It would be an understatement to say that in under 2 weeks time the way we play our Warriors will change forever. Patch 5.0.4 will launch on the 28th of August giving us around about a one month window to get to know our class/spec before a wealth of new content is thrust up on us. Here is 10 things you should aim to do on patch day:
10 Things I Love About You:
1. Log into the game: "Well duhhhhhhh" I hear you cry! Seems stupid but you'd be surprised at the amount of times where a raid has been held up by one patch or another dropping and someone has forgotten to download and install until 5 minutes before raid time. Even if you are on a break from the game just load it up and install the patch before you forget!
2. Look at Talent Options: I will be posting an analysis of Warrior Talents for the Protection Warrior later on today (stay tuned!) to guide you around and try to give you the pro's and con's for each talent in every tier. But you have a brain, engage it! Read the tool tips and see what YOU like about things.
3. Make a Talent Selection: You will only be able to spec down to the 5th tier (level 75) on patch day, even so - select your talents, go into your spell book and move them to your action bars
4. Have Another Look In Your Spellbook: Have a look to see if you have everything at your disposal out and in your action bars. Check out the tool tips and have a think about rage costs and things like that!
5. Goto a Training Dummy: Seems silly to do this when you're not measuring your DPS huh? Well everything has changed about your Class - the way you generate rage, the way you spend it and what you spend it on! Spend 10 minutes getting used to it all!
6. Leave Your Gear As It Is: Don't be tempted to go reforging everything at huge expense right out of the gate! Leave it for a day or so or at least until you have done point 7 a few times before you go reforging crazy!
7. Run a Heroic Dungeon: Seems obvious right? Again you'd be surprised how many people don't do this out of fear of looking stupid. Just because your class has taken a beating and you don't recognise it any more doesn't mean you can't play it - you just need to re-learn a few things. When you get in explain what has happened or even create a macro with something like: "Hi guys/girls. Still getting used to the new Warrior changes so please be patient with me :)"..... This will let people know where they stand and also ease a little pressure from your plate wearing shoulders.
8. Run the LFR: Again seems obvious but again you'd be surprised how many people don't do this out of fear of 24 other players yelling at them! In this case I wouldn't recommend letting people know anything about still getting used to the changes - just make sure you've run enough Heroic Dungeons so you can feel semi comfortable in what you're doing.
9. Sell, Sell, Sell: As of the 28th you have 1 month till MoP drops and you will still have some Cata mats in your bank. Obviously you will have your own strategy on what you want to keep and dump onto the AH on the Expansion Launch Day but chances are Cata Mats will bottom out fairly quickly when MoP drops so sell it while you can to maximise your profits
10. Raid: Use the heroic dungeons and LFR as a learning curve and when you feel 100% happy you know what you are doing again then go have fun with your guild in a raid - these people are your friends so let them know about the changes and apologise in advance for any wipes you cause.
Most importantly have some fun and don't forget to check out the in game MoP launch event :)
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