i would like to play a noble knight with powerful ranged attacks.
so my suggestion is simple.
give warrior 5-6 runes for ranged attacks, that hit hard when we spec for it, scaling of intellect.
of course, the plategear needs to adapt to this change, so remove half teh strength from plate, and make it intellect 
what a new experience this would be
the noble ranger, armoured in plate, with medium powerful melee and 2 powerful shots to spam!
Aren’t you tired of trolling all day long ? I still can’t get what’s your problem with the state of hunters . If you want to play melee ,there are better options . P2 changes look great tho
im not trolling. i want to play ranged, and with how warrior scaling works, i think i have a better chance to have fun if my warrior gets ranged attacks, and i love the idea of wearing plate. bleeds proccing of ranged attaks, i mean…woOw… imagine the t3 set on a ranged warrior, with a big bow, or even a huge cannon, how strong warriors are, like the terminator himself. insane looking what the game NEEDS is more options for ranged play, with phys classes. it has too many in the melee group as is, so it would balance things
u will in the nxt couple weeks. hence me wanting options.
also: my suggestion would level the plategear more, as pallys would get alot more options - thats a great thing
and us warriors wouldnt be so dependant on the few melee weapons that drop, now that even more classes MS bis is in that loot.
its actually a fantastic idea. very season of discovery as well. new playstyles. warrior doesnt have any. they still just melee dps or tank like always.
Ya simply delete all other classes and give warriors a healer role too.
Because a special snowflake wants it!
u think warrior has gotten a new playstyle in SoD? that was the intention of SoD after all.
everyone else got something new, and warriors didnt. thats unfair, isnt it?
this change would be fun to play, and needed for the game, as there are few and far options for ranged play.
it wouldnt be like a hunter, as warriors dont NEED pets, they tank once the get the mobs. but the opener hurts badly - proper terminator.
snowflakes are unique m8 - we have the best ideas. and SoD needs this, warriors need this, and it would make it much beter for pvp.
having seen that huge log shammys get, i want a cannon to shoot with! insanely fantastic idea
In my opinion warriors should not be ranged, that would probably be more fitting for a paladin if anything. Making the warrior ranged would completely change the nature of the class. Sure we can make comparisons of SOD giving the hunters opportunity to be melee’s and what not, but that was already a small part of the class to begin with, not something completely new. The same goes for other classes. I don’t really see a way how the ranged abilities would fit lore or history wise, without somewhat ruining the integrity of the class.
Don’t get me wrong it sounds very cool, but it would probably make more sense to make a completely new class. But maybe you have an idea of how a ranged warrior would play out? Maybe throwing spears and what not?
every warrior ever, has and uses a ranged weapon. its not new to the class, its an existing, unused abillity that holds ENORMOUS promise for the future.
if fits the elf fantasy, they all wear plate and use bows in every epic movie. nelfs warriors would be as in line with that, as orc meleehunter is with rexxar. its all part of the same fantasy metaverse.
i think, since they are plate and strength and all, they should use cannons. like a terminator, held at the hip and fired with a huge boom. launcing different kinds of granades, that either do fire and phys (regular grenade) or school of magic like nature, shadow aso. all scaling with intellect on the plategear.
with all the haste the mined gear seems to have, it would be a machinegun.
spears isnt a bad idea, or lances, but its more like a polearm, lookswise, so it wouldnt feel that new. i mean, the combat log could end up saying Brittney(warrior) does 9000 damage with Spears…do we really want to go there?
not really, the paladin is a magicuser, and judges ranged anyway. and their fightingstyle was always the reckless ramming into their evil enemy style, fighting face to face, facing down the forces of evil.
it was when it first came, with focus instead of mana. prior to that, hunters didnt use it really, other than pvp in deadzone, and it was never very useful other than to slow with. warriors use their ranged weapons the same way, if a hunter kites with cheetha. to slow them like wing clip slows melee.
SoD would’ve been the perfect opportunity to give a ranged spec to wars or rogues. Maybe it’s still gonna happen on P3? But at this point I’m very doubtful.
A bleed-focused play style for warriors would’ve also been good.
exactly that, and ranged spec offers just such a thing.
its a NEW playstyle, and a fun one. works for pvp, and pve.
