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Hey I have a 70 warlock but trying to make the switch from alliance to horde on a brand new server to change things up. I want to be a warrior (obviously, as I am posting under the warrior forum), and am still debating what class is best suited for warrior. Orcs seem like a good choice, with increased dmg with axes and resist to stun, taurens with health increase, undead with wotf, and trolls with...I'm not too familiar with trolls traits. Anyway, can anyone help me out? Thanks.

As quor said, tauren and orcs are your best choice. If you want to raid dps, orc is the better choice. Tauren's better for tanking with increased stamina. For pvp, they're both pretty even. This is purely based on racials though.

Tauren are huge though, and look cool, but are a pretty big target in pvp, have fun.

don't bother looking into trolls for your warrior as far as racials are concerned. berserking gives you a 10% attack speed increase for 15 seconds if activated at full health, but increases to a 30% attack speed increase if you are near death. unless you're feeling lucky and can somehow magically avoid getting oneshotted in a raid, i would stay away from rolling a troll warrior.

come to think of it, why did i roll one o.O /facepalm /reroll as orc

I'm with you on that! The Troll racials are pretty much useless for warriors, but you don't see many of them running around, and that I like. Undead, Tauren, and Orc warriors are a dime a dozen.

I do use the Berserking racial quite a bit. I throw it in while tanking and my threat-per-second shoots way up above the rest of the party. I treat it like another trinket and hit it whether or not my health is low. I can blow through a full rage bar in seconds just by hitting Berserking and spamming HS and Devastate.


The only complaint I ever ran into while tanking on my Troll Warrior is that people sometimes mistake my Warrior for an enemy mob and try to target me in certain Troll instances like ZF. LoL

Tauren are probably my favorite race. But that has little to do with racials. I just like big uglies, and the way cows look in armor.

Something to bear in mind... if you end up tanking, Tauren racials are to survivability as Orc racials are to TPS. Both are important, but all the TPS in the world isnt going to help you if you cant survive. I concur that cows are marginally better suited for tanking. That said... my Warrior is an Orc, and I certainly don't feel gimped or anything. Would love it if Blood Fury didnt have that side effect that made it kindof a high risk ability in groups... but I do okay without using it.

As a tauren warrior, i can only give you one advice that hasn't been featured in this thread already.

Don't pick tauren if you wanna fit through doors.

I mean it.

EDIT: To clarify a bit, undercity doors, a lot of house doors, you'll never fit when you're mounted. specially with a kodo or a raptor. So if you do pick a tauren warrior, which i think is best suited for tanking and possible for pvp considering survivabilty + stun rocks pvp. Pve fury warrior probably orc the best but yeah.

There is a benefit to this, getting a growth potion and running to sen'jin village, making the doctor give you the growth buff and then getting a shaman to pop bloodlust while mounted in ogrimar, makes you a HUGE MOTHER****ER lol.

Edited, Jun 10th 2008 1:50am by ScorpionBlue