Comments on: Arms Or Prot For Leveling?

By: Bootleg

Bootleg — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:32:22 +0000

As somebody who solo leveled a warrior from 1-80 not that long ago… If you’re looking to get to 80 the quickest way possible. Arms is the way to go until level 60 iirc. Once you reach 60 you respec prot. Prot, starting, at level 60 provides similar dps as arms but way more survivability. Once you hit 80, gear makes all the difference. Prot is for tanking, Arms is for sub-par dps gear and fury is for good dps gear.

Fury is probably the most fun to play, but it’s incredibly gear dependent.

By: Tesh

Tesh — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:38:25 +0000

This is good information. I keep meaning to go try an Undead Warrior to follow up on Ixo’s suggestion and Spinks’ seconding of the same.

Someday when I have time…

By: Gordon

Gordon — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:05:39 +0000

Prot started fun but I’m finding it boring now. Arms has a lot more cool abilities

By: Gordon

Gordon — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:58:32 +0000

Ha! OK, I will go Arms Although the fact that grouping is so easy now does make things a little more complicated

And yeah, 1,000g is fine if you have a high level character but I started a new alt on Horde so I’m stoney broke

By: Stabs

Stabs — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:13:52 +0000

I’m a little out of the loop but I always found arms great fun. Reduced charge cooldown was big for me for the kill loot charge playstyle.

You can tank low level instances really well as Arms, in fact you can probably tank without a shield as long as you have a forgiving healer. The instances were designed for characters considerably less powerful (no glyphs, jewelry or trinkets, less powerful talents, weaker gear) and some of the bosses have been nerfed.

If you need cash take miner/skinner and sell everything.

By: xXJayeDuBXx

xXJayeDuBXx — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:11:51 +0000

You need to go arms. At some point Prot becomes uber, but I didn’t start doing Prot spec till sometime in the 60’s leveling in BC stuff. Zerker is a lot of fun too, but you won’t be able to do that till level 10 I think, or maybe that’s 20, been a long time since I’ve played.

By: Longasc

Longasc — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:10:02 +0000

I just asked a friend and WoW Guru, and he made a well founded statement that answers your question in typical Warcraft PUG Lingo: LOL NOOB! GO ARMS!

His idea was just to skip dungeons while levelling… but you don’t want to do that. Tricky, tricky… you CAN tank in Fury or Arms. The problem is you need a group with a quarter of a brain to make it work. A Warlock spamming Searing Pain gives you no chance, as does a trigger happy hunter.

For tanking: IMO, forget tanking in the low level instances or let DK’s do it and play off-tank in Arms!

Side comment: 1000g is nothing by now. It is a one time only fee. Sure, it is biased against NON-alts, really new players. That is the problem. A new player can make 1000 gold by level 60, but at level 40? This just makes them consider talking to a “friend from China”.
There is one solution though: Just add goldsinks elsewhere and make respeccing a normal priced level 40 feature.