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Warrior

Tank / Melee DPS

Role

Tank / Melee DPS

Specializations

3

Type

Melee

PvP Rating8/10
PvE Rating9/10

Overview

Warriors are plate-wearing melee fighters who excel at both dealing and absorbing damage. Arms warriors deliver devastating two-handed strikes, Fury warriors dual-wield weapons in a berserker frenzy, and Protection warriors use a shield to defend allies as formidable tanks.

Specializations

Arms
Fury
Protection

Strengths

  • +Excellent sustained damage and cleave as Fury
  • +Strong execute phase damage below 20% HP
  • +Great mobility with Charge, Heroic Leap, and Intervene
  • +Rallying Cry provides a powerful raid-wide defensive cooldown
  • +Protection is one of the most durable tanks in the game

Weaknesses

  • -Limited self-healing compared to other tank/DPS classes
  • -No ranged damage options outside of Heroic Throw
  • -Vulnerable to crowd control without proper trinket management
  • -Fury is reliant on maintaining Enrage uptime for competitive DPS
  • -Arms can feel slow outside of burst windows

Tips & Tricks

  • 1Keep Enrage up at all times as Fury for maximum DPS output.
  • 2Use Spell Reflection to counter casters in PvP and mitigate magic in raids.
  • 3Rotate Ignore Pain and Shield Block as Protection to maintain active mitigation.
  • 4Charge and Heroic Leap provide excellent mobility -- use them to reposition quickly.
  • 5Arms excels in PvP with Mortal Strike healing reduction and burst windows via Colossus Smash.