Casual Warrior Guides

[ewarwoo]

This thread is basically all the builds I have currently specced or ready to go when I manage to pull out a free slot.

They are not completely my own work, I have started them all with things I have learnt in other guides, however they have all been wiped and rebuilt to simplify without compromising too much.

Since initially writing these Warrior as become my main and I've spent a lot more time with it optimising builds and believe most of these can now stand up well. I have edit rights for this thread so will update to tidy and advise at the end.

I am a tank at heart so DPS builds are based on ease of use, but still competitive.

PVE DPS Specs
PVP Specs (I am a very casual PVPer so bear in mind when using)
Tanking Builds
Solo Builds

Gear
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http://forums.riftgame.com/rift-gene...is-v1-8-a.html

Toolbar Set-up
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Here is an example of how I have my bars set-up. This doesn't mean it's right, it's a personal choice, but a few things are there which are important:
http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/973/tankinga.jpg

The bars at the bottom, the top row is actually 2 bars, side by side. I have them at a smaller size, and they sit there holding all the skills I have in macro's. This is very important. When you click a macro you should know exactly what it's going to do, set-up this way you can follow what skill is going off when you hit your macro and actually get an understanding of what is happening, this will make you a far better player than blindly clicking. If you are blindly clicking you are a most definitely a BAD player. Even for a casual.

#1 is my main builder. #2 is my other builder. #1 is actually bound to a thumb button on my mouse, so i will switch these buttons around for sheer laziness.

#3 is bound to left mouse wheel tilt. This button also changes based on the fight. I generally have my oh **** CD in there, but if you have a fight where you must stop attacking (warmaster, guurloth, hookmaster etc) a self target macro in there works wonders, or if interrupt is required have interrupt there. Basically whatever skill I think I need to hit without thinking in the fight.

#4 & #5 are bound to Q & E. #4 is my AoE taunt, #5 is my ST taunt. I will occasionally switch these around, but that's rare, these should both always be close to hand. However Q can easily become purge or something else situational if you have a pure ST boss fight and do not need the AoE taunt.

Within the red square are skills which sit within my macro's, pretty much in the order they go off. Skills used both ST and AoE get a bit mixed up but otherwise would need 3 bars there.

Within the green square are macro's and skills I regularly have to slip in.

As I say, use whatever way works for you, but this is a starting point to give you an idea.

[ewarwoo]

Jack of all, master of none 2H build
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I've finally found a simple 2H build worthy of a slot. Mainly due to it's flexibility. It's behind the above on single target, but by less than you would expect. It's way above it on AoE. It also works great solo and it was designed with PVP in mind so as some useful skills for there.

If you're running low on slots this can cover everything except taniking adequately. It's the beige of warrior builds.

Build: 44 Riftblade / 22 Champion

Single:
#show Searing Strike
suppressmacrofailures
cast Rift Strike
cast Frost Strike
cast Searing Strike
cast Flamespear
cast Stonespear
cast Windspear
cast Frenzied Strike
cast Inescapable Fury
cast Ruthless Pursuit
cast Break Free

Multi
#show Thunder Strike
suppressmacrofailures
cast Rift Strike
cast Frost Strike
cast Thunder Strike
cast Flamespear
cast Stonespear
cast Windspear
cast Frenzied Strike
cast Inescapable Fury
cast Ruthless Pursuit
cast Break Free

ST Finisher
#show Fiery Burst
suppressmacrofailures
cast Fiery Burst
cast Storm Burst
cast Earth Burst
cast Icy Burst

Multi Finisher
#show Storm Burst
suppressmacrofailures
cast Storm Burst
cast Earth Burst
cast Fiery Burst
cast Icy Burst

Not macro'd - Rift Storm. Use whenever available.


Buffs:
Blade of Elemental Affinity (storm blade in group PvE), Avatar of Water, Slayer's Bearing, Void

Other keys:
Bulls Rush: Gap Closer
RiftWalk; Gap Closer
Windspear; Silence
Bash: Interrupt
Leg Sweep; Snare
freeze Armour; Snare

DW DPS
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*Updated for 1.8 and as had a good DPS increase against dummy. RW should be a seperate button but I'm lazy*

You can get slightly higher DPS using follow ups correctly, however it is just that, slightly higher. And running this way your mobility is as high as it can get.

