Sakuragi's Warrior Guide

[ctechguy]

Originally Posted by Efwan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm sure Sakuragi will probably have more of a political answer to this feedback, but I'd like to kind of point out something from playing many warriors from 99-present. Warriors do not become real warriors until 40ish. To be honest classic warriors were shafted aggro skills until that level. The life of a low-mid level warrior can be tough, yes you will be able to take more damage than anyone, but it's up to your group to learn how to not draw aggro off of you. Good warriors can, however, basically teach dps and healers how to master this. For instance, I personally would tell my groups not to attack until told to do so (normally after I've done some hitting, 90-95%, depending on the mob) and the same went for the raids I tanked/led. Obviously raid mobs wouldn't go down 5% quickly, thus raid would attack at 98 or so, but back in the day taunt worked a bit differently than people see now, but I won't go into all that.

I appreciate your reply. I've never played a Warrior, and I like the insight on aggro and the ability to take damage as a tank.

The OP has an excellent write up on the class, particularly in regards to technical details.

I hope to get a chance to eventually roll one.

[webrunner5]

I know it takes a DAMN good Warrior to do it but it is better if the Warrior is the puller in a group. They have agro to start with unless some dumb caster casts a spell on the mob. I know sometimes a healer has to heal no matter what on a pull.

But Warriors are made to be beat on from start to finish. That is their job. Makes a healers life heaven if that happens. I see a lot of Warriors on here having too good of weapons instead of sort of crap weapons that kind of hold agro. Killer DPS is NOT their job. Not till really high levels.

[jpetrick]

Originally Posted by webrunner5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I know it takes a DAMN good Warrior to do it but it is better if the Warrior is the puller in a group. They have agro to start with unless some dumb caster casts a spell on the mob. I know sometimes a healer has to heal no matter what on a pull.

If you have a good monk and a good warrior, the monk will either be flopping aggro directly onto the tank or having the tank tag mobs.