Improved slam is used in the twohander fury build because slam s damage scales very well with a slow weapons high damage range, which you will generally be using in this build. Hearthstone database, deck builder, news, and more. Warrior, however, can also do aggressive decks because of their powerful weapons. To save the template for future reference, copy the url below.
Again, the numbers in the spreadsheet are a bit off, it was made pretty quickly. The default is to cast heroic strike and will cast slam if any modifier is pressed. Battle stance warriors can swap stances to gain different bonuses and effects. In pvp you need rage to adapt to various situations as well as stance dancing causing rage issues. This macro allows a warrior to use all five of the distanceclosing abilities in one button. Play the boulderfist ogre6 and stormwind champion 7, and start launching powerful attack with those units. Comprehensive warrior talent break down and spec compilations. Rage is generated through damage being dealt to and by the warrior and is. Defensive shield block 10 rage, instant, 12 sec recharge, 2 charges. Increases the critical strike chance of slam by 5%. Charge 4 charge an enemy, generate 9 rage, and stun it for 1 second. I dont see how factually 2h is so far superior to dw if we say. Maybe ill consolidate them into one single thread to avoid forum cluttering.
Critical strikes with shield slam cause your next heroic strike to cost no rage and be a critical strike. Start attack on heroic strike macro warrior elysium project. This is different to all but one melee class, the bear form druid. How i generate aoe threat as a heroic warrior bobturkey. Heroic strike if shield charge is active hs is not on the gcd and therefore can be used at the same time as your other abilities 4. Since heroic only becomes available after one full playthrough, i assume youve already completed the game and are familiar with the basics.
While all of the abilities weve looked at so far are instant meaning they occur immediately upon activation hs and cleave instead take place on the players next melee main hand swing. When heroic leap lands, you gain 10% increased armor and chance to parry for 4 sec. A warrior in defensive stance with the defiance talent but not onehanded weapon specialization uses heroic strike on a mob. It required precise timing though with the current mechanic you only lose 0. Is more important for your lowbie tanking threat than it used to be. Heres a question i still get alot, should i use slam or overpower more often. Requires melee weapon a strong attack that increases melee damage by 11 and causes a high amount of threat. Heroic strike is a rage dump, a relatively inefficient attack designed to be used when you have more rage than you can spend. But during leveling there are better options as yes, heroic strike removes your rage gain from the next used white hit. Mortal strike, heroic strike, hamstring, overpower. The following formula is assumed for a prot warrior with 1h weapon specialization talents.
All of the information contained within reflects what is best understood as of today, and some of is subject to change as more about the game is discovered. Shield slam meleerangeinstant slam the target with your shield, causing x damage and generating 20 rage. Fury warrior 17 arms 34 fury arms tree 23 22 22 33 33 55 this build is designed for pure close combat damage using two onehanded weapons. We and carefully selected partners third parties are using cookies to access and store information on your device, eg. Use wowmatrix to download and keep wow addons uptodate. Using the macro with no modifiers will either taunt the target or intervene the target if friendly.
Dec 23, 2017 on friday, the texasbased black knights from the 1st battalion, 5th cavalry regiment airassaulted from black hawk helicopters to camp stanley in predawn darkness, linked up with south korean forces, and entered the bunker in an exercise dubbed warrior strike. Warrior threat of sunder armor and heroic strike twinstar. Against dazed opponents, heroic strike rank 10 seems to do an extra 62 points of damage. Heroic strike rank 7 48 a strong attack that increases melee damage by 111 and causes a high amount of threat. Heroic strike 1 a strong attack that increases melee damage by 11 and causes a high amount of threat. Elaborated on heroic strike cleave causing your offhand attacks to always hit while queued. If there is a demand for it, ill gladly polish my other guides aswell and post them here. Heroic strike heroic strike is your first damaging ability.
However, this together with the fact that slam requires you to stand still makes slam obsolete once you learn whirlwind and btms. This macro will cast shield slam when its up and devastate during its cooldown. All our content is updated for world of warcraft battle for azeroth bfa 8. The fact that it resets the autoattack timer balances slam against heroic strike. The warrior class is the original melee attacker, using heavy armor to soak damage and strong weapons to dispatch of foes. First things first, no you cant play heroic on ex mode new game plus after beating the game on a lower difficulty. The three warrior specializations are arms melee dps, fury melee dps and protection tanking. Requires twohanded axes, twohanded maces, polearms, twohanded swords, staves slams an opponent, causing 63. Slam is meant to be used as a better rage dump than heroic strike. Warriors as tanks wowpedia your wiki guide to the world. Slam spec does not use heroic strike at all i believe hence the f. Warriors begin with the following abilities at level 1.
