WARRIOR In CLASSIC WoW: Was It Any Good Though?

[@johnwillardsorensen1135]

If anyone for some reason is watching this now! The Sunken Temple class quest is not a tricky choice! Always take The trinket for The love of god!

[@ferno3628]

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD IF ANY NEW WARRIOR IS READING THIS TAKE THE TRINKET NO OTHER WAY ABOUT IT

[@lerenardroux]

Thank you for having the foresight to write this. As a new player I appreciate it!

[@mateuszkotrla2575]

I paused video, went to comments just now to write the same thing when he talked about it. The trinket is the best option from those, you will change other parts of the gear, but getting good trinket that allows you get 75 ! strengh is really really impossible for a long time. This will be your best dps trinket !

[@SuperAnge911]

@@mateuszkotrla2575 and the healing effect scales with healer gear so you can generate crazy amounts of health from it

[@skaughtey7199]

Thanks!

[@niyebread3033]

Warrior was my first class i ever reached 60 on. The grind was definitely the most difficult, time consuming and anger inducing experience I've ever had, but the adventure along the way is one i will never forget. I'll never forget massive pvp battles in shimmering flats, slaying drakes with groups in Badlands, accidentally pulling 1 extra mob and having to walk 1200+ yds to my corpse... Beautiful game

[@vruteo]

How long did it take you from 1-60

[@benjaminbjorn7240]

Same here, warrior was the first class I ever played. When I transitioned to a mage I realized I didn’t have to be so angry anymore. It was a good experience though

[@leftyfourguns]

I can't wait for Classic to be 90% Warriors but only 3% of them are tanks

[@WillEmmo]

Yeah its going to be the case probably lol

[@politicallycorrectredskin796]

If you want high end play, private servers is still going to be the way to go. That can get boring too of course. Noobs do add a certain flavor that is almost completely missing on private servers.

[@itsdylac]

And all of them will be rolling against me on 1h swords as a rogue. rip dal rends :(

[@jdflores84]

DPS warr here :P

[@cykodave5]

i'm rolling tank all day

[@Czesnek]

This video makes me want to play Mage so I can provide free food for broke warriors.

[@WillEmmo]

Wholesome mage

[@TheArtimi]

I will love any mage forever if they give food, honestly it helps so much

[@DragonZerul]

You are a saint ♥

[@3seven5seven1nine9]

i'll give you my server, faction, name, location, phone number, ssn,

[@Bombasticboogaloo]

Dude, I wanna do the same thing :D

[@happyplaceforever101]

Warrior was my first toon in wow; I leveled one all the way to 30. Then I switched to a druid, and I was shocked... I was thinking it was normal to die every 10 minutes and eat after each fight for every class.

[@danlorett2184]

*F I R S T A I D*

[@Juztastic]

Warrior was the first class I leveled and was my main all the way to Wrath. My memories of leveling was it being a slow frustrating grind, constantly having to eat and often needing help to complete tougher quests/kill certain mobs that a lot of classes could easily solo. You'll get sick of hearing "Not enough rage!" and "I'm out of range!" both in PvE and PvP. This however is worth putting up with as once you reach BWL and more specifically AQ40 (so many amazing Fury warrior items in AQ40) you become an absolute DPS god and these items were also best in slot for PvP. Once you have the gear for PvP you shred through clothies and Rogues in seconds, it's satisfying. I was also Main tank for my guild (we made it to the early bosses in Naxx before TBC was released) and relied upon heavily so if your planning on becoming MT just remember you'll be expected to attend every raid and will never be subbed out. You'll also have an easy time joining groups for dungeon runs as everyone needs a tank. Also another negative is that it can be very expensive to play a warrior as your wearing plate and repairing it costs more than it would for cloth, leather or mail and the better your gear the more it costs. If you're an Off tank in your guild you'll be expected to have a set of DPS gear when bosses don't require as many tanks which also means you have to pay to respec often. My overall memory of playing Warrior was it was an awful lot of fun to play although frustrating at times but once you get the gear then you dominate most classes in PvP or will be at the top of the DPS meters in raid or vitally needed as a tank. I would say if your planning on playing casually then it's probably not going to be the best class for you. The only thing I regret is that I never managed to obtain Thunderfury, Blessed blade of the Wind Seeker.. but what an awesome weapon it was!

[@WillEmmo]

Awesome story there! Sounds like you really went through the trials of playing a warrior lol. I agree with your conclusion too, warriors need a large amount of time investment to be really great

[@fourmatictv]

This is super interesting. My first 60 was a warrior and I had no point of reference to it being "the worst" at leveling. Now it makes a lot of sense. I guess I'm back to the drawing board trying to figure out what toon to max level first. Thanks for the info, really great video!

[@WillEmmo]

No probs, thanks!

[@eternalvigilance5697]

I leveled a Night Elf Warrior to 40 or so in Vanilla and think people make it out to be way harder than it actually is. As long as you keep your gear and weapon up to date, and carry pots and bandages, it isn't THAT hard. Maybe a bit slow and more expensive to level would be the better description.

[@chrisandreas3142]

Its hard cause its slowest class in level up.

[@TheSecondPrimarch]

I love the part where he says This requires a strong belief in Jesus cause you are going to take massive amounts of damage! (11:14)

[@starsareangels7]

@Axlerod Horowitz not fairytale. I exorcised my satanist ex when the demons in her manifested. She sold her soul "to find out what she already knew" I think deep down you know too.

[@starsareangels7]

@Axlerod Horowitz Jesus name had her seizing, vomitting, saying 666 666 666 f jesus

[@starsareangels7]

@Axlerod Horowitz "it feels like I'm dying on a loop" "please I don't want to go back to hell" if you would open your mind up I can destroy all of your logical fallasies that keep you from the truth

[@starsareangels7]

@Axlerod Horowitz oh you like sadghuru you're new age. No wonder you're so lost about the truth

[@BITCOIlN]

"Jesus Believer" best name for Warrior.

[@mfranks4731]

Almost 15 years of playing this game never mained a warrior never leveled one i never even made one as a alt but your fucking right i still watched this video

[@dosran5786]

omg the pirate island quest for zerk stance >.< and the troll guy in hinterlands who sends you on the quest.

[@namelessnpc6689]

4:17 - 4:23 Or a 60 main/alt that can funnel money to your warrior to keep them consistently overgeared while s/he's leveling. This is what I do. Granted, it's not efficient, but lvling a very well-geared warrior is one of the most fun things in classic; for me at least. Also, it's not that expensive to keep a warrior well geared while lvling using lvl 60 funds.

[@TheOenghus]

Yo you forgot to mention how more manageable warrior leveling is when you wear spirit gear and use staves while leveling. The spirit has a significant decrease in down time and staves have some of the high base dps in early level gearing options.

