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It seems to be way faster to just level up in groups with this new tool thing, so question..

I am very familiar with both Warrior dps specs, having played them both heavily at 70, but I never tanked, in all honesty I don't remember having ever actually equipped a shield with him. And I started a new Warrior (because I miss the PVP - Druid and DK just weren't as much fun for me). I'm 23 now, but I noticed that Tanking a random is Instant invites vs. 10-20 minutes as a dps - is it safe/worth it to just level up as Prot, figuring it out as I go or is there a different/better way?

Yes, I read up on Prot specs and rotations, but almost all of it is information for max level and barely anything on leveling with it, except the spec I should end up with at 60. Which doesn't tell me how to tank at 25. So far in the so-so groups I end up tanking anyway as 2H w/Fury talents, and in the good groups it goes by so fast the que is longer than the instance. That and low-level healers scare the hell out of me.

This is me as of 10min ago.

I unlocked duel spec, wish I hadn't (pretty much a waste of 1k gold). I've done very little questing, 136 quests is all I have done.

I pretty much rock Prot and get all my EXP from Dungeons. I no longer do randoms, as the 49-55 group is ST and Blackrock. I HATE Sunken Temple. So I jut pick Blackrock and run groups through it all (if able).

I have a nice tool bar of abilities, but for the most (at lv25) part I only really used:
Taunt - I use this on my 1st target.
Thunder Stomp - I spam this like a ****. It is my AE holder
Cleave and Revenge - both of these are Talented/Glyphed to hit more than one target.

I try to get groups together, spin them if needed, and just spam TS, Cleave and Revenge.

Now at 52 I have some more tricks, but my entire rotation is based off these 4 moves (I now Charge in, as to Taunting 1st target).

The only quest I seem to get now are when the DPS who waiting 30+min for me to Q up share their lolQuests with me.

lulz I know i know, but what else can I use? Nothing in the AH..ever. The one I had before this was from like SM.

The only one next in line would be Rock Golem Bulwark, yet to see it drop tho t.t

:p

I know, but I get heat IN GAME too.
I get tells asking why I'm using a INt&5/mp shield . . .

Well I respec'd, went tank mode and started doing the randoms again, had the day off so I just kept going with them and ended up leveling from 23 to 30 in about 5 hours. Gear seems to keep up really well so far, but I haven't had to change much either. The Thunderclap glyphs helped a lot, and now that I can equip a 2nd glyph, the Cleave glyph should be just as valuable, at least for the next several levels.

Just kinda wish there was more instances, gets a little boring doing Gnomeregan 4-5 times in a row..

BRD > ST



I hardly ever do Randoms anymore, I pick what to run so I don't get stuck somewhere that is going to make me want to pull my hair out XD (I just hate ST. Always have -.-)

I'm making a diary of my experience leveling a warrior almost entirely through random instances. Leveling is very fast and a lot of fun. We only wiped once and that was entirely my fault. Healers seem up to it but I always have the highest level health potion available just in case. Just reached level 26.

Glyph sunder and thunderbolt.

Spell Keyboard bound
taunt R
Heroic Strike E
Revenge Q
Thunderclap 3
Sunder 2
Shield Block 5
Cleave caps lock
attack 1

I target, attack, then taunt to pull, thunderclap on cool down, shield block on cool down, demo shout early if I can, heroic strike on cool down, revenge when it is up.
Cleave when I remember and sunder when I am bored. Shield bash when appropriate. Taunt if I lose aggro.

I have grids because my 80 main is a healer which I use mostly to make sure I'm the only one with aggro.

talents:
1-3 thunderclap
4-9 SS
10 incite
11-12 Improved revenge
13-14 Shield Mastery
15-16 incite

And I make sure I have studied the upcoming instances.

my guy is now 56.

Up until about 50, you will probably be number 1 in the DPS and over all damage.

Last night for the 1st time in my tanking career I had a group that was hard to hold hate on.
Made me mad, and is making me ponder on staying tank >.>
But I think it was the Shaman. He just didn't give a flying fudge that he was pulling hate and then dieing every other pull.
His Fire Totem and Chain Lighting were giving me issues ><

As for the Random EXP. I gave up on running randoms. So i don't know about the EXP. I know I get about 6 bars per run when I do BRD, and about 4 or 5 when I do DM East.

I'm assuming the bold part refers to pre 80 as well?

I'm now 52, having used this tool for almost all my leveling so far, and last night was the first time anyone had higher dps than me, and I still didn't have any problems. We did an entire run in Blackrock Depths (which took forever) with a really good group and the Mage pulled about 700 dps, I'm still hovering around 480~

Prot Warriors, and tanks in general, at low levels have a lot of damage coming from AoE if you decide to tank that way - so it's not going to be a problem at all, as suggested by someone else prior in this thread, using glyphs of resonating power and cleave will significantly raise your AoE dps so much so you won't have to worry about it until high level.

BRD...that place was some good EXP!

My Warrior is now 62, and the only issue I have now is DPS who want to show off?
It is always BoAed people with the highest enchant and gems they can get who decide they need to do MASSIVE AE damage.
Meh, guess what? I have 3 tools now for AE..if they pull hate still..i let them die. There just isn't anything I can do about them, and they seem to get the idea pretty quick that they need to slow down after a death or two.