Warrior defensive rotations with CDs please

[Nalou]

I make a rotation with the lesser cooldowns, namely: foresight, bloodbath, featherfoot, awareness (or) mantra. Their uptime and cooldown give me a defensive buff about 100% of the time.
(I skip Mantra if I want Flash or Internal release abilities)


I don't think any of these cooldowns will save me from death, they are too weak or too random. I also cannot see any appropriate time to use them during fights. I'd better pop Inner Beast, Vengeance, Convalescence or even lolmgang to save my ass or recover from a bad hit.

In fact, I noticed I was pretty much ignoring these weaker cooldowns, because it was tedious to think about when to use them, or which one to pick. So I made a macro with all these 5 cooldowns in, and when a buff goes down, I press the macro again to get the next one. This way, I don't have much to think about them and I almost always have a basic defensive buff, and I use them on cooldown, so I don't waste their slight buff effect.


In fact, I see these skills as the shield of the warrior: won't save my life, but I'm happy to have one on me.

[Darksword]

I use 2 defensive macros. I call them "Oh Crap! Level ONE" and "Oh crap! Level TWO!"

Level one is:

Thrill of Battle
Vengeance
Convalescense

This is a fantastic macro. You instantly heal 1000+ HP, get higher max HP, take 30% less damage, and are healed for a lot more for several seconds. This is my Diffraction Laser / Cad just hit 6 stacks / I just pulled half the dungeon macro.

Level two is:

Second Wind
Foresight
Featherfoot
Bloodbath
Inner Beast (if up)

This one gives you a minor heal and then stacks a bunch of your little buffs, topping it off with an IB for good measure. This is my GP defense macro, or what I pop if level one in still on CD and I'm getting tagged hard. Follows nicely into Berserk and Overpower spam on large groups of trash.

Aside from that, just always keep Storm's Path up and blow Inner Beast on cooldown.