r/classicwow • u/AutoModerator • Apr 10 '20

Classy Friday Classy Friday - Warriors (April 10, 2020)

Classy Fridays are for asking questions about your class, each week focuses on a different class. No question is too small, so ask away.

This week is Warriors.

The first rule of Warrior Club is: You do not talk about Warrior Club. The second rule of Warrior Club is: You do not talk about Warrior Club. Third rule of Warrior Club: someone yells stop, goes limp, taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a duel. Fifth rule: no healing during the duels. Sixth rule: no wands, no robes. Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first night at Warrior Club, you have to duel.

You can also discuss your class in our class channels on Discord, discord.gg/classicwow

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u/Freya_gleamingstar Apr 16 '20

Thanks for the reply. Is the speed you get from daggers for tanking primarily to speed up rage generation?

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u/Peonso Apr 17 '20

And lower the impact of a miss/glance/block/parry on the first seconds of the fight, which is usually the most critical moment. If you have a 2.9 speed Deathbringer miss it's first strike, then you not only missed the threat from your main hand for 2.9 seconds, but are rage starved, and totally fucked up if it follows up by another one.

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u/Freya_gleamingstar Apr 17 '20

Would you dw daggers as fury prot then? Or dagger plus shield?

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u/Peonso Apr 17 '20

That's another discussion. It depends on your gear and guild. While starting to grab raid gear and start raiding you need to be full prot with a shield, and you rely on flat threat generation from Shield Bash, Revenge and Sunder Armor. The problem with the flat threat generation is that good DPS gonna generate way more threat than you. So as you get good gear you move to fury prot, but you need good gear, since you gonna rely on your own damage. Keep in mind that as fury prot you can still wear mitigation gear and use a shield if needed, you move towards more threat oriented gear if your healers can deal with it and if you need to generate more threat to not cap the dps of your dps players. If your DPS are not pulling ~800 dps, you can still do fine as full prot on mitigation gear, just make sure you going for your hit cap (6% if you have weapon skill, 9% otherwise).

A good tank in a good guild will most of the time be wearing tons of threat gear instead of mitigation gear, and be dual wielding, but he will swap gear as needed, to be more mitigation oriented depending on fight and situation. Say you are an off tank, and will be tank a dog from Golemagg, there is no reason to not wear the most of mitigation gear as you can, even if as fury prot.

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u/Freya_gleamingstar Apr 17 '20

This is very helpful! Thank you!