It is a massive direct damage attack that also generates rage. Heroic strike wowpedia your wiki guide to the world of. If i use heroic strike and shield slam now, then after the gcd from the shield slam is over, my heroic strike is likely to have finished too assuming i had the rage for it. Heroic strike becomes considerably stronger when dual wielding, largely as a result of the same issue that makes it mediocre with a twohander. Chapter 4 abilities and rotation marrows compendium of. Heroic strike is a great way to dump some of the extra rage you generate with this spec. Shield slam will always go off when you use the macro, its heroic strike that may or may not cast. While warriors may primarily be known for excelling as tanks, they also make for a fun and useful damage class. Heroic strike if above 100 rage cooldowns and other notes. Warrior heroic strike vs slam pvp posting permissions. It is used as a rage dump by arms and whenever you get bloodsurge as fury.
Sunder armor, heroic strike, shield slam, devastate, revenge, thunder clap. The glyph of revenge grants a free heroic strike after using revenge. Therefore, cleave should be prioritized when the player has sufficient rage and 2 or more targets. Slam is a weapondependent ability that causes damage plus x, consumes 15 rage and generates no extra threat. This is nearly worthless to me because i never use heroic strike. Welcome to the fury warrior dps guide for wow classic and vanilla world of warcraft, patch 1. This is based upon experimental data using piercing howl and measured before considering damage bonuses and mitigation.
Rend vs heroic strike while leveling warrior elysium. It is an extremely highthreat ability with a substantial damage component, but has a relatively high rage cost. Warning to all 2h slam warriors before raid tonight. It is important to note, however, that the context under which these abilities are utilized is different. A stalwart protector who uses a shield to safeguard themselves and their allies. One other example of nonnormalized attack is heroic strike, which is a next melee attack. Arms heroic strike vs slam slam was a skilled players bread and butter, same or better, not normalized damage as ms at half the price.
As a result, this swing ignores the dual wield penalty and uses the much more favorable 5% base chance to miss for special attacks. Warrior arenavalue hearthstone card value calculator. Reworked the precombat rotation to make it clear that you should. Hero powers are unique abilities, specific to each class, usable once each turn armor up. Only when both of those abilites are on cooldown and you still have enough rage for the next one, consider a heroic strike. Heroic strike adds damage and upgrades your next autoattack to an ability, making it impossible to be glancing. Hi all, i got a lvl 80 warrior on protection with 5.
With the right gear, your damage can and will rival any class in the game if played correctly. That dps number is not including any of the added benefits mentioned for overpower. I have found warrior tanks have little issue generating single target threat with skills like shield slam, glyphed devastate, concussion blow and revenge. Pve guide for the arms warrior this guide is currently. Warrior forums home latest threads blue tracker members site achievements dungeon run bundles quests and dailies hero levelup rewards deckbuilder demon hunter druid hunter mage paladin priest rogue shaman warlock warrior arena simulator secrets calculator outland card list expansion guide demon hunter guide build a deck expansions. Alright, heroic strike, cleave and lets face it probably slam too. Warrior decks were mostly relegated to control status due to a defensive hero power and cheap removal.
You begin knowing battle stance, which allows your melee attacks to generate more rage. It functions more or less exactly as youd expect, and it basically serves the same role when leveling that it. We also have advanced sections about cooldowns, procs, etc. Jul 16, 2010 as of the most recent build, warriors start with heroic strike instead of slam. Mastering your dps warrior is far from simple, but. Shield slam is the tier 31 talent in the protection tree, and as argued by many, produces too little threat for being where it is in the tree and doesnt scale with new gear. Tried to demonstrate why i think what i think on this subject to the best of my ability. Arms warrior dps rotation, cooldowns, and abilities battle. I am yet to notice the reduced damage and rage cost from heroic strike on a single target. Been fury warrior since vanilla thru all expansions, most content and lately on feenix servers. This is a guide on how to play a fury warrior in world of warcraft classic.
Heroic strike and sunder threats explained warrior. Remember that heroic strike replaces a white swing with a yellow hit so even if it costs 15 rage to use its also preventing your ability to generate rage on the hit. Whirlwindblood thirst heroic strike slam when bloodsurge triggers. It is an instant melee attack dealing physical damage. Requires battle stance rend 4 wounds the target causing them to bleed for 15 damage over 9 seconds. Heroic strike hs and cleave are unique abilities in a warriors toolkit. In this guide, you will learn about playing a fury warrior in raids and dungeons. Rend, colossus smash, mortal strike, overpower, slam, etc. In group work, the tanking warrior is different in that they actually want to cause as much threat as possible. If you use heroic strike at 2 stacks with 9 seconds left on the stacks, and then proc a 3rd and potentially 4th and 5th stack with overpower right after mortal strike, you just missed out on some good. Warrior archives page 2 of 69 hearthstone top decks. Warrior abilities wowpedia your wiki guide to the world of warcraft.