[@WillEmmo]

You right! mb there should have included

[@yellowyellowyellowyellow]

great info that luckily is becoming decently known thanks to videos ^ ^

[@vikbys]

Love this channel, so happy I found it! And thank you for covering the first class I played to 60 way back in the day. There is for sure a special kind of satisfaction being a tank, with how high of a demand and lack of tanks there always seems to be, to say the least. Sadly I'm not leveling a warrior now in classic, even though I did consider it for a while. Because the thought of going through the leveling experience as a warrior once again gives me PTSD

[@WillEmmo]

Thanks! They are rough to level for sure

[@kulrigalestout]

My personal experience as an olde timey Warrior; I started playing WoW about October of 2006. I wasn't really sure about the game at first, but I was in love with the lore set up by the RTS games and knew I wanted to be an Orc Warrior. Levels 1-3 were... bland. Pretty dull. But then level 4 rolled around, I learned Charge, and I knew that no other class would appeal to me in the same way. Warlocks were a pretty close second, but whenever I wasn't playing my Warrior I kinda felt like I wasn't playing the game. My love for the class was strong, and that's what helped ease the pain of leveling. By the time I hit level cap, it was September of 2008. I wasn't able to play as much as I would have liked thanks to being in the Navy and not really having internet for half the year (and spending the other half of the year trying not to fall asleep at 3 AM making sure locked doors are still locked). When I did play, I never really pushed too hard for levels; I was more focused on just questing and enjoying the world. But still. Almost the entirety of an expansion to go from 1 to 70. Warrior leveling was *slow*. It was sometimes painful. As for grouping up, I was invited into two dungeons (Sunken Temple and Hellfire Ramparts) and taken along as a sort of mascot for three raids (Mag's twice, Gruul's once). No dungeon group wanted me because I wasn't geared, even though I spent as much time and energy as I could into making sure Blacksmithing kept me from falling too far behind. No guild wanted me because they already had main and off tanks and too many DPS. I damn near quit the game at that point, and sometimes I wish I had, but Wrath of the Lich King was right around the corner so I knew I wouldn't be stuck at the moronic hell that was level cap much longer. Dear reader, If you want to be a Warrior in Classic, know every dungeon inside and out. Don't be afraid to form groups of your own, and accept the fact that you'll be the tank. Otherwise, prepare to put in a lot more effort to get a group than anyone else. Melee puts you in harm's way more often than a ranged class, your severe gear dependence means that pretty much any other class will do more damage for less effort, your only form of Crowd Control can be better described as Crowd Chaos, and there are literally dozens just like you clamoring for the same spot. Even if you volunteer to tank, be prepared to be kicked as soon as someone in the group is mildly uncomfortable with your health pool. I can't speak for end game in the early years, before the days of welfare epics and catch up mechanics, but I'm comfortable in making the assertion that if you're not rolling a Warrior at launch and staying on the absolute bleeding edge of gear progression at all times, you're going to be in for a bad time. Do not stop to smell the flowers. Do not rest, do not take a break, do not bother with professions aside from First Aid, devote yourself entirely to cranking out levels as quickly as you can and then work even harder. One or two months after launch when probably up to a quarter of people are 60, you'll be in a good spot to get into many groups because there are so few people to choose from. Three or four months after launch, when a solid majority of launch day players are either gearing up for raids or are already getting some raid gear, it'll be far too late to join in on the fun. Nobody will want you in their group because you'll siphon the gear they need to shard for enchants, and you'll just slow them down anyway. But if you manage to persevere and make it into a good guild and get those phat lewts before they go into the shard pile, you'll be the envy of a ton of Warriors out there. Well, the envy of a lot of people, really. Not only will you look fantastic, you'll be fantastic on the meters and every group will want you to lead them. So the legend goes.

[@baronvonsnazzy3355]

Warrior in a nutshell, If you want to progress via pve content go prot, if you want to live in Alterac Valley go arms. Do not switch, not not deviate, most will fail while a few will attain glory, it's basically like life.

[@WillEmmo]

Good points on the effort required, that's sort of the conclusion I came to as well. Competition will be massive for gear as i'm sure there will be many, many people who have heard just how good warriors are. I tried to give a warning at the end that despite this, warriors are a real time investment, falling behind might just get you left behind. Great post, thanks very much!

[@SteveMiKr]

Love your vids, make more, please! Talk about WoW...and everything else! Thank you for the great content.

[@54jb3r7]

Also FOR THE LOVE OF GOD pick DIAMOND FLASK.

[@avargs3505]

Hahaha for the memes...

[@firemarshaldil]

@@avargs3505 not for the memes, its one of the highest damage trinkets in the game for warriors.

[@avargs3505]

@@firemarshaldil I know : ) I see warrior's use it even on bosses like the twin emps.. For some reason I thought in my head that the video would show him selecting a different reward and this was a reaction to that

[@chrijani7]

Why is it so good? The helm is a welfare lionheart

[@Lordturisas1]

@@chrijani7 it's 150 attack power that's up for every boss for almost their entire fight durations.

[@roundnround952]

the choice of ST items is easy. The trinket by far is the one item you'll keep and use for boss fights and raids well into high tier content

[@adriansegundo2401]

I was only planning to watch your rogue review, but your videos are entertaining and informative so I decided to watch your warrior review.

[@WillEmmo]

Thanks, hope you enjoyed!

[@avargs3505]

Very informative! Especially on little well known mechanics to non warrior players like how heroic strike does not generate rage. Thank you!

[@WillEmmo]

Thank you

[@dosran5786]

heroic strike was your rage dump

[@TK_GX]

The lowest of lows, but when the highs come, it is the highest of high.

[@HoracioPz]

@11:11 that cracked me up. Great and very informative content. I can't wait to play warrior mostly because I'm playing since WoTLK and by then leveling a warrior was more forgiven and this going to be a challenge.

[@WillEmmo]

Thanks man, glad you liked!

[@danlorett2184]

PS: for that Sunken Temple quest if you're going to be mainly DPS then pick Diamond Flask. It's OP as hell - one of best DPS trinkets in the game for warriors. Between that and Blackhand's Breadth you'll be set for a while for trinkets (which are rare AF in classic). Also, while T1/2/3 were all tank sets the AQ set Conquerer's Battlegear was for DPS warriors. Still though you mostly end up using random pieces instead of any sets as a DPS warrior - including leather because Agi actually is still pretty decent for warriors in classic - you get 1% crit for every 20 agi at level 60.

[@Danfischer]

These videos are so consistently good, more people need to see these. Can’t wait for the priest video!

[@WillEmmo]

Thanks Dan! Priest is next!

