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.