Just put together a new melee group, couple questions

[Boylston]

The warrior simply spams bloodthirst, and keeps rend up. He also will do overpower if it's available.

Are you using Whirlwind in there? What about Heroic Strike when he has sufficient rage?

Also, taking advantage of instant Slam procs is a key to decent Fury DPS. Might be more difficult to do that as a multiboxer, but not impossible.

[Kang]

Are you using Whirlwind in there? What about Heroic Strike when he has sufficient rage?

Also, taking advantage of instant Slam procs is a key to decent Fury DPS. Might be more difficult to do that as a multiboxer, but not impossible.

What he said. Whirlwind is your ability of choice for TG warriors. Use it whenever it is off CD.

Warriors require a lot of micromanagement to get good DPS. Many of the high DPS abilities are proc based so you need to watch for those constantly. Let us know how it works out.

[d0z3rr]

Nope, totally did not add ww to the rotation. Didn't even occur to me. I'll add it though.

Thanks for the tips all.

[Boylston]

It's kind of a big deal!

[Acerak]

So I have been playing this group a lot more lately, and it is really fun. I did Ring of Blood at 65 and it was a cakewalk, did they nerf the bosses in that quest sequence? I remember struggling with that on my paladins.

Anyhoo, before that, the warrior continued to have absolutely terrible dps, I'm talking 350 if he's on a roll, and an average of 120 on trash. I got the druid up to about 1000 with some tweaking, and the rogue not far behind with like 800.

I was super close to ditching the warrior and putting in an enhancement shaman, which is the only spec I have never played before. As a last resort, I respecced the warrior arms and gave him a 2hander. Now he is doing some very nice dps, it's almost a 5 fold increase in dps for him. The funny thing is his macros stayed practically the same, and all I had to do was swap out bloodthirst for mortal strike and remove some commas.

Now he's a beast with about 30% crit fully buffed and more AP than the rogue.

I've played my warrior as DPS for a long time, and I can say with certainty that until you get at least ilevel200+ gear on him (if not better), don't bother with fury. Played as a main and not using castsequences, I get the same crappy results you did until I respecced.

Arms is the way to go until he gets WAY better gear. Sad, but true.

[Moorea]

About ring of blood; all the bosses beside the last one were ez for my 5 pallies at 65; but the last one wiped me, mostly because of the totems he dropped - were you doing group heals or just fast at targeting totems and killing them while still dps'ing and tanking and healing tank (for me it was a bit too much) ?


[I ended up finishing it because a level 80 hunter showed up to help someone else and I tanked for them and then they helped me kill the last one I had missing]

[d0z3rr]

About ring of blood; all the bosses beside the last one were ez for my 5 pallies at 65; but the last one wiped me, mostly because of the totems he dropped - were you doing group heals or just fast at targeting totems and killing them while still dps'ing and tanking and healing tank (for me it was a bit too much) ?


[I ended up finishing it because a level 80 hunter showed up to help someone else and I tanked for them and then they helped me kill the last one I had missing]

On the last boss I just did tank and spank. Didn't even pay attention to the totems. Shaman just did chain heal when needed, I was very surprised how easy it went.

He does a Chain lightning that will hit everyone in front of him. Maybe your paladins were getting hit by that?

[d0z3rr]

Here's another update.

The reason the warrior never had WW was that I never bothered to get Beserker stance. I'm frickin lazy when it comes to doing old quests like that, so apparently I ignored that stance for 35 levels.

Will beserker + ww help that much?

[Owltoid]

Lol, you were trying a fury build without beserker stance? That's golden.

I'm sure I'll run into similar problems with the DK. It's funny how little many of us know about specific classes and yet often we know how they work in a group.

[Boylston]

Will beserker + ww help that much?

Yes.