Warrior Leveling Guide

Warriors, one of the most popular classes and yet amongst the most difficult to level properly. Warriors are, when handled properly, one of the greatest mass murderers of WoW, boasting massive burst and sustained damage levels which, when combined with heavy armor, allows them to become a one-man wrecking crew.

That said, the sad truth is that a large number of the very warriors you see attempting to level, PvP, farm, etc. are simply doing it wrong. Whether it be talent build, gear, or simply incorrectly using abilities, the end result is a needless waste of the precious little in-game rage for an increasing amount of real-life rage.

Without properly maximizing your warrior, you’ll never even begin to approach what you could call a decent rate of experience gain. With warriors you either excel and enjoy your time spent or join the trash heap of sloth-like players – your choice.

However, enough with the dour doomsday prophesizing, let’s just avoid door number 2, aforementioned slothly trash heap, entirely and get to the real guide.

Warrior Talent Build – Protection
Tanking
Here’s the build you will want for tanking end game:

Levels 10-15 Toughness (5/5)
Levels 16-17 Improved Bloodrage (2/2)
Levels 18-22 Anticipation(5/5)
Levels 23-27 Shield Specilization(5/5)
Levels 28 Last Stand (1/1)
Levels 29-31 Defiance (3/3)
Levels 32-33 Improved Taunt (2/2)
Levels 34 Concussion Blow (1/1)
Levels 35-36 Improved Shield Wall
Levels 37-41 One Handed Weapon Spec (5/5)
Levels 42-44 Shield Mastery (3/3)
Levels 45 Shield Slam (1/1)
Levels 46-48 Focused Rage (3/3)
Levels 49-53 Vitality (5/5)
Levels 54 Devistate (1/1)

After Level 54 go for the Arms defenssive abilities.

Here’s a great Warrior Talent Guide
Warrior Talent Guide – Arms/Fury
PvP
Here’s the build you will want for doing PvP:

Levels 10-15 Deflection (5/5)
Levels 11-12 Improved Overpower (2/2)
Levels 13-15 Improved Thunderclap (3/3)
Levels 16-18 Blood Lose (3/3)
Levels 19-21 Deep Wounds (3/3)
Levels 22 Mortal Blows (1/1)
Levels 23-24 Iron Will (2/5)
Levels 25-26 Impale (2/2)
Levels 27-28 Stormclap (2/2)
Levels 29-32 Improved Sword Specialization (4/5)
Levels 33 Battle Maaster (1/1)
Levels 34-35 Weapon Mastery(2/2)
Levels 36-37 Blood Frenzy (2/2)
Levels 38 Mortal Strikes (1/1)
Levels 39-43 Cruelty (5/5)
Levels 44-48 Unbridaled Wrath (5/5)
Levels 49 Improved Demoralizing Shout (1/3)
Levels 50-54 Commanding Presence(5/5)
Levels 55 Piercing Howl (1/)
Levels 56-58 Precision (3/3)
Levels 59-60 Improved Execute (2/2)
Levels 61 Vicious Strikes (1/1)
Levels 62-63 Improved Slam (2/2)
Levels 64-68 Flurry (3/5)

After you get this far there isn’t really anything better than another. It’s all up to you.

Here’s a great Warrior Talent Guide
Warrior Talent Guide – Fury/Arms
Soloing/Damage/PvP
This kind of a universal build for higher damage, soloing, and PvP. Not To be used for tanking!

Levels 10-14 Cruelty (5/5)
Levels 15-19 Unbridaled Wrath (5/5)
Levels 20-24 Commanding Prescence (5/5)
Levels 25 Piercing Howl (1/1)
Levels 26-30 Duel Weild Specialization (5/5)
Levels 31-33 Precision (3/3)
Levels 34-36 Enrage (3/3)
Levels 37 Vicious Strikes (1/1)
Levels 38-43 Flurry (5/5)
Levels 44-45 Rapidity (2/2)
Levels 46 Bloodthirst (1/1)
Levels 47-51 Deflection (5/5)
Levels 52-53 improved Charge (2/2)
Levels 54-56 Blood Loss (3/3)
Levels 57-58 Improved Overpower (2/2)
Levels 59-61 Deep Wounds (3/3)
Levels 62 Mortal Blows (1/1)
Levels 63-64 Iron Will (2/5)
Levels 65-66 Impale (2/2)

After you get this far it’s up to you where you want to put those extra points. There’s not really anything that sticks out.

Here’s a great Warrior Talent Guide
High Damage Reduction Build
48 Protection / 8 Arms / 5 Fury

PROTECTION TREE

Anticipation (5/5)
Toughness (5/5)
Shield Specialization (5/5)
Defiance (3/3)
Improved Shield Block (1/1)
Last Stand (1/1)
Improved Sunder Armor (3/3)
Improved Taunt (1/2)
Improved Shield Wall (2/2)
Concussion Blow (1/1)
Shield Mastery (3/3)
One Handed Weapon Specialization (5/5)
Improved Defensive Stance (3/3)
Shield Slam (1/1)
Focused Rage (3/3)
Vitality (5/5)
Devastate (1/1)

ARMS TREE

Deflection (5/5)
Improved Thunder Clap (3/3)

FURY TREE

Cruelty (5/5)

Gearing Your Warrior

In this section of our Warrior leveling guide we will discussequipment. Warrior’s are the most gear dependant class in game. This means thatwhile you’re leveling up it’s essential to upgrade your gear regularly. While mage’s and casters can happily get away with only buying new gearevery 5 levels or so, as a Warrior you can expect to visit the Auction House every 2 levels or so if you wish to stay on top of your game.Letting your gear and especially your weapon quality slip will have huge effects on your leveling speed.

You will want to focus mainly on obtaining ‘Of the Bear’ gear whichgives you more stamina and strength. +Crit chance is also important but is less crucial while your leveling. Agility is a nice bonus but don’tlook specifically for it, Strength should always come first and is infinitely more valuable.

When it comes to weapons you can either go Two-Handed or Dual wield, if you’reusing the talent spec listed above then I recommend dual wield. Two-Handed can also work with fury though and is just as good if that’s what youprefer. A logical approach (and the one I use) is to switch between 2h and dual wield depending on what weapons become available. For example atlevel 30 it would be a shame to miss out on the Whirlwind Axe which is an excellent weapon just because you want to dual wield. By usingthis approach it means you’re also leveling both sets of weapon skills which will save you a lot of time when you hit 70 because you won’t haveto level your weapon skill from 1 to 350 if you ever swapped it around.

Thank you for reading this Warrior leveling guide and I hope you’ll find the information useful and that you get more out of warrior than you did before.

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