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Tiamant 
Guild Member
Total Posts: 306
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| 03/08/2006 1:55 PM |
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I've got a Fury Warrior now, doing excellent against the general grinding mobs. Level 45, averaging 125 dps or so, with spikes as high as 200 dps (darn that 25% miss rate). Yes, tanking with this build is 100% entirely possibly, and I have tanked 3-4 elites same-level at once, but it was never my goal. Afterall, rage spent to gain aggro is less rage spent to dps. What I'd like ideally is to be able to deal 200-300 dps consistently in MC while having little downtime or healing needs.
I have several questions regarding this type of warrior for both pre-1.10 and post. Given that we've moved into end-game raiding will warrior slots be reserved for the "tanking" warriors only, or will dps warriors be welcomed? Secondly, I'd like to hear opinions about the high-end instances being regulated to 5-man only and your thoughts on the placement of Fury warriors.
To me, it seems like Blizzard has ignored the hybrid classes in favor of the holy trinity when designing an ideal party for these types of runs post-1.10, especially because some of the quests to obtain the upgraded teir 0 sets are timered. From what I hear, you've got to blow through UD Strat in 45 mins to complete the quest. Why use a slot for a dps warrior when a rogue or hunter can do it using lesser quality gear and be more effective? Same can be said of a paladin or druid occupying a healing slot over a priest. |
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Trefalgar
Pie Paragon
Council Member
Total Posts: 4160
Location: Atlanta, GA
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| 03/08/2006 2:40 PM |
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It's a good honest question. I don't know that I really know the answer completely. It seems to me that any warrior can tank. From my limited knowledge, it has more to do with having lots of +def gear and being skilled than being purely a Protection Spec warrior, although that helps with damage mitigation.
I would guess that nobody is really going to know what your talent template is most of the time, they just care about you filling a role in the group. For warriors, that will almost always ne tanking first and DPS is a much lower secondary group contribution.
I can compare it to Shadow Priests. That is a topic I am very familiar with. Shadow Priests can pump out some serious single target damage. They can also heal. A shadow spec priest can easily hide out in Molten Core raids with nobody knowing their talents. They won't be as good for playing the main healer on boss fights as divine or holy priests, but they can still heal very good. I have never ever ever seen a raid group look for a shadow priest or purposely give up a mage or warlock slot to a shadow priest that wanted to only do DPS and not heal. Priests are expected to heal in raids. Period. End of Story. Right or wrong that is everyone else's perception of priests and what raid leaders expect from them.
I am guessing the same applies to endgame raiding. Warriors will be expected to tank. In our SLACK team there are plenty of players to fill the raids, so the raid leaders are going to pick the primary classes to work in their primary raiding roles. They will have plenty of rogues to fill rogue slots, so they will probably not pick fury warriors to fill rogue slots. They won't pick Retribution paladins instead of warriors. They won't pick shadow priests instead of mages. They won't pick feral druids instead of rogues. On and on, you get the picture. You can probably get in regardless of your talents as long as you do your assigned role in the raid. |
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