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Cataclysm questions on warrior pve!
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cubelord
Warriors feel very powerful with the new changes, especially in terms of DPS, but you asked about tanking so I'll focus on that.
Threat will feel a lot different now for you, and while we do still have great single-target threat, our AoE is a bit better than it used to be with the new Blood and Thunder talents and Thunderstruck for huge Shockwave damage.
In terms of survivability, avoidance is a lot more important than stacking stamina than it used to be, and you've got to manage cooldowns more effectively than you used to. It's not uncommon to pop a Shield Wall on trash, or other damage-reduction abilities just to keep yourself alive.
Other than that, warriors haven't changed a whole lot, since we don't have any new resources to manage or any huge changes in gear (block and defense have been essentially replaced by Mastery and Dodge/Parry, respectively.)
If you have any other questions, let this place know, since everyone knows everything about everything!
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Uricidea
Either DPS Spec. is viable for leveling. I find arms a little easier to gear for, and it has an engaging play style. Fury doesn;t get good until you can get one of those 31 point talents. In the end you can;t go wrong by choosing either.
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Grokarak
Personally I enjoy Fury more for PvE although I use arms for PvP (PvP without throwdown is too hard for me XD).
I think at the moment Fury has potential to do more damage than arms but fury dps is kinda tempremental right now. With the lack of hit on current gear your dps can be based on luck (it can be really frustrating becoming rage starved after a miss streak). Arms on the other hand is easier to gear for (needing less hit by far) and can be somewhat more reliable. Personally I dont think theres enough of a difference to say one for definite so your best picking what you enjoy more.
Cant help you with tanking, I'm terrible at it, dont enjoy it and my warr dosnt even have a prot spec =]
Post by
Badaccus
any feedback would be great because I also have a paladin and i am not sure which one to level
What i did was i left my paladin to rot, Warrior's are much to fun now, and paladin dps is mediocre at best. Arms is godly for PvP, Fury is way more fun in PvE, and they do about the same dps, i managed to pull roughly 12k with both speccs, reforged for hit til (and hit-elixir and hit-food) i had right around 12% as Fury, and normally the incoming rage is fairly steady, but i do have Battle shout/Berserker rage (glyphed and talented) and Arcane torrent on hotkey, it helps when the rage gets low.
You can macro Battleshout and Berserker rage (and arcane torrent if you are Belf) into one button, works great, and can build a full rage-bar out of combat, even tho it takes a while.
Edit: Tanking is as fun as ever, dps yelling at you, healers yelling at you, instant que, dps not thinking about threat, nobody waits for anyone, bla bla bla... the list goes on, but thats nothing new. Generally, IF you get a good group, (like mine last night, did 3-4 randoms with the same group) i absolutely LOVED it, i haven't had that much fun in a very long time.
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