Warrior DPS Pre-Raid Gear
On this page, you will find the best gear and best in slot items from Pre-Raid content for your Warrior DPS in WoW Classic. For more gearing advice, please refer to our Warrior DPS Gearing and Best in Slot guide.
Pre-Raid Best in Slot (BiS) List for DPS Warriors
You should make sure to not go over 6% extra Hit chance cap as a Human
or Orc, when taking advantage of your weapon skill
racials (also if you are a lucky 
Edgemaster's Handguards or similar +weapon
skill item user), or the 9% Hit chance cap with other races and weapons.
The Black Dragon Mail set is very valuable, as it provides a lot of attack power and other needed stats, and has great, easily obtainable set bonuses of 1% hit and 2% critical strike at two and three pieces, respectively.
Finally, look out for uncommon gear of the Tiger, which can often be found in the Auction House, as the Strength and Agility present on it makes for great DPS gear!
While we are only listing the Horde versions of the PvP set, equivalent versions can be found on the Alliance side, with the same requirements, cost and stats.
WoW Classic Phases
As stated by Blizzard, WoW Classic will have six phases, starting with Molten Core, Onyxia's Lair, and Maraudon, and ending with Naxxramas and the Scourge Invasion.
We will be linking best in slot gear lists for every raid tier in this guide, which can be helpful in order to understand how to progress from hitting Level 60, to getting pre-raid best in slot and from then to clearing all raid tiers.
Warrior Pre-Raid Best in Slot
Naxxramas DPS Warrior Pre-Raid BiS
MC/Ony DPS Warrior Pre-Raid BiS
You should make sure to not go over 6% extra Hit chance cap as a Human
or Orc, when taking advantage of your weapon skill racials (also
if you are a lucky Edgemaster's Handguards user), or the 9% Hit chance
cap with other races and weapons. This is the gear we recommend for damage dealing
as a Warrior, before setting foot into Molten Core
or Onyxia's Lair.
* Edgemaster's Handguards grant +7 weapon skill with the most common weapon
types. The first +5 weapon skill grants you a huge benefit, as detailed in our
DPS Warrior Weapon Skill
page section, but it has rapidly diminishing returns post that amount, so these
gloves are only advisable if you do not have at least +5 weapon skill from other
sources yet, which will typically the case for Human and Orc
using their racials.
You can find more Warrior DPS BiS lists in our dedicated gear hub below.
Changelog
- 18 Nov. 2024: Page updated for Classic Anniversary.
- 05 Dec. 2020: Updated for Phase 6.
- 19 Oct. 2020: Added Ogre Forged Hauberk.
- 27 Jul. 2020: Updated with Phase 5 gear.
- 19 May 2020: Added Silithus twilight boss summoning gear.
- 14 Apr. 2020: Updated with some BoE Zul'Gurub gear.
- 11 Mar. 2020: Updated with Arathi Basin gear.
- 12 Feb. 2020: Guide added.
This guide has been written by Seksi, original vanilla player and multi-class player, currently playing on Gehennas Horde. You can find him on the Classic Warrior, Mage and Shaman Discords, as well as the Icy Veins Discord.
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