[@andrewvader1955]

Love to video. I played warrior for years but not in vanilla but TBC to warlords and i agree with everything your saying and teaching me more about vanilla! Leveling a warrior is like the long road but well deserved once traveled.

[@WillEmmo]

Thanks, glad it helped, it's worth the reward if you can stand the grind!

[@andrewvader1955]

@@WillEmmo Been watching videoes on classic wow understand how this version works. FInding out first time ever warriors are the slowest class made sense why everything was a stuggle! Its the most fun for me but everyone wait on me was hardcore.

[@joshuatucker7870]

You have no idea how bad leveling warrior is if you didnt do it in Vanilla

[@andrewvader1955]

@@joshuatucker7870 I do! I played 5 months before TBC. Lots of eating after every other pull. I didn't know much. I lvled alot in razorfen kraul and downs from 30-42 tanking. I didn't try leveling max till TBC. I also played on 2 private servers with no leveling perks. The knowledge we have now to lvl helps a fuck-ton.

[@cattysplat]

Victory rush in BC made leveling warrior infinitely easier compared to Vanilla. Having a big health regen hard hitting attack after every kill was huge, no downtime if you were good. Vanilla there was always downtime.

[@hellhuckerhenry6950]

6:03 It isn't an uneasy choice, it's an obvious choice: Diamond Flask. 150 AP for a whole minute is BONKERS even at 60, in addition you can use outfitter and a hotkey to equip a whole set of +heal gear, use the trinket and then switch your gear back on. You will be left with a bunch of empty HP but have a HOT on you for a whole minute that can easily go into multiple thousands of healing, since each healing tick has a 1:1 scaling off addheal. At +400 addheal, which is realistic to come by, you will regenerate 400+9 each 5 seconds for a minute. 60:5=12x409=4818 total healing. Using this method, you are able to solo many elites and have a huge advantage in pvp, especially duels where prepping it is easy.

[@dantehakansson8753]

Diamond Flask is waaay better than shoulder / Head. If you are going into hardcore raiding its a req to have.

[@WillEmmo]

Nice point cheers

[@addisonratliff6693]

care to elaborate why it is so strong?

[@erikostman6036]

@@addisonratliff6693 Diamond flask gives 75 strength for a full minute which is massive (150AP without multipliers). For shorter fights such as the drakes in BWL it is best in slot since no other trinket is even close to providing that amount of AP for such a long time. It is also very useful for fights that has "need to be nuked"-phase where overall dps isn't as important as the burst dps during the nuke phase.

[@manowartank8784]

@ Wyrmhide Spaulders or Truestrike Shoulders, both leather shoulderswith 2% hit, latter are better but harder to get. As helmet you can get Mask of the Unforgiven with 2% hit and 1% crit or Helm of the Executioner with 2% hit and strenght. Both availible only few levels after the Sunken Temple quest. Trinket this good is however pretty hard to replace, if not impossible for fury.

[@gearzdesign]

I leveled a hunter first, then moved onto warrior, then a second warrior... did all the progression as an offtank warrior. It was painful until you got gear to support the class.

[@waffelbart]

it is the hard part that this class makes fun actually

[@gearzdesign]

@@waffelbart I still remember the day I had my arcanite reaper crafted by a guildie. I was full T1 with Arc reaper on a PVP server (Illidan) Then the fun *really* started. lol

[@Chillypuwn]

Sunken Temple quest IS an easy choice. The trinket is BY FAAR the best pick as it will be BiS until you have DFT+Badge of the Swarmguard. The shoulders you will replace with Truestrike shoulders from UBRS and the helm once you can get a Lionheart. Also about the tanking: No sunder armour is not the main Threat generator. It is heroic strike once you get a set of threatgear. Sunder is only used to dump rage so you don't cap out.

[@WillEmmo]

Good stuff, cheers!

[@jamesbaggett3655]

Ive heard a few times lately that the weapon skill racials don't work in pvp, personally idk.

[@Seikoz89]

Ice barbed spear. L51. 3.80 attack speed. best weapon 'til arcanite reaper

[@khmergodhobbies]

i love u

[@MrSinaster]

Won’t be in launch tho for several months until AV launches

[@Seikoz89]

@@MrSinaster well version will be 1.13 so im sure av will be out

[@imus68]

AV will not be out till phase 3 i believe which will be a while

[@andrewmorgan5541]

I wrecked so many people with that weapon haha

[@AB-sr9mc]

that beginning part was oddly sexual..

[@WillEmmo]

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@derbudz]

@Soylent GoogleCuck i know that feel bro. Good thing i always have some bestiality tabs open, just in case.

[@booradley6832]

I was coming down to comment about how that psychiatrist definitely got the orc to blow all his rage. RIP human asscheeks.

[@j0hnbr0ck]

As of 1 week before classic it seems like I will be a lone Warrior in a friend group of Warlocks. Should be interesting.

[@chuggynation8275]

terrible group, who the fuck picks the same class when playing with friends ? lol

[@hinkhall1186]

Warrior leveling is easier than people remember. If you don't stand there and tank every mob auto attack, and instead use a swing timer addon and hamstring the mobs to kite them. So roughly every 3.5 secs you get an auto attack as a 2H arms warrior, while mobs attack much faster. You hamstring and kite the mob while charging your auto attack. Then run/jump through them and only take 1 hit instead of 2 or 3 possible hit by just standing in one spot. You effectively take half the damage, and keep yourself busy by not standing in one spot. P.S. Don't forget, spirit gear drastically speeds up health regen (out of combat, but at fast rates) and lowers the cost of food and potions

[@cattysplat]

Yep there is a lot more you can do than just stand there autoattacking, spamming cooldowns and taking hits. Hamstring/piercing howl and intercept back in for 3 seconds guaranteed hits on stunned target, improved overpower completely destroys with impale and deep wounds and procs more dodges with duel wield which you can weaponswap to a 2hander, stance dance and use all your skills to maximise output and survivability whilst mortal strike/bloodthirst and whirlwind are on cooldown. I loved levelling warrior so much I did it twice in Vanilla, one as arms and one as fury, i found fury easier to level with many more 1 handers to choose from, arms isn't amazing until mortal strike at 40 and fury's talents are almost all strong and useful. All the different weapons makes it great fun and regening health has many proactive options like bandaging and cooking unlike mana. No fussing around with stealth and energy like a rogue, if you got skills, big balls and some health in your bar you can keep on fighting until the last hit point. Plus healers LOVE you, you will have perma friends with healers 24/7 if they know your a good warrior and with a good healer you are unstoppable, go 2 man some battlegrounds or dungeons for big fun.

[@grubi450]

Je Na Hamstring kiting doesn’t work on Classic, it was a private server thing. As a warrior the best thing you can do is to group up with a healer or run dungeons, solo play at lower levels is awfully slow

[@Zombgetsu]

Warriors early game was litteral hell... but damn a maxed out orc warr demands more respect than any rogue would.

