5.0 Unofficial Patch Notes - Warrior Edition, Part One

Because we all like different parts and I feel like eating turkey at some point today. Happy Thanksgiving to you Americans.

I could talk about the 4.3 patch notes but I'm not going to just yet because let's face it - The major overhaul to the game that will revolve around an April Fool's joke Mists of Pandaria is way more interesting at the moment. Maybe that's just me. I don't know if I'll be playing seriously in the next expansion as I'm not doing that much in this expansion, but I'll go ahead and talk like I am anyway.

After the jump, I'll get my hooves dirty.

Protection warriors? Let's nerf them too.

Hah. First, I apologize for my long absence. As it often happens, the real world called, and I needed to come running.

Now, I did say I wouldn't mention much (if anything) about tanks here, but they are adding another blow to our favorite class. They are making changes to Warbringer, and essentially nerfing the DPS of Shield Slam.

Of course, as stated here, it will only really effect warrior tanks who stack block value. Now, who in the world does that for PvE? I mean really. Block value is even a stat? Can you tell how sarcasm doesn't transfer well in text? It was mentioned by the all-knowing Ghostcrawler, to boot. Yes, he really hates us.

In the name of PvP. My amazing tank of a companion is having a heart attack about Shield Slam, and all I can do is scoot over on the nerf bench and offer him a seat. Well, he's a warrior who played in vanilla, so maybe he was there before me.
Anyway, it's being tested internally, which means there isn't anything on the PTR on it yet. That also means that there is a 90% chance that they will go through with it, and put it on live servers (if I know anything about how Blizzard 'fixes' warriors.)

A poster on the blizzard forums commented about the state of Prot Warrior DPS, and how if it was higher, it could help make the difference in downing a boss or not. Blizzard's reply? Here. Read for yourself. The short of it is: "Um, make your DPS do their job better, hohoho." Yeah, minus the Fury and Arms warriors, of course.

On the upside, they are adding an Ashen Verdict strength ring in the next minor content patch...and that's about it.

Hang in there, my warrior friends. Cataclysm will be here soon enough. Let's just hope they don't normalize rage. Again.