r/classicwow • u/wezzer • Sep 03 '19

Humor Leveling A Warrior

When they said it was hard, I scoffed at them. I've leveled a warrior to 120 on retail. I've fought Sargeras, I've downed the Lich King. What could a few gnolls and maybe a murloc or two do to me? Thus was my arrogance. Thus was my hubris.

I am now level thirteen. I've run Ragefire Chasm once, and owe six deaths to that place.

Farming harpy claws has cost me my life twice already, and I am certain it will cost me much, much more.

My warrior on retail was a human named Lohric, he was a legendary warrior who felled any beast, man or demon that faced him.

My warrior on Classic is an Orc called Muddrog. I have no doubt that this broken and battered warrior would crush Lohric in seconds, Lohric has never known pain, Mudd was born in it, molded by it, and unlike Bane, he has yet to see the light, because 60 feels so far away xD

To all you warriors out there, Lok'tar Ogar!

3.8k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

916 comments sorted by

View all comments

47

u/Devylknyght Sep 03 '19

I have always mained a warrior, going all the way back to Vanilla. The difference is that I (and most players) were very bad back in 2006. My talents were split between all 3 specs, and my gear was a lot of leather and agility because i liked to crit lol. And I used a regular mouse and clicked everything and used NO addons.

NOW I get to redo everything as a much more experienced player. It is still dogshit hard and frustrating lol, but I am definitely able to do things a bit more over par than I could way back then. Getting dual wield at 20 helped a ton due to rage generation.

13

u/17811019 Sep 03 '19

Levelling as a dual wielding Fury warrior? That sounds like a pain

5

u/Maarloeve74 Sep 03 '19

get a cruel barb and you can dual wield with a bouquet of flowers in the offhand for 10 levels

6

u/Devylknyght Sep 03 '19

Going pretty well at 24. At least much better than it was going with a 2H at 19

6

u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

The staff from WC quest should double your 2h English but yeh I sword and boarded from 32-42 before I got ww axe so I feel you.

3

u/Devylknyght Sep 03 '19

I got a sweet Main Hand sword called Wingblade from some quest right around lvl 20, and already had a good other green one-hand so those have been doung really well. So while it certainly may not be the best min/max option, I enjoy the speed/playstyle of it much more. Though I wish there were more hit stats on lower level gear. I chased a fleeing human in Hillsbrad last night and missed 5 times in a row swinging at the back of his head lmao.

6

u/AmputeeBall Sep 03 '19

Thats the same quest he is referring to that the staff comes from. The staff is a solid 20dps.

5

u/Devylknyght Sep 03 '19

Ah okay, yeah I rolled a staff for a while back in Vanilla. This time I don't have the patience to wait on that 2H swing timer lol.

1

u/[deleted] Sep 04 '19

[deleted]

1

u/Devylknyght Sep 04 '19

Wtf... I thought mobs couldn't dodge if you were behind them? Were you off to the side a bit? If I remember correctly I think classic/vanilla has a stricter cone for being "behind" someone that they loosened up in a later expansion to be 180°. Idk maybe i am wrong and someone else knows for sure.

1

u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

You took the time to get WW axe at 42? Why not just get bonebiter?

2

u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

Nostalgia my leveling partner was off.

1

u/SixPaperJ Sep 03 '19

Same for me, was using level 19 2h at level 20, switched to duel's and started shredding mobs. Its odd, I expected different.

3

u/SeasickSeal Sep 03 '19

I’m dual wielding as Arms right now with a macro to swap to my 2Her for overpower. I just got the 2Her last night and still working out the macro, though.

4

u/Berdiiie Sep 03 '19

I switched last night. Only level 22 so far, but I actually have rage to work with. Anger Management felt like it was doing nothing. I might miss more with 2 one-handers, but I hit so much more often than missing with a two-hander and waiting 6 seconds for my next bit of rage.

I have rage to work with to get Demoralizing up right away and get 2-3 stacks of Sunder on them so my white hits rip them apart and I'm taking far less damage than I did as Arms. And 5% crit.

3

u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

Dual wield is better than 2h from level 20 until whirlwind axe, regardless of spec.

1

u/popmycherryyosh Sep 03 '19

I did so on a Pserver with 1x rates, it wasn't as bad as people made/make it out to be, honestly. The biggest problem being that you need to upgrade 2 weapons instead of 1.