[@Juztastic]

@@phillipbotter6470 Tell that to the Orc Warrior with his stun resistance trait followed by a one shot overpower.

[@Donbd83]

@@Juztastic give him some shaman backup and you have a monster just a walking mass of pain. Add in some freedom of movement or swift potions and watch the green choo choo mow everything in its path.

[@Donbd83]

@@phillipbotter6470 you call grounding totem, wf weapon, tremor totem, the ability to remove roots, fear, grant extra attacks and can interrupt casters. Verses a priest with no CC and wearing cloth versus mail/shield weilding healer that can take a hit, heal both members at the same time, your top tier means shit in classic. I would take a druid healer over a priest in BG in classic over a priest anyday of the week as they are mostly fodder, one reason the horde owned BG's in classic was because of that shaman 3rd tier my ass.

[@dylanlerian5960]

@@phillipbotter6470 Oh, look at this beautiful specimen who doesn't even know what he is talking about.

[@JK-gd9xd]

@@phillipbotter6470 thrashlord

[@prodbyryshy]

6:59 im looking at this raid comp like why so many shamans? Then it hits me.....ohh the beauty of a million chain heals flowing through a mass of frenzied warriors.... brings back the memories

[@Sponkelbop]

A video guide request: Professions for each class, both PvE and PvP. That would be a great subject to cover.

[@WillEmmo]

I currently have a profession overview written with class recommendations but its going to have ages to do its REALLY long

[@Sponkelbop]

@@WillEmmo Better late than never :) Gl

[@CivilianAdams]

Great vids man, keep it up, you are sure to go places.

[@WillEmmo]

Thanks!

[@andrewsoderquist1173]

11:13 You made me laugh out loud. At the office. Well played.

[@omfgrsplz]

Definitely deserve more subscribers, keep up the good work man!

[@WillEmmo]

Cheers!

[@SuperCallum112]

"Not safe for KZbin" (Wiggles eyebrows)

[@MrSp0iler]

Almost makes me want to cry when eating after each encounter and 19 percent chance to miss when dual wielding (only fun spec for me). Tears are real if you buy stack of lvl 40 food for a gold or something.

[@KibblesDoesStuff]

Really thankful yo have these videos woth classic fresh announcement

[@tylerwiggins7187]

I’m leveling a warrior for my first character in classic. New player since bfa. Thanks!

[@originality9273]

The glide over how powerful Diamond Flask is gave me 100 rage lol.

[@DoctorDominoh]

Thanks you for the reality check your series offers. I'd definitely reroll a mage, as I planned to from the begining... but I was hesitating a lot with warrior and rogue aswell !

[@WillEmmo]

Thanks! I want to be as realistic as possible!

[@rodolfolinares8254]

Leveling as a warrior was not that bad once you got cleave and sweeping strikes. Get one enemy to 30-50% and pull another. Each cleave would make you proc sweeping strike twice so with every weapon swing you could hit both enemies twice

[@Andromahlius]

DPS Warrior is simple: go to BWL, get Untamed blade, spec 2H Fury (UB MASSIVE strength proc is synergistic with bloodthirst). Keep that until you get Noth's axe in Naxx at what point you can go dual wield. At that point you'll be two shotting clothies in PvP.

[@Jade_Raven]

kinda want to play warrior because it's so much fun in later xpacs, or with friends and gear. But then I remember back to literally eating after every fight and not being able to charge in combat and just...nah fam I'm too casual for that shit these days

[@jamessmith5437]

Warriors prolly one of the more casual classed to play imo lots of managing w others like mana amo and so on

[@StarsingerOG]

There is a Frostmourne in the arms talents panel

[@cattysplat]

As member of a hardcore raiding guild back in Vanilla, there was no greater sight than having your manly warriors charge into dungeons or BGs as full DPS spec and tank everything down through sheer damage, base mitigation and lots of skilled heals. Who needs prot, shield and other DPSers when DPS warrior does it all :) If you die just blame healers!

[@heebsgames]

Really great run-down. I leveled as fury back in 2004-2005. It felt like the healing from blood craze and bloodthirst made a difference in downtime by giving more sustain, but it's obviously been a very long time so take it with a grain of salt.

[@WillEmmo]

Thanks! It was something, not a lot but it could make the difference and keep you alive!

[@R.Jay.Creations]

You should have just said out right, level in dungeons... Do not level by questing... otherwise forget about tanking or dpsing worth a damn. And get used to dying..... a lot.

[@damianpeabody3623]

Is that true even for a pug that may or may not know what they're doing? And I've hit a slow stale point at low 30's so am I better off tanking even with the arms spec?

[@benjoleo]

Damian Peabody if you don’t want your group to be mad at you, just watch a guide on tanking, it’s not actually that hard imo. And never spec protection while leveling, even if you want to tank dungeons. Arms is better for tanking than fury

[@R.Jay.Creations]

@@damianpeabody3623 In the past you could get away with tanking as arms until the sunken temple grind. But fools will start to gripe if they catch you taking as arms in the 45 plus group.

[@professorpvp]

I think it depends, I had a rich main so I spent a lot of gold on top boes and enchants so I two shot mobs while lvling, warriors scale hard with gear so if you buy good gear, health pots and potions that can help you a lot while questing

[@politicallycorrectredskin796]

After playing all the classes, I was most impressed with the fact that they were all good. Some weaknesses, some strengths and really most about personal preference.

[@phoenixgaming4185]

Finally, someone who isn’t mostly focused on the stats, but the experience

[@politicallycorrectredskin796]

@@@phoenixgaming4185 Anyone who thinks playing a class is easy should definitely try it. After Vanilla I had only played mage and was convinced that rogues and hunters were complete faceroll classes. And then I tried both and they were not simple at all, but quite complicated and challenging. It was an eye opener. Obviously this only lasted until Wrath, when the faceroll/welfare campaign begun for real for all the classes. It got stupider and stupider until I just quit one day. Haven't been back since.

[@phoenixgaming4185]

Fishslap 33 I do still play, but it doesn’t have the same feel as before so I do get that

[@factbeaglesarebest]

Fishslap 33 rogues faceroll? Did you play BC?

[@politicallycorrectredskin796]

@@@phoenixgaming4185 Community's gone after being deliberately undermined by Blizz for years. The only people who have liked WoW since Wrath imo are people who don't care whether there is a community or not, which is just weird to me. Why play an MMORPG then? Or rather why play one and then complain about how hard it is until it stops being one, which is my take on what happened to WoW. In TBC there was an attunement chain for Karazhan I believe, that ended with a timed run in the hardest heroic dungeon. It was just such a wonderful noob-test. People whined and whined about it all through TBC because they couldn't do it, until it was removed sadly. They couldn't start raiding before they had done this and there was no other way of gearing up than crafting and doing five mans, and improving in various ways from that. Practice and skills you really needed if you wanted to raid anyway. The perfect progress gate. They should never have gone away from this simple stuff.

