most efficient way to lvl a warriorFollow

armory?

Not sure about that low of level, but right now my advice is to level as protection. You'll do plenty of damage, have much less downtime, and have a much greater level of control over the fight. Also you'll more easily find groups and be a more useful group member.

I'm biased though, protection is a beast right now.

I'd recommend making a different class then. Warriors are a group oriented class.

Go the Arms route for leveling. I found that leveling my Warrior as Arms, swinging around a big-@$$ two-handed weapon makes life SOO much easier than having to worry about Fury.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Dragonmaw&n=Argoroth

That's my talent build right there. I just enter a fight, in Battle Stance, with Charge, immediately apply Rend, HS until Overpower procs, then HS again. Things die like NOTHING! Leveling has never been easier or more fun! I find that I can also handle much more mobs at one time.

Another thing you want to look at is gear. For gear, you just want Stamina and Strength. Agility is a good secondary stat, but Str. and Stam. are what you need the most. Search the Armory for good gear. Look for "...of the Bear" gear, too, as this is what you REALLY need!



Edited, Oct 25th 2008 11:17pm by ryraptor

Are you kidding me? There's stuff in instances that can easily last you at least 10 levels. I wouldn't say obtaining gear like that is wasted. Specially as a warrior, stuff like that would speed up soloing by a fair amount.

i know this may sound a little bit odd to some people, but i actually split my talents between fury and arms.why? because i think that getting the immediate benefits from each of the trees is better than getting the half decent ones trying to get to the good ones in a single tree. and i also got a shield to use :P because i got new gear that actually gives me less health, but i noticed that i do kill things faster. so i think i got it all down.

surprisingly enough defensive stance actually does some good dmg lmao. i use revenge a lot, and i get like 200 hits with it, pretty cool i think. i also switch out of stances a lot, i got to battle stance when i start to charge, then do a rend and then just switch to defense to do ravenge until they die.

i know this is a very awkward way to build your warrior, but i think it works. if on of them leet warriors who think otherwise(there usually is for every class forum) then let me know.

I'm going to have to disagree. Warriors are very gear dependant, so any gear you get that is an upgrade is a direct upgrade on your leveling smoothness and speed. A warrior leveling in quest greens is a slow leveling warrior. Also, instances are great xp, especially if you planned your leveling routes around it and have a slew of quests to finish.

Lastly, imo, the group experiences are always the more fun experiences. Even if it takes a little longer, I'll still stall my leveling to run some instances simply because they are more fun. They also teach you your role in instances and groups.

I make an effort to run each instance at least once while leveling. The only character I did not do this on was my hunter, who I made to be my gold gathering toon.

Warrior is one of the most gear-dependent classes during the leveling process. Gear will *help* any class, but many other classes have other ways to get around the gear issue if they have to (I'm looking at you, Warlocks and Hunters). Short of "Hamstring, try to run away, get dazed, and die" a Warrior has very few tools to remove himself from combat, very limited ability to CC adds, and no self-healing ability to speak of.

Up-to-date armor and weapons can be the difference between cruising through quests and cruising through corpse runs.

Up-to-date armor and weapons can make a difference. Instances don't offer good enough upgrades in the lower levels to make it worth the time.

Yeah but he's also a stupid scrub that doesn't know how to play.

I can level a warrior faster than you without touching a single instance until at least 50. And dying less than you.

yeah everybody knows that it doesnt just depend on your gear, i was only saying that compared to endgame, gear isnt as important because nobody else depends on you. so if its just me i have to worry about, of course my gear isnt going to matter as much than if i were in a raid...got it?

thanks? why would you call me a stupid scrub when im just trying to better myself lvling. of course i dont know how to play a warrior...i started this topic to be constructive, and that just doesnt help. i dont see why your bashing me,in every forum there are the more experienced players that are harsh, but they still help. that was just uncalled for.

Edited, Oct 28th 2008 3:17pm by drewbeeone

As for the OP...

Gear should look like greens of at most 5 levels old. The closer your gear is to your level the better, easier and faster you'll play.

I personally leveled with dual wield as fury spec pre-bc (just before nax 1.0 came out). So my idea of leveling is gonna be slightly biased towards that older idea of how to build a warrior from the ground up. I also did not group 75% of the time or more, at least until I got into a guild that wanted me to MT, and PL'd me to 60 from ~50 on where they non stop grouped me.

'Of the Tiger' and 'Of the Bear' gear until you get to BC gear tend to provide the best bang for your buck. Obviously their are other non-generic equivalents to those. Gear with Str on it should be priority. Sta and Agi are great to stack as well. Leveling, you don't want to take much damage, dieing sucks. So the dodge you get from Agi is coveted. But honestly it's the Crit that I really want from it. Kill it before it kills you... And the faster you can do that, the more fun/easy it is (IMHO).

Warriors have absolutely no problem leveling solo, but their are some fairly clear differences of gear and level when fighting certain mobs. Either you can do it, or you can't. Some quests and mobs are just not solo-able as a warrior. And you'll be behind other warriors that do chose to group. Partly due to downtime from eating often and bandaging, but mostly because instancing is much better Exp and you get way better gear for basically free.

Warriors are dependent on gear from level 1, all classes benefit from better gear, but I feel that warriors are specifically more dependent than the others.

I'm going prot route right now. Only level 18. I just love the extra armor from a shield. Yeah kills may be slower but I learn to tank better. I tanked dm the other day and didn't do half bad job for first time having to hold hate. Was kinda fun. If it starts to really slow down. I'll spec to Arms and use a 2h. I have a rogue and don't want 2 dw classes.