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03-19-2010, 10:05 AM
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The Care and Feeding of Warriors (http://www.wow.com/category/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors/) is about warriors, those lovable, squeezable, strokeable bundles of pure joy who seethe with a burning inner fire, a rage that can only be quenched in blood. Matthew Rossi (http://www.wow.com/bloggers/matthew-rossi/) tries quenching it in delicious caffeinated beverages. You'd be surprised how often that works.
Honestly, believe it or not, I'd actually like to talk about DPS today. My current raiding guild has between three and four regular tanks who show up for most every 25 man raid. As you might expect, you don't need three to four tanks for ICC. At this point in the raid's life cycle, if you have two tanks you can get through most everything except Putricide and maybe Blood Princes. (We have used two tanks and a DPS for this fight, but we usually use our feral tank for it, so three tanks.) Marrowgar at this point can be done by two geared tanks and a plate DPS standing up there mashing away, although to play it safe we usually just use three.
So last night, after tanking Sindragosa, I got to DPS on Arthas, which is fun for a warrior. (Ah, Glyph of Cleaving (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43414), you make up for the mechanical deficiencies of my class.) Then I went and did some stupid fun heroics with a warrior tank, arms warrior, another fury warrior and a resto druid who kept healing in bear form. (I know they can't cast healing spells in bear form. He'd occasionally pop out and throw a HoT on folks. It was pretty much all we needed.) So it wall all sorts of DPS warrior fun last night.
And then I went and read this endlessly exploding threat on tanking (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=23767557794&sid=1&pageNo=12#221) and now I have to talk about it. Why? Well, first off, Ghostcrawler mentions Monte Cook (http://www.montecook.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?malhavoc). That hits all of my nerd buttons. (If only you'd thrown in a plug for Kingmaker (http://paizo.com/pathfinder/v5748btpy8dhc&source=search), Greg.) Secondly, we both hated the old Shield Block mechanic and we both hate the current Heroic Strike one.
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.wow.com/media/2010/02/blizzimg4.jpg Ghostcrawler - Re: Just get rid of dodge and parry altogether
I understand your point, but I hated old Shield Block. It was always the right button to push whenever it came off cooldown. It wasn't an interesting decision - there was no point in saving it for the right moment and no penalty for using it at the wrong time. It's okay to have some relatively spammy buttons, but old Shield Block crossed the line (and current Heroic Strike still does).
source (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=23767557794&sid=1&pageNo=12#221)
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The Care and Feeding of Warriors (http://www.wow.com/category/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors/) is about warriors, those lovable, squeezable, strokeable bundles of pure joy who seethe with a burning inner fire, a rage that can only be quenched in blood. Matthew Rossi (http://www.wow.com/bloggers/matthew-rossi/) tries quenching it in delicious caffeinated beverages. You'd be surprised how often that works.
Honestly, believe it or not, I'd actually like to talk about DPS today. My current raiding guild has between three and four regular tanks who show up for most every 25 man raid. As you might expect, you don't need three to four tanks for ICC. At this point in the raid's life cycle, if you have two tanks you can get through most everything except Putricide and maybe Blood Princes. (We have used two tanks and a DPS for this fight, but we usually use our feral tank for it, so three tanks.) Marrowgar at this point can be done by two geared tanks and a plate DPS standing up there mashing away, although to play it safe we usually just use three.
So last night, after tanking Sindragosa, I got to DPS on Arthas, which is fun for a warrior. (Ah, Glyph of Cleaving (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43414), you make up for the mechanical deficiencies of my class.) Then I went and did some stupid fun heroics with a warrior tank, arms warrior, another fury warrior and a resto druid who kept healing in bear form. (I know they can't cast healing spells in bear form. He'd occasionally pop out and throw a HoT on folks. It was pretty much all we needed.) So it wall all sorts of DPS warrior fun last night.
And then I went and read this endlessly exploding threat on tanking (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=23767557794&sid=1&pageNo=12#221) and now I have to talk about it. Why? Well, first off, Ghostcrawler mentions Monte Cook (http://www.montecook.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?malhavoc). That hits all of my nerd buttons. (If only you'd thrown in a plug for Kingmaker (http://paizo.com/pathfinder/v5748btpy8dhc&source=search), Greg.) Secondly, we both hated the old Shield Block mechanic and we both hate the current Heroic Strike one.
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.wow.com/media/2010/02/blizzimg4.jpg Ghostcrawler - Re: Just get rid of dodge and parry altogether
I understand your point, but I hated old Shield Block. It was always the right button to push whenever it came off cooldown. It wasn't an interesting decision - there was no point in saving it for the right moment and no penalty for using it at the wrong time. It's okay to have some relatively spammy buttons, but old Shield Block crossed the line (and current Heroic Strike still does).
source (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=23767557794&sid=1&pageNo=12#221)
Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Warriors: But hitting buttons is fun! (http://www.wow.com/2010/03/19/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-but-hitting-buttons-is-fun/)
Filed under: Warrior (http://www.wow.com/category/warrior/), (Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors (http://www.wow.com/category/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors/)
The Care and Feeding of Warriors: But hitting buttons is fun! (http://www.wow.com/2010/03/19/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-but-hitting-buttons-is-fun/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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