How2warrior by Drêktarz

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Hey hey everyone I'm Drêktarz, I've been a warrior since release in November of 2004..And even since lvl 10..Arms has been my spec of choice.
No matter what blizz did to my spec; refused to do anything other than what i love: And that is...Being useful. Even when arms was Horrible, I still got 2k. When everyone was fury, I made druid warrior work, Because that's the way I've always known to play. Since 3.1; Druid warrior has slowly rised back up to its original place, A combo that pretty much involves me running in and beating on something till it gets bored and and pressured to the point where it just..Kinda gives up.

Well.

About my history here on mmowned. I'm known around here for writing guides in a colorful way, I try to capture you into understanding my point. I guess you could say i have a knack for making people pay attention. Ive posted various hunter guides, Back when Drektarz was my hunter, That character at the time was given to me because my roomate quit this game because he figured warhammer would be a good game (lol) But ive soon since returned to playing my warrior, and Hunter Drektarz (my twin both female orcs. Same hair style and everything. Skin tone face..you wouldnt be able to tell if we're dual boxing or not) has returned to this game.

NOTE: This is my guide...I'm typing ALL OF THIS off the top of my head. I'm not copying anything. So please dont accuse me of copying peoples work if you have no proof that im copying anything. This was done in my previous guides so im stating it in the guide..that this is 100% me. Drêktarz. Please dont attack me for trying to be helpful to some warrior out there who would like my guidance or advice.

Well lets get on to the meat of playing a warrior shall we?
I'm not going to do what i do in most of my guides; Tell you what you should do and how you should do it, Rather im going to explain your class mechanics specs and gemming habits and explain their functions so you can effectively make good choices.

Well first off, Ive always found that playing a warrior relys on reflex.
The faster you are as a warrior the more your going to benefit those around you. This is vital because warriors dont compete very well at the moment. This is why even in BGs i bring my A game, For that adrenaline rush you get when you kill 8 players without dying, Thats in my opinion what this game is truly about. But anyways to the point what i'm saying is: Melee classes were meant to be played. Meaning. Please do yourself a favor and get a set of keybindings. You cant make it as a warrior in the wonderful world of pvpcraft and click, only dks can do that.


------K e y b i n d i n g s------

Well my playstyle is a bit weird, i use these keys.

a - strafe left
g - strafe right
v - backpedal (you never know rofl..i like to have total control of my character. this is essential)
4 - move forward.

Those are your basic movement keys. All of my abilities..ALL OF MY ABILITIES ARE BINDED..Even stances..Actually a neat trick you can do with stances, is utilize your mouse.

these are my mouse binds:

Mouse wheel up - Berserker stance
Mouse wheel down - battle stance
Middle mouse click - Defensive stance.

Tip: now theres a trick here, You swap stances, but..that leaves the matter of your weapons being equipped. For this i utilize these macros to make me more versitile:

/cast berserker stance
/equipslot 16 Furious Gladiator's Decapitator

/cast Battle stance
/equipslot 16 Furious Gladiator's Decapitator

/equipslot 16 Torment of the Banished
/equipslot 17 Crygil's Discarded Plate Panel
/cast defensive stance

(lol idk im sure theres going to be someone who is going to look at this and be like WATLOL sooo..im going to point this out)
These all go in Seprate macros. So when i swap to battle stance. it equips my 2h by default. when i go in berserk it equips my 2h by default, and when i go in defensive, it equips my sword and board



Well mine at least, most people have different playstyles depending on the size of their hand and the position most comfortable.

But i think you can grasp the general concept here: (any more questions about macros? pm me. im full of knowledge :P)

----UI----
To be completely and totally honest with you.
I hate addons.
I hate them to death.
They always seem to do nothing but piss me off. So i use blizzards standard ui with a addon called Ghost pulse

Notice when i use berserker rage the icon tells me when a buff is applied to me. This also applies to useful mechanic such as charges, pummel, Taste for blood, spell reflect, and various other cooldowns. i like to know whats going on.

But as for ui, keep it simple imo. But if you LOVE having a cluttered as **** screen with a bunch of useless crap, hell you do that rofl.

---Rotation---
Everyone knows that rotation is vital. And to a warrior its often complicated.
Like blizz said in their recent class article thingy: Warriors are based on decision making.
Such as:
Do i charge now? or do i save it and use it as inturrupt mechanic to set someone up for a quick kill?
Do i pummel this flash heal? or do i put penance on CD?
Well ill tell you this. if you were to pummel that flash heal and if you had an available charge to inturrupt that penance, You would be in a totally different place. So basically what im saying is, Warriors are a class that requires a good sense of decisive nature in the player
My basic rotation is:

Run in / charge > Hamstring > Rend > overpower > ms > heroic strike > sunder armor
Basically what this means is.

Hamstring is prioritized, because you want to keep things close to you, So you dont have your swing timer reset thus causing rage problems.

Rend is next on the list because: the sooner you rend the faster you get a Taste for blood proc the faster you get taste for blood the sooner u can overpower the sooner u can overpower the more damage you do. So always rebuff this.

MS..Lol this is obvious.. Keep ms rebuffed. It does 50% of your output damage. and its what makes us useful.

