Warriors are on the lower end of characters picked as twinks but if geared and specced properly can top the damage and kill counts as well as be the hardest target to take down.
Contents
Races
Alliance
Dwarf:
[Stoneform]
- Frost
- Increased expertise with maces.
Gnome:
[Escape Artist]
- Increased Arcane resistance
Human:
[Perception] passively gives the ability to detect stealthed units
[Every Man for Himself].
- Increased expertise with swords and maces
Night elf:
- Quickness
[Shadowmeld]
- Enhanced nature resistance
Draenei
:
[Gift of the Naaru]
[Heroic Presence]
- Extra shadow resistance
Horde
Orc:
- Increases Expertise by 5 when using a One- or Two-Handed Axe, effectively reducing the chance that your opponent (of equal level/skill) will dodge or parry your attacks by 1.25%.
[Blood Fury]: Racial that increases attack power by 78 for 15 seconds. 2 minute cooldown.
Undead:
[Will of the Forsaken]: Makes the character immune to fear, sleep, and charm effects for 5 seconds. Before Patch 2.2, it was 20 seconds.
[Cannibalize]: Eat nearby corpses to regain hit points. The amount healed was increased to offset the Will of the Forsaken nerf.
Tauren:
[War Stomp]: Stuns surrounding targets for two seconds.
- 5% added to max health. Since it is based on max health, it is better the more stamina gear you equip.
Troll:
[Berserking]: Activate to increase attack speed for 10 seconds. For warriors, it costs 5 Rage to use.
- Regeneration: Increase health regeneration rate by 10%, allowing your warrior to have less down time when eating/bandaging.
Level 19
Gear
- Head -
with[Lesser Arcanum of Voracity] or
[Lesser Arcanum of Voracity]
- Neck
- Shoulders
- Back - enchant with Enchant Cloak - Lesser Agility or Enchant Cloak - Superior Defense
- Chest - enchant with Enchant Chest - Greater Stats or Enchant Chest - Stats
- Wrists - enchant with Enchant Bracer - Superior Stamina or Enchant Bracer - Superior Strength
[Cavedweller Bracers] (BoP).
[Beetle Clasps]
(BoP).
[Steel-Clasped Bracers]
.
[Fortified Bracers] of the Bear 3/3 (BoE).
[Fortified Bracers] of the Monkey 3/3 (BoE).
- Hands - enchant with Enchant Gloves - Superior Agility or Enchant Gloves - Greater Strength
- Belt
- Legs -
[Heavy Armor Kit] for BoE (make sure someone puts it on before you equip it) or Medium Armor Kit for BoP Items
[Chausses of Westfall]
(BoP).
[Leggings of the Fang] (BoP).
[Mighty Chain Pants] (BoE).
[Grunt's Legguards] of the Bear 5/5 (BoE).
[Defender Leggings] of the Bear 5/5 (BoE).
[Outrunner's Legguards] of the Bear 5/5 (BoE).
- Boots - enchant with Enchant Boots - Minor Speed or Enchant Boots - Greater Stamina
- Rings
[Seal of Wrynn]
(BoP) /
[Seal of Sylvanas]
(BoP).
[Protector's Band]
(BoP) /
[Legionnaire's Band]
(BoP).
- Trinkets
[Minor Recombobulator] (use Mod Itemrack to autoswitch to recombobulator when your insignia is on cooldown)
- Ranged
[Hand of Argus Crossfire] (BoP);
Quest reward from Blood Watch.
[Thick Bronze Darts] (BoE) craft with blacksmithing.
[Throat Piercers] (BoE); Buy from Vendor Eralan in Tranquillien.
- Main Hand - Enchant with Enchant Weapon - Lifestealing, or Enchant Weapon - Crusader, or Enchant Weapon - Agility, or Enchant Weapon - Fiery Weapon
- Shield - Enchant with Enchant Shield - Greater Stamina or Enchant Shield - Lesser Block
- Two-Hand Weapon - Enchant with Enchant Weapon - Lifestealing, or Enchant Weapon - Crusader, or Enchant Weapon - Agility, or Enchant Weapon - Fiery Weapon
Glyphs
- Major Glyphs
[Glyph of Hamstring] Your
[Hamstring] ability has a 10% chance to immobilize the target for 5 sec.
- Minor Glyphs
[Glyph of Charge] Inceases the range of your
[Charge] ability by 5 yards.
Talents
Arms Build
[Improved Charge]: 2/2
[Improved Heroic Strike]: 3/3
[Improved Rend]: 2/2
[Iron Will]: 3/3
Use Rend, Heroic Strike, and Charge often. Charge will give you more rage to perform your Heroic Strike and Rend. Iron Will is used against people who stuns, and the duration is reduced by 21%/
Fury Build
[Cruelty]: 5/5
[Armored to the Teeth]: 3/3
[Booming Voice]: 2/2
Cruelty is for 5% extra criticals. Armor to the Teeth is for DPS-ing. For this build, you might want to have more armor than damage. Booming Voice is used for increasing your attack power, for more DPS.
Protection Build
- Improved Thunder Clap (warrior talent): 3/3
[Shield Specialization]: 5/5
[Incite]: 1/3
[Anticipation]: 1/3
Thunder Clap can hit multiple targets around you. Shield Specialization gives you a 10% chance to parry attacks. Incite gives you damage, and Anticipation gives you more dodging chance. Overall this is a survival build. You must find your own shield for this.
Multiple Build
- Improved Thunder Clap (warrior talent): 3/3
[Improved Rend]: 2/2
[Cruelty]: 5/5
Cruelty will give you a 5% chance to do criticals. Thunder Clap will help by hitting multiple people around you at once. Rend is like DPS-ing your opponent.
Tactics
Here's a valuable tip. Alot of warriors out there like using Heroic Strike for the extra damage. Instead I spam hamstring, mocking blow and rend. The extra dodge-overpowers, crusader procs and weapon procs create much more dps than using herioc strike.
How to kill guides (will be updating with all classes)
Hunters:
- If they are sending their pet to attack you and you aren't near a wall then you will die. So don't start running. Charge into them.
- Hamstring
- Rend
- Demoralizing Shout and Thunder Clap if pet is attacking you.
- Heroic Strike and reapply Hamstring when it runs out.
Line of sight is possibly the most valuable tool when fighting a hunter. Learn how to use it, and only the best hunters will trouble you.
Rogues:
Use a sword and shield and rogues are easy to beat at 19. Most twinked rogues have stacked agi, and the decent ones will have upwards of 60% dodge.
- When you think there's a rogue around (arena) use blood rage, run around and spam tab. If you are Human, combine it with Perception. If you're lucky you'll get near enough to the stealthed rogue to see him, then hamstring him, breaking him out of stealth before he can ambush or garotte you. (If the rogue isn't using 15 agility enchants then you can wait in defensive stance and try and disarm him at the start of the fight, instead.)
- You must have Demoralizing Shout and Thunder Clap up at all times. You will last a lot longer.
- Keep rend up, incase they somehow get away from you. By the time they're able to resteatlth you should be able to charge them.
- Spam hamstrings, Overpower every five seconds.
- Also, try to hamstring, and move around them A LOT. A l33t twink friend of mine dueled, and I found out that when i jumped around him, while we both tried to fight each other , you have a better chance of winning... When we did 1vs1 no moving around I got him to 30% health than lost. When we jumped around I would win by a lot, or match would be close..
Dedicated Warrior Twinking Guide
A dedicated twink is one of the most powerful level 19 twinks in the entire game. The twink must have 3 items that bind to their account.
Professionals
You should take 2 professions and stay at them.
- (Engineering) - Allows you to use
[Green Tinted Goggles], You might reconsider another profession once you get the Fishing hat.
- (Mining) -
[Toughness] 3Stamina @75Skill, 5Stamina @150Skill, 7Stamina @225Skill
- (Herbalism)
[Lifeblood] 300Heal Over Time @75Skill, 480Heal Over Time @150Skill, 720Heal Over Time @225Skill
- (Skinning)
[Master of Anatomy] +3Critical Strike Rating @75Skill, +6Critical Strike Rating @150Skill, +9Critical Strike Rating @225Skill
- (Engineering) - Allows you to use
Gear
Shoulders:
Range:
[Charmed Ancient Bone Bow] (BoA); Sold by
Arcanist Ivrenne and
Magistrix Lambriesse in Dalaran. Cost:65
- enchant with {{
[Standard Scope]}}
[Upgraded Dwarven Hand Cannon] (BtA). - enchant with {
[Standard Scope]}
Trinket:
[Inherited Insignia of the Alliance]
or
[Inherited Insignia of the Horde]
(BoA); Sold by
Knight Dameron and
Stone Guard Mukar in Wintergrasp. Cost: 250
[Swift Hand of Justice] (BoA); Sold by
Arcanist Ivrenne and
Magistrix Lambriesse in Dalaran. Cost: 50
Weapon:
[Bloodied Arcanite Reaper] (BtA). - enchant with Enchant Weapon - Crusader
[Reforged Truesilver Champion] (BtA). - enchant with Enchant Weapon - Crusader
Back:
[Tranquillien Champion's Cloak] (BoP). - Requires Exalted with Tranquillien
Item:
[Horde Battle Standard]
- This item is a PvP reward, and can be purchased for
15,300from Brave Stonehide <Officer Accessories Quartermaster> in Hall of Legends or Sergeant Ba'sha <Accessories Quartermaster> in Durotar
[Alliance Battle Standard]
- This item is a PvP reward and can be purchased for
15,300from Master Sergeant Biggins <Officer Accessories Quartermaster> in Champions' Hall.
Bandage
Train First Aid until 225. This allows you to use Heavy Runecloth Bandages. Although most of the time Runecloth bandage is enough to top you out.
This macro will use a bandage on yourself, without losing your target.
- /use [target=player](Name of Bandage)