Thinking of playing Warcraft, but don’t want to play the same thing as everybody else? A decent place to start is the warrior class, its simple enough to get into easily, and can still function in whichever roles you pursue. Before you roll your warrior, you should first give each of the races of a look over; it can have a pretty big impact on your endgame playing. I’ll go over the Alliance races here.

Beginning with the ubiquitous Humans, never a bad choice, warriors can be good at anything they try for. They have the Every Man for Himself ability, a free PvP Trinket, which is good for PvP, but also has uses in dispelling crowd controls in raids and instances. They’ve also got the increased expertise with swords and maces, good again in both PvP and raiding. That bonus to expertise makes gearing easier. Perception is purely PvP, making finding stealthed units easier to find. Finally, the bonus to reputation gains is pretty handy. In all, Humans are a very solid choice for warrior with its bonuses to ability scores and extra skills.

The Dwarven race is also balanced for warriors, starting with Stoneform. The skill increases armor by 10% and drops all bleeds and poisons, both aspects come in handy, for tanking and for PvP. Next thing is the bonus to mace expertise. This is the same as from Humans, very useful for gearing endgame, and helping increase damage and threat gain. I’ve never found the bonus to gun criticals to be very useful myself, but it could be a decent way to gain some quick threat on a pull. Resistance to frost is decent. Treasure finding isn’t as good as it sounds, but it can help you get and extra gold now and again.

Gnomes are a bit of a wild card, the racials being mainly PvP oriented. Their ability, Escape Artist, allows them to drop any movement impairing debuffs, essentially half of a PvP trinket. Their Arcane resistance is generally useful for PvP against mages, but their biggest bonus isn’t actually on their racials list. Their small size makes them harder to target in PvP situations. Though, if you roll Gnome everybody will assume you’re rude and that you like to gank. Still, Gnomes are a good choice for PvP.

Night Elves main ability is Shadowmeld, useful for avoiding combat in PvE and a great thing for those with more imagination in PvP. Quickness makes gearing for tanking much easier, the bonus to dodge being good in PvP as well. The nature resist isn’t bad. Wisp form is pretty handy, keeping corpse run times down while leveling makes things easier.

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.

All in all, the Alliance races have many solid choices for warriors. Remember your role in the situation, get good gear, and you’re well on your way to being a dominating force in whatever you bring your warrior too. Have fun with it, and don’t stand in the fire!

Wanting more WoW 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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