[@Kreshrin]

Hamstring kite people, get a swing timer addon, or learn your speed, and kite with hamstring. Eat less, kill more. And always, no matter what spec, have a shield and 1h. You may save your own life, or even the groups.

[@hamgraham414]

Waste of time.

[@erwinmulder1338]

I had a warrior as my main in the vanilla days, everything said here is true. Gear, gear, gear and about zero survive-ability in solo PvE is what warriors are about. Especially when raiding you need a lot of favors from your guild to turn you into the main tank with crafted gear and loot prio. There was a arms(5)/prot (15)/fury (31) build we used a lot for the dps/offtank warriors back in the day. In DPS you relied on fury talents for damage, but in tanking you'd use the fury tree's speed increases to generate loads of threat when taking damage.

[@WillEmmo]

Thanks! I really wanted to get across that whilst warriors are great ..Gear is a big roadblock

[@MrSmithe11]

looking forward to a priest video

[@WillEmmo]

For sure man, we have Shaman next then priest. I think the priest vid may go over 20 mins with how much material im going to have to cover, we will see!

[@cemerson12]

Never leave home without a healer. Re-roll a mage. I just returned after more than a year. Wasn’t the least bit interested in tanking or 1 key hitting when TBC released. But my plan this time is to level up both a prot pally and a shaman … (self-healing tanks on low pop servers) and then, when 58 and ready to go through the Dark Portal, I will just go to the WoW store and buy a “reclass one character to Warrior tank spec” for $100 or so … ( I feel pretty certain Bliz will have some way by the time I am ready to get a warrior to 58 without having to actually play a warrior ) Forgive my irony. I actually love warriors … just can’t afford the cost of all the necessary therapy. Great video!

[@Treaxvour]

Ah, the warrior. My first character. My first 60, 70 and so on. My first 60 in the madness that was the classic launch. Always a fun experience.

[@Argosh]

I originally leveled as a defense warrior... When I tried fury warrior for the first time it felt like easy mode.

[@dacbiet]

I leveled as arms. It was really bad

[@armorers_wrench]

@@dacbiet arms is excellent in PvP though. Especially with a paladin healer or a shammy boi following you around for blessing of freedom/windfury totem.

[@dacbiet]

Nick well yeah Arms warriors and rogues were the top of the food chai when it comes to pvp. I was referring to leveling.

[@khmergodhobbies]

I rolled my first char as warrior....fml. I'm now going to do it again in 10 days.

[@Donbd83]

Same was a arms warrior who could function as an offtank 31/5/15 was my spec. Gonna go full fury this time around.

[@toffeelatte6042]

I was never interested in WoW until late BC and I still have no desire for classic now, especially since I feel a lot of the systems are outdated and what I'd consider far more hardcore than when it was current content. But I absolutely love your enthusiasm and knowledge for classic and still watch these vids because it's a lot of stuff thats cool to learn about the original vision and a lot of it I think would be nice to see back. Like having multiple different builds done through talents. Yes you can do something like this now with covenants and legendaries in Shadowlands, but it's not even close to the same level of depth and you are still a predominantly identity in terms of spec; which is something I don't like about WoW now. Like you put daggers on as Outlaw and can't dispatch - why? You put a sword on as sub, you can no longer backstab, fine, but why can't I have the option to have hemo back? I am aware that is suboptimal for PvE but it's what made PvP in all its broken iterations fun, because there was so much you could do. Yes it's why the games PvP was always broken but history has proven we will accept broken PvP when it's fun. It's why people even speak of Mists fondly. Every class/comp combination almost was so fucked that anything worked, and that's why it was considered to have two of the best seasons in the games history - as you could play virtually anything you wanted.

[@noprisoners8621]

Yo willie, it is funny to watch this now and laugh at the sunken quest and you saying there is a choice xD

[@DagothDaddy]

What I think makes the Vanilla Warrior great is also what makes it kinda suck. That's the sort of blank slate design of the Warrior so it is very boring to play solo as it can easily feel bland and un interesting but playing with just 1 other person changes the formula so drastically add a mage and now you can AOE kill you get free food,your weapon skill imporves,add a rogue now that rogue can pop off backstabs easier with out having to stun enemies,Hunter now you don't wind up needing to kite enemies and any healer and you can chain kill mobs ect. The warrior complements other class designs and each class enhances or opens up gameplay options for the warrior

[@cattysplat]

Don't forget having a healer. Warrior is a source of unlimited damage as long as there is health in their healthbar, no other class can really offer such scaling except rogue but is still limited by energy gen and being kited, intercept and hamstring are incredible skills in pvp.

[@soulessification]

@@cattysplat You forgot about Piercing Shout- AoE slow

[@douglasdea637]

I agree with everything you said. My biggest mistake in playing Vanilla WoW was making my first main character a warrior. It was rough. Yes, leveling was slow. Doubly so when you're half way through killing a mob and some Horde came up behind you and started ganking, you had no hope. The talents were terrible. I remember I could spend 5 talent points on my rogue and see a difference in how he performed. I could spend 10 talent points on my warrior and see no improvement. Yes, warriors live and die by their gear. Good luck in getting any though. My average gear was 5-8 levels below my character while leveling. I remember using a blue pally shield from some instance for at least 10 levels just because it was the best I found (and I was already a couple levels above it when I found it.) The three warrior stances made little sense. I understand with what the company was trying to do with them, but still... Losing half of your well-earned rage just to "stance dance" a little hurt. A warrior should have all skills available at all times, but they don't. Then there was aggro. This was a term I had no understanding of when I began the game. I saw people using it but never really understood it until my warrior was level 20 or 25. Then learning how to generate it took some reading. Even then, go into an instance and start tanking a couple mobs and the idiot spell casters target a third and pull him away from you. Then they start complaining about how you're not tanking properly. Arrrrrgggghhhh! Everyone assumes Taunt is usable twice a second. It's not, folks! It's available once every 5 seconds or so. Warriors were simply an exercise in frustration. Okay, sure, when they hit 60 and got decent gear they came into their own and everyone loved them. (I still remember doing a PUG Zul Gurub raid and actually getting praise from the raid leader.) Leveling to 60 though...

[@christographerx64]

I dunno. That long gruelling levelling challenge to ultimately become top tier DPS sounds inviting to me. Everyone keeps telling me NOT to go warrior but I love everything it stands for in spite of all the negatives. Finally something to sink my teeth into.

