Although Warriors happen to be great tanks they’re not limited to just tanking. Their almost unlimited choice in weapons and armor make them fantastic at Melee DPS. Warriors actually have a larger selection of armor and weapons than any other class.
Read more about the Warrior class in the Warrior Class Guide
Let’s start out in the WoW Warrior guide by looking at some of their strengths.
- Selection of Armor & Weapons: Warriors can wear pretty much any kind of armor including plate armor at level 40. They can also wield just about any weapon except for wands. They can dual wield at level 20.
- High Hit Points
- DPS to Tank: Warriors can switch mid combat from DPS to Tanking.
Below are some of the challenges you’ll run into and some weaknesses.
- Gear Dependent: In order to be effective you must think about the best gear.
- Threat Reducing: They don’t have any real means of reducing threat
- Healing: They don’t have healing abilities
Three unique stances define the abilities of the Warrior, and are listed below.
- Battle Stance: The most balaced stance of the 3.
- Defensive Stance: Great for taking damage.
- Berserker Stance: This is a completely offensive stance and maximizes damage output.
The following part of the WoW Warrior guide will look at the three types of talent builds; Arms, Fury and Protection and their various talents.
Arms: Talents
- Deep Wounds: Fantastic for inflicting damage.
- Taste for Blood, Improved Overpower, and Unrelenting Assault: Particularly good for Melee.
- Sudden Death: Combined with Mortal Strike you’ll be able to cause massive damage to enemies in very short time.
- Trauma: Increases your output.
Fury: Talents
This one’s very gear dependent and shouldn’t be used for group play or raids. It’s great for inflicting quick bursts of damage. Here’re some talents:
- Cruelty, Armored to the Teeth: This is an essential talent.
- Enrage: Fantastic for both solo and leveling.
- Flurry
- Bloodthirst: If you do play a raid then this will help keep you alive by helping you inflict massive damage and heals quickly.
- Titans Grip: Wield two handed weapons, Whirlwinds and Slams
The Protection build is particularly good for defensive play. Here’s a list of talents.
- Incite
- Warbringer: Makes the Warrior basically unstoppable in PvP.
- Gag Order: Another excellent talent for PvP.
I won’t get into gearing up in this WoW Warrior guide just be aware of how important it is to this class.
Read more about the Warrior class in the World of Warcraft Warrior Guide
