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Korthan
Wow, lots of questions all at once. I would suggest you start here:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Starting_a_warrior
It will introduce you to the class concepts.
Basically, in WoW, all characters, regardless of class, fulfill one of 3 roles in a party - Tank, Healer, orDPS. The tank's job is to grab the monster's (monsters in wow are typically called "mob"s) attention (generally called aggro or threat), get it to attack him (and only him), and take damage from the monsters and not die. It is _not_ the tank's job to deal damage, except as a side-effect of holding his attention. The healer's job is to heal the tank and keep him from dying (and the other party members, if there are attacks that affect multiple players). The DPS (damage per second) job is to deal damage to the mob. A typical 5-person party is 1 Tank, 1 Healer, and 3 DPS.
All classes can DPS. Only certain classes can heal or tank.
Warriors can fulfill either the DPS or Tank roles. This will be determined by their talents (have you hit level 10 and started spending talent points yet?), and by their gear.
For Tanking, warriors choose the "Protection" talent tree and a one handed weapons with a shield.
For DPS, warriors choose either the "Fury" or "Arms" trees, and fight with either a two-handed weapon or two one-handed weapons.
This is all drastically simplified, but should get you started.
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Randoom
warriors armor are the same apart from look, regardless or race.
at 40 you can purchase from your trainer an upgrade to make mail plate
1H + shield for tanking (and sometimes BGs), otherwise 2H for maxiumum dps (damage)
fury for talents, high damage and you get to later at level 60 duel weild two 2H weapons
looking for guild: (/1 for general chat) Looking for Guild, new player looking for some company while leveling, those serious will take you serious, those immature will troll and you can /ignore
also on a smaller side note: warrior are one of the easier classes to play, you dont have to learn to heal, you have high armor and the more you do the more rage you have to fuel your moves.
hope this helps you a little bit, feel free to further post if you need more help :)
Post by
marklartank
you should also look for people advertising "leveling guilds". those would be filled with other people also leveling their first toons and it's sooo much better to work with others.
you could also post yourself, "new player looking for friendly leveling guild" in trade or guild recruitment chat. you will have to enter a major city (undercity, for example), to use those chat channels.
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Randoom
Thanks for the quick responses. I'm level 20 and here is a look at my warrior.
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Malygos&cn=Orneth
nothing bad about your gear :) the frost resist ring would be the first to get rid of imo if you look to change rings, otherwise just get greens blues where you can and GL
Post by
marklartank
oh man, you really didn't use talent points, lol.
try
this
out and work towards
this
.
glyphs might be expensive until you join a guild and find someone to make them for you.
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marklartank
charge, then rend is good.
after that,
OP
is going to be your bread and butter. it will light up every time your target dodges, plus every six seconds once you get
TfB
. if you can find a cheap
glyph
, it will also light up every time your target parries. those three combined will mean OP is ready a LOT.
HS is ok, but uses a lot of rage, so use it less if you find yourself rage-starved. cleave basically replaces HS when you have >1 mob.
victory rush
is new for leveling, but it's a free attack, so definitely use it when it's available.
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cosmicguen
Sounds like you're off to a flying start :)
You generally won't be able to work on dungeons solo. It is possible, but not usually without pretty good gear, being over-levelled for the place, and knowing your class and the dungeon very well. Not an impossible task, but one extremely difficult for a newbie :)
If you want to get into dungeons you can do it one of two ways (there is a third way, but it's not usually worth the extreme amount of effort).
- ask in your new guild if anyone wants to run through somewhere with you
- hit 'i' to open up the Looking For Dungeon tool, choose the DPS role, and join the queue. Carry on questing/fishing/whatever, and when your group is ready you'll get a big, obvious notification box pop up. Accept it and get teleported to the dungeon. When you leave the group you'll get teleported back to where you were.
I would suggest trying to get guildies to run with you, but don't be afraid to just queue up to join a completely random group. A 'guild run' will usually allow for a slightly slower pace with time for questions, suggestions and explanations. Random groups will usually just blast through the place and leave your head spinning.
Couple of tips for working with a group:
- let the tank establish threat before you start wailing on the mobs. Just give him a few seconds to beat on the bad guys so they hate him lots, then you can join in.
- if a bad guy starts whacking you, run
to
the tank and
stop hitting that bad guy
. Hit something else. It makes it easier for the tank to get its attention back on him.
- assist the tank. Hit his target. In the options menu you can turn on the 'target of target' feature. I usually set the tank as my focus (click on the tank, type /focus, a box will pop up to show you the tank, and another one will come up when he targets something) so I can always see the thing he's hitting and select it for myself.
All in all, ask questions, learn new things, ignore the asshats and have fun ;)
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