[@douglasdea637]

@@christographerx64 It will be better now than before. Once you know your gear will be gimped you learn to accept it. Plus I bet you know what aggro is and how to manage it. Plus I intend to play on a server with limited PVP. I'm too old and busy to deal with endless ganking when I don't want it. I'll make a warrior but I think my first main will be a priest with enchanting and tailoring. Making better bags for all my characters is just too good to pass up.

[@christographerx64]

@@douglasdea637 Heh, old man here too with kids. Im signed up for the RP-PVE server. I tend to level slow in MMOs anyway getting lost in the quests, lore, and exploration. Having that added challenge is just what I'm looking for right now (can group, but able to solo with slight difficulty). I love ESO but over time its just too easy and I lose interest. I want to earn my progression (even if it means dying constantly).

[@abominabro9932]

love your videos man. i appreciate you giving a warning about warrior leveling and gearing taking so long, i was thinking about going warrior but i just dont have the time. Now i have to decide between priest and mage!

[@Argosh]

If you think priest has a better leveling experience than warrior think again XD

[@abominabro9932]

@@Argosh priest is faster than warrior, priest is a tier 2 leveler so a little faster than warrior and the gear should be a bit easier for me to get

[@berettaxd7566]

Mage and Rogue are fastest.

[@ReadyToRek]

Shame it took until BC for paladin tanks to be able to become uncrushable at 102.4% avoidance without procs. Great video series man.

[@WillEmmo]

Thanks!

[@devilmikey00]

Pally's got so much more love in BC as tanks. I remember everyone always wanted a pally because they were the only tank who could actually AOE tank in BC so you didn't have to CC half the room on every pull. It was always disappointing to see a warrior or druid tank when you joined a group. It meant that dungeon was going to take 2x as long ;p

[@meta1152]

Shattering Halls heroic was so much easier as a pally.

[@fatarthas203]

Amazing video as always.

[@WillEmmo]

[@verenov77]

Still trying to figure out why a fury warrior dual-wielding "tank" would go with shield block in the talents. Am I missing something? Is it just due to those moments when boss-fighting when you NEED to switch to a shield? Thanks.

[@WillEmmo]

Safety net I believe/ for enrages

[@grubi450]

GravelsteinGaming If you get low on hp you switch to shield and activate shield block to prevent being crushed and randomly 1shot by next 2 attacks, which gives your healers enough time to heal you to full

[@everves]

I love the opener! Makes me go on. *cries in Classic warrior leveling*

[@sadtoast6122]

This is why I had a dreni warrior during burning crusade for the healing racial

[@soulessification]

Couple of notes to OP. 1) Changing stances as a Warrior was known as stance dancing, in pvp- you would change stance almost all the time, ba/be when up close and def when out of range. 2) In PvP- skilled HWL/GM warriors would use Sword+Shield and 2h swap macros to fight any melee class and no rogue could kill a warrior, no matter how hard they tried. 3) Warriors are heavily gear capped, their DPS/tanking is all dependent on the gear, you can be the most skilled warrior and be trashed everywhere cause you haven't got the right gear. 4) You missed a vital warrior pvp talent- getting piercing shout was the daddy of all abilities for warrior, not only could it reveal rogue/druid stealth but its an aoe slow too which meant that even if you couldn't get your hamstring on the target, piercing shout would do just fine.

[@WillEmmo]

Good points cheers

[@ivpiv5933]

No rogue could win.. Did you play on some modded private server or? cause i distincly remember 5-8 kiting. Or gouge reset + eat = reset duels over and over again. Till they wear you down. IF a rogue then had patience and skill he could litterally take 5% of your HP reset the fight eat his hp back up, take another 5% and so forth. Unless you mean Battlegrounds with a healer at your back sure.

[@montero363]

@@ivpiv5933 A warrior can eat too,sapping a warrior wont work well cause you need 5 sec to get out of combat,unless you are sub and have the talents,the warr can also use berserker rage to get out of Gouge,besides a rogue is a cooldown dependant class while the warr isnt.There is no way a rogue can wear down a warrior without his cds which he prolly blew in the begining of the fight,the only way a rogue could win is with poison kiting and bleeds,but that is luck and lag dependand,also if the warrior is an orc forget about it...

[@magicstevethecat6768]

Good effort on the vid overall. However, slightly wrong about the leveling, your numbers of parry etc are on point, but the the leveling process does not require you to eat every kill if done correctly. Opener from lvl 8 on is as follows, Charge > auto > rend/Hamstring > run away wait for swing timer to reset > heroic strike > run and wait for swing timer to reset > heroic strike, etc etc. By doing this it reduces the damage taken back significantly. Making it possible to pull about 2 to 3 mobs (1 at a time usually of course) before needing to eat. Great vids tho, inb4 people get upset at this tho :')

[@WillEmmo]

Yeah I should have given HS kiting a mention you are right. A few people have gotten upset believe me haha.

[@magicstevethecat6768]

@@WillEmmo Welcome to the internet, people get upset daily haha. I was sure u knew about it, based on how detailed everything else was. Keep up the good content tho, very informative.

[@Fliptality]

@@magicstevethecat6768 too bad harmstring kiting will not work as it did on PSERVER

[@magicstevethecat6768]

@@Fliptality the mob will be slowed, you will out run them. Seems likes it works. Next?

[@Fliptality]

@@magicstevethecat6768 melee leeway -> greater range -> not as effective -> have fun

[@5chr4pn3ll]

Diamond Flask trinket is insane and will last you a long while.

[@FearsomeWarrior]

Blackhand's Breadth and Hand of Justice. I prefer that combo over the flask.

[@5chr4pn3ll]

@@FearsomeWarrior Difference between HoJ and the Flask is that the flask is a guarantee and HoJ could just never drop. Also 150 AP for a full minute is very strong, issue is that it looks like it's P4 so :/

[@FearsomeWarrior]

5chr4pn3ll Never drop? BRD is fun and you’re going to be running it for your guild mates anyways. I’ve always ran the dungeon until I get the item. Over and over.

[@Legalmind2]

@@FearsomeWarrior Ya I can't agree more. You will see HoJ vendored like 10 times before phase 1 is over.

[@Erik_Boberg]

I remember the pain of PvP vs priests with shields. You get no rage when you hit the shield. If you dont get through it quick, they can rebuff the shield when its off cd and your stuck with 0 rage just auto attacking into their shield feeling absolutely pathetic

[@WillEmmo]

Oh man its so true, and priests are going to be everywhere. No rage makes warrior a sad boy.

[@cattysplat]

Warlock voidwalker sacrifice is an even stronger shield. Gave me extreme cancer trying to fight locks than know how to double sacrifice even when fear immune.

