Infraction for Neurot: General Idiocy

Kaubel · 12/11/07, 7:45 PM

Post: [Warrior] Future of a DPS Warrior
User: Neurot
Infraction: General Idiocy
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

According to the current inhabitants of the International Space Station, there are several things visible from Earth's orbit - the Grand Canyon, the Himalayas, and your post.

Original Post:

I’m glad I found this thread, I am at a crossroads here. Being a warrior with over 200 days played from the beginning of wow & no alts. I don’t think I have ever been so frustrated.
This week I changed spec twice. I started as a tank until I got into BWL & started going deeper in the fury tree for piercing howl. Gaining more capable tanks in the guild & just plain getting sick of tanking & being asked to tank every god forsaken instance got old. I Tried MS and was completely bored with it. Went to fury. Great love it. Developed a nice balance in PvE & PvP. Destroying people in both. And it’s pretty much been that way for over a year & a half. But patch after patch after patch etc, have really changed warrior dps and rolls. Being a horrible typist I managed to get around the conditional macros. My reaction times got a bit worse but nothing to make much of a difference. I noticed more a difference with the haste nerf & change to flurry. Annoying but nothing that bugged me much. Still able to crank out some top dps numbers.
At the time my spec was nearly ideal for both pvp & pve. With arms talents up to sweeping strikes, with axe spec. and fury up to blood thirst. Off the top of my head pushing averages of 33%+ crit , hit 12%+ and 1600+ AP with no buffs or stance factors. Veterans’ gear , T4, everything from Gruul & mulgar, some SSC, and gladiator. Using the ugly as sin Gladiator Axe & Malchazeen both with mongoose as DW & Gorehowl w/ savagery. All gemmed & enchanted. A nice balance between raiding & pvp, 2h or 2w.
Come patch 2.3 . I find myself at a loss with dps. With the change to the trees, PvP has considerably been more challenging. With the loss to imp intercept and a buncha noobs farming honor for gladiator. The resilience & added health has become a factor it seems, and the lack of a descent cool down to chase down people in a rush.
Also my raid dps gets nerfed from threat. Also very raid unfriendly spec with using cleaves & the new whirlwind & making everything around me bleed & breaking CC’s and often getting myself killed. Though I'm not that careless it still happens from time to time. Much of my dps is lost when I'm forced to single target focus unless I have the luxury of a windfury. I could alter the arms & loss the bleed & bonus to crit, but for what. I need the points to get up to the higher brackets of arms, and the other talents are rather pointless.
So I decided to give the full fury a solid go. Losing 5% crit from weapon masteries but gaining a bunch of AP with the berserker stance talent & commanding presence & if I remember to keep my buffs up my raid dps has increase a fair amount. I find myself failing to be viable in 5 heroics mans any more and the arena has been a complete disaster. Mobs in 5 mans simple aren’t alive long enough for all the goodies of fury to take action. And resilience hurting the rampage buff, weapon expertise hurting the use of overpower, loss of deathwish & being fear bombed, and stance dancing constantly changing my AP, Arena has suffered the most.
Seems as if blizzards intent was to separate the arm/fury trees to be either PvP or PvE. Not that I like it but I guess it makes sense. So being all pissed off, I Spec Mortal strike. Arena got slightly better, a noticeable difference as for being able to PvP better with the some talents back and being a rather rusty with an MS build I’m sure it will get better. I haven’t raided with it yet, I’m sure I’m going to be bored, with my guild’s slump in raiding 25 mans. I’m rather bored as it is & I’m not sure I want that to happen.

With the new token reward geared toward the full fury spec and some nice swords & armor with haste & penetration in ZA. I’m leaning toward an Arms/Fury sword spec hybrid. Thinking that will solve much of my frustration but that’s a matter of time since ZA so far hasn’t been too challenging. There I OT pretty effectively in my tank gear, with the hybrid axe spec keeping my crit high enough, I don’t get rage starved and my TPS in full tank gear is much better with the change to Tactical Mastery. There is no problems when I tank the bear form. Even losing the crit with full fury tanking the bear form has yet to pose any problems. So I’m not too worried about my off tanking abilities. I’m sure I will be finding soon enough out how well MS OT’ing will fair.
I’m going to give MS a go for the week, but I have a feeling I will be spec’ing back to arm/fury & probably concentrating in 2H fury with imp slam for some burst dps in pvp by intercept stuns, use HS while charging then slam, bloodthrist, & WW if I got the rage. I also have thought about fighting cheese with cheese & farming honor for resilience & be the typical cookie cutter 2h MS warrior, but that’s not my style. And being in alliance battlegrounds is totally pathetic now, the honor grind is laughable. Pulling less then 200 honor in WSG on a holiday weekend and losing way more AVs then winning. Soooo depressing.
I considered the option of going mace spec hybrid for the pvp , but my MTs’ suggest otherwise, the last thing I need is to nerf their rage & threat when I raid. I’m sure if I play enough Arena & even losing enough I’d be able to scoop up most of the season 2 or 3 stuff. But like much of warrior gear , the stuff is so poorly itemized to fit a descent DW fury spec. besides the gain in resilience the stats aren’t that much different unless I grind it & deck out in season 3 and stick with 2h and using the token reward gear for DW in raids. With averaging 30 tokens a week with a 2 hour kara zerg and some heroics, even then it’s a few months worth of grinding

So you see at this moment I’m at a loss on what to do & where to fit in. it seems my toon has changed in every aspect of the game over night. Up until the recent changes it wasn’t that way at all. Being an old skool player I’m frustrated way more then I should be over some game like never before.

Any advice before I roll a Lock? sorry for being long winded
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