QQ why do warriors suck at early levelsFollow

Warriors are just like all other classes at low levels. Easymode. Well, Druids are slow pre-20, but still easy to level. Warriors, I've found, are actually faster levelers than most. Charge, *insert horrific slaughter here*, and go on. Goes fast, and downtime isn't bad either.

Hmm, in a way I've struggled with Warrior leveling until you get you talents in line. It's slow, dangerous, and will prolly die a lot. As everyone says "Warrior is very gear dependant". We also don't have a "Oh Noes!!" button like some other classes. We have no healing except for potions/bandages/food, and really no way until Intimadating Shout to get mobs off us when we get multi multi mobs on us.

However, Warrior can survive pretty well. Last night in Shadowmoon I got 3 same level mobs on me... one was a stupid flying dragon acid spitter. I pop'd a potion, but killed all 3 of those suckas.

Stick with it OP, it gets easier. Might want to get a nice 2H weapon starting out. DW you'll miss more than it's worth.

Ooopsie, I did not bother reading your sig. lol My bad. Combo of hangover + a.m. typing + work = bad reading.

I have a level 33 Undead Warrior and I aboslutely own everything. Now granted I spent a lot of time getting geared up even at the early 20s. Shining Silver Breastplate with +50 Health along with the Corpsemaker (just about to get Warrior axe from Cyclonian) FTW!!! I top the damage charts in BGs almost every time except for when twink hunters dominate the playing field.

I love my fem warrior. She is overly adequate and completes me in every way. My Druid is fastly taking a backseat to her PVP prowess.

I'm doing it the easy way. I have a paladin I'm levelling with (I'm prot he's holy) and we do mainly instances. It's pretty fun, since some of the content I've never hit before (such as WC or SM:GY, and later we'll do Mara and Uld which I have never done mara and never successfully done uld) and it's easy finding groups because we can go "LF3M just need DPS" (which is easy to find).

But I've never got the hang of soloing a warrior. I prefer classes with CC, pets, or heals for that...pretty much anything but a warrior =P.

Dying =) Or Intim Shout/Piercing Howl/Shield Wall and doing like Sir Robin. Don't forget to dance to Defensive when running away. If it's just a couple melee mob you can jumpspin-Hamstring.

Usually I just do kamikaze runs though.

Agree with the OP though, unless you have a main to pimp your war or want to spend 3 times as long leveling by farming out the best gear for every level, leveling a warrior is an exercise in anger management. On my old war I really don't remember it getting much better at all til BC (when I was starting out in epix and getting phat Outland booties); I suspected it was because it was my first character, but then I leveled a mage and pally, veritable breezes by comparison, and I'm back to warrior and it still sucks.

Edited, Oct 23rd 2007 1:39pm by Theophastus

I've always found the early levels to be easy on a Warrior. Some of the later level ranges were frustrating at times but the 1-10 on my Warriors have been a lot easier than some other classes for those levels. The 10-20 was a bit tougher only because that's when the other classes finally start getting some of their more useful abilities. I have tried most of the other classes (except Warlock) and found that Shaman was relatively easy for me 1-10 but Hunter was really hard until I could get a pet. I'm also not so good at casters at low levels and still find them a bit challenging at the mid-levels (highest Mage is 35). I find Rogues a bit tough until I can get the poison quest done (level 20+) and after that it gets a whole lot easier.

Not so sure about that, I have a 28 Warrior and I DW with him becuase the Rage generation in alot faster and I seem to kill things faster with it. I still have the Searing Blade, but about level 23 it just wasn't meeting up to the par of DW, picked up the Axe out of SFK, and still having the same issue, DW just kills faster.

I dunno, maybe I am speced wrong or something- I think my Allah is up to date on him if not:

Skitterball

>.< Just realized I was wearing my Cheapie neck and not my good one :P I have a +stam strength one.

Edit:

Damnit hit post before I was done!

The other thing that pisses me off is the damn dying all the time, though I can't say it is always because of extra adds, it is usually because I forgot to bandage after last fight, or I didn't realize how hard this guy could hit. I have a Hunter Main so I can usually tell if I charge in wether or not it is going to pull another, and in that case, I just use my Crossbow :)

Edited, Oct 23rd 2007 1:16pm by Caldone

Maybe its just the "sit there and wait for the swing" that bugs me :) I did notice it takes me about 10-20 seconds faster to kill anything with my 2h, and generally the rage per swing gets used up rather quick, with the DW I have a pretty steady flow.



Actually I am having the exact opposite problem, I am always seeing 1 handers drop, and no 2 handers. The ones I have currently equipped dropped for me in an instance run. None of my gear I have bought, I just had it sitting on a bank toon or got it in an instance :)

The thing I don't like about 2handers is it's alot slower, and yes you don't miss as much, but when you do miss it is devestating when you are soloing. I usually get out with maybe a ********** worth of life, were if I Dual Wield I maybe loose 20% of life, is which I proceed to the next mob :D

I just picked that up last night, with a nice tanking necklace from the Brother against brother quest from the same guy. I was going to test that out. I got that for my Hunter currently too.

I also have the Durn the Hunger w/e it's name is quest 2H axe. Ya it's nice. However I think I finally made up my mind about specs. I'm going Protect and just straight instanting the rest from here out...err after I do some quest(s) that will land me better items than I currently have. I'll farm with my Hunter.

Id have to agree with the OP. When you just start out(meaning new to game or new to server, in other words no money) then war sucks big time. The first time I rolled a war it was NOT fun. When you have all gray gear war sucks, is not charge kill charge kill. My war Totao definately lvs faster then my lock ever did, hell I rarely die with him, but thats because hes always had good gear throughout the lvs. Well equipped war = pew pew at its finest, broke war = many many headaches.

eh actually my warrior at 70 now blows every other aspect of himself away, then again this is really the first time he's been geared "well".

to the posters who insist in dual wielding in their lower levels, if you like it and you have fun with it, hey keep going at it. but i guarantee that if you parse your damage output and health remaining, you'll see that 2h outperforms dual wielding at lower levels simply because of the huge 24% miss rate with dual wielding. at later levels with more +hit gear, you build up enough +hit to negate the miss rate.

edit: i tried to do some "simple" math with the d/w and 2h miss rates and it started getting very involved, then i noticed my brain leaking out and steam blowing out of my ears and had to stop. the math has been posted before though, i remember a very lengthy thread involved RPZip, devious, russki and others involving DPS, i think some of it is in the PvE DPS faq.

For the folks out there questioning the validity of the claims of 2-handers being murder weapons of choice, if you are not using slam, you are gimping your dps severly.

I used to be the same way.."man, this sucks, he hit me 4 times to every one of mine"

Then I read a thread about the usefulness of slam and did some experimenting of my own.

OMFG

Kill times cut in half and if you have a good 2-hander, it hits like a truck. My warrior is currently 55 and using the ice barbed spear when he is 2-handed soloing.

Not to mention, if you are in a BG with a sloooooooow 2-hander and you mortal strike someone, believe me, they really feeeel it.