Build: 44 Paragon / 22 Champion

ST builder macro:
#show Dual Strike
suppressmacrofailures
cast Rising Waterfall
cast Paired Strike
cast Dual Strike
cast Path of the Hurricane
cast Path of the Raptor
cast Path of the Wind
cast Inescapable Fury
cast Turn the Blade
cast Frenzied Strike
cast Ruthless Pursuit
cast Break Free

ST finisher macro:
#show Bend Like the Reed
suppressmacrofailures
cast Strike Like Iron
cast Shifting Blades
cast Reaping Harvest
cast Path of the Tempest

AOE builder macro:
#show Path of the Hurricane
suppressmacrofailures
cast Path of the Hurricane
cast Mighty Blow
cast Frenzied Strike
cast Inescapable Fury
cast Turn the Blade
cast Ruthless Pursuit
cast Break Free

AOE finisher macro:
#show Shifting Blades
suppressmacrofailures
cast Strike Like Iron
cast Shifting Blades
cast Bend Like the Reed
cast Path of the Tempest


Buffs: Way of the Wind, Slayers Bearing, Focus of Body, Storm Blade

Other notables:
Thread the Trees - Charge with AOE damage
Bulls Rush - single target charge
Wrist Strike - Disarm for 10s (does not work on bosses)
Fleet of Foot - Get speedy!
Bash - Interupt

[ewarwoo]

Lets troll the caster PVP build
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Basically if it doesn't have a blue bar disarm and move on, not the target for you. If it does whack your single target macro and finishers as available.

Its slow, but it takes them out of the game and they will eventually die and / or run out of mana.

Build: 38 VK / 16 Paladin / 12 Warlord

Macros:
Pull
#show Sergeant's Order
suppressmacrofailures
cast Sergeant's Order
cast Rift Summon

Single target builder
#show Pin Target
suppressmacrofailures
cast Pin Target
cast Spell Sunder
cast Disrupt
cast Soul Pillage
cast Light's Hammer
cast Shield throw
cast Aggressive Block
cast Sergeant's Order
cast Rift Summon
cast Retaliation
cast Spellbreaker
cast Paladins Devotion
cast Break Free

AoE Attack Build up
#show Sweeping Strike
suppressmacrofailures
cast Tempest
cast Sweeping Strike
cast Ragestorm
cast Aggressive Block
cast Retaliation

Finisher
#show Catalyze
suppressmacrofailures
cast Catalyze
cast Rift Tap
cast Devouring Blow

Power Sink macro (get 3 combo points, get in the middle and pop)
#show Shock Burst
suppressmacrofailures
cast Shock Burst
cast Power Sink

Buff:
Void, Battlefield Awareness, Shield of the Hero, Aegis of Vitality, Aspect of the Fallen Hero, Battlefield Distraction


Other keys:
Unstable Reaction (Damage + silence + mana drain)
Furious Rage: Interrupt
Weapon Blow: Disarm
Touch of Life: Instahealth.

DW PVP "Lingerring Wounds" Build
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Build: 30 Paragon / 28 Champ / 8 Reaver

ST Damage
#show Dual Strike
suppressmacrofailures
cast Dual Strike
cast Path of the Wind
cast Path of the Hurricane
cast Path of the Raptor
cast Necrotic Wounds
cast Turn the Blade
cast Inescapable Fury

Lingering Wounds Spreader
#show Plague Bringer
suppressmacrofailures
cast Plague Bringer
cast Soul Sickness
cast Mighty Blow
cast Necrotic Wounds
cast Tempered Will
cast Ruthless pursuit
cast Break Free

Finisher:
#show Deathblow
suppressmacrofailures
cast Deathblow
cast Bend Like the Reed
cast Shifting Blades
cast Reaping Harvest
cast Path of the Tempest

Keep close at hand:
Bladefury, Fleet of Foot, Leg Sweep

Buffs: Way of the River, Focus of Body, Slayers Bearing, Binding of Affliction, Crest of the Abyss

[ewarwoo]

Main Tanking Build
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The common garden MT build. About as far from a unique guide as it gets, but added for completeness.

Every tank should have this build.

When using the single target macro your aggro will be lower, so hit the AoE macro a few times to grab aggro if possible, otherwise be ready on ST taunt.

