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09-18-2009, 01:45 PM
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This week, The Care and Feeding of Warriors looks back at the legacy of the Warrior class through the original game and two expansions. Matthew Rossi remembers when Taunt cost rage. Remember that? Makes you shudder, doesn't it?
I don't mean crotchety guys in stained overalls working on your car.
No, what I'm talking about is the foundation of the warrior class itself, those abilities that are holdovers from the very beginning of the game. It's hard to remember sometimes, with a game that changes and flows with time the way WoW has, that things were once very, very different... I still remember when they fixed the bug that kept dodges, parries and blocked attacks from generating any rage (http://www.wowwiki.com/Patch_1.3.0), hoo boy was that one a killer for warriors... and some of our abilities date back to the very beginning of the game or shortly after it. (Pummel was removed (http://www.wowwiki.com/Patch_1.1.0) in patch 1.1.0, for instance, and returned (http://www.wowwiki.com/Patch_1.2.0) in patch 1.2.0, when Maraudon was introduced.) I personally have a very hard time remembering not having Pummel, which is probably because I didn't use Berserker Stance enough before that patch went live. It's even more interesting to note that before patch 1.2.0 Berserker Stance granted a flat 10% melee haste instead of 3% crit, the kind of stat that probably would have had me scratching my head in confusion back then. (I don't scratch my head now, I just kind of grunt softly and bang on the monolith with a bone.)Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Old Mechanics (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/18/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-old-mechanics/)
Filed under: Warrior (http://www.wow.com/category/warrior/), Analysis / Opinion (http://www.wow.com/category/analysis-opinion/), Odds and ends (http://www.wow.com/category/odds-and-ends/), The Burning Crusade (http://www.wow.com/category/burning-crusade/), (Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors (http://www.wow.com/category/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors/), Wrath of the Lich King (http://www.wow.com/category/wrath-of-the-lich-king/), Cataclysm (http://www.wow.com/category/cataclysm/)
The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Old Mechanics (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/18/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-old-mechanics/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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This week, The Care and Feeding of Warriors looks back at the legacy of the Warrior class through the original game and two expansions. Matthew Rossi remembers when Taunt cost rage. Remember that? Makes you shudder, doesn't it?
I don't mean crotchety guys in stained overalls working on your car.
No, what I'm talking about is the foundation of the warrior class itself, those abilities that are holdovers from the very beginning of the game. It's hard to remember sometimes, with a game that changes and flows with time the way WoW has, that things were once very, very different... I still remember when they fixed the bug that kept dodges, parries and blocked attacks from generating any rage (http://www.wowwiki.com/Patch_1.3.0), hoo boy was that one a killer for warriors... and some of our abilities date back to the very beginning of the game or shortly after it. (Pummel was removed (http://www.wowwiki.com/Patch_1.1.0) in patch 1.1.0, for instance, and returned (http://www.wowwiki.com/Patch_1.2.0) in patch 1.2.0, when Maraudon was introduced.) I personally have a very hard time remembering not having Pummel, which is probably because I didn't use Berserker Stance enough before that patch went live. It's even more interesting to note that before patch 1.2.0 Berserker Stance granted a flat 10% melee haste instead of 3% crit, the kind of stat that probably would have had me scratching my head in confusion back then. (I don't scratch my head now, I just kind of grunt softly and bang on the monolith with a bone.)Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Old Mechanics (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/18/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-old-mechanics/)
Filed under: Warrior (http://www.wow.com/category/warrior/), Analysis / Opinion (http://www.wow.com/category/analysis-opinion/), Odds and ends (http://www.wow.com/category/odds-and-ends/), The Burning Crusade (http://www.wow.com/category/burning-crusade/), (Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors (http://www.wow.com/category/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors/), Wrath of the Lich King (http://www.wow.com/category/wrath-of-the-lich-king/), Cataclysm (http://www.wow.com/category/cataclysm/)
The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Old Mechanics (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/18/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-old-mechanics/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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