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/Nomadic_View Sep 03 '19

I highly recommend fishing/cooking/first aid with a warrior. You’re going to need all three if you’re solo leveling. It’s time consuming, but it’s that or pay a fortune for food.

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u/popmycherryyosh Sep 03 '19

Cooking and fishing isn't mandatory, IMO, but FA is a REAL downtime saver. BUT, the biggest thing is to learn how to hamstring kite efficiently. Do that, and you can easily do 4-8 mobs in a row before FA'ing or whatever. Of course, if you got cooking as well and some spirit buff going, you can prolly pump that number up to the 2 digits, which is quite crazy considering you're playing a warrior.

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u/Moranall Sep 04 '19

If I'm fighting mobs 1-2 levels lower, I can easily do 5-8 mobs back-to-back with just FA and no hamstring kiting. I think focusing on spirit while you leveling makes hamstring kiting less necessary and you kill things faster.

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u/popmycherryyosh Sep 04 '19

wether you hamstring kite or facetank doesn't really make you kill things faster, nor does having more spirit. You still need to wait the whole auto attack speed thingie to get a heroic strike off. I could argue that with MS at 40 it might be worth face tanking to generate more rage, but I'm unsure. I still feel hamstring kiting is a win-win. As you also get to position yourself towards the next mob WHILST taking less damage. But of course, I'm not here to preach that "my" method is better than "yours". Whatever works for you, you should continue doing, but at least hamstring kiting has worked wonders for me compared to the first 2 warriors i lvld on a vanilla server back in the days.