I'm a little warrior with some questions

[Nayth]

Hello all,

I have recently been levelling a mage and a warrior at the same time, and I just cannot decide which to play to the end. I have a couple of questions about the level 50 aspect of warriors, i'm only 29 at the moment, but I have a lvl50 rogue that I am comparing it to in the questions below.

Please note, I am not asking which is better, rogue, mage or warrior, I'm just asking some general questions that may sway me to level my warrior all the way

1) As DPS, does not having a ranged specc become a massive pain and deterrent in T1s and T2s? I ask because of my experience as a lvl50 rogue, changing to ranged makes a LOT of the fights simpler.

2) Will I be able to easily solo the last 'boss' of a normal lvl50 rift? At the moment, I am struggling to do so in any specc, solo a lvl25ish rift boss at 29. As a Rogue, I have cooldowns I can pop to solo them, but so far, I don't have any cooldowns in any of my warrior speccs.

3) Will my primal companion ever become a good 'tank'? I see the Skeletons and Boars tanking quite often, and doing a good job, if mildly annoying, on invasion bosses.

Thanks in advance!

[Flaymar]

regarding the melee range, it is as you say a lot easier to switch to range in some cases. However if your melee and you understand the fight encounters and all mechanics its fine, and very rewarding.

[Nayth]

Thanks for the reply.

This is what I had thought. There have been many fights on my rogue where a warrior DPS has died horribly due to the boss mechanics. Being ranged often completely misses any/all the boss' mechanics.

Is there much point to have a Riftblade specc for the mild ranged, for some of these fights? not talking raiding, but bosses such as the last boss in normal DSM, the crystal throwing dude. We could not do it the other night since we had 3 melee, we were just taking sooo much damage the healer could not keep us up, I doubt any healer that level could TBH.

This is one of my main concerns about warrior, the other being the elite-solo aspect. I would have a tanking specc, would this be better for soloing these elites? I.e. random quest elites and phase5 normal rift elites?

Thanks in advance!

[Kruunch]

Hello all,

I have recently been levelling a mage and a warrior at the same time, and I just cannot decide which to play to the end. I have a couple of questions about the level 50 aspect of warriors, i'm only 29 at the moment, but I have a lvl50 rogue that I am comparing it to in the questions below.

Please note, I am not asking which is better, rogue, mage or warrior, I'm just asking some general questions that may sway me to level my warrior all the way

1) As DPS, does not having a ranged specc become a massive pain and deterrent in T1s and T2s? I ask because of my experience as a lvl50 rogue, changing to ranged makes a LOT of the fights simpler.

You can have a ranged Warrior spec (RB/Para) and it does make some fights a lot easier (same fights it does for your Rogue by and large). It is very group viable and I've used it on GSB/RoS raids. It doesn't compare in DPS with the top builds, but you won't be embarassing yourself either.

2) Will I be able to easily solo the last 'boss' of a normal lvl50 rift? At the moment, I am struggling to do so in any specc, solo a lvl25ish rift boss at 29. As a Rogue, I have cooldowns I can pop to solo them, but so far, I don't have any cooldowns in any of my warrior speccs.

This depends ... our elite soloing got severely crimped in 1.2. I think you should be able to with a Pally/RB/Reaver build and you can still kite with the aforementioned RB/Para ranged build.

I can solo most any world elite in my tank spec (see sig) but that has more to do with gear then with the build being particularly good for that kind of PvE.

So to answer your question a little more concisely ... yes (but not faceroll easy).

3) Will my primal companion ever become a good 'tank'? I see the Skeletons and Boars tanking quite often, and doing a good job, if mildly annoying, on invasion bosses.

Thanks in advance!

I haven't heard of too many BM's tanking but this may just be that the most you hear about them is in their DPS for groups/raids.

At release I would say yes. Right now I don't know (lack of info rather than lack of confidence).

[Rounin]

The cat is a horrible tank in my experience. It can only hold aggro when you hold back on the dps.

[DaseinNJ]

I haven't heard of too many BM's tanking but this may just be that the most you hear about them is in their DPS for groups/raids.

At release I would say yes. Right now I don't know (lack of info rather than lack of confidence).

I've tried it. If you pop into the defensive pet buff instead of enraged companion and you turn on pounce it can off tank an add for you for a minute or so if you toss it a heal. It's pretty worthless as a tank though, you'll still pull off it if you attack the same mob it's on.

[Nayth]

I've tried it. If you pop into the defensive pet buff instead of enraged companion and you turn on pounce it can off tank an add for you for a minute or so if you toss it a heal. It's pretty worthless as a tank though, you'll still pull off it if you attack the same mob it's on.

This is what I have found so far, and this is what I had thought. So used to seeing Skeletons tank invasion bosses, and they're skinny skeletons, whilst our cats are big and furry and have spiky teeth. Clearly they should be better tanks

Thanks for the replies so far. I'm pretty convinced about levelling my warrior now. My main concerns have been addressed and when I get home from work I'm going to respecc my tanking build, and get a riftblade specc going ^^

Last question is, tank or dps! Gah! 2 separate gear sets, mage seems a whole lot easier hehe

[DaseinNJ]

This is what I have found so far, and this is what I had thought. So used to seeing Skeletons tank invasion bosses, and they're skinny skeletons, whilst our cats are big and furry and have spiky teeth. Clearly they should be better tanks

Thanks for the replies so far. I'm pretty convinced about levelling my warrior now. My main concerns have been addressed and when I get home from work I'm going to respecc my tanking build, and get a riftblade specc going ^^

Last question is, tank or dps! Gah! 2 separate gear sets, mage seems a whole lot easier hehe

You don't really have to worry about tank gear all that much till around level 40 or so. But since the best EXP around is from the dungeon finder you should probably pick some up ASAP. I'm leveling an alt cleric with the DF and PvP. PvP doesn't consume rested so I just mess around in there till I have enough rested exp to last a full instance run then I go back to PvP.

PvP as a low level warrior is bad ***. Basically, once you are in the top two levels of a bracket you just destroy people.