[@JSErwine]

I played a warrior in vanilla and shadow priests were a no go.

[@JSErwine]

@@cattysplat There was nothing worse than going up against a lock/shadow priest combo.

[@puffin-onehandedgamer1164]

my guess is, all warrior will be spamming dungeons when leveling, so you have a Shaman/Paladin healer, 3 warrior dps and druid tank (at low level), at higher level I suppose one of the warrior m,ight make for a better tank, but yeah, this will be the leveling method that they will use. at low levels you can get 3-4 levels in a few hours according to a video I watched yesterday about dungeon leveling in classic.

[@WillEmmo]

That's pretty interesting. Could be a good alternative to questing if you are playing with a consistent group. Gather quests take forever with 5 people

[@fluffywise686]

Yes the fastest way to level is to have dedicated dps n healers and farm dungeons. Making sure to take breaks n grab quest. It's what I did back in vanilla and every expansion after until I quit. Now there are exceptions such as hunters (aspects)n druids (travel form) where questing is faster.

[@avargs3505]

I agree this is a viable strategy for leveling but one thing missed will be all the reputation gained from doing those quests... If your human you can hit exalted with IF or even Stormwind by level 50 from just doing the quests along the way... If course you can always come back to these at a higher level but I'd probably recommend to return when the quests are green to you instead of searching for invisible. ! Out in the world

[@WillEmmo]

@@avargs3505 Thats a good point

[@Trippin710]

@@fluffywise686 your ruining the point of playing classic by grinding dungeons....enjoy the journey, do professions, dont rush the shit. and like someone else said, Rep gain's

[@pyrex0277]

Love binging this series, keep up the good work!

[@WillEmmo]

Thanks!

[@MrArmando0530]

The good thing about being a good tank in Classic, You'll always find a group, You'll always be invited to things and if you happen to raid tank...well, Aside from hating myself through the lvling experience and dealing with the "Go go go" Crowd (Which is another good thing, boot people who don't listen) It was pretty great, I switched to DPS during BWL and with world buffs...I felt like a chainsaw tied to 3 other chainsaws while throwing grenades. Though I did experience the massive crit streak, boss turns around....and you die (and kill other people too in the process) Still, I love warrior, mained it all the way until legion and am currently playing it again...vanilla classic and TBC once more.

[@cattysplat]

I know you don't mention it, but warrior can also choose to level in dungeons similar to healers, prompting fast leveling whilst building a friends list and even potential of making/joining a raiding guild on the way. A warrior that is willing to tank will always find groups for dungeons. If you can convince the healer your really good try to tank with DPS since warrior base mitigation is good enough for standard dungeons, and holding aggro is easy since your doing top damage anyway, you take the group whilst the main DPSers like the mage kites and blows up individual targets, rogues can also handle 1v1 elites very well with evasion and lots of free dodges, it's not as hard to heal this as it might seem, forcing sword and shield on dps warriors feels really bad in dungeons and prot spec is very weak outside of raiding. If people hate solo leveling warriors so much they should definately give the dungeon farming life a go.

[@WillEmmo]

Could be good I agree, misses out on rep, flightpoints and gold etc though

[@morningbetterlast]

It was fun but getting the gear was too much stress due to the competition. I ended classic as Rank 12 with Might of Menethil, wish I had played an elemental shaman cause I love mindless PvP zerg too much.

[@zawarudoz]

I mained an arms warrior back in vanilla. Getting kited to death by casters can definitely suck, but when you have a pocket healer you are an unstoppable force of destruction, especially if you raid and can get your hands on Spinal Reaper or Ashkandi. Two shotting clothies and blowing up rogues never gets old.

[@WillEmmo]

Yep thats it!

[@JSErwine]

Arm warriors are the anti-rogue class. It's the moment you realize that back peddling wins.

[@Irvs2Shmood]

What armor set do you have on ?

[@P-C-Principle]

I remember hitting 35 and finally being able to kill two npcs at once cuz I got the WW axe. Then phase two happened and I only made it to 52 before I raged so hard that I ended up just parking my character in felwood and haven’t touched wow in general since. Leveling a warr can be so rewarding yet so annoying that I bet I’m not the only person whose rolled a warrior only to quit the game completely

[@cemerson12]

I have a 47 warrior parked in the Badlands now for more than 1 1/2 years … [ rerolled a Mage, hit 59 in about 2 1/2 weeks … (hitting pretty much just one key) … jeez louise … but that’s WoW ]

[@H0kram]

In my opinion, it's an ideal alt, and perfect level 48 twink, even level 58. Before level 40 it is painful. Then it starts to seriously build up, and the benefits of the gear, financed by the main character, becomes tremendous : I one-shoted a rogue at level 48 in WG for the first time, almost 15 years ago, and I still remember it haha. That twinked female UD rogue was my nemesis of the server. But from there, it became my puppy. That was good.

[@danlorett2184]

Yeah without an instant attack warriors are so weak. Level 40 makes such a huge difference just because you get MS/BT/SS.

[@hagiaiit]

vanilla warrior super farming tip... rend and run rend and run ^^

[@reubeaux]

Rend is a horrible way to do damage for the rage cost. I just spam sunder armor and kite if 2 mobs.

[@berettaxd7566]

Yea I didn't even train rend. After seeing rogue bleeds, its just not even worth it.

[@Mars-et8vc]

Is the melee leway enough to make tauren warriors better than orc warriors in pvp? It slightly patches their weakness of closing range

[@WillEmmo]

Good point, I didnt get to test on beta, Tauren do have extra range, but the orc resistance to stun is too hard to ignore. Id go Orc. I have done a vid on races too you can check. Cheers

[@mada09]

blood fury. enough said.

[@Pobo_93]

Hardiness is just too good and paired with blood fury its just crazy

[@lolimadethisvid]

Hardiness is so good because the only way to break stun in vanilla as warr is with 5 min cd pvp trinket

[@commentronic761]

Tauren will be good for pvp with 5% max hp, aoe stun, and extra melee range. However, I will be an orc for the 25% chance to resist paladin's 6s stun. And Orc is better for pve with 5 axe skill and stacking bloodfury with death wish.

