So lately I've been on a major kick of leveling and gearing alts in a frenzied state. Wanting them for bring to different challenge mode comps. So after I leveled the psycho gnome Deathknight and the literal clone of an asexual, flower-loving Druid. I decided I would next level a character that could actually heal as well...turns out me and 9 minute queue times don't really mix. It also turned out all my friends are out of tanking characters as well. So I looked at my account and with constant poking, prodding, and pushing, I faction changed my very first warrior. When I first started playing all those years ago, my first character was an Undead Warrior by the name of Bonetooth. I was on the trial starter as I didn't have money at the time to fully upgrade. Turns out my friend who got me into WoW was mained Alliance toons. So I shelved him for the time and made Zelix.
After awhile I started to leveled him casually with the help of my girlfriend who ran me through instances. I managed to get him to 70 before I lost interest. Fast Forward to MoP, and I managed to get an Elixir of Ancient Knowledge, and for some weird reason I just shipped it off to Bonetooth and had a blast leveling to 75 before the duration wore off.
So after this culmination of needing another Tanking character and actually having fun on one, I finally made him Alliance. He's now a Worgen Warrior. I plan to keep him Prot/Arms, while I'm serious on Zelix and always play the proper spec for each encounter, I don't plan on doing that with this guy.
Simply put, he's a RP relaxation character. While his story isn't set in stone or completely fleshed out, I plan to work on it. Even then I think my current story is falling apart due to when the Greymane Wall went up and how long it took...go figure...(Probably contractors.) Anyhow, feel free to drop a comment if you'd like me to go more indepth about his Story.
Moving on to actually playing a Protection Warrior,
I've been mostly following Elitist Jerk's basic outlines of tanking. Stacking Mastery, getting Hit/Exp.
I also installed a fun addon called ShieldMaid. Basically: Numbers.
It will keep track of your current rage/ap conversion to Shield Barrier absorb effect, and it'll tell you how much damage you did block with Shield Block once activated. Keeping a watchful on it has pointed out some painful things too me. Absorbs hurt my rage generation, but not the reasons you think.
Simply put: When you can Absorb the Hit, you won't block. Ever. If you can't block you won't roll to critical block and you won't get rage, and this entire build falls apart. I noticed major issues with spike damage with a friend healing my as a holy paladin spamming sacred shield and his Mastery. He agreed I was taking too much damage. But later that night I went an ran another instance with a pug shaman and with no absorbing effects I took a lot less damage. Shield Block was actually useful and wasn't just having all it's damage it was suppose to mitigate magically absorbed.
Another thing that made Shield Block useless was how much parry/dodge I had. - It's not going to be a problem later on once I start to get hit massively with the scaling increase but running around 45% parry, and 25% dodge was pretty hindering to my rage generation and detracted from my "active mitigation". ;)
While I have no math, to back up any of these claims I am fairly sure of them and willing to stand by them for now. Seriously, I casual-core tank. But I myself don't like to do the math. I prefer to DPS instead.
As for my other musings, I missed Heroic Leap so much during leveling. Such great mobility and damage. I really have no idea how other Warriors live with out this and it's glyph. It's a shame people just don't realize how much damage it does. On Sha/Galleon Runs it racks up to a good 7.5%-9% of my total damage done on adds. Plus how the hell do people fall down cliffs with out this thing?
Anyhow, enough of my rambling.
As for my last topic of discussion, my Fury guide. I was committed to writing it and it's slowly slipped away.
It started out nice, but then kinda fell flat as it basically turning out to be just another guide you could just read. So while I haven't given up on it totally, I will go over some of the more advanced stuff in the future blog posts.
In the mean time, if you do need a Fury Guide:
Samayael's Fury Guide.
(*)Drunkbeard's Arms Guide.
First of all, I fully support Samayeal's guide except for his Tier 2 talent choice. Taking Impending Victory and using it rotationally isn't a good idea. It completely invalidates that entire purpose of that tier of talents and it's damage it too poor to warrant the execution time.
(*) If you can, Request a Sticky! - Drunkbeard's guide is currently up at this time but he tends to get banned on the forums and gets his posts deleted. ;P
-Zelix
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