The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Where the Action is Not

Posted by MichelButeyko on 07 16th, 2009

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The Care and Feeding of Warriors once more shuffles forth clad head to toe in clanking metal, devoid of holy light, harnessed death magic or any of that fancy stuff, to bash things about until they cough up shiny pixels. Matthew Rossi has been bashing things about for their loot since January of 2005. He’ll be doing an analysis of the Warrior Q&A soon, he promises, please don’t stab him with pitchforks. Honestly, I’d like to rant more about how Warrior DPS is still way too low in PvE. Especially since I keep seeing posts on the forums from the blues telling me classes with equal or better DPS are in fact too low. It’s sort of maddening, really. But as much as I’d like to go on a written rampage about encounter design serving as an arbitrary limiter to warrior DPS in Ulduar, and how paradoxically my DPS is at its best on fights that are supposed to be hard mode fights (this week, for instance, my personal highest DPS numbers were recorded on XT – 002′s Heartbreaker mode, where two Warriors including myself finally managed to break the top four and were ahead of the other hybrids) due to the mechanics of those fights actually allowing the warrior some uninterrupted DPS time. But unfortunately, a whole lot has been said about tanking this past week. So as maddening, vexing, downright baffling as I find the encounter design limitations of Warrior DPS in some cases (really, not much can irritate me like knowing my DPS time was broken up by big chunks of having to run away, run around, get out of the way of lightning or exploding seeds or any of the sixteen things Mimiron does that make me unhappy to be alive) that rant’s going to have to stay confined to these opening paragraphs. (For a simulation of what I sound like during a raid, get four angry woodpeckers and have them attack your keyboard while you scream ” Oh, COME ON ” every few seconds and imagine you’re the Gravity Bomb again.) So what happened with tanking this week, you ask? Well, more was said about block , about avoidance , and about tanking specced players as DPS and in PvP . So let’s go over what was said. Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Where the Action is Not Filed under: Warrior , Analysis / Opinion , News items , Instances , Raiding , Bosses , Buffs , (Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors , Forums The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Where the Action is Not originally appeared on WoW.com on Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink