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As the title reads, yes im new to tanking but not so much the game. I have my talents spread out currently, and im at lvl 36 right now, is there any good tanking/pvp builds. is it to late to make a build if the talents are spread out? ill get on my computer when i get home and show you where i put my talent points at. im in florida right now on vacation, coming home tomorrow. ill keep posted. thanks
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sorry, its actually mostly in arms/fury, little to nothing in protection so, mostly a pvp warrior i guess?
At level 36, you shouldn't have to worry about tanking as opposed to dps for threat.
Sunder sunder sunder sunder....
If you can get away with it, and the healer doesn't mind, use a 2h and put on dps gear in defensive stance for threat. You can MS or BT (mortal strike, bloodthirst) in defensive stance.
Honestly, pre-bc I could tank up to zg (but not MT zg, just OT) spec'd fury.
Since your not expected to be wearing plate at 36, none of the mobs can hit that hard yet. And wont really hit hard until at least 55-60 where considering specing into more prot, and putting on more defensive oriented gear should be considered for instances.
DPS every trash mob down that you can.
I recommend sword and board for boss fights no matter the instance, if the boss is above or at your level.
Sunder, revenge, sunder, revenge...
Oforums good tank information guide.
Sunder sunder sunder sunder....
If you can get away with it, and the healer doesn't mind, use a 2h and put on dps gear in defensive stance for threat. You can MS or BT (mortal strike, bloodthirst) in defensive stance.
Honestly, pre-bc I could tank up to zg (but not MT zg, just OT) spec'd fury.
Since your not expected to be wearing plate at 36, none of the mobs can hit that hard yet. And wont really hit hard until at least 55-60 where considering specing into more prot, and putting on more defensive oriented gear should be considered for instances.
DPS every trash mob down that you can.
I recommend sword and board for boss fights no matter the instance, if the boss is above or at your level.
Sunder, revenge, sunder, revenge...
Oforums good tank information guide.
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thats what i do, sunder,heroic strike, sunder, thunderclap, then sunder, ect.. im just worried im not setting up my character right, its a mixture of talents but mostly in arms and fury. whats good for arms and fury, just pvp? warriors no matter what have tons of armor and can sunder the enemies armor pretty low.
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Sorry, i forgot to add, i use a 2h Whirlwind Sword http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=6977
devioususer wrote:
If you can get away with it, and the healer doesn't mind, use a 2h and put on dps gear in defensive stance for threat.
From someone who's played a couple of healing classes (and is rolling a young warrior to see how the other half lives), asking the healer's a good idea.
Frankly, from my perspective? I don't really care what you do as long as:
You keep crap off me.
You keep crap off the other squishies (as best you can anyway)
I was going to add more, but really? That's all I care about. Boss fights sword and board please as mentioned though.
I'd be happy to start out like that anyway, but if for some reason you're taking dmg faster than I can heal you (or everyone's taking more dmg than I have mana to heal) I may ask you partway through to switch back to shield (so please carry both :-) )
But back to asking - you'll want to ask at least the healer in tells if not the group because: If you show up as a dual-wielding tank they may assume that you are more interested in topping the DPS meters then tanking. I've had that happen several times and the runs were ugly. I'll usually stick around to see how the first few pulls go but I know a few people (healers and non) that will just leave party. So you may want to tell people what you're doing and if you can keep the mobs on you w/ DW and you'll act like a tank? Fine by me what style you use to do it.
You can keep mobs on you easier if you've got higher DPS, the hard part is damage mitigation. I'm full prot on my warrior, and priests love me. Well, ones who know what they're talking about (when a priest tells a prot warrior to just DPS that's a whole different story) but my friend's on a PvP server and he's going arms. For level 26 he's got a 2H sword which increases his defense skill...so basically it's a defensive offensive weapon.
As for your question, arms and fury are better for leveling, but worse for tanking. If you go a mix of all 3, you'll miss out on the 31 and 41 point talents, which are essential to classes (especially the 31) unless you go half-and -half and skip the third tree.
Basically, arms is for PvP, fury for raid DPS, and prot is for tanking. However, fury and arms are both good in PvP and DPS. For soloing, prot sucks balls. I'm prot, and all I do is instances on my warrior.
So if you plan on doing more than 50% instances, I'd suggest prot. But if you plan on spending more than 50% of your time in duels, arena, BG's, world PvP, or soloing, you should go arms or fury.
As for your question, arms and fury are better for leveling, but worse for tanking. If you go a mix of all 3, you'll miss out on the 31 and 41 point talents, which are essential to classes (especially the 31) unless you go half-and -half and skip the third tree.
Basically, arms is for PvP, fury for raid DPS, and prot is for tanking. However, fury and arms are both good in PvP and DPS. For soloing, prot sucks balls. I'm prot, and all I do is instances on my warrior.
So if you plan on doing more than 50% instances, I'd suggest prot. But if you plan on spending more than 50% of your time in duels, arena, BG's, world PvP, or soloing, you should go arms or fury.
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remember this when tanking
"Surviving a battle is not about how hard you can hit, but how hard you can get hit" - Conan the Barbarian
LOL :)
"Surviving a battle is not about how hard you can hit, but how hard you can get hit" - Conan the Barbarian
LOL :)
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Thanks, this info is really helpful. I just didnt want to get to lvl 40 and find out i wasted my talent points and have a pointless warrior. looks like im more for the DPS and PvP. ill show you my setup today soon as i get home
you can always respec ;)
it costs you some gold, but you can redo all your talent points (1g first time, 5g 2nd, 10g 3rd, 15g 4th etc up to 50g max)
it costs you some gold, but you can redo all your talent points (1g first time, 5g 2nd, 10g 3rd, 15g 4th etc up to 50g max)
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