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Warrior Leveling Guide
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Warrior General Information
This Warrior Leveling Guide provides some quick tips on how to play your warrior and selecting where to put your talent points until level 40. If you're looking for something more detailed click here.
If you want to level as QUICKLY as possible you MUST check out this Alliance Leveling Guide or this Horde Leveling Guide. These are the best , with their class step-by-step instructions & maps on how to level to 70 in less than 10 days of playtime.
The Warrior class is an incredibly dynamic class who has been endowed with 3 vastly different play styles to include Fury, Arms and Protection. With the release of The Burning Crusade, the distinction is made even more clear with some significant 40 warrior point talents. However, we won't worry about these while we focus on leveling.
While leveling a warrior you will want to maximize dps, wear high armored gear, and carry food with you when grinding. I strongly recommend going Fury to do all of these. However I will outline all three warrior trees to provide you with the choice.
Arms Warrior
The Arms talent tree is typically complimented with a slow 2 handed weapon, the type of weapon is a long lasting debate that in my opinion is somewhat irrelevant. If you can get a strong 2h weapon, take it and spec for it, it is that simple.
It is very difficult to pass by Cruelty for any warrior worried about dps. So our first 5 points will go into that.
10-14: Cruelty 5/5
15-17: Heroic Strike 3/3
18-19: Improved Rend 2/3
20-21: Improved Charge 2/2
22: Improved Rend 3/3
23-24: Deflection 2/5
25-26: Improved Overpower 2/2
27-29: Deep Wounds 3/3
30-31: Impale 2/2
Our goal is to get to Mortal Strike for burst damage, some people might consider respeccing and dropping Cruelty to get there 5 levels faster. I leave this to you. Either way I recommend 5/5 Two Handed Weapon Specialization, 1/1 Sweeping Strike, 5/5 Improved Weapons Specialization for whatever your weapon you're using, and 2/2 Weapon Mastery before Mortal Strike will open up for level 45 (or 40 if you dropped Cruelty).
Fury Warrior
The Fury talent tree focuses on increasing dps and is typically complemented by a duel wielding warrior (often abbreviated DW). From the start you will want to focus on some key talents before reaching level 20 when you can begin duel wielding:
10-14: Cruelty 5/5
15-19: Unbridled Wrath 5/5
Next it is my personal preference to grab Piercing Howl, it is very helpful when escaping sticky situations in PvE and PvP. You can, however, skip it as long as you like.
20: Piercing Howl 1/1
21-25: Improved Battle Shout 5/5
26-30: Duel Wield Spec 5/5
31: Deathwish 1/1
Next you'll want to focus on getting Flurry as soon as possible, so put the next 5 points into Enrage, the next 3 into Flurry, the next into Bloodthirt and finally finish with 2 more points in Flurry. You now have a lot of freedom to go after things like improved charge or focus on improved berserker stance.
Protection Warrior
Going protection to level if not the most efficient way to level. However, I've meet a lot of people who truly enjoy tanking early instances like Scarlet Monastery. If this is your cup of tea, here is how to do it.
I have a hard time passing up Cruelty for its extra threat generation, even through to level 15 as a tank. As with the Arms spec, feel free to drop Cruelty at any time.
10-14: Cruelty 5/5
15-19: Anticipation 5/5
20-24: Shield Specialization 5/5
25-29: Toughness 5/5
30-32: Defiance 3/3
33-35: Improved Sunder Armor 3/3
