As of late i have been seeing more and more warriors with epic gear 1 shotting me. So i have started my own warri but i have come to the conclusion that without gear warri is pretty bad. I was wondering if that is the expierience of everyone here or am i just not the guy for warr? and will that change someday?
Now before the average forum andy here will tell you warrior is bad and you shouldnt play it for pvp theres a few things you should know.
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Yes, Warrior is very gear reliant but they do have excellent scaling.
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Warrior as of this point still needs some external help in form of either other class buffs or professions such as engineering to truly excell in pvp.
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Gladiator stance may help in the future for warriors for pvp but that still stands to be seen.
Warrior can be the most fun and unfun class in pvp at the same time.
I know this sounds weird but theres nothing more satisfying than landing some crits in a row on some poor clothie and deleting them from existence.
And yet warrior also has quite a few weak points that good pvpers can exploit to counter them.
Id recommend watching a few old classic warrior pvp videos ( as the gameplay is pretty much the same) and decide after that if warrior is something for you.
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Can relate as ret pally too.
Short answer, you’re better off playing pretty much anything else, maybe keep a warrior alt leveled up to see how it plays at 60 
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Warriors will be top DPS by a mile ahead of everybody else towards the end of SoD when they are geared to the teeth.
Not if they add stronger runes to other classes, what if rogues get +50% crit damage like mages did? Nothing is set in stone for 60.
I bet if you looked into ‘Details’ or ‘Recount’, you’d quickly find the Warrior hit 7% of your HP with Mortal Strike and a Druid, SPriest, Mage or any other class in the game actually one shot you
Warriors are utter trash in PvP as they hit 1/5th the damage of every other class in the game.
Tank Warlock Searing Pain hits from 200-400 with 500-600 crits. It’s an instant cast and can be spammed.
Mortal Strike which requires 31 points invested into Arms, has a 6 second cooldown, costs 1/3rd your rage and requires melee range, hits 250-350 in PvP 
The problem warriors are facing at the moment is ridiculously low damage in PvP and awful Runes. We’re in Phase 3 of SoD at the moment and we’re about to receive our FIRST and ONLY pressable ability that makes use slightly different from playing Warrior on Classic.
To give you the final nail in the coffin as to why Warriors should be ignored in SoD:
[Shield Wall]: 75% damage Reduction - 30 minute Cooldown. Requires you to burn a GCD swapping to Defensive Stance and you need to swap to a 1h & Shield.
[Dispersion]: 90% damage reduction - 2 minute Cooldown. CAN BE USED WHILST MOUNTED! A priest can use their SUPERIOR defensive 15 times… 15 TIMES in the time Warriors can cast theirs a SINGLE time…
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You seem to forget gear gets tweaked all the time and other classes got debatably runes that will make them scale even more than warriors.
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In Classic era, warrior was the worst solo class, it was utter garbage without any support but absolute godmode with support.
In SoD, warriors are the worst solo class. They’re absolute garbage without any support but… Kind of mid with support.
Might change at 60, but for now they’re not worth the time investment. Might as well go hunter for better DPS, better solo play, better PVP and easier gameplay.
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Very well said 
Forgot mages, might as well go for mage.
You seem to forget you’re dealing with blizzard(sod) devs here. They don’t know what they are doing. By shaking up the meta they meant keeping the exact same meta as classic. Warriors are already blasting disgusting numbers at level 50 in ST, top DPS so it has started, and their stats aren’t even that great yet. Warrior’s top DPS from now until SoD ends.
Just coming here to correct myself…
Turns out my warrior’s DPS this phase is absolutely huge with world buffs. 1.1k DPS on the first boss this last raid without songflower buff or the blasted lands consumables. I was easily 10% ahead of my guild’s hunter (that was ahead of me by a mile in P2)
Expect warrior nerfs. Still garbage in PVP and solo content, but the raid DPS is through the roof right now.
warrior has the best gear scaling in the game, it is godlike in level compared to the next best class, it needs to be nerfed.
Im just starting one too, going to give it a shot see how it pans out.
Reading online tier rating’s is not much use, some say S tier other’s B so that’s fantastic
If you like playing it play it
by the look of things with all the passive scaling runes warrior is getting on top of the OG gear scaling , warriors will 100% dominate at p4 fully bised but atm they suck at pvp and decent at pve
No, well not yet anyway.
It actually allows the priest to FC in BGs too. I’m not sure if it is a bug or intentional, but i have seen it happen
Warriors were dog water in phase 2 and are still under pretty much everyone else unless fully buffed and well geared. Keep on coping and seething.
no, dog tier pvp, zero defensives, hits like a wet noodle, doesn’t generate rage in pvp
only thing it can do to oneshot you is when you are a clothie with less than 20% hp
warriors are s+ tier in pve with dmg buffs, boons, gear