Build: 38 Reaver / 20 WL / 8 Paladin

ST Macro:
#show Aggressive Block
suppressmacrofailures
cast Aggressive Block
cast Soul Sickness
cast Empowering Strike
cast Necrotic Wounds
cast Retaliation
cast Break Free

AoE Macro:
#show Promise of Steel
suppressmacrofailures
cast Aggressive Block
cast Promise of Steel
cast Cyclone Strike
cast Plague Bringer
cast Soul Sickness
cast Vicious Cleave
cast Necrotic Wounds
cast Retaliation
cast Break Free

Finishers:
#show Call to Entrench
suppressmacrofailures
cast Call to Entrench
cast Call to Battle
cast Dire Blow
cast Pacifying Strike

Intercept
#show Intercept
suppressmacrofailures
cast @focus Intercept

AoE Taunt:
#show Concussion
suppressmacrofailures
cast Concussion
cast Incite

AoE Pull:
#show Concussion
suppressmacrofailures
cast Plague Bringer
cast Soul Sickness
cast Necrotic Wounds

Other stuff; Sergeant's Order, Infestation, Weakening Essence, Spotters Order, Creeping Death
Buffs: Binding of Death, Battlefield Awareness, Crest of the Abyss, Aegis of Vitality, Aspect of the Fallen Hero, Battlefield Distraction

High Aggro Tank
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This is my favorite tanking build. There are other versions on the rift forums, however IMHO they go too far on aggro generation, I've cut that back a lot to increase mitigation and still have too much aggro at times.

It's still not the highest mitigation, so avoid running it in HK (except the adds on prime, it's good for that) however everwhere else its tough enough and as an amazing array of tools.

Build: 26 VK / 20 Paladin / 20 WL

Macros:
Pull
#show Sergeant's Order
suppressmacrofailures
cast Sergeant's Order
cast Rift Summon

Single target builder
#show Pacifying Strike
suppressmacrofailures
cast Light's Hammer
cast Aggressive Block
cast Tempest
cast Empowering Strike
cast Retaliation
cast Disarming Counterblow

AoE Attack Builder
#show Sweeping Strike
suppressmacrofailures
cast Aggressive Block
cast Tempest
cast Sweeping Strike
cast Promise of Steel
cast Ragestorm
cast Empowering Strike
cast Retaliation
cast Disarming Counterblow

Finisher
#show Call to Battle
suppressmacrofailures
cast Call to Entrench
cast Call to Battle
cast Righteous Blow
cast Pacifying Strike

Buff:
Battlefield Awereness, Aegis of Salvation, Shield of the Hero, Void, Aspect of the Fallen Hero, Battlefield Distraction


(These abilities are important and should be woven into your rotation on boss fights, forget about them on spam)
Empowering Strike: buff your armor
Leader's Mark: reduce enemy armor

Other keys:
Spotters Order: Finisher which increases party damage. use when not running with support.
Shield Charge: Charge
Pin Target: Rooting Target
Disrupt: Increase enemy casting time by 25% for 10 seconds
Furious Rage: for interupting
Spellbreak: dispel your self
Spell Sunder: purge your enemy
Airburst: AOE pull
Lifes Grace: Res
Touch of Life: Instahealth.

CD build
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Basically for any fights where you want a 44pt CD.

Build: 44 Reaver / 22 WL / 0 VK

ST Macro:
#show Ravaging Strike
suppressmacrofailures
cast Aggressive Block
cast Soul Sickness
cast Ravaging Strike
cast Necrotic Wounds
cast Tempered Will
cast Break Free

AOE Macro:
#show Cyclone Strike
suppressmacrofailures
cast Cyclone Strike
cast Promise of Steel
cast Plague Bringer
cast Soul Sickness
cast Vicious Cleave
cast Necrotic Wounds
cast Break Free

Finishers:
#show Call to Entrench
suppressmacrofailures
cast Call to Entrench
cast Call to Battle
cast Dire Blow

Not on macro: Master of the Abyss

AOE Taunt:
#show Concussion
suppressmacrofailures
cast Concussion
cast Incite

Other stuff; Infestation, Weakening Essence
Buffs: Binding of Death, Void, Crest of the Abyss, Cutting Distraction, Battlefield Awareness

Sicaron Tanking Spec
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A high mitigation tank build with a purge. better mitigation than the normal MT build at low gear points, and also useful whenever a purge is required.

