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I'd like to amend that slightly.  Having two one-handed weapons both with Crusader is awesome.  Not that you'll be able to do that before 60. . ..

My hunter uses a 2H sword from the Hydra boss in Black Fathom. When it crits it does quite a lot of dmg. Only problem is, if it misses you have to wait forever till it is able to make another attack. The benefit i've found with dual blades is that even if one misses, you have another that can make a strike for ya.

OMG, if I have to heal one more warrior who thinks he should dps and the rogue should tank I'm going to...well I don't know but it won't be good.

Here are some tips for you bud:

If you are putting most of your talents into the Arms tree I would recommend using a 2 handed weapon most of the time. This tree focuses more on raw damage. When you get to level 20 you will be able to purchase the Dual Wield ability, allowing you to have a weapon in each hand. Dual wield works great if you have a lot of points in the Fury tree, this talent tree is more of a finesse tree and will improve your dual wield ability. The Protection tree is more about making yourself tougher, you sacrifice a lot of damage potential but gain a heafty amount of defense and threat generation. One hand weapon and shield are the way to go if you are putting points into protection.

For leveling up I would recommend either a heavy dose of Arms followed up by some Fury or the opposite, heavy fury and some arms. I would stay away from the protection talents until you get much later in the game (level 55-60).


As for dueling Hunters... the warrior is usually a hunters worst nightmare. However at your level you are missing a few key abilitys that would turn the tide in your favor.

Hamstring - slows the targets movement by 50% for 15 seconds. Hunters have to be at range before they can really do damge to you. If you stay within 10 yards of them they can not shoot you with their gun/bow. By keeping a hamstring on them you will assure that they almost never get away from you.

Intimidating Shout - Stuns the target for 8 seconds (any attack breaks the stun) and causes up to 5 other enemies to run in fear for 8 seconds. Use this when you are on top of the hunter and his pet is on you as well. This will cause the pet to run away giving you at least 8 seconds of 1 on 1 time with the hunter.

Intercept - This is a second "charge" ability that you will get around level 26 or so. It has a longer stun than the normal charge and it can be used in combat.

lol, yeah, bad tanks are the end to rogues and everyone .

Top of the dmg charts should be your Rogues and Mages depending on if the instance calls for a lot of aoe attacks or not. A lot of the time, Sword rogues with a ton of abilities in assassination are the ones who really dish out a lot of dmg, but not always. In many cases I have either tied or beaten sword rogues on charts, but for me to do it I have to really be working at it hard.

If you go Rogue sometime, keep in mind that assassination will dish out dmg but without imp sap or some of the other subtle/combat moves, you become a tad more useless in instances. I get rather aggitated by a lot of sword rogues I find cause they tend to PVP all the time and have no sense of strategy for instances at all. Either they make a lot of moronic mistakes or they play like they are a tank. There are very few sword rogues that i've ran into which I would be happy to team with. Just most I find I think should be thrown into MC and told to solo it or have their accounts deleted .

Defensive stance coupled with taunt and sunder armor is the basic method warriors use to maintain aggro on themselves. 

If the mobs are in a safe spot (not usually) my warrior will be in balanced stance and charge in.  That typically generates enough rage to allow a thunderclap.  The thunderclap aggros all mobs within about ten yards.  I'll immediately switch to defensive stance.  Just that stance switch will further increase aggro.  I'll add an 'antagonizing shout' after a few swings generate enough rage.  If I manage to pull this off without the DPS wielders hitting the mobs too soon (unfortunately a rarity) the mobs will be focused on my warrior and mostly ignore the rest of the group.  I'll 'sunder armor' on each mob in turn to maintain attention on the warrior as long as possible.  Taunt can be used periodically to bring a monster's attention back to me also, should a squishie draw their ire.  If I taunt a mob, it would be best for the DPS wielders to stop hitting him for a sec while I rebuild aggro, but this rarely actually happens.  If tanking a lot of monsters and one mob peels off and goes for the squishies, its job of the druid, paladin or hunter's pet to intercept it.

If the mobs are not is a safe spot to fight (typical) its best to let the hunter 'mark' the target and pull the mob(s).  On teams lacking a hunter, its best for the warrior to pull with his ranged weapon.  Everybody should (but don't always) back up a little to a safe fighting spot.  The warrior can charge the foremost monster once they're in a safe spot and go through the routine above.  Its not uncommon for the mobs to get too close making charge unavailable.  In that case just switch to defensive stance and take the above description from there.

Its very common for teammates not to recognize that mobs with ranged weapons require backing up much further than normal in order to draw the mobs to a safe fighting spot.  For these mobs the warrior should pull instead of the hunter.  The warrior will have to back up while taking a couple ranged attack hits in order to draw the mobs to a safe spot.

If your team doesn't have the luxury of a second tank, squishies that accidentally aggro a mob should run toward the warrior.  Give the warrior a chance to taunt the mob off you.  Running away from the warrior merely means I can't get to you quickly enough to taunt the mob before he flattens you.  Of course mages that can freeze mobs in place can use that as an alternative method.

Not sure if you do, but you should buy all the talents. I know they get expensive, but there is no talent that you should not buy. I've got a 58 warrior on Stormrage (build is 31/5/15). I don't think that tanking is that much of a deal until higher levels. Of course, you are still the damage sponge, but you can tank effectivly using a 2h wep in the lower lvl instances. Once you get up there and start tanking higher lvl mobs you'll want to stock up on +stam and +defense gear. Spamming sunder+revenge with the occasional taunt is a good way to hold aggro. If the squishies are still drawing aggro they need to tone it down a bit and let the warrior do his job.

Oh, and my strategy for hunters. Charge+hamstring (imp hamstring helps) build some rage, use indtimidating shout to scare the pet away. If the hunter manages to get away, switch to zerker and intercept him, follow by hamstring and more bashing

btw...R.I.P fear bombs

yeah, but all that anti hunter stuff, only use that against horde. it dosent work on alliance hunters, you have to go for their pets... especially ones named dumby