08-04-2005, 07:35 PM
This seems like a good place to post my "mini combat rogue" warrior build I've been kicking around. After watching a few rogues with blade flurry and slice and dice tear things up I wondered if you could a warrior with more damage mitigation to do the same. mjdoom and I talked a bit about it in game and we saw that you could get flurry and sweeping strikes. So I looked at a build. This is where I'm at with it. This would be a dual wield build taking advantage of the extra attacks and hitting multiple mobs with each swing.
Arms Talents - 21 points
Improved Heroic Strike rank 0/3
Deflection rank 4/5
Improved Rend rank 3/3
Tactical Mastery rank 5/5
Improved Overpower rank 2/2
Anger Management rank 1/1
Deep Wounds rank 3/3
Impale rank 2/2
Sweeping Strikes rank 1/1
Fury Talents - 30 points
Cruelty rank 5/5
Unbridled Wrath rank 5/5
Improved Cleave rank 3/3
Improved Battle Shout rank 2/5
Dual Wield Specialization rank 5/5
Enrage rank 5/5
Flurry rank 5/5
Protection Talents - 0 points
My big debates are with dual wield spec. I could take a point out of there and get death wish which has some good utility, even in this build and doing a sweeping strikes attack.
Improved cleave. I've seen the sweeping strikes/cleave combo and there will still be times where I might still want to do that with this build. I give up 27.75 attack power on battle shout for 60 more damage per target on each cleave hit for it. Since the idea is to try and have two or more mobs around all the time cleave looked appealing.
The other potential huge drawback is that sweeping strikes is a high rage cost (30) and is only 5 swings. This is not blade flurries 15 seconds. So the idea may not work at all.
I want extra attacks but I can't get sword spec unless I take points out of flurry.
Oh well it's just thoughts on a variant build that is mostly fury so I took this thread for it. :)
Arms Talents - 21 points
Improved Heroic Strike rank 0/3
Deflection rank 4/5
Improved Rend rank 3/3
Tactical Mastery rank 5/5
Improved Overpower rank 2/2
Anger Management rank 1/1
Deep Wounds rank 3/3
Impale rank 2/2
Sweeping Strikes rank 1/1
Fury Talents - 30 points
Cruelty rank 5/5
Unbridled Wrath rank 5/5
Improved Cleave rank 3/3
Improved Battle Shout rank 2/5
Dual Wield Specialization rank 5/5
Enrage rank 5/5
Flurry rank 5/5
Protection Talents - 0 points
My big debates are with dual wield spec. I could take a point out of there and get death wish which has some good utility, even in this build and doing a sweeping strikes attack.
Improved cleave. I've seen the sweeping strikes/cleave combo and there will still be times where I might still want to do that with this build. I give up 27.75 attack power on battle shout for 60 more damage per target on each cleave hit for it. Since the idea is to try and have two or more mobs around all the time cleave looked appealing.
The other potential huge drawback is that sweeping strikes is a high rage cost (30) and is only 5 swings. This is not blade flurries 15 seconds. So the idea may not work at all.
I want extra attacks but I can't get sword spec unless I take points out of flurry.
Oh well it's just thoughts on a variant build that is mostly fury so I took this thread for it. :)
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.