Warrior Hotbar set up

[Haylianna]

So far my Warrior/priest duo is going well. Both just hit 16 and very pleased with the survival rate. I am going to be leveling them up as prot/holy. I know it will take longer that way, but having played a pally tank for so long I need to break my habits and learn warrior tanking. Now my question is how should the warriors skills be set up? ATM i have it set as so:

1. Sunder
2. Revenge
3. Shield Bash
4. HS
5. Taunt
6. Demoralizing Shout
7. Thunder Clap
8. Rend
9. Bloodrage

Ctl+1. Shield Block

now it just doesnt seem very effective as far as where things are placed. As far as my priest heals go i have F1 and F2 for Heal and Renew on tank and F3 and F4 for heals on priest

Any suggestions on hot key placement for warrior?

[aboron]

I just paused leveling a group with 1 prot warrior and 4 shadow priests (at 57-58 ) and noticed for most non-instance PvE the target was usually dead before it got to melee range and charging in with the tank just wasted time.

However, when things went bad and a group swarmmed it was good to throw a group agro effect out there and get them all on the tank while i mopped them up.

I like the ease of using the same buttons for related functions even on different classes so my primary "lazy attack buttons" are:

On my main tank:
button 3 = /startattack and /cast sunder armor
button 4 = heroic strike
button 5 = /castrandom Taunt, Rend, Sunder Armor, Heroic Strike, Thunder Clap, Challenging Shout

On my casters I have:
button 3 = /castsequence reset=30/target/combat Vampiric Embrace,Shadow Word: Pain, Shadow Word: Pain, Shadow Word: Pain, Shadow Word: Pain
button 4 = mind blast
button 5 = mind flay

The casters have 2 extra buttons for tank and self healing:

button 6 = all heal tank
/target party1
/castsequence reset=8/combat Renew, Flash Heal
/targetlasttarget

Usually all I need is to hit this once and get the renew x4 on the tank - that plus V-E was plenty of healing even for pulls of 3-4 elites. If things got desperate the second hit with flash x4 could bring him back to 100% from anything above 0.

button 7 = all heal yourselves
/target player
/castsequence reset=8/combat Renew, Flash Heal
/targetlasttarget

The main problem on this sequence is that it would "share" sequence with the other healing macro - so i had to watch out for how much i was healing who and when.


on button 6 on the tank i have "taunt" just in case the heal was going to draw agro

on totally unrelated buttons on the tank i had the shoot and charge macros for starting pulls that he needed to have agro in from the beginning. I need the other abilities of the tank so infrequently I just have them available for mouse clicking on the left bottom bar

Also, if i knew i wanted more than 2 sunders to start on a mob i would just leave the priests without targets at first while mashing sunder an extra time or 2 before they would start dotting

[Gurk]

Respecialize the warrior to fury for the fastest leveling. Also you might want to consider making the priest shadow specialized. If all you plan on doing is outdoor quests by yourself, then prot/holy is quite literally the slowest way possible. Your warrior can eat/bandage or get heals from the priest after stuff is dead for the most part, the priest doesnt need to be holy.

Here is how I have my hotkeys for my warrior, most warriors I know have something similar.

1. Heroic Strike
2. Cleave
3. Hamstring(battle and berz)/Taunt(def)
4. Interrupt Macro (will switch stances and shield bash or pummel)
E. MS/Bloodthurst
Q. Racial/PvP trinket or Bloodrage

Again for leveling up you will not need much more then those abilities. Everything else will just be too pointless to use and a waste of rage, so they can go on any other of the hard to reach keys. Sunder for example, you would be hard pressed to get 5 sunders on anything before it dies, unless you are fighting elites in instances, even then its sometimes hard.