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Determining The Best Race For Your Alliance Warrior
By Anthony Travis | December 14, 2009
Considering starting a World of Warcraft account? You want to play something useful, but isn’t overplayed? Give warrior a shot, it’s welcome everywhere, and can fill two roles, tank and dps. First things first, you’ll have to give each race a look over, I’ll start with the alliance races.
Humans can excel in any class they roll, with its abilities being spread out, but not focused. Starting with Every Man for Himself, the PvP trinket in a racial, it has uses in PvE situations, too. Freeing up a trinket slot endgame is nice, too. The bonus to sword and mace expertise is great, making gearing easier and increasing damage and threat output. The ability Perception is great for PvP; it allows you to see stealthed units from farther away, giving you and extra chance to react. Lastly, the bonus to reputation gains is very nice, you’ll be grinding lots of reputation at max level.
Dwarven racials are just as balanced as Humans, allowing them to excel at tanking and PvP. The main ability, Stoneform, grants a ten percent bonus to your armor score, and removes and bleed and poison debuffs on you. This has uses in both PvP and PvE, and should be remembered in both situations. Next thing is the bonus to mace expertise, increasing both your dps and threat output, very nice. The only other racial worth mentioning, is the bonus to frost resist, nice in PvP.
Gnome racials are more PvP oriented. The main ability, Escape Artist, drops movement impairing effects from you. This has its obvious uses for PvP, but it can help the tank pull mobs away from the healers and ranged dps in a raid or instance. The bonus to engineering is nice; engineering is a great profession in both PvP and PvE. Arcane resistance isn’t bad. A racial no listed on the list is the Gnomes size, they’re harder to target in PvP, where each second counts.
Night Elves are balanced, more geared towards tanking and PvP. The main ability Shadowmeld has more use in PvP endgame, letting you get out of sight, in battlegrounds this can ensure your survival. They have a bonus to evasion, which ic handy in PvP again, but even nice in tanking, when you need every point you can get. Wisp form makes leveling faster, keeping corpse run times down.
The Draenei racials don’t making you more effective at anything in particular, but make the whole experience generally easier. Gift of the Naaru can keep you alive in a pinch while leveling, while tanking, and in PvP too. It’s a good ability, and should probably be used if you’re even considering it. The bonus to Jewelcrafting is nice because the profession is really useful for making gold and even gearing. The shadow resist isn’t bad. Heroic Presence is awesome, a passive bonus to hit for the entire party.
This should give you a better idea of where to start in your adventures in Azeroth, I hope you enjoy playing. Before you go though, remember not to undercut someone in the Auction House, and to stay geared. Have fun with your warriors!
Looking for more World of Warcraft tips and info? Be sure to read my review of the iDemise Leveling Guide, or Be sure to read my farming guide for Warrior Gold.
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