Why play a warrior?

What reason do you have to still keep playing your warrior? For the people who are die hard fans. I am trying to keep playing, mostly for my guilds benefit but man it is no fun!

The plate gear from gnomer is trash, we are back to fighting rogues, hunters, and Druids for the leather and mail.

In general it seems the has been careful considerations taken to not make warrior gear or melee weapons very good (maces from pvp rewards, mostly fast weapons from gnomer)

They NEED wind fury to be viable. Good luck if you have no Druid or shaman. It literally turns into an auto attack class.

Sword and board tanking has been nerfed to the ground.

They have very poor survivability in pvp. Even if you are lucky enough to group with a healer. You can’t heal through the big damage other classes are pumping out, this also makes the MS rebuff worthless.

If you do get time to connect to a target the damage is too low to apply any real pressure and most of the time you will die before you have enough rage to start any meaningful offence.

The runes are very boring and lackluster. Passive increases that are scaling (good once you are geared to the teeth but boring). I mean they put two different versions of using slam on the same rune slot. Just seems very lazy.

What keeps you going? What light do you have at the end of the tunnel for this phase?

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I’m not a Poser Warrior FOTM Re-Roller.

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I plan to level my Warrior to 40 during this phase mostly because they are going to dominate at 60 in raids. They are pound for pound the DPS kings.

Everyone is freaking out at 25 and 40 and I just think they need to take a deep breath, open their front door, and get acquainted with some grass.

Remember in BFD when casters were trash? Now they are much better, mostly because of the bosses high armor (Sounds familiar right?).

Ya’ll are seeing the balance rollercoaster in mere phases just like they were back in vanilla each patch. Warriors will be on top in many ways and will be at a disadvantage in other ways.

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My guess is people play it because they enjoy the class. Not everyone chases the fotm or freaks out when they are not top dps lol.

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this isn’t about being flavor of the month. it’s about being relevant / viable.

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I’ve always played warrior since vanilla. It’s the class I know best and enjoy. Sadly this is the worst state they’ve ever been in pvp wise, having done warrior in vanilla, tbc, wrath, cata and now SoD.

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I have mained Warrior for 20 YEARS. That is all I have ever mained besides one time in TBC I had a Pally because the guild needed it.

I am subpar in all aspects including PvE tanking and I’m letting my guild down because of it.

I rerolled Rogue and I am running circles around my old Warrior.

If someone who played Warrior since the Friends & Family ALPHA of WoW is rerolling, there is something seriously wrong.

To hear a dev say “Warriors are fine” killed me. Crushed my soul.

I wonder if they feel differently now.

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well, there is no way of knowing whether or not warrior will be best dps at 60. if they keep up the whole nerf warriors buff not warriors we will atleast be top 40 in dps

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For me, I find it to be super fun in all content. I actually like warriors though, and have for quite a while. I even leveled 2 during WoW Classic 2019, and although my Retail main is also a Warrior, I think I prefer the SoD version of Warrior over Retail, so far. At least the rage and stance management aspects are a lot of fun.

And yeah, who doesn’t like being the highest on the DPS meters, but that’s only a small portion of the overall gameplay, in my personal opinion. Besides, it’s not like I’m a 99-100% parser anyway!

:woman_shrugging:

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charge is really fun. i like going ‘weeeeeeeeeeeee’ at the target.

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Crit vomiting as DW fury. Straight up been the biggest dopamine rush in this game since I started playing warriors in 2006.
I’m absolute fodder in Gnomer and question my class every second, but then I remember the critz.

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To give battle and demo shout of course.

My warrior is Dual Wield because it looks cool not because I don’t know what i"m doing.
I know 2H is better in the current phase I just don’t care.

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This guy gets it

I okay whatever I feel like playing.

:man_shrugging:t2:

It’s about wielding Thunderfury Blessed Blade of the Windseeker and that big ol fiery mace thing.

Warriors are more than viable, just stop with the hyperbolic nonsense.

Saying things like this makes it difficult to take you seriously.

We cleared Gnomer on the first lock out with 2 warriors in the group, main tank and dps.

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It’s fun

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he responds with only PvE examples
how predictable

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yeah give warriors half of titan’s grip. Rune of the funny moment when: While wielding Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker you may equip 1 2handed mace