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TalonBot
06-18-2009, 07:42 PM
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.wow.com/media/2009/06/levellingguide.jpgI promise we'll get back to our Ulduar guide for tanks and DPS warriors next week. For this week, however, since we're midway through the sixth month of 2009 and we've seen patches up to 3.1 released (and we're waiting on 3.2) I thought it would be a good idea to go back and cover some of the things a leveling warrior might want discussed. We get emails from all kinds of warriors, and so it's only fair to cover the concerns of warriors who aren't raiding Ulduar but rather just setting foot off of the dock in Howling Fjord.

Before we get started, though, the upcoming Patch 3.2 (http://www.wow.com/guide-to-patch-3-2/) changes for Warriors in their current entirety: Armored to the Teeth: (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=61222) This talent now provides 1/2/3 attack power per 108 armor, up from per 180 armor. Try not to get too excited, people.

First off, I'm often asked about stats for up-and-coming warriors. We have covered some of these before back in the beta (http://www.wow.com/2008/08/29/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-the-climb-to-80/#continued), but the beta was a year ago now and things have been changed and polished. First off, I'm going to link all the posts of interest to a leveling warrior and discuss how they may have changed, and then I'll try and cover some more general advice.

Building Up To It (http://www.wow.com/2009/03/20/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-building-up-to-it/) covers some target numbers and stats to focus on. I should note that this was written before the changes to Armor Penetration made it much, much better as a DPS stat for warriors: the more ArP you have, the better it is as a DPS stat until you have enough ArP to reduce target armor by 100%.
We covered Hit and Expertise in two posts, one for DPS warriors (http://www.wow.com/2009/02/20/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-hit-and-expertise-for-dps-warr/) and one for Tanks (http://www.wow.com/2009/01/29/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-eating-your-vegetables/). The tanking post is still accurate as of 3.1, but the talent changes to Arms and Fury mean that there is currently no talent that reduces chance to dodge for Fury Warriors and Arms has both Strength of Arms for passive expertise and Weapon Mastery.
We discussed the dangers of overstacking (http://www.wow.com/2008/12/19/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-overstacking/) a stat to the exclusion of other, also necessary stats.
Finally, we covered gearing up in a four part post just before Wrath launched Parts one (http://www.wow.com/2008/09/26/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-itemization-in-wrath-part-one/), two (http://www.wow.com/2008/10/03/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-itemization-in-wrath-part-two/), three (http://www.wow.com/2008/10/24/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-itemization-in-wrath-part-thre/) and four (http://www.wow.com/2008/10/30/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-itemization-in-wrath-part-four/) were all published before Wrath itself had actually come out, but they're still reasonably accurate to help your warrior get from 70 to 80, We covered weapons between 70 and 80 (http://www.wow.com/2008/11/14/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-weapons-between-70-and-80/) too.
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