Rage is generated through damage being dealt to and by the warrior. Hey, so i was wondering about how a couple of other vanilla macros for warrior would be written in classic. Heroic strike would blow away slam in dps if you got the glyph and the points in the arms tree. Slam the target with your shield, causing strong physical damage. Useful macros for warriors wowpedia your wiki guide to. Heroic strike rank 9 has a fixed threat of 175, however it adds 157 damage to the next weapon attack. Heroic strike should only be used when you have a lot of excess rage, e. Focus your rage on your next shield slam, increasing its damage by 50%, stacking up to 3 times.
Increases the critical strike chance of execute by 5%. As your threat became less and less imba for holding aggro, it became more important for us to use heroic strike. As of the most recent build, warriors start with heroic strike instead of slam. Heroic strike is a warrior ability learned at level 1. A rage dump is an ability that you use to keep from sitting constantly at 100 rage. It also adds a rage dump that does not negate 2h furys slow, precious white swings, unlike heroic strike. It was once the only warrior ability with a cast time, but shattering. So my rotation remains shield slam and revenge whenever they are available. It functions more or less exactly as youd expect, and it basically serves the. Bleed and sunder armor are much more convenient and can also trigger overpower. This is a fury warrior guide for world of warcraft classic. As you level youll have more important things to spend rage on. This guide is meant for players attempting to beat heroic mode in shadow warrior. Comparison between cleave, heroic strike, and slam mean damage at varying attack power levels.
The warrior ability slam together with the tier 5 20 points required fury talent improved slam allow warriors to set up a rather intricate spell rotation which can result in very high dps. Also, slam does not eat a weapon swing, unlike heroic strike, which makes it preferable as a rage spender ability. On this page, you will learn how to optimize the rotation of your arms warrior in both singletarget and multipletarget situations. This macro will allow you to easy choose between heroic strike and slam to dump your excess of rage or to just simplify the buttons youve to push. Heroic strike is inferior to mortal strike, since hs replaces a regular hit. Basically, iirc the idea is to save heroic strike for when your tfb stacks are about to fall off and its not possible to proc another stack. Cleave and heroic strike are abilities utilized to dump extra rage with while slam, due to its low rage cost, is not utilized in the same fashion. Warriors are melee fighters highly trained in the art of weaponry. The first being a start attack macro, which back then was written as. Heroic strike is great if used without eating rage used for other abilities and not causing you to overaggro. But if ur fury, i dont know because personally i dont like fury that much. Rend rank 3 deals 45 damage, and costs 10 rage, so 4. Colossus smash reduces the rage cost of your next mortal strike or execute by 15%.
Heroic strike rank 3 gives 32 extra damage, and costs 15 rage, plus another 56 rage that youre not getting from autoattack, so 2021 rage total for 32 extra damage 1. While the damage difference between heroic strike and slam is small, the dpr gap is very high. Raids are about the only time you slam the heroic strike button, and even then it causes threat to possibly be an issue as dps and rage starvation as a tank. Depending on their specialization, a warrior can often deal very high damage or be tough to kill. To get this rotation up and running requires some learning effort, and is for the serious gamers only, but it results in very high damage in pve as in pvp. Shield slam is a warrior ability learned at level 10 for those with the protection specialization. Wouldnt you benefit from the increased rage regen when it comes to more higher uptime on abilities like heroic strike or rend.
Threat guide and reference table taladril classicwow. Although slams dpr is higher than that of cleaves, its damage is significantly lower in a twotarget situation. You can also attempt a combo of z arcanite reaper 5 and heroic strike 2, to deal the crushing 9 damage to the enemy hero. Pve fury warrior dps guide wow classic gnarly guides. Warriors engaged in high damage output, on the other hand, want to avoid causing too much threat. So, always use mortal strike when you can, and whirlwnid if you have an excess of rage. Glyph of heroic strike you will generate 10 rages whenever you do a critical with heroic strike glyph of whirlwind it will reduce the cd of your whirlwind skill by 2 seconds now you have 3 choices, glyph of rending which will increase your rend timer on the target by 6 seconds. Shield slam shield slam is exclusive to warriors that specialize in protection. Classic warrior dps rotation, cooldowns, and abilities. Mortal strike rank 2 48 a vicious strike that deals weapon damage plus 110 and wounds the target, reducing the effectiveness of any healing by 50% for 10 seconds. Hello guys, just wanted to share this spec with everyone, it seems to be delivering quite a decent amount of damage overall and works for cleave single target and pvp. Dec, 2014 devestate macro cast devastate cast shield charge cast shield charge cast spell reflect cast bloodbath cast berserker rage cast heroic strike cast gladiator stance use use 14 cast. Feb, 2017 sunder armor is both better tps and tpr than heroic strike if you factor in the threat and rage gain from the additional auto attack you get if you are using sa only. Youre not taking damage as a dps warrior so you arent gaining passive rage that way.
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