Warrior Leveling Mists of Pandaria

This last week has been nuts but I finally hit 90, play time was limited but leveling my warrior was fun. The change to specs and the ability to change on the fly was very nice. PVP with shockwave, pvp with dragon, pvp with bladestorm, overall the experience was rewarding. I of course used Zygor, made it a piece of cake. I leveling in Mists of Pandaria without it on my warlock and it sucked. I recommend using it vs not.

As for what spec to best level in for warriors I found arms the most rewarding and the quickest. I know a lot of people love fury and while i liked the feel it's just not the same. The great news is arms warriors aren't far behind warriors on dps meters even at end game raiding, so really warriors are in a great place, level with whatever spec is most fun for you.

Prot while slow is definitely viable, you don't take much damage and you don't deal much damage but over time you widdle down enemies so no big deal, it'll just be slower.

PVP all specs are viable as well, though arms is great for burst, fury falls a little behind, prot makes you a god that requires 4+ people to kill.

ON the pvp note, seriously wtf is going on with horde. AV is a complete joke, certain maps it's like WTF is going on. I'll touch more on this later this week.

MOP Arms 5.0.5 Arms PVE Rotation

So here’s the generally accepted Arms Warrior PVE Rotation, again we’re working off of a more priority based rotation than anything else.

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Single Target Arms Warrior Rotation

Priority:

CS; MS ; Execute; OP ; HS (with 1 or more stacks of Taste for Blood); Slam; HS (at 60+ rage)

So your rotation should generally look like this.
1. http://www.wowhead.com/spell=86346 - To apply debuff
    - http://www.wowhead.com/spell=29725 - Will reset your CS cooldown. The trick is to NOT clip your CS buff (6 seconds) so if you have to wait a few seconds for the CS debuff to fall drop from the target do so, THEN use CS again.
2. http://www.wowhead.com/spell=12294 - This will apply http://www.wowhead.com/spell=115768
3. Execute - ONLY if the target is below 20%. (Execute also becomes your filler when available instead of slam or HS)
3. http://www.wowhead.com/spell=7384 - 30% chance to proc http://www.wowhead.com/spell=56638
4a. IF Taste For Blood has at least 2 stack, then HS is your filler. Once you us HS it uses your stacks so you can only use it once and then need to rebuild your stacks.
4b IF NOT, then Slam is your filler.

Your tier 4 talent of choices is best used when off of CD during open spots in your rotation.

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Multiple Target Arms Warrior Rotation

When Fighting Two Mobs:
Keep Sweeping Strikes up and run a normal single target rotation. Make sure to hit each target with MS to keep up http://www.wowhead.com/spell=115768

Three or More Mobs:
1. Start by applying deep wounds via thunder clap.
2. Keep Sweeping Strikes up.
3. Replace HS with Cleave
4. Other than that it's normal rotation the only difference is use whirlwind when available.

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Cooldown Usage

Recklessness is still whoopass in a bag, use it as often as possible. Best used during execute phase but if the fight allows use it to open up and then to finish off. If the fight doesn't allow save it for the execute phase

Skull Banner is a nice raid/party wide buff, with a 3 minute CD it can be used more than once in most cases, again make sure it's available during execute phase.

Shattering Throw is a lot like recklessness, If you can fit it in twice do so, if not save it for execute phase. Use shattering throw first of all your CD's during execute phase.

Deadly Calm is an ability you should be using when available. It needs to be on constant cooldown.

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Colossus Smash In Depth

CS has it's own little special section because you can really jack your dps and rotation up if done incorrectly.
Here's the skinny. CS has a cooldown of 20 seconds, it provides you with a debuff on your target that lasts 6 seconds. So there's 14 seconds of time when you don't have the CS debuff on your target.

The powers that be provided Sudden Death to arms warriors to make raid bosses cry.

Because of sudden death we can now have a much larger uptime of our CS debuff. This is why it is so important that you do not clip your debuff.

For example. .
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You hit a mob with CS, for six seconds the debuff is on, let's say immediately after you use CS, sudden death procs you still have 4 seconds left on the debuff, you should WAIT to use CS untill the buff falls off. It's that simple...and yet so very important.

Warrior Leveling - Mists of Pandaria - Zygor Guide

The saga continues....
I've been leveling my warrior this past week, unfortunately I really didn't get much time in, i'm guessing maybe 4-5 hours in the last week. I am level 86 though :)

The good news...
Zygor Guides still makes leveling in world of warcraft a breeze, the bad news is...it's not free.

I spent the first 2 hours or so questing without Zygor as I hadn't downloaded or installed it yet. Those 2 hours were the most miserable 2 hours of my life. I'm not one for wasting time, especially in terms of leveling, I've leveled once from 1-60 with no guide on my warrior and it took me damn near forever, since then I've never done an expansion without Zygor, reason being is Zygor flat out the best way to level.

If you haven't checked out Zygor's Guides before you can either click the links over to the right or left or try here Free Trial of Zygor

I don't promote many products, I get emails on a weekly basis asking to "sell" ad space, the only guide I respect and place on this site are the ones you see advertised. Those are placed there for a reason, that reason is they benefit and are made by wow players for wow players, not some sale or software company.

Hands down if you want to level the fastest way possible in Mist of Pandaria then Zygor leveling guide is a must.

There are some really cool features I'll be covering later, but wanted to provide the link for the free trial if you haven't already tried it out. 

The Horde - WTF happened?

Maybe it's just the level range i'm in but the Horde, my beloved Horde, looks to have completely fallen off in terms of BG's. One would think with Hellscream at the helm we could expect some full on alliance murder fests...as it turns out "reckless and crazy" doesn't win BG's.

On a personal level i'm performing respectfully, as a team though wow...wtf is going on. I must have played 10-15 bg's over the last 2 days winning only 2. I can pin the blame on "lack of communication" and just a general sense of not really knowing what to do. How someone get's to lvl 85 and yet doesn't grasp general rules is beyond me.

AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP TRYING TO RUSH AV. We haven't had that advantage since Wrath of the Lich King.

I will say one thing about pvp at lvl 85. Wait till you're level 86-87. My plan for now is to hammer out the 5 levels i need (now that my experience is turned on this should be infinitely easier) and THEN start the pvp bonanza. Warriors look to be in a very good sport right now in terms of PVP, mobility, utility and overall fun.

The new talent system is killer IMHO and really helps warriors to utilize a lot of our tool belt while also taking away the "stance dance" of yesteryear.

I'm making it my mission to bring some glory back to the horde, so warrior pvp noobs stay tuned.