Build: 38 Reaver / 28 VK

ST Macro:
#show Reckless Strike
suppressmacrofailures
cast Aggressive Block
cast Soul Sickness
cast Cyclone Strike
cast Reckless Strike
cast Necrotic Wounds
cast Retaliation
cast Spellbreaker
cast Break Free

AOE Macro:
#show Reckless Strike
suppressmacrofailures
cast Aggressive Block
cast Plague Bringer
cast Soul Sickness
cast Tempest
cast Cyclone Strike
cast Ragestorm
cast Reckless Strike
cast Necrotic Wounds
cast Retaliation
cast Spellbreaker
cast Break Free

Finishers:
#show Catalyze
suppressmacrofailures
cast Catalyze
cast Devouring Blow
Not on macro: Master of the Abyss, Devouring Blow (seperate for none casters)

AOE Taunt:
#show Concussion
suppressmacrofailures
cast Concussion
cast Incite

ST Taunt:
#show Rift Summon
suppressmacrofailures
cast Rift Summon
cast Grim Lure

Other stuff; Infestation, Weakening Essence, Spell Sunder, Spellbreaker
Buffs: Binding of Death, Void, Crest of the Abyss

WotM Tank
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I normally use this one to solo tank Murdantix. this was you can turn him to face the middle and have the melee against the wall to minimize dps downtime. You will need proper tank heal sof rthis however with some shielding CDs. I also use this on berahurst to tank the ad when we dont have a battle bard available using DPS gear. It gives me enough to pull the ad away without completely losing DPS (DPS macros however were quickly cobbled together mid raid and I haven't had much time to optimize).

Build: 38 Reaver / 20 Para / 8 Pal

Macros:

Single target builder
#show Necrotic Wounds
suppressmacrofailures
cast Aggressive Block
cast Soul Sickness
cast Blood Fever
cast Necrotic Wounds
cast Turn the Blade
cast Retaliation
cast Break Free

AoE Attack Builder
#show Cyclone Strike
suppressmacrofailures
cast Aggressive Block
cast Cyclone Strike
cast Plague Bringer
cast Soul Sickness
cast Blood Fever
cast Necrotic Wounds
cast Turn the Blade
cast Retaliation
cast Break Free

AOE Taunt:
#show Concussion
suppressmacrofailures
cast Concussion
cast Incite

Finisher:
Dire Blow (no macro)

DPS builder:
#show Dual Strike
suppressmacrofailures
cast Rising Waterfall
cast Paired Strike
cast Dual Strike
cast Path of the Raptor
cast Path of the Wind

DPS Finsiher:
#show Shifting Blades
suppressmacrofailures
cast Shifting Blades
cast Reaping Harvest

Buff:
Binding of Death, Crest of the Abyss, Enraged Essence, Aegis of Vitality, Shield of the Heroe's, Focus of Body, Way of the mountain.

[ewarwoo]

DW RB / Parra Build
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*Updated for 1.8*
Finding this a more fun to grind mobs. Would estimate you need at least 30-35% crit to support it, and definitely one to run in DPS gear, but absolutely mows through mobs with a tonne of self heals from BoEA

Equally competent single target or AoE, no more spending as much time pulling as fighting.


Build: 44 RB / 22 Paragon

Macro's
Single:
#show Searing Strike
suppressmacrofailures
cast Path of the Raptor
cast Rift Strike
cast Frost Strike
cast Searing Strike
cast Windspear
cast Flamespear
cast Stonespear
cast Path of the Wind
cast Turn the Blade
cast Break Free

Multi
#show Thunder Strike
suppressmacrofailures
cast Rift Strike
cast Frost Strike
cast Thunder Strike
cast Riftwalk
cast Turn the Blade
cast Break Free

ST Finisher
#show Icy burst
suppressmacrofailurescast Storm Burst
cast Fiery Burst
cast Icy burst

Multi Finisher
#show Storm Burst
suppressmacrofailurescast Storm Burst
cast Storm Burst
cast Earth Burst
cast Fiery Burst


Finishers:
Single target;
ST finisher Macro

AOE;
Multi Finisher macro. Save Rift Storm for massive pulls.


Buffs:
Blade of Elemental Affinity, Avatar of Wind, Aegis of Vitality, Focus of Body, Way of the River, Void

SnD Solo Build
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I just levelled a second warrior for some silly reason, however i had a lot of fun perfecting the SnB RB build along the way. Its not as much fun to play s the other spec, and not quite as quick at killing but it is ridiculously effective. I was killing stillmoor elites at level 48, and solo'd the EI saga with this build as soon as I hit 50 without any drama's at all with just a few pieces from the AH (all ~20p, not the CD armours).

