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Warrior tanking simplification

By Cheats on November 2nd, 2009

I want to start this off by saying that I have been using this method since release of wrath. I’m sure I got the basic idea from a guide somewhere but have heavily modified to my liking. That being said, lets do this…

I’m not going to bother wasting time on telling you how to gear. If your having problems there then you have dozens of articles here already telling you. I’m simply going to tell how to simplify it. I’m currently in a casual guild and tank ToC 10 and ToC 25 regulars with this, so it is a viable choice for raiding as well as heroics or leveling.

Glyphs:
For this method it is not required, but I highly suggest Glyph of Cleaving, threat on 3 targets as opposed to 2 is great. Glyph of Revenge is not needed in my opinion. I’ve never had threat problems.

Talents:
Talent Calculator – World of Warcraft
is the spec I’ve had for months. I’ve been considering dropping Concussion Shot and Vigilance for 2 points in Armored to the Teeth or Improved Spell Reflection but never got around to testing it. 3% dmg reduction from vigilance is awesome for my OT, but not really needed with the simplicity of Wrath raiding. With my gear this puts me at roughly… (all unbuffed, no self buffs either)

33.3k Health
49% dodge/parry
25% block, blocking 1147 (unmodified by glyph or crit block)
61% armor
7% hit
25 expertise
2288 ap

Macros:

Shield Block – No hassle revenge with trinket activation and Bloodrage.
#showtooltip Shield Slam
/castrandom Revenge, Shield Slam
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Bloodrage
Devastate – Threat macro.

/castsequence reset=combat/target Cleave, Devastate

Thunder Clap – Shield Block in rotation without wasting toolbar space.
#showtooltip Thunder Clap
/cast Shield Block
/cast Thunder Clap

Charge – Charge, if cooldown then Intercept. If enemy has friendly targeted Intervene.

#showtooltip Charge
/castsequence reset=15 Charge, Intercept
/cast [help] Intervene; [target=targettarget, help] Intervene;

Last Stand – Let your healers know whats up.
#showtooltip Last Stand
/cast Last Stand
/yell Last Stand Activated! I’ll lose 12.6k health in 20sec. Be ready healers!

Toolbars:

I use a self modified version of CaithUI (wowinterface.com) which you can see here…

I limit myself to 18 toolbar slots but it’s all thats needed. I suggest Shield Slam macro on 1, Threat macro on 2, Thunderclap macro on 3, Shockwave on 4, and everything else where it’s comfortable. My preference is Taunt on ctrl+1, Last Stand macro on ctrl+2, Shield Wall on ctrl+3, and Charge macro on ctrl+4 just to make things faster if something goes wrong.

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Arena guide for beginners [Warrior]

By Cheats on November 2nd, 2009

Warrior arena guide:

New to Arena?
If you’re new to Arena matches I suggest you start of with some 2v2 to build up some experience and skills. If you think you are able to handle the good stuff you should try 3v3 and end with some 5v5. This guide should be extremely usefull to players who haven’t (ever) played a arena match before.

Talents:
Your talents are very important. The most used arena warrior spec is Arms. Here’s a quite good talent build to get you started with:
Talent Calculator – World of Warcraft

Gladius: adds enemy unit frames to arenas for easier targeting and focusing. It is highly configurable and you can disable most features of this addon.
Gladius – Addons – Curse

Macros:
How to make macros:

- Type /macro;
- Click on New at the bottom;

- Name your macro;
- Select a icon;
- Select Okay;
- Now open up the macro you just made and fill in the macro ‘code’.

!Important!

Hold [Ctrl]   [H] and search for: Slayer of the Lifeless – Replace it with your one-handed weapon.
Hold [Ctrl]   [H] and search for: Wall of Terror – Replace it with your shield.

Hold [Ctrl]   [H] and search for: Marrowstrike – Replace it with your two-handed weapon.

!Important!

Intervene: Cast defensive stance and intervene if your target is friendly and intervene target of target if it’s hostile.
#showtooltip Intervene
/cast [nostance:2] Defensive Stance; [help] Intervene; [target=targettarget, help] Intervene

Rend/Disarm in one button:

#showtooltip Disarm
/cast Rend
/cast [modifier:alt] Defensive Stance
/cast Disarm

Shield Bash:
#showtooltip Shield Bash
/cast [nostance:1] Battle stance
/equip Slayer of the Lifeless

/equipslot [noequipped:shields] 17 Wall of Terror
/cast Shield Bash
/equip [modifier:alt] Marrowstrike

Retaliation
#showtooltip Retaliation
/cast [nostance:1] Battle stance
/cast Retaliation

Charge/Change to Berserker and intercept:
#showtooltip Charge
/cast Charge
/cast [modifier:alt] Berserker Stance
/cast Intercept

Intercept/Change to Battle stance and charge:
#showtooltip Intercept
/cast Intercept

/cast [modifier:alt] Battle Stance
/cast Charge

Here is my spell reflect macro: This will cast Spell Reflection if you are in Battle or Defensive and change to Battle stance if you are in Berserker stance.
#showtooltip Spell Reflection
/cast [nostance:1/2] Battle stance
/equip Slayer of the Lifeless
/equipslot [noequipped:shields] 17 Wall of Terror
/cast Spell Reflection

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