Need warrior info.

[boubou]

Can any mid veteran give me information on warriors. For the groups that BWC will run, will they be more to protect the healers, or to be the main assist. Are they still necessary or are people only using savage these days to make damage.

Let me know what is prefered race, spec, weapon type etc.

For damage I would go Troll, its too bad cause I always like the little kobolds.

Spec I read on was 50/50/28 parry.

Not sure what is best weapon, will probably stun shield like crazy.

[Supreem]

well from my experience warriors are usually in the assist train (unless they have BG but well...) Most warriors go Troll because they do the most damage... 50/50/28 is pretty much the only way to go. For weapon noone really uses Axe (the 50 style sucks) most use Sword but a few go Hammer. Anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

EDIT: another reason warriors go troll is because they are big and if you are a warrior you want to get targeted alot to save your casters. Of course only the dumb people will target you first but they are out there =)

[Grumpy]

to answer your question about who is gonna be the ma, its going to be the most skilled melee class in the 8 man, if thats a savage, zerker, or warrior is irrelivant. it wont be a skald cause they commonly end up doing cleanup and defencive work with mezz/snare

[boubou]

I read post about the Mid Bwc group set up and it said

1 Warrior
2 DPS

So I thoght that the warrior had a particular job, and I wanted to know what it was, I personally though it was to lead the melee train.

Maybe its to defend the casters, I dont know. I was trained to kill mids, not to be one, so I need to unlearn and relearn

[Augomatic]

Warrior is needed mostly for the stun, since the only other class that gets shield stun in mid is the Thane, and well, those aren't too well liked.

I played a 50 warr in RvR/PvE for awhile, and they are a solid class, though a little routine.

Two real specs you can go:

50 weap/50 shield/28 parry

Highest shield stun, but its based off a block, and uses HUGE end. You'll have a bit better chance of landing slam though.

50 weap/42 shield/39 parry

Bit better defence, but you lose some WS landing your stun. From what I've seen, this is more for a higher RR tank.

All 3 weapon types are pretty decent. Axe has some great block/parry chains (.90 growth rate on first hit), but you have to be really quick to get them off w/ a 2H (block w/ shield, switch to 2H and hit style). It also has a pretty good frontal style chain. It has a lot of bleed styles which some people don't like, because it makes your target unCC'able for low damage.

Sword has Ragnarok, which does great damage, plus Drawout, which is probably the best anytime style (easy to use).

Hammer is a low end user, and has the HUGE damage back chain. Biggest problem is alb/hib support is resistant to crush, so going slash(hammer/axe) might be better.

[Grumpy]

that list was writtin in that manner purely to clarify that a warrior would be acceptable, seen as traditionally the melee dd classes are savage/zerk merc and bm, without bg the only special purpose they have is that if ppl deceide to attack them they tend to live a bit longer due to blocking and better armor. i will be burning the stun timer right away so slam isnt going to be of much use in a majority of cases.

[Supreem]

you would think with pac healers in the group most of the enemy group would have their stun timers most of the fight but when i played my thane on merlin i found the shield slam to be incredibly usefull

[Winke]

I was 50/42/39

[Tingtong]

^^--- Best spec IMO

[Grumpy]

thats cause your healer was a noob preem dont worry, i knwo wtf im doing, we wont need slam cause everyone is gonna die so damn fast, specifically that shit talkin hib guy, im gonna sick josh on him!

[Winke]

I was the #3 warrior on Merlin, I know what I am doing.

Winke

[Tingtong]

but you never could be better then Godorn...


How does that make you feel?

gimp

[Grumpy]

i was the best healer on merlin when i was playing there, thats cause i know how to cc ppl i didnt see too many groups owning 40 albs at once with 2 active players.

[Sectoid]

I was the best lurikeen champion in de worldz.

[Winke]

Godorn played way too much for me to catch up to him.

Winke