Getting access to the Devastate rune at 10 leads me to believe that Blizzard thinks that it’s a viable way to level but after trying it out there’s just no possible way to get enough rage.
Sure you can shield block and hit Revenge in a back and forth swap but sundering is just a pipe dream. Even with Bloodrage you get 1 stack and that’s it.
Is this just a case of shelving the defensive stance till 25 and going Arms?
I’m an old hand at WoW but never warrior tank just on a paladin. I’m just finding the slow pace of killing followed by mandatory sit and eat to be annoying.
How are other people’s warrior leveling experiences?
As someone leveling a Warrior. I think you’ve overlooked a critical flaw:
Blood Frenzy (Chest Rune) - Grants the Warrior 3 rage every bleed-tick (per enemy). With 10 bleeding enemies exactly at once from your rend, that is 30 rage per 3 seconds. Even then, with Blood Frenzy, you refunded your rend, and gains 8 more rage net-profit.
You can use this in cooperation with Sunder, and achieve good results especially for tanking.
Blood Frenzy and Endless Rage runes make warrior tanking a breeze in SoD compared to Classic Era. Devastate is better on raid bosses, just stick to good ol sunder for dungeons. Tab target and sunder everything then rend everything after, if anything gets pulled off you taunt it back. Make sure you are using Revenge on CD it is amazing for threat generation.
For leveling get yourself a two-hander and use battle stance. You are not locked into tank only or dps only in vanilla classic wow no matter your spec until 60 endgame. Can tank just fine atm as arms or fury.
I have blood frenzy and I rend everything, it’s the one thing I keep up always.
I don’t have the endless rage rune as yet, still can’t find murk eye or tag him.
Yeah I’m starting think I need to just go dps till 25 then see.
I am arms spec atm myself and gotta say if you plan on tanking dungeons then the Tactical Mastery and Anger Management talents are incredible and let you hold onto your rage easy between pulls and healer drinking. Even tanked all of BFD twice over as arms now tbh lol.