Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Care and Feeding of Warriors, the column dedicated to arms, fury and protection warriors. Despite repeated blows to the head from dragons, demons, Old Gods and whatever that thing over there was, Matthew Rossi will be your host.

Patch 4.2 is in full swing by now, with most players having unlocked either the Shadow Wardens or the Druids of the Talon for the various vendors. Many guilds are already working on heroic modes, and even more are fighting their way through the raid to one degree or another.

And what does this all mean to us warriors? Well, it means new gear, for one thing. The past couple of weeks, we’ve discussed gear you could pick up in the Firelands raid itself as well as via reputation rewards and unlockable vendors (and a quest chain). Now, it’s time to discuss what you can buy for valor points, since we’re getting close to the third week and you should have been able to pick up some points as well as had a shot at Occu’thar.

Before we go into the big list o’ loot, I wanted to say that a couple of weeks in, I’m feeling like I’m getting a handle on how warriors perform in the Firelands raid. It’s like I figured: Once again, warriors need to get geared up to equal other DPSers. I feel that for right now, arms DPS is the easiest to sustain, then SMF fury, and finally TG fury. I expect TG will pull ahead once I’m using a couple of Firelands weapons. On a fight like Rhyolith or Staghelm, I can sustain more DPS than on an Alysrazor or Shannox, where I have to target switch more, move around to chase down mobs or avoid damage and even interrupt. I think perhaps the nerfs to fury were more than was needed, but we’ll see once a couple more weeks are gone and we’re talking about set bonuses and Firelands level weapons.

Speaking of set bonuses, let’s start talking about valor point rewards.Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Warriors: How to spend your valor pointsFiled under: Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, Raiding, (Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors, Raid GuidesThe Care and Feeding of Warriors: How to spend your valor points originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Care and Feeding of Warriors, the column dedicated to arms, fury and protection warriors. Despite repeated blows to the head from dragons, demons, Old Gods and whatever that thing over there was, Matthew Rossi will be your host.

Patch 4.2 is in full swing by now, with most players having unlocked either the Shadow Wardens or the Druids of the Talon for the various vendors. Many guilds are already working on heroic modes, and even more are fighting their way through the raid to one degree or another.

And what does this all mean to us warriors? Well, it means new gear, for one thing. The past couple of weeks, we’ve discussed gear you could pick up in the Firelands raid itself as well as via reputation rewards and unlockable vendors (and a quest chain). Now, it’s time to discuss what you can buy for valor points, since we’re getting close to the third week and you should have been able to pick up some points as well as had a shot at Occu’thar.

Before we go into the big list o’ loot, I wanted to say that a couple of weeks in, I’m feeling like I’m getting a handle on how warriors perform in the Firelands raid. It’s like I figured: Once again, warriors need to get geared up to equal other DPSers. I feel that for right now, arms DPS is the easiest to sustain, then SMF fury, and finally TG fury. I expect TG will pull ahead once I’m using a couple of Firelands weapons. On a fight like Rhyolith or Staghelm, I can sustain more DPS than on an Alysrazor or Shannox, where I have to target switch more, move around to chase down mobs or avoid damage and even interrupt. I think perhaps the nerfs to fury were more than was needed, but we’ll see once a couple more weeks are gone and we’re talking about set bonuses and Firelands level weapons.

Speaking of set bonuses, let’s start talking about valor point rewards.Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Warriors: How to spend your valor pointsFiled under: Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, Raiding, (Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors, Raid GuidesThe Care and Feeding of Warriors: How to spend your valor points originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments