Today we are going to treat a very special class. A class that can put itself in front of any enemy without wetting its pants, but that, when seeing a little robot that repairs armor, knows the meaning of the word fear ...
The warrior.
Type
Physical Tanking and Melee DPS.
Leveling up
During the WoW Classic, the warrior has been the class that could receive the most damage without dying, along with a large number of skills that allowed him to do a lot of damage in a short time. This may make you believe that the warrior was easy to climb, but it is not.
Warriors are not dependent on mana, but have rage. Anger is depleted if they are not in combat and in combat it is generated at a fairly slow rate. Having the best armor in the game, they don't need to stop for a meal very often, but it's not just that… they shouldn't stop almost under any circumstances, as they ran out of anger easily.
Warriors had two ways to level up, both had their advantages and disadvantages.
Either they went up as tanks or as dps. Being a tank, its damage was insufferably low, they could not catch many enemies at the same time, since they would lower their life too much and they would have to stop to eat, and as I said, to the bad. As a good part, is that they found a group easily and could do more dungeons without much concern, taking into account that the dungeon missions give a very high amount of experience, and the dungeons themselves give a lot of experience, the slowness of doing missions with the security of being able to go dungeons.
On the other hand, you could go up being dps, which killed faster, so the rest time between fights was reduced a lot, but ... it could cost more to find a group to do the dungeons, and possibly you would have to tank with a shield and weapon at one hand, which required having the skill of that moderately raised weapon.
Here I have to make a small paragraph. Although there were more classes that could tank, these were seen as "second" tanks and gave more security to a tank even if it was not with the correct talents, since many of their abilities grant more protection and generation of agro than the rest of the tanks. classes enabled for tanking. A dps warrior was the best option to climb, but "forced" to have a secondary team in case you were needed to tank a low-medium level dungeon or off-tank a medium-high level. This has been true during the Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King, with this latest expansion being the one that has obtained the most benefits to level up as a tank, since the damage dealt has been increased and the generation of anger by talents has also been has seen improved in this branch.
Raiding
Okay, a warrior does not have to buy any type of component or anything like that, so ... How did warriors prepare for a raid? As before, we have to see it from the point of view of a tank and a dps. The warrior, during WoW Original, was the best tank of all. They had the best agro generation, accompanied by the best damage mitigation, which is why they used to be chosen as Main Tanks. This implies having to know a boss better than anyone, when he loses threat, when to use his skills of greater damage mitigation ... all this, keeping an eye on anger, since the generation of anger of a protection warrior was quite tight, and remembering that the guides, videos and other aids almost did not exist, so it could only be learned during the boss, not before.
In addition, being constantly receiving damage meant that their equipment was damaged quite easily and the armor repairer or repair robot presented them with astronomical bills, which implied hours of money farming, since there were no daily missions. To this we add that the team of a tank has to be the best for each encounter. What does a boss hurt of nature? To look for that piece that gives a lot of life and resistance to nature that only falls in a specific place. What now is fire resistance needed? Then head to find all the equipment with possible fire resistance, without forgetting the defense, the blocking, the stop ...
As dps they did not have it much easier, since, as their dps was inferior to that of other classes, they had to off-tank if a monster escaped or a patrol got out of control. Change of stay, equip one-handed weapon and shield in the middle of combat, threaten ... all this in a few seconds, at a time when addons did not exist, or had not yet been programmed as they are now.
Both during the Burning and during the Wrath of the Lich King things were quite simplified for the warriors. They weren't necessarily main tanks anymore, and their dps was comparable to other dps classes, and the inclusion of daily missions was a great help in paying the armor repair and robot repair bills.
The Warrior patch by patch
- Patch 1.1.0
- Different abilities are allowed to be used in all stances, such as Heroic Strike and Bloody Rage.
- Taunt now equals your threat level to the highest at that time. Cooldown is added.
- Patch 1.2.0
- Berserker Stance now provides 3% more Crit instead of 10% Haste. Extra damage taken in this Stance reduced from 20% to 10%.
- Patch 1.3.0
- Thunderclap now deals physical damage instead of Nature damage.
- Using Execute no longer consumes all Rage if this ability misses the target.
- Patch 1.5.0
- Shield Specialization now grants a 20/40/60/80/100% chance to gain 1 rage each time you block.
- Patch 1.6.0
- New Talent: Shield Slam (Protection). Deals damage and has a 50% chance to dispel a positive magic effect on the target. Causes a moderate amount of additional threat. Requires Concussion Strike to select this talent.
- Patch 1.7.0
- Retaliation now deals a maximum of 30 hits over 15 seconds. Also, it cannot be used while incapacitated.
- Retaliation, Shield Wall and Recklessness will not be canceled when changing attitude.
- Patch 1.9.1
- Charging should not disconnect players from the server when used from land to water.
- Patch 2.0.3
- Weapon Mastery now grants immunity to attempts to disarm.
- Slam cast time will not be reduced by attacks.
- Patch 2.0.10
- Anger generation is increased by approximately 15-20%.
- Thunderclap can be used in Defensive Stance. The generation of anger it provokes is increased.
- Enhanced Battlecry becomes Presence of Order, upgrading the Shout of Command (introduced in Burning Crusade) and Battlecry.
- Patch 2.2.0
- Overpower can be used when another player dodges the extra attack provided by Sword Specialization.
- Blood Rage no longer initiates combat when used.
- Sword Specialization bonus hits cannot trigger a new bonus hit.
- Patch 2.3.0
- Devastate also causes the effect of Split Armor. All effects that modify Split Armor will also modify Ravage.
- Shield Slam now has a 100% chance to remove a magic effect on the target.
- Weapon Mastery now grants a 25/50% reduction in disarm time, up from a 50/100% chance to resist them.
- Patch 2.4.0
- You can no longer change to the same attitude you are in by using macros, causing a loss of anger.
- Patch 3.0.2
- Enrage (Fury) no longer has a fixed number of charges, but lasts for a set amount of time.
- Shield Wall, Retaliation, and Recklessness cooldown reduced from 30 to 5 minutes.
- Thunderclap now affects all enemies within the marked radius Shield Block (Ability) Now increases the chance to shield block by 100% for 10 seconds, with a 60 second cooldown.
- Shield Wall now reduces damage taken by 50%
- Patch 3.0.8
- Titan's Grip no longer has penalties when hitting the enemy.
- Patch 3.1.0
- Titan's Grip causes you to deal 10% less damage.
- Patch 3.2.0
- The maximum amount of Rage that can be used with Execute is changed to 30.
- The amount of Rage granted by the Shield Specialization is increased to 5 for each time it is blocked.
And so far the changes to the warrior. As can be seen, in tanking the amount of anger they generate has been greatly increased, facilitating the ability to generate sufficient threat in a very short time. Likewise, the damage they do has been significantly increased, going from being a class almost exclusively for tanking, to a class that can do damage comparable to other classes.
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