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#1 Nov 23 2007 at 9:13 AM Rating: Good
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Kinda cute with a class presentation up top on the class forums, bet it saves a few questions from people who are don't wanna read the FAQ or simply didn't survive RPzip's massive wall of text crit.

Just wounder if its fair to say that a warrior is low on utility and support.

Warriors got among the games best debuffs, don't see any other class being able match the strenght of 5 stacked sunders, thunder clap and demoralizing shout. With talents you can even get the mean Blood Frenzy.

We got a fear handy, its on some cooldowns so you can't spam it, but used right it should be counted as utility and can solve many situations. Got a few options to stun enemies, we can charge around the battle field giving us (unmatched?) mobility.

We also got a buff called battle shout, it is at least par with the blessings from a paladin, just not as flexible.

Ok, maybe all of that should not be counted in Utility and Support, could fit into healing instead? (fear + bandage ftw)

..did I mention hamstring and interupts?
#2 Nov 23 2007 at 4:32 PM Rating: Good
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Warriors have some of the best debuffs in the game yes.

Battle Shout is more ap than BoM. BoM is 202 ap, untalented, 242 ap talented. BS is 305 ap or 381 ap talented. It's just as flexable in different ways. By buffing yourself you buff your close party memebers. None of that class targeting/single target buff Bullsh!t.

The other thing warriors are good at is, DPS DPS DPS DPS DPS DPS DPS. We can tank and dps. We are just as good at it as any other class is, generally speaking. Some would argue we are the best dps class, and I would agree with them. Our abilities are focused around using our gear to the fullest amount. Which means we can suck really really badly, or rock the charts harder than anyone else.

With BT and d/w single target DPS, I've seen many many screenshots of fury warriors taking the cake. Rogues are just as good at DPS, but we have more functionality in raid. We can ALWAYS strap on OT gear and OT an add/mob for a pull. Rogues can do that for 15 seconds at a time.

Sunder is, for the most part, THE best melee DPS debuff in the game. Tclap is THE best debuff of incoming physical damage. Demo shout is an amazing ability that many many warriors underrate terribly, especially for PvE.

Hamstring... more of a PvP ability, but still has it's use's in PvE (mostly leveling).

Think of it this way. With only kara/heroic gear, a DPS war should have 1000+ dps. I'd say higher even. The only thing we lack as a DPS class is a threat dump. And bliz is slowly, ever so slowly, inching it's way towards giving warriors better threat reduction type abilities/talents.
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