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Do you know the best part about grinding with a Warrior in World of Warcraft is? It is that you can do it with any spec and having plate armor is good too.
There are some ways for your information, see below:
The first way is to pick a spec; arms is your best bet with sweeping strikes and bladestorm, there are no downsides to it, unlike fury where you would take additional damage and have to stop and heal up more often. Though you don't forget protection, the overall damage output is not as high as the other specs, the plus side is you won't take hardly any damage and never have to stop and heal.
The second way is to get some decent gear. You can grind with greens, but its slower killing, so get yourself some blues. Better gear increases grinding capacity with faster killing and more health. As a Warrior, the stats you want are Strength, Stamina, + Crit, + Hit, AP, Expertise and Agility.
The third way is to find an area with mobs right at your level or 1-2 levels below. It's important that they've a fast spawn rate. If you picked arms, repeat this process: charge, rend, victory rush, mortal strike, heroic strike, overpower. This combination should kill any mob at your level if you are decently geared.
If there are two mobs close to each other, charge one, rend him, use ranged attack to grab the other, activate sweeping strikes, and beat them down. Every hit will hit them both so this doubles your killing power. And it's only a 30 sec cool-down.
If there are 3-4 mobs grouped together, pop any AP cooldown you might have and possibly enraged regeneration if you feel you might take lots of damage and use your bladestorm. It should take them down to at least 30% health and most likely kill 1 or 2. Then just finish the remaining off. You don't forget your five minutes cool-down so use this when there are 3-4 mobs and you bladestorm is on cool-down. These are Retaliation, Racklessness, and Shield wall if using a shield.
Your options are limited and the abilities are few to choose from. Bloodthirst and whirlwind are really all you got. Cleave is an option but it uses a lot of rage and if used every chance you get, you will rage starve. It may or may not cause more DPS than arms, it's hard to tell nowadays, but you take more damage. Note that fury are +20% to strength, +5% crit for a short time you crit every time and you can duel wield 2 handed weapons with the final talent but you deal 10% less damage when using this.
The last way is protection. Before it was near impossible to grind or kill anything really in a timely manner. But now a couple of abilities can deal some good damage now, making it a viable option for soloing. Non elite mobs will barely be able to hit you at all. And every time you block, dodge or parry, you can use revenge which hits for 2-4k. In between revenges, use shield slam to hit for another 2-4k. The best thing about protection grinding is the fact that you take on several mobs at once. Shockwave hits them all, as well as thunderclap. It may take a little bit to kill all 10 mobs, but the overall time per kill is very comparable to a DPS spec when using this method.
You should find a place that has many mobs bunched together if using protection spec. Note that protection grinding is only good when fighting several mobs at once. One or two would be very slow compared to a DPS spec at a time. Some of you hit all the enemies and someone hits you, they take damage even if you don't. You can also kill level 80 elite mobs if you choose to. It is not quick, but you will win if you know what you're doing.
There are some ways for your information, see below:
The first way is to pick a spec; arms is your best bet with sweeping strikes and bladestorm, there are no downsides to it, unlike fury where you would take additional damage and have to stop and heal up more often. Though you don't forget protection, the overall damage output is not as high as the other specs, the plus side is you won't take hardly any damage and never have to stop and heal.
The second way is to get some decent gear. You can grind with greens, but its slower killing, so get yourself some blues. Better gear increases grinding capacity with faster killing and more health. As a Warrior, the stats you want are Strength, Stamina, + Crit, + Hit, AP, Expertise and Agility.
The third way is to find an area with mobs right at your level or 1-2 levels below. It's important that they've a fast spawn rate. If you picked arms, repeat this process: charge, rend, victory rush, mortal strike, heroic strike, overpower. This combination should kill any mob at your level if you are decently geared.
If there are two mobs close to each other, charge one, rend him, use ranged attack to grab the other, activate sweeping strikes, and beat them down. Every hit will hit them both so this doubles your killing power. And it's only a 30 sec cool-down.
If there are 3-4 mobs grouped together, pop any AP cooldown you might have and possibly enraged regeneration if you feel you might take lots of damage and use your bladestorm. It should take them down to at least 30% health and most likely kill 1 or 2. Then just finish the remaining off. You don't forget your five minutes cool-down so use this when there are 3-4 mobs and you bladestorm is on cool-down. These are Retaliation, Racklessness, and Shield wall if using a shield.
Your options are limited and the abilities are few to choose from. Bloodthirst and whirlwind are really all you got. Cleave is an option but it uses a lot of rage and if used every chance you get, you will rage starve. It may or may not cause more DPS than arms, it's hard to tell nowadays, but you take more damage. Note that fury are +20% to strength, +5% crit for a short time you crit every time and you can duel wield 2 handed weapons with the final talent but you deal 10% less damage when using this.
The last way is protection. Before it was near impossible to grind or kill anything really in a timely manner. But now a couple of abilities can deal some good damage now, making it a viable option for soloing. Non elite mobs will barely be able to hit you at all. And every time you block, dodge or parry, you can use revenge which hits for 2-4k. In between revenges, use shield slam to hit for another 2-4k. The best thing about protection grinding is the fact that you take on several mobs at once. Shockwave hits them all, as well as thunderclap. It may take a little bit to kill all 10 mobs, but the overall time per kill is very comparable to a DPS spec when using this method.
You should find a place that has many mobs bunched together if using protection spec. Note that protection grinding is only good when fighting several mobs at once. One or two would be very slow compared to a DPS spec at a time. Some of you hit all the enemies and someone hits you, they take damage even if you don't. You can also kill level 80 elite mobs if you choose to. It is not quick, but you will win if you know what you're doing.
