Warriors are the hardest the level, and are mostly stuck with auto attack until around level 36.
However
If you make it to the 30s you start to experience a decent uphill slope of performance.
Level 30 - Sweeping Strikes, Whirlwind Axe, Zerker stance
36 - Whirlwind
40 - Mortal Strike and plate armor
After you get those, warrior leveling becomes alot more fun but still slow and difficult.
And of course at 60 the whole process becomes worth it.
Iâm having fun with it and Iâm solo leveling. I canât wait for level 40 to get mortal strike but the way I have been leveling it hasnât been bad at all. It may be slower but Iâm hoping around to areas where the quests are always at my level or below my level.
Basically you have to 2h tank now but otherwise it doesnât seem so bad
PvP or PVE? If PVP, human is flat out the wrong race. EA or Stoneform are better. Go Gnome IMO if Alliance PVP.
But you have to play a gnome
Yes. And everyone you kill has to deal with the fact that they got killed by a 3 foot nothing little girl with pink pig tails.
I find fun challenging, there is no flashy buttons to press but the challenge of trying not to die and hamstring kiting your way to OPness one day is fun for me
I find them equal parts fun and rage-inducing.
For fun there is that whole feeling solid (in the highest armor class) where you donât take as much damage from melee attacks and you like to get right up in a mobâs face. Arms can also build up to doing some lovely crits, which are fun to see.
For rage-inducing, youâll never want to hear âneed more rageâ again ⊠but it wonât stop (well, unless you turn off that sound group). Caster mobs will burn holes in you. You have a dead-zone to rival hunters if you get rooted by some mobs. As human, youâll also be competing with some paladins for mail/plate throughout leveling (horde donât have that pesky problem, just many warriors).
Arms was hard for me to get used to because you go with a slow 2h weapon, and your first real damage skill activates on swinging the weapon. Sometimes it can feel like Iâm spending more of a fight waiting on a swing or rage than doing things. Early on misses and parries are long delays of doing no damage to the mob.
Warriors are also rough in the zero self-heal department. Potions and first aid might save you, but if you canât get done with a fight and out of combat, and donât get healed by someone, you can die from DoTs or bleeds far too easily. Flip-side is you have the armor to take a few more hits, so running away might work out better than for a squishy.
TL;DR - well, I find mine fun, but itâs really best to try it and see if the way it plays feels okay to you
I started a warrior alt and I just hit 30 this morning with under 18 hours of play time.
With some low level greens +fiery weapon enchant i was able to get to lvl 10 within 2 hours. At lvl 10 i had a guild mate run me through WC for my crescent moon staff, which I enchant with crusader. This got me from 10-20 insanely fast.
I enchanted another BOE blue with crusader and went 20-30 at the pace of ~1 hour per level.
I just got my WW axe which I also enchanted with crusader. I plan to solo quest for most of my grind to lvl 60 (doing dungeons for key pieces of loot).
Though expensive, i have fun 2-3 shotting mobs my level.
I also have alot of my BIS boeâs in my inventory (lionheart, devilsaur, etc) so things wont necessary be getting harder as I level.
Before level 10, find yourself a slow 2h weapon, pull and thunder clap everything to death!
After level 10,âŠ
This is killing me right now. I bring out 3 stacks of food and before I even realize it Iâm out and running back to town.
Smart. If youâve leveled a hunter (or another class that is better at leveling that Warrior, and good at gold farming), then paying for your warrior to have sick leveling gear sounds like an excellent way to go.
Theyâre okay it just takes some finesse; gotta stack some spirit for hp regen as well. Make sure you take first aid as well!
Warrior leveling so far is not as horrible as the jokes make it out to be. Iâve been using Arms up to this point. I canât exactly speak for how Fury works yet due to lack of experience with Fury Warriors before 60.
The real rough part is just early on. You need to learn when you can take something, and when you canât. That once you engage, youâre committed outside of lucky Hamstrings and environment use. Honestly, getting a swing timer helps immensely.
Oh, and the most important thing about new Warriors: Donât overuse or rely too much on Heroic Strike. Not only does it burn 15 rage (and rage is precious early on!), but you donât gain any rage whatsoever from the hit itself, unlike white hits. I like to use Heroic Strike only if I know Iâm not going to be using what rage is left after the fightâs over.
Sunders are better. Drop one or two while the Rendâs ticking and the monsterâs healthy, it makes a good difference.
I just love the gear they get and the fact in PvP if you engage a warriorâŠyou better know what your doing or from what Iâve seenâŠyouâll be over half dead after one Mortal Strike critâŠdeadly as.
Can we faction change on classic lol
Fun? Yes, in a Iâm the man sort of way. Itâs slow and steady. Invest the time to gear your toon and youâll have a blast. I couldnât imagine trying to quest, explore and chew through mobs with crappy greens.
Dual-wield fury is way more satisfying and effective than Arms, but requires superior gear.
if this was 2004 that would be true.
The patch weâre in is pretty face roll for all classes and warriors have it pretty easy.
You will bandage more than most classes. Get a bow or gun and learn to pull when youâre in dense areas. Itâs really mob to mob with little down time on warrior if you keep your weapon upgraded.
I find it fun.
Supposedly if you stack spirit you can counteract the downtime associated with going toe to toe with any given mob in the game.
From what Iâve read thereâs a sweet spot between normal/good stats and spirit stacking that doesnât gimp you, and gives you enough OOCombat regen that you can grind forever without stopping.
Not really. No, not really at all. It might be better than if Classic was based off earlier patches, but itâs still not mob to mob with little downtime.
Have you achieved this? Thatâd be interesting to see. Iâve kept pretty current with weapon upgrades, and mostly been running instances.
I notice a pretty huge difference between trying to solo quest versus running with others.