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"Urbin" <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote in message 
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> I used it as such, though there were few fights where I had excess rage 
> :-)

That will change as well, eventually. Once you get 3/3 Shield Specialization 
you get 15 rage everytime you block an attack, and a massive 60 rage 
everytime you reflect a spell.

> Yupp, the self heal is a nice fringe benefit.

For questing as Arms, the self heal Victory Rush provides basically allows 
non-stop combat. Kill a mob, move to next, VR, kill it, move to next, VR, 
and so on, eating and bandaging basically becomes irrelevant. At 85, with 
2/2 Field Dressing and the VR major glyph that increases it's healing, 
everytime I VR I gain about 48k life. With that, I can charge into a mob of 
8 lvl 85 enemies, Bladestorm to bring them all almost down, finish one, VR 
the next, then just basically start a VR chain and end the fight with 8 mobs 
dead and my health full.

> Yes, I saw that yesterday and am very much looking forward to it. I 
> thought
> I'd use the macro to help me over the next 12 levels but if it removes my
> rage that won't do much good.

Well, you can still use it for an early boost. Charge, Thunderclap(this can 
be done in Battle Stance) then change.

> Very nice. So they are pretty similar to druid enrage, I guess. Don't have
> them yet but will keep an eye out for them when levelling up.

More like DK's Horn of Winter. A buff that also grants a resource boost, 
they're 2 minute buffs(4 minute glyphed) so you'd be casting them 
regardless, this way, they serve a dual purpose. Battle Shout provides the 
same Str+Agi buff that Horn of Winter/Strength of Earth Totem provide, 
Commanding Should provides the same buff that Power Word:Fort gives. Since 
the buffs don't stack you'll ideally be using whichever shout isn't covered 
by buffs other group members have, but even if both buffs are covered, you 
can still use them for rage generation. I believe when I leveled my warrior 
I got Battle Shout somewhere in the 20's(I'm sorta thinking 24, but don't 
quote me) and Commanding Shout in the 50's, but that was before 4.0 so I 
have no clue if you still get them then or not.