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04-02-2010, 12:12 PM
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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.
Rage is a broken mechanic.
It's broken in that it allows DPS warriors (well, okay, fury warriors) to do DPS almost equivalent to that of "pure" DPS classes, if the warriors are wearing the absolutely perfectly ideal gear setup and are in an encounter that is absolutely, perfectly suited to them (i.e., one that allows for a lot of Heroic Strike (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=47450) and Cleave (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=47520) spamming with minimal lost time that keeps rage generation down). It's also broken in that it constricts lesser-geared warriors to doing a fraction of equivalent hybrid-class DPS.
Rage is broken in that it starts at zero, forcing a warrior to either take damage or deal white damage to generate rage or use an ability like Bloodrage (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=2687), while other classes start with some or all of their resources and can open up with a powerful ability to start. This makes it far harder for warrior tanks to generate snap aggro and keeps warriors from having any sort of a rotation, forcing them to rely on priority systems instead. Both tanking and DPS warriors tend to find themselves spamming abilities to generate threat/damage, with one of the biggest culprits being Heroic Strike.Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Terror, fear, loathing and rage (http://www.wow.com/2010/04/02/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-terror-fear-loathing-and-rag/)
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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.
Rage is a broken mechanic.
It's broken in that it allows DPS warriors (well, okay, fury warriors) to do DPS almost equivalent to that of "pure" DPS classes, if the warriors are wearing the absolutely perfectly ideal gear setup and are in an encounter that is absolutely, perfectly suited to them (i.e., one that allows for a lot of Heroic Strike (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=47450) and Cleave (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=47520) spamming with minimal lost time that keeps rage generation down). It's also broken in that it constricts lesser-geared warriors to doing a fraction of equivalent hybrid-class DPS.
Rage is broken in that it starts at zero, forcing a warrior to either take damage or deal white damage to generate rage or use an ability like Bloodrage (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=2687), while other classes start with some or all of their resources and can open up with a powerful ability to start. This makes it far harder for warrior tanks to generate snap aggro and keeps warriors from having any sort of a rotation, forcing them to rely on priority systems instead. Both tanking and DPS warriors tend to find themselves spamming abilities to generate threat/damage, with one of the biggest culprits being Heroic Strike.Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Terror, fear, loathing and rage (http://www.wow.com/2010/04/02/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-terror-fear-loathing-and-rag/)
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: Terror, fear, loathing and rage (http://www.wow.com/2010/04/02/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-terror-fear-loathing-and-rag/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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