How bad is it compared to 2H? I am actually gonna tank a lot in dungeons while leveling and I wanna have my 1H weapon skills to max always… I am thinking of Dual wield Sword/Mace and when I will need to tank I will just throw a shield and ready to go.
I know that dual wield have a big penalty on hit rating, but on the other hand, dual wield will give more overpower procs…
Also should I start in Arms for improved overpower and then respec to fury at around 30+ to access to good fury talents?
Generally people exaggerate.
It wont be that bad, it just wont be as efficient as 2H
not worth it you’ll miss too many times to make it work. Yes you can level up this way, but it’s not efficient at all. Just go with a 2 handers really.
If your not going for a speed leveling record its fine
Well, Asmongold actually doing dual wielding and he plays as a Warrior. I don’t know if you watch him. I am mostly a DPS player but sometimes i play with my priest class.
He’s dual wield tanking at level 60, which is very much viable, but no warrior levels up dual wielding
2H fury or DW… Once You get to mobs that CANT bleed you will thank me… EPL and WPL ware cancer… any quests involving elementals ect ware cancer
I do.
The swing timer on 2h’ers just kills me. I tried for a short while way back but I can’t stand it I just can’t.
Staying a bit above the level you are doing helps but I guess that’s true for arms as well.
I’m leveling in protection and for me dual wield works just fine when fighting low level mobs (greens and grays). For mobs of my level I prefer shield, as DPS increase is not worth survivability decrease.
I was actually thinking about this as well… to level as prot. I know its slow, but how is survivability? Can you easily take on 2-3 mobs of your level?
I’ve been DW levelling from 20 and it is perfectly viable but not really as efficient as 2H.
You must learn to be patient and manage your rage much more efficently, you’ll find yourself having regular miss runs which is frustrating, my record so far is 8 in a row against a water elemental mob in Thousand Needles.
Dont panic and keep plenty of healing pots to hand as well, also keep first aid maxed too it reduces downtime and never let Battleshout fall off.
The funny thing about it is it can go the absolute opposite way from misses, succesive crits can mince a mob in seconds but this is rarer than miss streaks.
Also max cruelty as soon as viable i made the mistake of not doing so as i wanted to try out various things. 5% may not seem a lot but you really notice it as you level.
Not easily, but generally it’s ok. Also can kill mob of +3 level. My weapon is very bad, though. If you will visit dungeons often and have up to date weapon, it’ll be much better. I’m basically running with weapon from DM at 38 level.
It’s fine… but you struggle a bit more with characters above your level. Greens you eat up like crazy, yellow is the realm of too many misses already. But… still fine/doable.
Would have helped if we just had a little bump in hit earlier on like Rogue talents… but nope.
Your weapons and armour are critical though, but that goes for any playstyle as Warrior.
Hmm I remember running RFD with my warrior mate when we were lvl 31. He was DPSing with dual wield, then he got the Corpsemaker. We reran the instance a few times for my Corpsemaker, I noticed his damage output go down enormously after he got the axe. With arms spec that was.
Maybe dual wield allows better use of heroic strike? After lvl 40 is a different story ofc.
Weapon skill?
No he had weapon skill with 2h axes already, only just switched to DW.
It’s mostly about the weapons you can get. At some levels there are good 1-handers available while 2-handers are too expensive or don’t just drop in dungeons. Use whatever weapons you find.
Dual wielding in general is not as good as 2-handers for solo questing, but i usually do it once in a while to keep up my weapon skills. And i always level up in arms spec - improved overpower, axe spec and sweepings strikes are too good to miss. The only talent i take from fury tree is naturally 5/5 Cruelty.
but besides the imp overpower and Sweeping strikes, the other talents feel meh… As Alliance I play with Swords anyway 
Fury has Imp battle Shout, Enrage, death wish, Flurry…
You miss like crazy even with a 2h, its even worse dual wielding.
Arms may be more efficient, but I leveled a Warrior fine in Vanilla as dual wield Fury.