How's Everyone Progressing so Far and What's Your Group Comp?

[Mercbeast]

warriors are quite tricky to play especially since you dont want to spend rage on cleave on the toons that dont have aggro...you lose quite a lot dps there

when I played that on pservers I was only using whirlwind in berserker stance (as 2h fury) and manually cleaving if more than half the warriors were above ~50 rage. I didnt really find much use for bloodthirst until 60 since it scales with ap and my gear sucked except weapons. And yeah cleave eats your auto hit so a warrior that doesnt get hit wont ever get the rage for whirlwind...I played that combo with shaman and even with windfury i struggled so much for rage i was barely using cleave. Maybe you try out on a mobpack how your group dps changes if you leave out cleave/bloodthirst and just auto hit/ww I think it should get higher, especially because it helps to spread aggro somewhat evenly on 4 fury warriors to get more enrage proccs it makes a huge difference since enrage is 25% damage.

Also, if your healer can manage it, dont do thunderclap either. In pre raid bis gear (as far as I got) it was hell of fun to play with the shaman totem twisting for extra 4% crit inbetween windfury and 4x hand of justice, dw (flurry axe in OH) and 7% hit thats where this combo is really going to wreck shit. If you ever get that to t2,5 gear and have some healers in your back and bags full of free action potion you have instant r14



ok good to know this works, its quite funny I'm already way past 50 and I can still keep up with frostmage damage over the course of an entire brd run as an enhancement shaman with that damn weapon. I also made some mistake earlier weapon imbues flametongue/frostbrand can procc of it except windfury. Makes me wonder if warriors do better with flametongue totem then once they got the spin going.

There is definitely a case to be made for using ravager all the way to 60, IF you are pulling >4 mobs at a time reliably, AND can control the threat. I gave it a try, but either I wasn't patient enough, or without the perma snares of a mages, I just had trouble controlling threat with a single warrior in defensive stance. One warrior would pull agro, spike to 600-700 dps, and die, and then someone else would die and wipe

with one warrior using all the rage, wouldn't it make more sense to use 3 other melee to maximize buffs or something? like one warrior and enh shaman, rogue, etc? or do the warriors not monopolizing the rage still do better dmg than the other melee options

even one warrior, 3 hunters and a healer?

If you're cleaving, aka using your rage on WW, you're still doing decent aoe damage. It's just that one warrior will snowball, they do a little more damage, get more threat, take more damage, build more rage, etc.

Also, yes, if I knew what I knew now about the speed/limitations of multiboxed warrior cleave, I'd have done probably 1 warrior, 3 ranged, 1 priest or paladin. If you want level speed, do mages. If you want sit back and face roll one pack at a time, hunters or warlocks.