Build: 44 RB / 14 Paladin / 8 Reaver

Macro's
Single:
#show Aggressive Block
suppressmacrofailures
cast Aggressive Block
cast Rift Strike
cast Soul Sickness
cast Frost Strike
cast Searing Strike
cast Flamespear
cast Stonespear
cast Necrotic Wounds
cast Retaliation
cast Break Free

Multi
#show Soul Sickness
suppressmacrofailures
cast Aggressive Block
cast Rift Strike
cast Plague Bringer
cast Soul Sickness
cast Frost Strike
cast Thunder Strike
cast Blood Fever
cast Necrotic Wounds
cast Retaliation
cast Break Free

Finisher
#show Fiery Burst
suppressmacrofailures
cast Fiery Burst
cast Storm Burst
cast Earth Burst
cast Icy Burst

Multi Finisher
#show Storm Burst
suppressmacrofailures
cast Storm Burst
cast Earth Burst
cast Fiery Burst
cast Icy Burst

N.B. - Not macro'd in as its the only finisher not off GCD, so it will nottrigger unless you sit doing nohting for a sec, but Rift Storm needs to be used as often as possible on multiple enemy pulls. It will wipe out high level mobs very quickly and give you a very nice heal.

Buffs:
Blade of Elemental Affinity, Avatar of Wind, Aegis of Vitality, Shield of the Hero, Binding of Affliction

[Thorstitan]

THanks! What about pvp build ?

[ewarwoo]

PVP I either use my tank build or my solo build.

I don't PVP often enough to justify running a seperate build so haven't really played with that. BTW the solo build os the one exception in these builds, not sure how well it would run with crappy gear. I cheat and used my rogue Sigils so I got my crit up.

[ewarwoo]

EDIT:// Added to first posts

[Sennex]

Good guide!

Pointing my wife at this now as she just rolled a warrior to play around with and I really wasn't sure what to help her with as I am really focussed on tanking and pretty much nothing else on my warrior.

[Bellamorte]

Build: http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=0c...rGdsR.gh0bc.-0

Macro's
Single:
#show Searing Strike
suppressmacrofailures
cast Rift Strike
cast Frost Strike
cast Searing Strike
cast Windspear
cast Flamespear
cast Stonespear
cast Inescapable Fury
cast Break Free

Multi
#show Thunder Strike
suppressmacrofailures
cast Rift Strike
cast Frost Strike
cast Thunder Strike
cast Inescapable Fury
cast Break Free


Multi Finisher
#show Storm Burst
suppressmacrofailures
cast Storm Burst

cast Earth Burst
cast Fiery Burst

Gap Closer:
#show RiftWalk
suppressmacrofailures
cast Bulls Rush
cast RiftWalk

Finishers:
Single target;
Fiery Burst

AOE;
Multi Finisher macro. Save Rift Storm for massive pulls.


Buffs:
Storm Blade, Avatar of the Rift, Soldiers Bearing, Battlefield Distraction

Other keys:
Bulls Rush: Gap Closer
RiftWalk; Gap Closer
Windspear; Silence
Bash: Interrupt

How about how much dps does this do?

[ewarwoo]

Low movement fights I can pull 1.3-1.4k. But this is with a very low gear poiint. I do have a 2H that dropped from DH and I have the BiS rogue essences as I share a sigil, but other than that my DPS gear is a mix of warrior and rogue T2 gear

Will more than likely take it to RoS tonight, unless my GL makes me take my main, will see what it does then on real fights with raid buffs.

All I can say is try it and compare it at your relative gear point. Not promising uber numbers but you'll be free to concentrate on mechanics in fights

[ewarwoo]

1.7k on foci from DW spec. Pluto I switched to the DW build so can't say for that fight, but got 1.9k from the DW spec, was extremely happy with that. Not much lower than my rogue and far lower geared.

Was tanking after that so can only say that far.

[ewarwoo]

1.7 on foci from 2h spec that should read. Too tired, need to go sleep. Lol.

[ewarwoo]

EDIT:// Added to first posts

[ewarwoo]

EDIT:// Added to first posts