warrior confusion (WOW)

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#1 humpas
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just started and i made a troll warrior at lev 12 now but i was told they good at tanking, taking lots of hits and well mine doesn't seem to be any good at tanking. Someone told me they don't become good tnakers till u can get plate armour so not untill 40 +
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#2 Johnny_Rock
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Trolls dont make the best warriors. I would've gone with either an Orc or tauren.
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#3 Spunky1119
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any warrior can tank...and the diffence between each race isnt going to make your warrior bad or good. whenever you tank for a group just switch to defense mode, put on a shield with a 1h weapon and use all your skills that generate threat. sunder armor is the best to do first, stack it 5 times, throw a thunder clap, demoralizing shout. just try to make the mob as mad as possible towards you, if it gets away, use taunt.

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#4 humpas
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yeh just did quest which got me defense stance is helping a bit still not great though thought it could be because i haven't put any points into protectiveness are somet like that mainly cause i duno what each is and how it will effect me
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#5 Delius
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Warriors are great tanks, but in the early stages your not going to really notice it unless you've got some decent gear. Later on, when you hit your 40s (plate gear) if you spec your talents to protection and get hp/armor gear you'll start seeing a difference in tanking ability.

The thing a lot of new tanks don't realize is tanking isn't just about your ability to take hits, although being able to take a sound beating is important, it's just as important that your always keeping aggro and paying attention to the whole battle and what's going on at all times.

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#6 humpas
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k thanx for help and advice ill just keep training

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#7 ProudLarry
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You need to hit up the Ragefire Cavern instance, in Orgrimmar. After that you'll understand why a tanking warrior is important; plus it will also give you some good gear. A good five man group usually consists of a tank (warrior, paladin, or druid in bear form), a healer (priest, or healing speced shamans, druids or paladins), and then the other three are a mix of different damage classes.

If you haven't been in a group yet its not that surprising that it doesn't seem like you can tank that well. But other than paladins you're the only one that can wear mail armor and you usually have the most stamina and hit-points, and that gives you an advantage. What you need to be most effective though, is that healer. Make sure you're also using a shield and one-handed weapon when you're in a group as well. You can keep a two-handed weapon for when you're questing and grinding, but the extra armor from a good shield is much more useful for tanking.

Be sure you're using your abilities as well. Sunder Armor, taunt, revenge, and thunder clap are all good ways of making sure enemies are beating up on you and not that Mage with the cloth armor, who's trying to cast spells.
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#8 Expo_Smacko
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Trolls dont make the best warriors. I would've gone with either an Orc or tauren.Johnny_Rock

I would go with Orc as well.

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#9 zelon87
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#11 A4Audiguy
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Dont worry about it. Low levels aways suck. To me the characters dont really get going till 20, then 40. Dont worry about it at level 12. If at 40 you think its no good, thats a different story

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#12 dippy88
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You can't really tell anything about a class until you have a decent level, lvl12 takes a few hours to acheive. Get a higher level, and do RFD or something to test it.
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#13 BobZany
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Yeah, like others have said level 12 is a fairly low level to know anything about a class. You've barely started to get any of the class defining abilities. Looks like you've done the defensive stance quest at least. Like others said, get to a level where you can go into an instance and try it out.

The thing to remember with warriors is that they're sort of half a class when you think about it. They have a lot of power to stay up and take a lot of mobs on, but they require a healer to do it. Don't judge how well you can solo things as a basis for long you'll stay up with a healer in an instance. I always felt squishy on mine, but could easily hold on to several elites when tanking in an instance.

You might want to get a quick overview of tanking before you do it. I recommend reading up on tanking a little bit so you have an idea of what skills you'll need and what not. You won't have many of those skills yet, but you should have enough to be able to do the job when you head into RFC. If you're playing with inexperienced players, make sure they know to give you some time to get aggro. I think a lot of folks, espeically those without much experience in groups, seem to think you can instantly get aggro on a target and hold it even when they use their big nuke right off the bat.

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I have a warrior in wow whisp me for you question :D
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#15 Johnny_Rock
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yeh just did quest which got me defense stance is helping a bit still not great though thought it could be because i haven't put any points into protectiveness are somet like that mainly cause i duno what each is and how it will effect mehumpas

You definately don't want to solo in Defense stance!

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whats is name of game
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#17 humpas
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should i put my poitns into tho protection, fury or what ever the other one is

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#18 pieatorium
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should i put my poitns into tho protection, fury or what ever the other one is

humpas

For leveling up its best to stick with arms or fury spec imo, prot isn't necessary fory tanking the lower level/leveling up instances just make sure you keep a good sheild and some more tank specific armour for instances (High armour and stamina and a bit of agility don't really remeber any of the more high end tank stats at lower levels such as block value, block rating dodge rating etc)

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#19 Johnny_Rock
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whats is name of gameEgyCheETah

WOW = World of Warcraft.

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#20 Johnny_Rock
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should i put my poitns into tho protection, fury or what ever the other one is

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I have a 64 warrior that pretty much went all arms for the first 50 levels except to put 5 points into Cruelty (Fury line) to get an increased 5% chance to crit. Here is his talent spec.

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/warrior/talents.html?tal=353203213520105000212514500000000000000000000000000000000000000000