Warrior Leveling Guide from 1 to 90

Welcome to our Warrior leveling guide! Here you will find all you need to about leveling a Warrior efficiently. In addition, you may wish to check out our General Leveling Guide, complete with detailed information on XP, mounts, addons, consumables, tips, and more.

Leveling up as a Warrior is fairly simple and straightforward: Charge in and hit things! While Warriors also have the benefit of being able to switch to a Tank specialization in order to join Dungeon groups much faster, Arms and Fury are much better suited to questing, featuring several tools to keep themselves healthy and deal a lot of damage both in AoE and single-target situations.

When choosing which Spec to level as you first have to think if you wish to level as a Tank or as a DPS. All three Warrior Specs are capable of fast questing and will not hinder your leveling process, though Arms and Fury are typically faster for anything other than getting quick dungeon queues as Protection.

Fury and Arms are both solid in solo content and can deal out a lot of damage with their various abilities. They both also have plenty of sustain to get through their enemies without having to slow down. Choosing which one to level will generally come down to personal preference, although Arms tends to be slightly faster up to around level 33. Check out the individual guides below for more information.

You can use the Recuperate ability to quickly regain health between combat, without the need to carry level appropriate food around, since it always restores 50% of maximum health.

Arms Warrior is a strong choice for leveling, dealing damage to two targets at a time with Sweeping Strikes and keeping itself healed with Victory Rush. This is well suited to objective-based questing, though its full multi-target potential takes several levels to come online.

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Arms Warrior Leveling

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Fury Warriors unlock multi-target abilities early, making them well suited for sustained combat against several targets in dungeons or out in the open world. Fury comes with several strong defensive tools to help them stay alive and thrive when fighting multiple enemies at the same time.

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Fury Warrior Leveling

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While Protection Warrior deals less damage than Fury and Arms, they have the benefit of survivability, able to chain pull near limitlessly, even in the most basic of green questing gear. Tanks also tend to have competitive damage at lower levels, though they will eventually be outscaled by the end of the leveling process.

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Protection Warrior Leveling

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Heirlooms will help make leveling an even smoother experience. When looking to buy them, you should keep in mind to get the ones that provide you with Haste, lowering the cooldown of most rotational abilities, and making the gameplay experience that much smoother. To get more information about Heirlooms and where to obtain them from, you can take a look at the guide below!

Itemization

Leveling Heirlooms

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Basic Warrior abilities are unlocked over the first twelve levels of gameplay, with more advanced ones coming from talents, alternating between one class or one specialization talent point gained per level. Before unlocking the talent system and choosing a specialization at level 10, all Warriors will start out essentially playing Protection, using Shield Slam as the primary ability.

• At Level 1, you start with Slam as your primary Rage spender.
• At Level 2, you unlock Charge. This will help you close the gap between you and your enemy and generate Rage.
• At Level 3, you unlock Shield Slam, a single target damage dealer, which should be used on cooldown until picking a specialization at level 10.
• At Level 4, you unlock Hamstring. Slow down a single enemy helping to put some distance between you.
• At Level 5, you unlock Victory Rush. Allows you to heal yourself after defeating a enemy. This will help you to keep healthy during leveling.
• At Level 6, you unlock Shield Block, a defensive ability that blocks incoming physical attacks.
• At Level 6, you also unlock Execute via a Quest called "A Warrior's End". It is a high-damage combat finisher, normally usable when the target is below 20% health.
• At Level 7, you unlock Pummel, which interrupts enemy spellcasting and prevents them from casting again for a short time.
• At Level 8, you also unlock Taunt, a threat tool which forces the enemy to focus and attack you.
• At Level 9, you unlock Whirlwind, an AoE Rage spender which that hits up to 5 enemies.
• At Level 10, you unlock Heroic Throw, a weak ranged attack, mainly used to pull enemies from afar.
• At Level 10, you also unlock Battle Shout, a very important group buff which increases attack power.
• At Level 10, you additionally unlock Execute, an additional single-target damaging ability.
• At Level 11, you unlock Victory Rush, increasing its healing.
• At Level 12, you unlock Berserker Rage, an on-demand fear and incapacitate breaking effect.
• Further spells and abilities are unlocked through talents within your chosen specialization.

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This guide has been written by Archimtiros, Warrior class theorycrafter and SimulationCraft developer who has been writing class guides for more than a decade. You can follow him on Twitter or see more of his day to day work in Skyhold, the Warrior Discord.

This guide has been written by Mwahi, a Protection Warrior theorycrafter and moderator of the Skyhold Warrior Discord.