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Originally Posted by Noselacri
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Have people who bring up this point in every race thread ever taken a look at the kind of gear required to actually accomplish this? Because you basically need 100% BiS in every slot, which means like two straight years of raiding ToV uncontested. And even then, there's a lot of value in capping stats without buffs since you can only have 15 buffs at a time, so the advantage of fatty races never really goes away.
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You don't need full BiS to obtain this. You really just need a primal weapon and Shaman buffs. A Warrior with Primal Avatar, Focus of Spirit, Maniacal Strength, Mortal Deftness, and Deleriously Nimble will get around +200 Str, +200 Dex, and +160 AGI. That would cap most if not all races stats at 255 naked. Then obviously you can remove the necessity for specific stat buffs as you get better gear to free up buff slots. STA Is harder to cap since it isn't included in Primal Avatar, but most decent Warrior gear has STA, and the normal strategy is to dump your starting points into STA.
Yes ST keys are usually expensive DKP wise, but certainly no where near 2 years worth of DKP, and they are a guaranteed drop off of at least 2 dragons per week. 2HS Primal Weapons tend to go for cheap, so the only real hurtle is the ST key itself.
As Snaggles points out, Warriors get less returns from racials, unless you plan on mostly soloing. The problem with that is Warriors are designed for group/raid tanking, so racials tend to become mostly muted whenever you end up using the class for it's intended purpose.
I am not saying Warriors can't solo well, the idea is more that you should only really worry about racials if you plan on soloing often. Otherwise just roll Ogre for Min/Max if you want to make the Warrior with the best group/raid tanking racial that can still be useful when soloing. And as myself and others have pointed out, Iksars have a lot of drawbacks that affect their ability to solo. So if you are focused on being a solo Warrior, you have quite a few better racial options to try and minimize your downtime.