Comments on: Why people love their warriors

By: Niceas

Niceas — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:41:07 +0000

For me, the reason I love playing my warrior has to do with a: being a gnome, b: wielding two 2handers, c: becomming a spinning top OF DEATH with said 2handers – at about knee-hight to most mobs.

By: /AFK – November 1 « Bio Break

/AFK – November 1 « Bio Break — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:49:35 +0000

[...] Spinks re: WoW – “Warriors are still the most popular class in WoW by a large margin.” [...]

By: Zuckernippel

Zuckernippel — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:18:37 +0000

I think everyone can agree that Rogues are one of the most annoying classes to play against. Well, not for my Prot Warrior. I dueled my GM (Rogue) with just about equal gear and I completely stunlocked him. It was awesome! Shockwave -> Concussion Blow-> Revenge+stun = dead rogue.
Also 8k+ crits through spell reflect is something very enjoyable.

By: We Fly Spitfires

We Fly Spitfires — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:13:44 +0000

I do love my Warrior. So much so that I’ve rolled another Warrior – this time a Horde character. For me the big appeal was always Titan’s Grip. What an awesome ability

By: Why I love my warriors « Achtung Panzercow

Why I love my warriors « Achtung Panzercow — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:23:22 +0000

[...] } The always-readworthy Spinks has an outstanding post up over at Welcome to Spinksville about why people love their warriors. She quotes responses from a post on the Blizzard tanking forums where warriors talk about why [...]

By: Linedan

Linedan — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:00:26 +0000

Well, I agree that it’s not the mechanics. As a tank, I think the Heroic Strike spam-for-threat mechanic is silly, and Shield Block has morphed into some mutant ability that Blizzard is totally confused on what to do with (except remove it, which scares me even more). Although, I do prefer warrior tanking to bear tanking (never tanked on my DK) because warrior tanking feels so much more active and engaged. I’m always hitting some ability, it’s fast-paced.

The appeal of playing a warrior, at least to me, is something more visceral. It’s the look, it’s the sound, it’s the thought of just being the biggest, baddest guy on the field with nothing more than thick steel, big weapons, and your own ability to save you–no magic, no pet, no range, just in-your-face down-and-dirty fighting. It’s that same sort of gladiator appeal that makes movies like “300″ so awesome.

I wrote a RP piece about being a warrior a long time ago and stuck it up as the second post ever over on Achtung Panzercow…it’s here.

By: spinks

spinks — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:11:24 +0000

I think if the same question had been asked nearer the start of the game, a lot of people would have mentioned rage. I remember thinking what a cool mechanic it was when I first started playing.

Just I suppose, after you have played a while, you get to a point where you see the flaws.

By: theerivs

theerivs — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:28:48 +0000

I loved my warrior, and in Vanilla BC when I got that flaming shield. OMG I was hot. Though I got burnt out on tanking after BC…once in a while I do miss him though.

By: kromus

kromus — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:26:18 +0000

I mostly like being able to SMASH and CRASH and BLEEEEDDDD.

And damn they look awesome.

By: Ratshag

Ratshag — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:10:09 +0000

Me take on the subject.