As for heroic strike, i use it when i have enough rage. This is another one of those situations where you have to decide: Do i have enough rage to do this? the ok signal for me is 30+ rage. then i stack it with ms or overpower for more output


---macros i use---
/cast Battle stance
/equipslot 16 Furious Gladiator's Decapitator

/cast berserker stance
/equipslot 16 Furious Gladiator's Decapitator

/equipslot 16 Torment of the Banished
/equipslot 17 Crygil's Discarded Plate Panel
/cast defensive stance

/cancelaura Bladestorm
/cast Bladestorm IF YOU ARE GOING TO USE THIS MACRO..YOU MUST HAVE A STEADY FINGER...YOU CANT BE ONE OF THEM CRAZY MAD BUTTON MASHERS. ONLY...HIT BLADESTORM ONCE. OR IT WILL SCREW YOU UP. I USE THIS MACRO FOR WHEN I NEED TO GET OUT OF BLAESTORM IN A HURRY

/focus

/target focus
/cast berserker stance
/cast intercept

/cast berserker stance
/cast pummel
(Spammable pummel macro, i spam this like crazy when i see somethign i need to pummel and pummel fast)

/cast shield block
/cast shield wall

^This is my turtle mode macro




So now that we've discussed your basic rotation and useful macros as a warrior..Lets get into a little more advanced strategic things we use our abilities for.


-----ROGUES-----
For ages, Rogues have always feared the smart warrior, Because a smart warrior can easily take away an opener, or make the rogue blow all his cds, making him useful..Damn..I like this color better than eggshell white for some reason..So we're going to go with this color.

Anyways. If you look at my spec: The World of Warcraft Armory

I have Booming voice.
This gives me an edge on a class that does..ALOT of damage..no matter what gear you have on, And if they open on you, its going to hurt you, BAD.
So what this is for. is for taking openers away. And im REALLY good at that.

You gotta wait for it. You gotta wait for a moment where..you feel REALLY akward. like something is about to happen. at that very second..Bloodrage Demo shout..and get on him..ASAP..rend and hamstring him..ASAP..
Also. you should start this in defensive stance, my strat is when im cheap shotted i spam my turtle macro so when cheapshots gone, i can have a 60% damage reduction. Also save your trinket for blind. Never allow a rogue to re open on you, thats how they win, blowing all their CDs. and thats how you beat a class..That literally spams all their CDs at you. Also another funny trick is.. Since blizz "buffed" dual weild to hit twice..this triggers now 1 ..but 2 retaliation charges. its kinda funny because. i make rogues and enhancement shamans drop from 100% to 0 instantly because they just..destroy themselves by doing damage rofl.
So if you see a class that dual weilds. Retaliation is your friend.

----use of trinket----(im getting tired lol)

As comes with a class that requires alot of decisive action, You have another choice to add into your equation: Do i trinket this?
I'm not going to tell you what to trinket.
Because i got flamed for it last time.. (seriously who trinkets a SCATTER SHOT...whenever someone trinkets scatter on my hunter. i laugh because they fall right into a trap rofl.)
So this is a bold reminder..
Remember you have berserker rage..
Use your trinket..wisely.


-----Fighting healers-----

Fighting healers is abit different, the key to beating a healer, is to get unrelenting assault on them. at all times.
Basically. Casting on a warrior with a taste for blood proc up is an open invitation for a 75% ms or a 50% damage debuff. unrelenting assault is a POWERFUL mechanic.

What i like to do vs healers is, unrelenting assault+ ms pummel a heal at 50% then bladestorm if they arent dead by then i use my charges as inturrupt mechanic till pummel is up again.

So overpower them heals. like a boss.
Time them pummels + stuns, Like...A...Boss.



--------Gemming habits-------

Gemming habits are very very different depending on the player, i favor armor pen axe spec because..i hit like a truck rofl.
So the way i see it, the way to go is..
Either strength..or armor pen. As for meta gems, i favor 21 crit rating + 3% crit damage. but one thing i have found as a warrior is, You have to go extreme on one of the factors, and you have to make wise decisions, its all you to decide.

-------Spec-------

Theres a few basic specs out there...
But mine is the 67% preferred spec,

You have a choice of: taking out imp charge and putting more points into tactical mastery.

and moving the points from blood craze into imp hamstring.

I'm globally satisfied with my spec tho, so its up to you.



So thats all folks, This is Drêktarz of Sentinels, saying...
Holy crap..I've wasted 2 hours of my life of wich i will never get back. So i REALLY hope you enjoyed this guide as much as i did writing it.
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Good luck, Any questions that i didnt go into detail about please pm me. I'm always willing to answer them. :wave:Also feel free to hit me up ingame

Happy hunting ;]

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[Chronic1337]

I dont like the idea on walking with 4 a v and g, also i scroll alot with my mousebuttons, so i dont want to like dismount when im mining and im in mid air and suicide myself.

Best advice i can give you is find a way to play the best for yourself, and don't keyboardturn. Learn to play with keybindings and without keyboardturn, then just watch a lot of high rated pvp movies and stuff. Worked best for me 2400+ 2on2 and 3on3 here

[evilegrob]

I find this guide a bit odd, but nice effort though, but you can make it alot more simple like this:

How to play a warrior: Keybind whatever you want, the more the better.

Read up on tactics and discussions at forums like Arenajunkies.com. You can also get alot of useful macros from AJ or just google Warrior Macros.

Watch Armory for gear tips and gem tips, see what other warriors are using and speccs.

Watch PvP movies, old and new. And do shitloads of duelling / arena / BG.

Get a microphone if you want to compete seriously in Arena for better communication.
Get to know your partner(s).

Just simply Play alot and check out what other top rated people are doing and copy them.

Check for popular addons on Curse.com and WoWinterface.com.

Done.

[Diablo1903]

a - strafe left
g - strafe right
v - backpedal
4 - move forward.

A bit weird? Thats totally messed up! Guide seems good though.

[salsworn]

A bit weird? Thats totally messed up! Guide seems good though.

Pinky on "A"
Pointer on "G"
Middle finger on "4"
and Thumb on "V"
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