[@jfsoloasjd]

I like the class Warrior in WoW for these reasons: (Note that they are subjective, and I’m talking about Classic WoW (mostly Vanilla and TBC) when I write these things.) • Warrior is the ”main class” of all melee attacker classes in WoW. • Warriors have rage, and that fits if you need to deal with anger or frustration as a real person in real life. • Warriors really know how to fight properly and not be a wimp that people can do whatever they want with, and then you feel that you really can defend yourself against things, if you play Warrior. • Warriors have no magic, and you can say that physical hits and stuff hurts the most and makes the most sense, when you really want to let out your anger against someone you’re angry with. • And probably some more reasons, that I can’t think of right now as I write this comment. Anyway, 1. At least I used to think these ways earlier in my life, when I had problems with bothering memories, that I ”dwelled on” with anger and/or frustration, and I fought them from time to time almost every day. But today, fortunately, my ”angry dwelling problems” seem to have decreased from 100% to 7%. 2. Although the problems with the Warrior class in WoW if you ask me, is that they are so weak, and it’s not as easy for them to take down normal mobs in higher level, as it is for other classes. Plus that warriors don’t have as ”remarkable” skills and abilities as (all) other classes. As far as I have seen sometimes on KZbin and in the chat channels in classic WoW, it appears to me that I am NOT the only one who thinks that about the class Warrior in WoW. Or?

[@tony2305]

Shield slam having a 50% chance to remove a buff is probably an old D&D holdover, where breaking a caster's concentration could cause them to stop casting. I think this is just how Blizzard chose to showcase that.

[@WillEmmo]

Hey thats so cool! Love learning bits of info like that

[@MethosChannel]

When the warrior hits 60 he becomes a god with a pocket healer.

[@baraneo8195]

*There is only one God, the Perfect Lord our God the Perfect Trinity!*

[@gearzdesign]

Nah, he's only a god after Arc Reaper and supporting gear, otherwise he's still super easy to kite.

[@fiy19]

So are you basing all of your info off of private servers ? 2004 classic experience, or a mixture of both? Great video man. I would love to know some of ur method

[@WillEmmo]

Hey man, the research I do is off a mix of experience, old posts from 2005 - 2006 on Thottbot/WoWhead legacy/Classic DB, pservers like as Elysium/Nost forums - of course im trying to cover EVERY class here, the amount of knowledge I need is immense and its stuff from 15 years ago! Genereally Ill research written guides mainly. I try and cross check info between several sources to make sure its accurate. Overall I do my best to present concise and accurate info to help you make an informed choice

[@fiy19]

WillE thanks for the hard work man! you’re videos are great and now I think they’re even better with the great amount of research you’re doin

[@grumblegnome]

warrior was my first and main class so far. i had multiple warriors and of course i screwed up the first one a little bit, but managed to get him working. my second warrior on the other hand especially in regards to leveling up, i thought well.... there is heavy armor but do i really need a full set of heavy armor? nope... i started with fury and mixed leather armor with heavy armor, because there was not much heavy armor with agility, leather basically had way more agility than heavy armor and crit rate wasn´t very present for heavy armor in the early stages so my nightelf chick allmost looked like Xena The Warrior Princess. but in the end it was worth it. damage output was way better with mixed up armor than wearing heavy armor only due to much higher crit rate. in regards to weaponary... everything with agility was my favourite. i used for example the dagger of the goblin guy from deadmines and in the right hand a big heavy one hand axe/mace/sword. tanking of course still needed heavy armor and shield though :P Btw... the worst part while playing a warrior.... Eastern Plaguelands >.< Skeletons and Ghouls with attackspeed debuff combined with higher chance to miss debuff xD

[@MarchalisVan]

For Raids, Keep in mind that they won't be as great DPS as in Private servers. Mostly due to wrong threat generation for tanks on those servers, meaning that dps have to scale down more to not pull agro, because warriors simply don't have an agro wipe etc. That said, when farming raids with an awesome tank, things may be different.

[@Tiv.a]

Worst at leveling is no joke - during the stress test (lvl 15), I could solo packs of mobs 3-4 lvls higher than me as a mage by kiting, polying, and bursting down casters.. My two warrior buddies had difficulty killing ONE lvl 18/19 mob together. And they had BIS gear for the time with shoulders and all!

[@WillEmmo]

Its rough lol

[@colbicolbiWTF]

Pat the warrior was insane 😳

[@VladSWG]

"Wovvias take dammitch and get raytch" I love it🤣👍💖

[@Potatoskinz123]

Won my like after i heard “requires a strong belief in jesus”. Lmao

[@jeanmarcbrown6374]

Leveled a Human Warrior to 60 as my first character, starting from day 1 launch. Between the lag and the bugs its was such a test of patience. I still remember the day 14 years ago when I get my Arcanite Reaper, and started tearing clothies and rogues apart. BUT dying 1000 times while leveling because I "Missed" and Execute.... feels bad man.

[@barnyfraggles]

Only lvl 24 but I'm finding mine a pain in the arse to level, surprisingly squishy, hoping it gets better at some point

[@valipower4468]

hello i have a level 47 warrior i can tell you it gonna be a bit more easier at level 40 when you get Plate Armor but at level 45 it gonna get hard again good luck,

[@cory9919]

Imp cleave was never worth using. the actual increase in damage is very very low and thus not worth the 3 talents.

[@baptisteshorjian9292]

Yeah it's like 60% more bonus damage which is rougly 40 or so damage since Cleave max rank has pretty bad bonus damage. Cleave is also a spell you only take level 1 all the way till 60 since it adds almost no damage and will cost you tons of gold.

[@MewcePewpz]

great vid, bruh. going warlock/shaman/warrior/rogue/priest, im gonna pour my life into this game once again xD

[@7xXSE7ENXx7]

You are not prepared lol

[@WillEmmo]

same!

[@xxB3ARK1TT3Nxx]

What race for Horde would you recommend that would do well overall PVE and PVP?

[@BlinkeysUsername]

undead

[@AoBomberman]

Whatever race looks best to you. Racials don't mean much to warriors (they all have their perks). Horde warriors already have it extremely good because of Windfury totem access and no paladins to compete with for gear.

[@Marshal_Dunnik]

Hell yea it was good enough! Once you survived leveling up, you were on a path to ascend to godhood. Here's my quick take, based on WillE's parameters: 1. Leveling: how good were they? Bad. How fast could they level? Slow - the slowest, actually. 2. Class quests: what they for, how well did they fit? Frey Island at 30 to get 'zerker stance is one of the best class quests in the game. 3. PvE, dungeon and raid performance: I wonder how the only tank class in the game did at PvE? Hmm. Seeing 29 Warriors in a BWL run in Classic should tell you the rest. Note however that Warriors were (and are) very gear dependent. Your mileage may vary. 4. PvP, solo/battlegrounds: A warrior with a pocket healer or two is god mode. In duels, it was either: they had no chance, (rogues, fire mages) could go either way (hunters, shamans), or a roflstomp (shadow priests, frost mages). So, not bad, by Vanilla balance standards. 5. Forgotten today is how controversial T2 Wrath was when introduced. If you've heard it referred to as the "can opener set" this wasn't originally meant as a friendly jibe. Otherwise, T0, T1 and especially T3 are some of the most iconic Warrior tier sets ever.