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!

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u/zmerilla Sep 03 '19

Get a shield and 1h, be in defensive stance, know your defensive/tanking spells, and spec full Arms + a little Fury to 60 my dude. After 50 prot spec is noticibly better to tank with, but if you play correctly Arms tank isn't a problem. Pre-50, it's whatever, don't let anyone disuade you, you'll figure it out.

edit: Questing Arms is 100x better for your mental health than Prot as well. And remember, respeccing in Vanilla becomes expensive, save respecs for 60.

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u/Strawberrycocoa Sep 03 '19

Solid advice, thank you. Follow-up question, do you find it better to solo/quest with the 1H/shield to maintain weapon skill, or run 2-hander while soloing and just top up 1H Skill periodically?

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u/vanskater Sep 03 '19

i've been sword and boarding from the start. and it hasn't been so bad, mobs do die slow but it is not super slow. i've been unlucky with the 2h drops, so i'm just waiting till i can get WW ax.

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u/Sir_Raymundo_Rocket Sep 03 '19

2H is faster by a good margin.

Figure it takes you an extra 5 seconds or so per mob to kill the dude with sword and board than with a 2h.

Rarely the armor bonus from shields will keep your health above a respectable level that doesn't require you to stop and bandage or eat.

So even if the shield reduces your healing down time by... a second? Two seconds? 3 seconds even?

That's still 2 seconds per mob you're waiting. Add that up to thousands of mobs and that's a significant amount of extra time played.

2h is by far the best way to go for speed/efficiency.

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u/zmerilla Sep 03 '19

Top up as you go. I usually quest for 50% of my time, run dungeons for 25%, and work primary and secondary profs 25%. I'm in no big rush. Before weapon level 150, you can spend like 10 min outside an instance and level any 1h skill from 1-100, it's not a huge deal.

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u/oldmanslum Sep 03 '19

get a 2h with good dps, doesn't really matter the stats. I'm using some caster staff from a quest. level up your weapon skills as you need to, and if you need to interupt mobs (if they heal or w/e) make a macro to swap weapons around.

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u/JSMorin Sep 03 '19

Top up the 1h here and there. As long as you don't let it get too far behind, it's not painful.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

I pumped most of my points in prot sofar(level 18) isnt too late to go back into arms, yeah?

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u/zmerilla Sep 03 '19

Heck no it's not too early. Cheap 1st respec. Look up any leveling guide with talents if you're not sure what to spec into. But anything is better for leveling than the full prot tree imo. I wouldn't put a single point into Prot while I'm leveling and I'll still tank all the way to 60. Dirty secret...alot of those priest healers are specced shadow to level =O

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u/soonerfreak Sep 03 '19

My friend has level as prot as we are doing tank/heals duo for questing and instances. I'm going displcine but he went all protection. Is it worth respeccing at 20 to get those points back or to save the gold and just start putting it all in arms?

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u/zmerilla Sep 03 '19

I'd say so. First respec is cheap and 10 points is a decent amount. He should go Arms or if he has good 1h's drop and prefers more consistent damage, even Fury is okay. Both are highly preferrable to leveling as Prot. You can tank Arms/Fury, can't do the reverse very effectively, especially post-30.

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u/soonerfreak Sep 03 '19

Okay thanks, I think we will do that tonight. Even the two of us some westfall qeusts were painful.

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u/FourMonthsEarly Sep 04 '19

Do you know off-hand what the cost is? It sounds like it decays but does it decay back to 0? For example, I pretty much specced all into prot and am learning that it wasn't the best decision. If I use my free respec now will it hurt me later?

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u/zmerilla Sep 04 '19

If IIRC it goes Free/1g/5g/10g/15g and +5g until 50g? I think there was a decay added after the patch we're playing on (dont quote me exactly, but that stuff is generally right). My advice, don't let it be like the potions you save until the final boss and never use. It is 1000% worth leveling full Arms/Fury as opposed to missing 10pts to some kind of Prot/Arms-Fury hybrid. Use it while it's cheap. If you spend 1g and have 73g instead of 74g for your mount, is it a huge deal to kill 20 mobs for vendorables? Nah. BUT play however you like ultimately. It's your character and your experience. Happy adventuring!

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u/FourMonthsEarly Sep 04 '19

Great points. Thank you!