The Future of Warrior in WotLKFollow

I'm not too sure what to say about this...I will say that the protection tree is pretty ******* OP atm, not complaining or anything, but damn I can kill **** fast now and WITH A SHIELD!

Now, forgive me as I enjoy this beer.

P.S. It's Friday!!!!!!!!!

Thats the thing we gained some firepower in the tree. But was it worth the cost of some defensive traits? Thats what I'm not sure.

I don't understand where you guys are getting all this def nerf stuff from, sure, you had to add a few gems and some different enchants, boohoo, we still own and we actually have awesome mitigation. Im in mostly badge gear, Badge body, legs (Shield block one not the 150badge ones) wrist and such and IM sitting on 70% total D/B/P UNBUFFED with 495 rating and 16kish HP.

1: Bosses no longer crush unless they are 4 lvls above you, therefore getting the 103 D/B/P ratio is now mute.

2: Our actuall avoidance/mitigation is actually a lot higher now than it was, previously we needed shield block (Unless your ubergeared) to even come close to 70% D/B/P. Now its almost a non-issue.

3: Druids got nerfed, their armor was dropped in bear form, still making us more wanted.

4: WE HAVE A FREAKING CONE STUN THAT CAN CRIT FOR OVER 1K! Oh don't forget the other 3 stuns we have...


I honestly don't see where you think we got the short end. Earlier today, just for ***** and giggles I decided to solo Reg UB to see if I could do it, granted, I couldn't down Ghaz (Nature DMG FTL...) But I solo'd all the way to him, including downing Hungarfen with 50%, yes, 50% HP left over. If yall dont think we are getting shafted, you really need to look harder into warriors, understand the trees and know the proper specs. If you are concerrned as a prot warrior, spec 5/5/51, no mit problems, no avoidance problems, and excellent DPS/threat gen and surviveability.

Fury though, IMO is kinda lame atm. Arms...well...at least now it is really brutal, who cares about bladestorm, thats has it functions, but not for PVP, its all about Sudden Death, no slam interrupting your swing and lots of other goodies. Bladestorm really is pointless other than for, atm, large groups and stuff like kara where there are quite a few AoE pulls.

Hiya

Tanking has been improved tremendously is my humble opinion...

With new ablilities aquired every mob that hits us get hit too :)) so an initial aggro is gained at start of every battle
before we even throw a demo shout... thats more free time for us warrs(+gamplay) to figure out what to throw next.
Slam the primary ( hehe it will probably crit) and he ll stick on you like glue whatever dps throw at him ,throw a TC ,use the mouseover macro with devastates(bind on sigle button) on secondary and 3rd targed ( fourth ?) and again a shield slam on primary.. (you dont have to swich targets with mouseover)You cant possibly loose aggro- Unless y got an Ele shammy who likes to cast Chain lighting on on mobs- or any other stupid dps class who likes to aoe.. let him die a couple of times ( hehe)

As for Druids ? Our Main tank is a Full epic Expirienced druid and guess what? I have to hold back in order not get aggro from him :)) Well if thats not an improvement , then.. what is ?

As for 'Main tank' title... its a bit confusing since warriors still are best on 1-1 fights ( Curator: come to mummy) -So druid-pally : 'Go kill some adds , or play with dolls or .. i dont know.. smoke a ciggar... leave boss fights plz - youll get hurt dear although you migh have 2000 health more/druid than me,say 18.000 hp ,we ll still keep healers bored to death..

Keep in mind though that gearing IS important. If dps is overgeared(in relation to y) then you might loose aggro for a couple of secs... not more( hehe) -you can still use Aggro all button ( dont remember the spell name)

Oh! is that naughty Warlock/mage/whatever steals your aggro ? No problems cast on him you ' Protective gaze?.. something' buff ... and he can sleep during fights ( heheh)


PvP : I dont know -havent tested yet : I dueled a shammy-Ele and we were like 2 wins - 2 loses...( but he sucked -as I did lol) I m expecting somebody to post a worth getting pvp protection build...


I also like the fact that when i grind low level caves for mining now i dont attack targets .. they hit me ,they got hit back .. eventually they ll die , it s fun!! ( +gameplay)

As for loosing defensive stats?? I believe every warr has somewhere in bank acouple of items with + def rating as gearing is a bit of architect building. You get new boots? Dont throw away your old ones!!They might get handy if you get a better loot in head , shield... So save items (If you spend 100g on new boots for gems+enchant:18stamina you cant just sell them cause y got better ones ,they worth 5-6g in vendors anyway). I have 2 bags of good tanking gear and use it according to new loot content (and boss fight)0 every week!! ( I dont have t4). Thats what I do to keep balance between Defence Rating/Expertise/hit/Stamina/SBV/Dodge
Keep also in mind that we got MORE %Dodge wich is AWESOME for tanking...

Conclusion : If you play as your suppose to play ,using macros,and accepting the fact that wer gear depended (I can rock in SP and Underdog but I suck in Ramparts e.g -get more gear for Ramps) we will own the tanking REALM.
Druids I dont think they got buffed - or at least our 'main tank' didnt.
All the content above is not theory ... its tested and its a fact ( from a noob like me !!)