10-12-2007, 12:06 AM
You assume for some reason that a fury warrior currently has a bunch of junk talents. A basic fury warrior really only has 5 points of junk, which is parry. If you assume another warrior in the raid has TC, you could consider that another 3 points of junk, so 8 total. You could use those 8 points to pick up axe/sword spec and blood frenzy, with one left over for precision - a total buff of 10%. It's not hard to slip a 10% nerf in somewhere.
Now you have freed people up to make some actual choices, instead of just respecing a couple of times a week. If you wanted to do a little PvP, you could drop precision for intercept, or if you want to solo you could pick up charge.
Well I'll trade you moot point for moot point - Blizzard has made it quite clear that arena's are the future of PvP:P If you take the arena out of it and consider BG's, even more specs become possible - pure holy priests can sit far enough back to not worry about getting focused, bears can run flags, etc.. I don't think the real question is if there is one spec that may seem more pvp oriented to new players, the question is are there specs that are so overwhelmingly good for certain classes that playing any other way is just unreasonable? For warriors, the answer is overwhelmingly yes. 4k SS may make you happy in the pants, but for me fun is progress towards winning, and prot doesn't really cut it.
Now you have freed people up to make some actual choices, instead of just respecing a couple of times a week. If you wanted to do a little PvP, you could drop precision for intercept, or if you want to solo you could pick up charge.
Quote: I didn't mention arenas at all.
And there are ways as a Protection warrior to make PvP fun. (4k Shield Slam crits, even under controlled conditions, are impressive -- at least to me.)
It's pretty moot, anyway -- Blizzard seems to be moving towards the PvP-tree approach, and not away from it.
Well I'll trade you moot point for moot point - Blizzard has made it quite clear that arena's are the future of PvP:P If you take the arena out of it and consider BG's, even more specs become possible - pure holy priests can sit far enough back to not worry about getting focused, bears can run flags, etc.. I don't think the real question is if there is one spec that may seem more pvp oriented to new players, the question is are there specs that are so overwhelmingly good for certain classes that playing any other way is just unreasonable? For warriors, the answer is overwhelmingly yes. 4k SS may make you happy in the pants, but for me fun is progress towards winning, and prot doesn't really cut it.