Tanking as Warrior (PvE Build) - 4.1.0

As i leveled up my warrior during Cataclysm , i was way too happy of how much fun it is as a warrior tank , i really enjoyed it more than the paladin , and even more than my ex-tank the Druid =).

Now lets go with the talents , and why picking each of them :

1-Tier 1 Talents :
- (2/2) Blood & Thunder :
With this talent it makes your AoE threat more efficient , because Thunder Clap
does not produce threat as it used to be , but it doesn't produce threat over time.
So when tanking a group , simply hop between them , rend one target , then
use Thunder Clap, it will apply the rend to all of them , which will give you enough
time to use other abilities on higher level , such as Cleave and Sunder Armor -that
is replaced by Devastate on higher levels - , plus using Thunder Clap again will
reapply Rend to the mobs within Thunder Clap's radius .

- (3/3) Toughness : Having a high armor is one of our base stat as being a tank , which
reduces the hits we take by a percentage , and thus increases our survivability as we
will be the role taking the most damage in dungeons / raids .

2-Tier 2 Talents :
- (2/2) Hold The Line : Using this talent will increase our chance to block critical strikes
and will increase our critical strike chance , which will increase the threat we make.
- (3/3) Shield Specialization : This will increase our rage generated when blocking an
attack , this will help us to never run out of our attacks resource so we can keep
generating threat all over and over.

3- Tier 3 Talents :
- (1/1) War Bringer : This will allow us to use both Intercept and Charge while in defensive
stance , the main thing actually is to have our rage before others start striking , so Charge
will be our fights opener , but if you have high rage we can use Intercept which does some
damage that we could consider as threat opener. in most cases i think those abilities are to
hit faster than the annoying people in the random damage that would hit a target before
you touch it , so you always infront.
- (2/2) Bastion Of Defense : This will reduce the chance we take crits by 6% , so its a must
for survivability , plus it can proc to increase our damage , which means making more
threat.
- (1/1) Concussion Bow : This ability is mostly for crowd control , and some damage if the
target is permanently immune to stun.
- (1/1) Last Stand : i would say this talent is good if you have a slacking healer , and in
emergency cases.


4-Tier 4 Talents :
-(1/1) Devastate : Here we will stop using Sunder Armor ability , that causes only threat
but no damage , will Devastate causes both threat and damage which means more threat.
-(2/2) Improved Revenge : This will cause our Revenge ability to hit more than one target
so it will help us with our AoE tanking because Revenge causes high threat and very high
damage when it critically hits.
-(2/2) Impending Victory : This will allow us to use our self heal at 20% of a Target's health
after using Devastate , which i would say its a support for healers to not go out of mana at
the end of the encounter.


5-Tier 5 Talents :
-(2/2) Heavy Repercussions : As shown in the tooltip , its for DPS increment and more threat.
-(1/1) Vigilance : This is a very optional talent , but encase you use it , its for the annoying
people in your party / raid that will keep trying to over aggro you, but in my optimal PvE
build i would throw the talent point in (Shield Mastery) .
there.
-(1/1) Thunder Struck : As show in the tooltip , more dps = more threat , and using Thunder
Clap will start stacking a buff to increase the damage done when using Shockwave.

6- Tier 6 Talents :
-(3/3) Sword & Board : For me its the most important talent , because it helps reducing our
Shield Slam ability , which is our hardest hitting ability as a protection warrior.
-(2/3) Shield Mastery : Now go back a little bit in the tree , and throw your points in this
talent , you will find it near the tier 2 talents , the reason we kept it until now is that we
did not need it at lower levels the much we will need it now, and encase we didn't take
Vigilance we would have full points on it.

7- Tier 7:
-(1/1) Shockwave : Our lovely Shockwave , that can stun and damage targets infront of
the warrior.

-Now lets jump to the Fury talents tree :
-(3/3) Blood Craze : Give us some self healing , that will be increased by a talent from
Arms talents.


-Now lets jump to the Arms talents tree :
-(2/2) Field Dressing : Increases the amount of healing we recive from healers , and our
self healing abilities , such as Victory Rush and Blood Craze talent above.
-(3/3) War Academy : Increases the damage done by our abilities , and for us the most
important is Devastate.
-(2/3) Deep Wounds : It will help us to give threat over time both on one target , or when
our AoE abilities crit, such as Cleave and Shockwave .



External Links :
This build on wowhead (here)


- Thats it for now i will complete it when am done with my exams ^^ !
*To be Written :
- How to : Single Target Tanking as warrior.
- How to : AoE Tanking as warrior.

Time to get back to WoW =)

After i left WoW for sometime , i felt that i miss the old days , so i decided to come back to WoW .

Sadly many changes in game that happened made me feel uncomfortable with the classes i used to play , but i felt just home while playing with the warrior , as Arms spec or as Protection , awesome things to talk about.

I was very happy with the Discipline priest , and both Holy & Retribution Paladins as retri pulls awesome dps , and Holy pala is no more a spamming heals class but your heals are heavy and you will never go out-of-mana if you do the perfect rotation , Sadly druids aint a class that relays on HoTs anymore that would make you pull high HPS on raids , you have to use direct heals now more often than in the past , so its like its nothing special anymore of being a druid healer.

For my main the Hunter , the much i got disappointed for the focus thing and becoming a caster class , the much i got happy for how awesome the BM spec is !!! , its a spec to be a good dps , and a good pvper .

thats it for now , i gota an exam to catch cyaaa ^^