I have created a new warrior toon few days ago and I am shocked.
I leveled rogue, priest (as disco), druid (as feral which was weaker than balance for leveling when I tried it), hunter, mage…
But gosh… how terrible spot warrior is in (leveling as arms, might try out fury)?
I have grouped up with a warlock, we were both lvl 20, his dots alone did about 30dps + guard + drain (totaling 50dps)… while I was hitting with 2-hand blue weapon for 20dps into same level NPC.
With rogue, druid, priest, mage I could yolo 2-4 NPCs (with mage even more, but lower lvl) that have +2 lvl, to do the same with warrior those NPCs must be at least 3 levels below me.
People give me buffs, heals, pots,… I never got any on other toons… probably out of pity?
I get it his damage will be alright in endgame content, but boy leveling is a major pain.
Don’t level a warrior if you can’t handle the phase. At the moment, there are a lot of warriors in SOD. We could do with a few less.
Yes, I’m a main warrior with all my professions and reputation. If it weren’t for the grind and time invested, I would have rerolled. Warriors are DPS raid monsters that stack with buffs, but be aware that there is a cost in power without them.
As the game is right now, warrior DPS classes can’t get any more buffs without Blizzard needing to totally overhaul the class.
Try to get Devastate rune and you will have a non-reactive damaging ability and still get rage from white hits. Also victory rush is solid and you can get Warbringer now easily, just have to buy it from the vendor, so you can stay in defensive stance and charge regardless of being in or out of combat.
Also bonus you won’t have to search for a tank for any dungeons you might want to do.
Warriors always suck at open world content both level and end game.
Just make sure you keep your First Aid up to date at all time and hold onto food or buy a few stacks before going anywhere. If you want to clear quest quickly you will be eating and bandaging after pretty much every enemy you fight.
Also hold onto any healing potions you find and even level herb/alch to get armor and strength/agil potions then just change prof at max level.
I do, use victory rush, it works if i go 1on1 against lower level. my post is about going 1(lvl30)v3-4(lvl33) where you can see how strong other classes are for leveling.
I never played warrior, I dont really care how much warriors there are.
I started out as tank with devastate and victory rush, but did not felt very useful. Went SM:GY and just wasnt able to hold agro against people doing 4-5x more dps. But i plan to tank on 50, but rn doing incursions so no longer valid post, i just wanted to highlight how OP other classes are.
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Review on lvl 45: getting much better with more talents and better items
Yeah warriors always struggle in open world pve.
Its alot better in sod with victory rush snd going arms with bleed rune that gets your overpower procs.
Forget about fury warrior in solo pve tho. Its just plain awful.
At lvl 50 you can deal good damage in raids. But it requires you to get all wbs,consumes and fast kill times.
The most damage will come from execute phase with recklessness which is 30min cd buff.
In dungeons you do fine. But since you wont be having wbs inside dungeons you wont deal most dmg.
Atleast prot warrior is fixed and viable as tank.