem to find the time these days.
Real Life has a way of kicking you on the teeth that way. My biggest problem with studying history is the rabbit trails. There are some many that I lose all focus chasing the individual stories and cultures. But that’s what fascinates me and keeps me studying it. At a much slower pace than when I was in my teens but it still grabs my attention when I have attention to give. Good luck in your studies, but more importantly…study what grabs your attention.