Just another Lurky Hunter whine…
A warrior is a melee fighter, no need to add unnecessary garbage to it.
thats only because u havent thought this through. its actually a shockingly good idea 
warrior does play exactly as it always did, doesnt it? this is season of discovering NEW playstyles
maybe it was a whine, but its got real legs as a concept! a cannonweilding t3 warriors, blasting with 200% haste like the terminator shooting down copcars and choppers
thats really not in the spirit of the season 
No, not even close. Move along Lurky’s alt.
really? mine does. its more powerful, but its still bang bang in melee and move on,ragestarving and in a hurry, just like aalways.
we deserve more!
we should get something entirely new to have fun with like most classes do. leave tanking to rogues, shammys and locks, and we can replace the hunters and finally have viabillity in pvp
this idea is amazing
The ranged weapon is only for auto-attacking. I would not classify this as a spell. The only ranged spell warriors have had during the history of wow is for example shattered throw.
In my opinion they could just as well be hunters with mail gear. As you said, they would be in line with Rexxar as a melee hunter. So why make warriors more like hunters? This would blur the line between what’s unique about the classes.
The concept of using ranged as in most fantasy inspired environments is that it usually requires mobility to be viable, and thus would require the person to wear lighter and more moveable armor. The reason why warriors wear plate is because they are usually at the frontlines taking the brunt of the enemies force. Cannons/guns and grenades are today already used by rogues in some capacity as it is a trait of pirates/thiefs. I see warriors to have the same mindset at samurai’s in which they see honor in hand to hand combat, and guns and grenades as cheap tricks.
Apart from the use of magic and the existing range spells paladin uses, how is this playstyle any different from warriors? Paladins are in essence warriors blessed by the light and thus gaining magic abilities. Warriors have always been face to face combatants.
Hunters didn’t use melee attacks because they were not viable but it was still an intention blizzard had in the beginning. Which is why the BM spec existed and why they had at least 3-5 melee spells. Warriors have not used ranged abilities to the same degree hunters have used melee abilities, it does not even come close. As i said earlier, warriors only have a ranged weapon auto-attack which is the shoot ability. It does not provide anything apart from a small amount of damage.
I’m definitely not opposed to ranged attacks for a warrior, i just don’t see the use for it without compromising the integrity of the classes and blurring the lines between their core abilities. The few abilities that could have its place, is abilities similar to shattering throw.
Warrior is not the only class that have remained the same in SOD, play-style wise.
but, it IS a ranged weapon, and it has the base for ranged attacks, the autoattack. thats most of what a BM hunter does anyway!
but ranged hunter isnt viable in mail with all that strengthgear. we need a replacement, now that melee is filling up. what better class, than the one that has never had any option other than sitting in melee the whole game through? this is abot NEW experiences after all. all the poeple who rolled warrior by mistake, and envied hunters their range and freedom from the difficulty of melee, can now get out of it!
Im looking at you, Miylee
yes, i am!
anyway…
they do that sweet RP where they knight the good guys with a sword. u cant ruin that. warriors is a very broad term. modern warriors ALL rely on ranged weapons, dont they? its definitely in keeping with the warrior theme!
no. it existed because hunters had a deadzone. they needed ways to escape or defend in that area.
they have used them to slow hunters. and interupt casters. and do damage if someone is low hp, and killed with it.
and they pull with it in pve. its definitely a very used abillity, and more so than hunters melee in pve raids, prior to p1 sod in classic.
well.
hunters have to deal with melee becomming meta and ranged becomming the useless spec in p2. if they can get upending classchanges, its only fitting that their spot in the ranged is filled by someone suited for the task, and that is the warrior. the SAS special forces terminator cannonweilding t3 monster. what rezzar dreamed of, but could never attain.
and thats a reason to keep all the fun from the class?? thats not fair. its just an oversight by teh devs.
The pleasure of playing as a warrior is when you take a two-handed sword (or duals) and go to slaughter your opponents.
u will still have that!
u get tank spec, dps spec as melee, like now, and ranged spec from runes.
so counting fury, prot and arms, and ranged makes 4 specs! like the druids have, more or less.
only now, when they root u, u can pull out a cannon and execute them as well
u just stack intellect and its a nuke u firing !
You’re probably trolling with this, but I did have a thought similar to this before release.
Warriors have always been goofballs, bouncing around and being weird which is why I main warrior, and this season is all about the weird.
I had a sneaking suspicion that warriors are going to change the least in this season. All we get is a couple extra gnomes glued to our weapon, but nothing really new in the way of fun.
I would have loved to see a ranged warrior, throwing boulders, and nearby furniture at enemies.
A support healer warrior, the likes of Warhammer Commissars, you know, “Survive this or I’ll kill you myself”
A caster warrior, throwing carboard cutouts of frostbolts, tied to spears.
Just something dumb, because why not…