01-24-2005, 08:02 PM
Spangles is a lvl 50 warrior with an overall efficacy in combat of other classes that are 5 lvls lower.
She has good gear from quest drops, and a modest income from enchanting that lets her train in any of the arms, fury and defensive skills. Her talent points are scattered around, but that can be fixed eventually. She is usually trained to within a point or two of the max for the weapons that she uses at each lvl.
She knew going in that warriors have a bad time of it, but it is discouraging to know that, going into a difficult instance, it will take almost full attention from a healer to keep her alive because she cannot kill quickly enough. She relies too much on her first aid skills, and health potions.
Part of the problem lies with Blizzard, and there is offical recognition of this.
Part of the problem is that nobody seems to know or care how to fight with a warrior. A warrior is supposed to pull and hold the mob, allowing spellcasts and ranged attacks to provide heavy duty dps from behind.
What actually happens is that rogues and hunters assign to themselves the glamorous job of pulling. This takes the mob behind the warrior, who has to run back, reposition, retarget, work up rage, and start swinging. The fight is usually half over by then. The heavy dps is scattered, and directed in front of her where it is not useful to her.
Spangles has no way of convincing the dps monkeys to support her at point, so she has decided to take her place in back. There she can deflect the mob from the healers, who seem to have a special attraction for enemy AI.
She has worked out routines for arms and fury stances, but this job seems to call for defensive stance, and this is a mystery to her. She would greatly appreciate an explanation of how to set up an action bar for defensive stance, and how to use it for this specific mission.
She has good gear from quest drops, and a modest income from enchanting that lets her train in any of the arms, fury and defensive skills. Her talent points are scattered around, but that can be fixed eventually. She is usually trained to within a point or two of the max for the weapons that she uses at each lvl.
She knew going in that warriors have a bad time of it, but it is discouraging to know that, going into a difficult instance, it will take almost full attention from a healer to keep her alive because she cannot kill quickly enough. She relies too much on her first aid skills, and health potions.
Part of the problem lies with Blizzard, and there is offical recognition of this.
Part of the problem is that nobody seems to know or care how to fight with a warrior. A warrior is supposed to pull and hold the mob, allowing spellcasts and ranged attacks to provide heavy duty dps from behind.
What actually happens is that rogues and hunters assign to themselves the glamorous job of pulling. This takes the mob behind the warrior, who has to run back, reposition, retarget, work up rage, and start swinging. The fight is usually half over by then. The heavy dps is scattered, and directed in front of her where it is not useful to her.
Spangles has no way of convincing the dps monkeys to support her at point, so she has decided to take her place in back. There she can deflect the mob from the healers, who seem to have a special attraction for enemy AI.
She has worked out routines for arms and fury stances, but this job seems to call for defensive stance, and this is a mystery to her. She would greatly appreciate an explanation of how to set up an action bar for defensive stance, and how to use it for this specific mission.
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