Taken from the World of Warcraft official forums. Written by Landfish of the Kalecgos realm I think it summarize really well the state of the Warrior class in World of Warcraft.
While most ’standard’ PvP guides tell you how to beat other classes and stuff, this one tells you what to actually expect in PvP vs each class. The ultimate purpose of this guide is to make you shard your gear and delete your warrior. Once you do this you can make a shaman or a warlock or something, so that can experience World of Warcraft the same way everyone else does.
Ok, here goes!
vs. Hunters
You’re going to get freezing-trapped and aimed-shotted over and over until you die or don’t have enough health to win vs melee+pet. If a trap wears off early (unlikely) and you manage to intercept, you’re going to get scatter-shot. The hunter will feign death, make a trap, and you’ll be trapped again.
Suggested strategy - use full +agility gear and shoot them with your ranged weapon instead of meleeing so you don’t get trapped.
vs. Warlocks
You’re going to get seduced by a succubus and soulfired/shadowbolted from max range(this will be repeated 3 times), plus a shadowbolt or 2 as you run back into range. When you finally reach the warlock after 3 seduces and a total of 5-8 shadowbolts before doing a single damage point, you’ll get death coiled and shadowbolted 2 more times.
Suggested strategy - have over 15,000 life or 200 shadow resistance when you PvP.
vs. Mages
Frost: you’ll get polymorphed then hit with frostbolts. Here is a really short list of ways an ice mage can stop you from hurting them.
mana shield #1
frost nova #1
blink #1
ice barrier #1
ice block #1 for cooldowns
mana shield #2
blink #2
frost nova #2
cold snap for cooldowns
ice barrier #2
blink #3
frost nova #3
ice block #2 for friends to come heal them because they’ll probably be out of mana by now.
Also, you’re slowed the whole time from ice armor and the chill effect on frost bolts. And, for good measure, frost spells, including lvl 1 ice armor, have a chance to root you.
Fire: You’re going to get polymorphed, then the mage will use arcane power and 2 trinkets and you’ll die as a sheep.
Also, when you attack them with mana shield or ice barrier still up, you don’t get rage. This is to make sure you don’t get any wise ideas about winning or something.
Suggested Strategy: have over 15,000 life or 200 frost and 200 fire resistance.
vs. Priests
You’re going to get a dot on you and then you’ll be mind flayed. This damage also heals them because shadowform and power-word shield don’t give priests enough survivability should they choose to fight three people at the same time. Also, when you attack them with a shield up you won’t get any rage (to discourage you from trying to win.)
Suggested Strategy: have over 15,000 life or 200 shadow resistance.
vs. Rogues
If they don’t use any cooldowns you’ll probably win. However, they will use cooldowns. You’re going to get stunlocked to half life, then cold blood eviscerated (they’ll be sprinting around you with evasion up so don’t worry about explaining your l33t warrior strategies n stuff,) then they’l vanish and do it again. If you manage to hit them twice, they’ll blind you and bandage, then restealth and do it again.
Suggested Strategy: Accept that you can be outmeleed by someone who can also have fun being a stealth class.
vs. Druids
They’re basically going to melee you in bear form. If you don’t have an epic weapon they’ll win in bear form. If you do and they’re losing (not guaranteed), they’ll stun you, then root you and heal themselves to full with one spell. Then they’ll start to starfire you until root wears off. When you reach them they’ll go back to bear form and repeat the process. Oh yeah, if they don’t want free honor (hypothetical situation) they can also run away as a cheetah.
Suggested Strategy: Have 50% crit chance and carry a free action potion wherever you go.
vs. Shamans
A shaman has as much armor as you and as much damage as you, except your armor doesn’t help you against his shocks while his armor helps him against your melee attacks. He’s going to kill you faster than you can kill him. If (hypothetically) you win, he’ll ahnk and kill you.
Suggested Strategy: Use recklessness if it’s up, along with a potion, tuber and lifestone. Alternative strategy: Have 15,000 life.
vs. Paladins
This is a warrior with 3 times as much life as you. Or three warriors with 1/3 the dmg you do. 3 is probably more than 1, so I don’t think I need to get into this.
Suggested Strategy: Use intimidating shout and run away. He’ll be pissed because he can’t catch you.
vs. other Warriors
They’re going to do the same thing you do, and the outcome is determined by luck and gear rather than what someone does or doesn’t do. (Warriors can only attack.)
Therefore, it isn’t fun, and you both lose.
I hope this guide was helpful. Good luck and have fun while sharding your gear. Remember to set auction housed items slightly lower in price than others up for sale to assure that they’ll be sold fast, so you can start your new character with a bit of gold to help with gear for leveling.
Disclaimer - Warriors are good with a priest or paladin healing and cleansing them. However, that also means you need two people to make one person’s character viable in PvP.
