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[WoW] Warriors: It's my rage and I need it NOW!
Mgcw
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See, that's fun for you, and that's awesome. Missing isn't fun for me. It's fucking annoying. Especially when I'm expecting a huuuuuuuuge bloodthirst crit, or whatever.
Also, as a pretty hardcore-raider (well, once LK goes live), It's fun for me to be competitive. The way things are looking now (based on numbers and real world examples), warriors aren't competitive at all. I'm expecting the "numbers pass" this week or the next though, and I have my fingers crossed.
How's that gonna work? "Oh, look, that Warrior sundered me, better right click it to make it go away"?
When you get sundered by someone from the opposing faction, you must log out to remove the debuff.
Yeah, but the PvP implications are rather severe. Also "Until Cancelled," how the hell would you cancel a debuff you put on a mob/boss/mob boss?
Maybe Sunder doesn't stack anymore, and now just automatically applies the amount of armor-reduction of a 5-stack. This is more or less in line with their plan to remove the "...causes a high amount of threat" suffix to a lot of abilities.
Beats the shit out of me what "Cancelled" means, because it's still exactly the same.
I was flicking through some high-end tank profiles recently as part of an effort to learn a bit more about how my fellow tanks operate, and I was surprised to find that most of them seem to have very little Strength on their gear. I had always assumed that warriors would balance some strength on their gear for threat the way a prot pally does spell damage, but it doesn't seem to be the case. This left me a bit stumped regarding how your threat scales as you gear up.
So yeah, how does your threat scale? Is it purely from BV adding to your Shield Slam damage or what?
arms maces[stormherald]: http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y256/Kaleedity/WoWScrnShot_092408_210759.jpg
tit's grip[stormherald/gorehowl]: http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y256/Kaleedity/WoWScrnShot_092408_210728.jpg
2x1h fury test for chuckles[fool's bane/king's defender]: http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y256/Kaleedity/WoWScrnShot_092408_210735.jpg
Used romulo's poison vial for titan's grip, the abacus for other builds, if that'd matter. All two handers have savagery. No enchants on one handers.
Will try more axe arms builds with gorehowl (my only sample had an outlier-low crit%) and more rend-y arms builds later.
The warrior had something like 33% crit and 2785ap in zerker stance self buffed with tg, for comparison.
I'm impressed, I would have figured TG was further behind Arms in DPS than that, but 100 isn't that bad.
And for the ret stuff, yeah...
On my pally who is in greens and blues, I was pulling between 1k, and 1.1k dps. Crazy shit.
If that's true I will cry.
Because damage vs a Dummy counts as Overkill which recount counts as Glancing blows, or some shit. Basically that part is irrelevant since Recount isn't updated to account for it.
Yes, it's not far behind, Kaleedity's screenshots are very close to what I was doing with almost identical specs.
Crits in general show up in Recount as Glancings. Crushings are (I think) misses, and... i forget the rest. Also, my arms spec was doing a little bit more more damage than TG, but my DW 1h build was doing about 20% more.
1100 (arms) vs. 1350 (DW 1h)
Of course, with the arms build, I didn't really have a rotation, per se. So I could probably bring it up a bit. But now lvl 70 dummies are gone... alas.
I have a 28 human warrior now that I'm leveling prot. I'm having fun using Imp. Shield Block and Revenge as my main sources of surviving and damage. It's actually been more fun than DWing with Fury. I rarely ever die and I end most fights losing 30% or less health. It's more good times to be had.
My question is, how long is this going to be viable for me to level with? At what point will Revenge tail off? Will Shield Slam be a viable replacement for it? Am I better off going Arms or Fury for MS or BT at some point?
Not that I care much, I'm just trying to have fun with the game again. I had multiple 70s and did alot of raiding before, but now I'm just relaxing and having fun with it. I'm treating it more like an actual game again instead of math homework.
Maybe I'll try Arms at some point. I never once respecced out of Fury on my UD warrior, so that'd be new to me too.
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and Scroffus, I went through that with Fury too. You'd get a string of crits on one mob and then nothing on the next. It'd be really frustrating sometimes.
I would spam up 5 devestates and then mix in Shield Slams. It was fun while I was farming Wintersaber rep, using it on the Furbolgs would cause them to shrink.
The slowness of a two hander has you feeling like it is worse.
Yeah, but it feels so much worse as arms. Of course much could have changed from when I last specced arms about 2-3 years ago.
Of course "should" is relative. If you don't have a high level character to farm runecloth and netherweave, it's obviously less realistic.
This is a fresh character on a fresh server. Unless you want to buy me gold, I'll be working with what I can farm.
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Sword spec was always viable. Viable != optimal.
But yes, I'd imagine now that mace spec has been made less game-deciding, sword spec will be viable.
Generally the item design I've seen in Wrath has been really awesome.
Those designs are nice.
Now the question is, are we going to see them on every other weapon? Because that would be unfortunate.