Originally Posted by
Crowe
Hey guys, like many others I'll come back to WoW in Cataclysm and plan to level with a group of friends. I've chosen to be a Warrior and am unsure about what specc to chose for leveling. Now I know anything will work alright, but since I enjoy every aspect of the game I just wanted to hear your thought.
As said, I'll be leveling with a group of roughly 4-8 friends. I think at least one of them will be playing another tank class. While we'll probably level together at the beginning, I imagine people will progress at different rates resulting in less grouping together as we head towards level 85.
I expect to be doing:
-30% instances, probably mostly as the tank. This might decrease slightly at higher levels.
-60% solo or small group questing. I'm a bit of a perfectionist as I like to finish EVERY zone completely before I move on to the next.
-10% PvP, I'll be leveling on a PvP server for the first time and expect quite a few random skirmishes. I don't think I'll be doing more than an occasional BG while leveling, but I don't want to play a gimped specc.
As far as I see it:
Prot: Good for the dungeons, probably ok in PvP, slow killing speed when solo but good survivability still allows to solo big mobs.
Fury: Not so good at tanking, but can also go as DPS, PvP power difficult to access but probably a little meh, high killing speed when solo, but also takes a lot of damage,
Arms: Slightly better at tanking than Fury, but not much, probably quite good in PvP, good solo killing speed and takes slightly less damage than fury,
So, what would your assessment be?
Currently I'm tending towards Prot, but only if it isn't too gimped in PvP. I hate loosing to equally geared/leveled players, since I consider myself quite a good player.
Edit: Since I'll be leveling on a new server I have no access to Heirloom items or additional resources.