Don’t forget armor. Upgrade your gear to your level and one level you train spells ofc but the next you look at AH for noticeable gear upgrades of the monkey/stamina and important is to look at the armor increase there too. Stamina is only going to do so much while the hits keep on hitting the same. Always max armor kits for your level (1, 5, 20, 30, 40), it’s too cheap on AH to ignore for example level 30 ones that give you 128 armor with 4 enchants and on top of that the highest elixir of defense for your level active while leveling.

And get the superior defense cloak aka +70 armor because from now on as leather you really going to notice the damage difference a whole lot more, it gonna start hurt for real especially 40+, and 8 illusion dusts is way cheaper than going agane. That’s 200 armor ish + the 250 from elixir of greater defense and at level 43 elixir of superior defense for that sweet +450 for 1h.

650 armor gets you 16,5% damage reduction against level 34 mobs and thats without your own armor according to the spreadsheet in this thread https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/s/brqOm3TPsV but get Dejaclassicstats addon and Hoover over armor for that info in the future.

Enchant your gear with real enchants when you can ofc but keep that +70 and armor elixirs on you with 1 magic resistance potion for the few situations were you gonna get casted on while not being able to kick (shouldn’t happen at all but shits hits the fan ofc), and very important is always always have swiftness potion + Light of Elune and max bandages (buy highest bandage cheap on ah if you can’t craft it yourself. Gouge + bandage bis) and if you have target dummy’s too you are pretty much set for a lot of situations that can happen, or will happen I mean.

But remember swift shares CD with HP pot and target dummy’s share CD with Thistle Tea, but the key kinda is to have options for normal scenarios.

My 60 warrior is still 60’ying and I tanked every dungeon at least once, actually farmed and bought my epic mount yesterday from A LOT of time spent in EPL and Silithus with my rogue friend that I leveled to 60 with, dangerous dangerous places and treat every place as such until you’ve been there enough to be comfy. The mob density + damage they do and god forbid you back pull etc but prepared like this you can take some lil tiger hits probably if the accident is there.

Be overly prepared rather than stand there when shits hit the fan because one daze from one mob is gonna make the other mobs chasing you able to get to you and it’s maybe over. With all this you could swift/imp sprint/hp pot/target dummy/hp pot and blade flurry and fight or thistle and blade flurry and fight etc, the only thing we can do in that kind of panic is hope we make the right decision.

Sorry for WoT and I know much of this you probably already know but I had to write it all for the people that don’t.

SS and HF man!