Best Warrior Leveling Build?Follow

Well, i played the beta, got burnt out on wow heroic raiding..so i moved on to RIFT and i am going to make my first character soon and i was wondering the best leveling build/setup AND RACE i should go, i want to be the bad guys (hordie) Plus it'd help if anyone has any good realm suggestions, ide like a PvP realm. Thanks :)

Tank builds are alright for leveling, it's slow since you lack DPS, but there is a lot of self healing in the Paladin build later on, and the Reaver has good self-healing abilities, and the Warlord has good damage mitigation. Void Knight really is better against casters, but really it all depends on you. I eventually leveled as a Paragon/Paladin/Champion but for awhile it was slow and I didn't do a lot of damage overall.

got to say i love this build DaseinNJ
I stopped playing my warrior weeks ago cause i couldnt find a build i liked.... i've been playing solid since i read about this one here.

Paragon was easy for leveling. I went with a paragon, champion, paaldin build. Paladin just for the 100% heal every 10 min.

Hi Punkspider, would you be able to update the Macro ?

I cant seem to make it work and have tried removing 1 ability at a time ....

yes atm game just went down i will rewrite the macros when it coems back up i have to look at what all is on what cool downs ect. i'm not lvl 50 so will have to look at the higher lvl abilites also then i'll coppy paste ones that should work. eh dureing down time i'll try to make them work will try in game after it's back up

This one i connected flamespear instead of flame spearand the show comand to strike instead of stirke, it wont save spelled wrong. I also moved retaliation further up on the priority list. Also I addednecrotic wounds for another ranged pull or just to be lazy and kill mobs at ranged if they are casters.Then I added in blood fever. It's no cool down like necrotic wounds so wounds will only fire if mob is at ranged and blood when it's in melee. I like blood for the 5% cants to miss on melee attacks.Personaly I take out the suppressmacrofailures but I dont mind the little read spam on my screen. Like I said it will tell you miss spelled stuff in chat box. Also if doing rifts you can take out shield throw since it's a taunt unless your acting as tank for the rift. I will test this one in game when it's back up I thought there was something else wrong with it.just looking at it that is only one that looks like it needs fixed. One more thing if you dont have the ability like lower lvls take the comand out of this macro or it will spam your chat window when you hit the macro. Like right now I'm only lvl 38 so i dont have windspear or riftstrike so I took them out of my macro in game.

Single Target Point Builder
#show Searing Strike
suppressmacrofailures
cast retaliation
cast aggressive block
cast rift strike
cast soul sickness
cast windspear
cast stonespear
cast frost strike
cast searing strike
cast flamespear
cast Blood Fever
cast necrotic wounds
cast shield throw

ok now for aoe point builder.
I moved retaliation infront of necrotic wounds or it would never go off due to necro being no cool down. I took out concussion since it shares cool down with judgement so not needed. I also added in blood fever infront of wounds for the same reson i did it on single target macro. I also moved aggressive block up cause your gonna be soloing and need the block bonus. I also took thunder strike off since your useing reaver no cooldown abilities.

AoE Point Builder
#show sweeping strike
cast aggressive block
cast plague bringer
cast soul sickness
cast sweeping strike
cast judgement
cast retaliation
cast blood fever
cast necrotic wounds
Well i hope this helps some peeps out if you have questions on macros feel free to pm or aks here if I dont know I'll try to look up for you. I just started working on macros my self after seeing the great posts above me where these macros came from I just wanted to help set the macros straight.


Edited, May 18th 2011 7:55pm by punkspider

Very nice macros. I agree with the use macros for controlling what you want to do. I was just wanting the others to work havent played around with breaking them down like you posted yet. Been little busy lvling figured i'd break them down later. these macros I only use soloing so dont need much control unless doing elites.

I have to say i love this build with warfronts take anyone down 1vs1 at least i was in the lvl 30s bracket. almost 40 so will see how it goes then.

callinon what build you use if you dont mind me asking. Atm I'm working to the one linked up above by daseinnj

I like the looks of this a lot, but I have a couple questions. I am just asking for now as my Warrior is only Lvl 24, but I am stoked about this build idea so I just want to get as much info as I can.

First the macro below works? I would think Blood Fever doesn't trigger as I don't see a cooldown on Necrotic Wounds, but maybe I am misreading it. That would be awesome if it works as I now push 3 keys for that.



Why a point in Rift Surge because it doesn't look like you use it?

Assuming a mostly solo build/PVE/PVP where you will get hit:

Why trade points in Imbued Armor vs Ethereal Bond, is the power cost discount that valuable?

And lastly no Sheild of the Hero for block and hit passive vs. Martial shield?

Again, I really like the look of this so I am just asking to get a feel for it.

Isn't martial shield passive so not considered a buff. At work right now so cant check but I dont remember haveing to buff for it. I picked up SOTH just for the 5% block soloing and 5% hit in warfronts since never know what lvl the person is gonna be figured it would help. I also didnt know if spell hit wich i'm guessing some of the reaver abilites fall under have a higher miss chance or if they all fall on melee table. I havent looked up how hit works in this game yet so dont know if there is two diff tables or not.

Martial ShieldEach successful block has a 25% chance of increasing Attack Points by 1.

Requires: 10 Points Spent in Paladin

No activation no cost so its passive from what I see. I was reading some from this post

http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?164169-Tank-Build-Mitigation-2.0/page11

A tanking thread but post 109 he makes it look like they do stack. The 5% block chance i think your talking about is the one higher in tree gives block and armor instead of hit.thats a buffed one like the blade buffs.

Shield of the Chosen
10 Energy
Instant
Cooldown: 10.00 Seconds
Empowers a shield with virtuous strength, increasing block by 5%, and armor by 505. Does not stack with other Shield buffs. Lasts 1 hour.


Thanks for talking about the warfronts bonuses i've never even payed attion to buffs or stats once I get in there it's normaly non stop killing.And thanks for clearing up the hit tables some. Like I said I'm new to game so still learning alot.