Maximizing Damage Output for Mortal Strike WarriorsFollow

Hi, I'm a level 70 Mortal Strike warrior and recently I've been asked to go to Karazahn a lot with my guildmates. They all say that the minimum dps requirement is 400 dps and any more would be appreciated to pick up for slackers. So I've been practicing my dps on that one pat in Slabs and my damage fluctuates largely from 300 to 700 dps. I'm currently wearing full High Warlord Gear, All veterans gear and using Trident of the Outcast from getting Exalted with Lower City. I am currently working on Merciless Gladiator's Greatsword which I will get by next week. Please leave any tips I can utilize to increase and maintain a high dps. Thank you.

the axe might actually be pumping out more dps than the sword with the crit, esp since sword spec is getting nerfed so that it can't proc from a proc...

come to think of MS warriors are getting the nerf stick too with the whole windfury deal if that's still going to happen?



I'd say if you want a sword, just get the one from heroic BM and concentrate the arena points on armor, HWL gear won't get things done for dps, do a few heroics for that stuff, get a couple of merciless pieces, maybe even a couple of leather armor pieces [as long as you don't ninja them from rogues and such]

while having a great weapon will help your dps, overall having things like having higher crit and hit ratings, as well as more ap from gear will help you even more so. if you want the best 2h for pve and pvp, go blacksmith and make yourself the level 2 2h mace

savagery. 70 ap is consistent, and cheaper.

mongoose is more of a d/w (haste/crit) / tank (haste/crit/avoidance) thing anyhow. Not to mention a huge price jump in mat costs to 'chant.

MS warrior DPS is burst DPS so it can be very high and very low in short period of time depending on crits.

First of all specc 31/30 for Kara MS DPS. Get MS DW flurry and imp slam.
Find addon with swing timer. Use slam after every white hit or spam it when you have full rage bar (with MS when ready).
Weapon is by far the most important piece of gear for MS warrior. Arena sword will give you a lot of DPS increase.
Most people think mongoose is better for DPS but much more expensive.
Use pots sharpening stones scrolls and food during raids - haste, strenght/AP, crit, agility even - all helps.
Get shammy to your party and make him to use WF totem all the time.
Use DW and trinkets - I sometimes forget to use them as much as I could.
When below 20 % use DW reclesness and spam Execute.
Stay alive - dead warrior is not good at DPS = don't overaggro. You can overaggro on trash if you have good gear and healers but never on boss. In fact I always try to overaggro our MT on easier trash - it is a sort of game. I give him 4 sec head start and then go all out. Fun > gold :P. And it keeps him in good shape :P . Still if you have problems with aggro (and as MS warrior you should have them) always use BoS. Watch KTM.

Enchant all with best enchants and gem all with best gems.

Emphasis mine. From ElitistJerks forums. Windfury Totem alone will increase a DPS warrior's damage in the range of tens of percents.

EDIT: Threat is generated based on damage. Crits = more threat cuz you did more damage, WF = more threat cuz you did more damage. Windfury is also one of the best ways to increase a warrior tank's TPS, in addition to a DPS warrior's damage.

Edited, Aug 24th 2007 11:48:51am by lsfreak

If I could ever get a damn enhancement shaman in my guild I'd write up a report of just how much windfury increases a DW warrior's dps. Right now I'm stuck with sharpening stones /sigh.

Although theoretically since WF can only proc off white swings now, it should increase a DW warrior's dps more than a two handed warrior's.

I really got to get me an enhancement shaman.

Edited, Aug 24th 2007 2:26:59pm by Jimpadan

So don't use whirlwind all together?

1100?! Is that possible?!

And you're using a 2h or dual wield?

So is fury/arms better than arms/fury in PvE?

So I can still do a lot of DPS with 2h?

Oh man, that would be really great!
My crit is 27.46% in Battle Stance
My Hit rating is 88
And my AP is 1230 Unbuffed
But the thing is, I'm Protection spec at the moment because I'm trying to get a Primal Nether for my Engineering Goggles.
Raiding restarts on Sunday starting with Curator so I really gotta kick it up a notch and get better gear.
I made a few elixirs and bought some food and such so...I have no idea how my dps will look.
On Sunday, I will respec at the warrior trainer right at Stonard so I have to figure out a new spec or I'm just going to revert back to my Arms/fury build.