My warrior hit level 13 tonight, as I was running around cleaning up old newbie quests. Or at least trying to clean them up — for every quest I completed, it seemed like there were two more new ones to take on. Augh! I think I’m close to exhausting the ones in the Mulgore area though, and hopefully we’ll soon be grouping up and working on common quests more often.

I’ve also discovered that warriors have a lot more different attacks than I expected, and I’ve already run out of spaces on my main hotkey bar. They’re all useful in different situations, so I want them all available, but there just isn’t room. I think for now I’ll stick with a two-handed weapon though, so I won’t need to use the shield bash attack right away. I’ll probably have to switch back to it later on though, as a more reliable way of interrupting casting.

A bit more progress in the new WoW group tonight, finally hitting level 10 and opening up the all-important talent trees. Though I just realized that I actually forgot to spend my first point before logging off…

I don’t really know much about warriors other than that in general you choose between trading off DPS and damage absorption, so I’ll have to start studying the skill trees more closely. Since we’ll mostly be helping each other out, damage absorption isn’t as important at these low levels when there’s healing around, so it’ll probably be best to go flat-out DPS for now.

It’s still hard to get into the flow of how a warrior should act when I’m still gaining completely new skills, but I’m sure that’ll come soon enough. For now all I can really do is charge to start the fight, use the taunt-generating attack whenever I have the rage for it, and stun to try and interrupt spells. I keep forgetting to refresh the battle shout buff though, so I’ll have to try and focus on that some more.

I do wonder though, if this other warrior guy becomes a regular member, having two warriors might be a bit redundant. Perhaps a mage would be a better choice to complement the group…