Post by New Admin on Mar 15, 2005 12:32:09 GMT -5
For those who dont know, Warrior in not a rogue!! Every warrior tries to spec Offensive so they can do great damage. But warriors are tanks (meat shields) and they do it better then any other class.
Defensive spec warriors get so many beautiful moves. First lets start with Anticipation. It gives 2 defense per rank up to 5 ranks. Thats 10 defense.
Defense makes you harder to hit and makes monsters less likely to land a crushing blow.
Next we will talk about Shield Specialization. Raises your chance to block 1% per rank with up to 5 ranks.
Thats a 5% higher chance to block. That should take your block up to about 10%.
Block uses STR as a way to lower the amout of damage taken. The higher your STR the more damage you can block and sometimes you cam make an attack do 0 damage.
I loved blocking before the patch, but now after the patch they made it better and worse. The way it is now it blocks all damage from "on next attack" hits no matter your STR. They are fixing that so damage is blocked normal. The good thing they are doing is making Block/Dodge/Parry give you rage. Defensive warriors will be able to get crazy amounts of rage when fighting more then 1 monster. Ill tell you how in another part.
Next we will talk about Improved Bloodrage. It lowers the health cost to do bloodrage. This can be very helpful to get that extra rage needed before or mid battle. And with the lower HP cost you can spam it every 1 min and it not hurt you to much. This is very good for tanking and you need rage to keep guys made at you by debuffing them and stuff.
Next we will talk about Improved Revenge. This move is one of my fave. First rank gives Revenge a 20% chance to stun and the next 2 ranks give you another 10% each. So you end up with revenge having a 40% chance to stun. You can only use revenge after a block/dodge/parry and it only cost 5 rage. This move is amazing and it stuns for 2 sec and I love it more then anything.
Improved Taunt is also something a defensive warrior should look into. Takes 1 sec off the cooldown of taunt and has 2 ranks. So you get 2 sec off the cooldown of taunt. This gives it an 8 sec timer. For those not sure when and where to taunt here is a little info.
Taunt is best used on the guys you are NOT fighting. While you are in a party you may get and add. You are the tank and mostlikely you have got the monster you are fighting pretty mad at you already. So run up to the add and taunt him. This will keep him off the mages and healers. You may be taking more damage now but its a LOT less damage then the cloth and leather classes would. Remember this also helps you get rage. I will go into this more later in the post.
Now on to another of my fave skills. Shield Block, it raises your chance to block by 75% for 5 sec but only blocks 1 attack. At only 1 attack blocked it still very nice but check this out. Improved Shield Block adds .5 sec to shield block and allows it to block another attack. There are 3 ranks of this and in the end will wllow you to block 4 attacks in 7 sec. This is an amazing move. Once we start getting rage for blocking just think of this as another bloodrage. And after you are done using this to block just use revenge and there is a 40% chance to stun.
So far all these tools are making it very hard to do any real damage to a warrior.
(I will finish this later.)
Defensive spec warriors get so many beautiful moves. First lets start with Anticipation. It gives 2 defense per rank up to 5 ranks. Thats 10 defense.
Defense makes you harder to hit and makes monsters less likely to land a crushing blow.
Next we will talk about Shield Specialization. Raises your chance to block 1% per rank with up to 5 ranks.
Thats a 5% higher chance to block. That should take your block up to about 10%.
Block uses STR as a way to lower the amout of damage taken. The higher your STR the more damage you can block and sometimes you cam make an attack do 0 damage.
I loved blocking before the patch, but now after the patch they made it better and worse. The way it is now it blocks all damage from "on next attack" hits no matter your STR. They are fixing that so damage is blocked normal. The good thing they are doing is making Block/Dodge/Parry give you rage. Defensive warriors will be able to get crazy amounts of rage when fighting more then 1 monster. Ill tell you how in another part.
Next we will talk about Improved Bloodrage. It lowers the health cost to do bloodrage. This can be very helpful to get that extra rage needed before or mid battle. And with the lower HP cost you can spam it every 1 min and it not hurt you to much. This is very good for tanking and you need rage to keep guys made at you by debuffing them and stuff.
Next we will talk about Improved Revenge. This move is one of my fave. First rank gives Revenge a 20% chance to stun and the next 2 ranks give you another 10% each. So you end up with revenge having a 40% chance to stun. You can only use revenge after a block/dodge/parry and it only cost 5 rage. This move is amazing and it stuns for 2 sec and I love it more then anything.
Improved Taunt is also something a defensive warrior should look into. Takes 1 sec off the cooldown of taunt and has 2 ranks. So you get 2 sec off the cooldown of taunt. This gives it an 8 sec timer. For those not sure when and where to taunt here is a little info.
Taunt is best used on the guys you are NOT fighting. While you are in a party you may get and add. You are the tank and mostlikely you have got the monster you are fighting pretty mad at you already. So run up to the add and taunt him. This will keep him off the mages and healers. You may be taking more damage now but its a LOT less damage then the cloth and leather classes would. Remember this also helps you get rage. I will go into this more later in the post.
Now on to another of my fave skills. Shield Block, it raises your chance to block by 75% for 5 sec but only blocks 1 attack. At only 1 attack blocked it still very nice but check this out. Improved Shield Block adds .5 sec to shield block and allows it to block another attack. There are 3 ranks of this and in the end will wllow you to block 4 attacks in 7 sec. This is an amazing move. Once we start getting rage for blocking just think of this as another bloodrage. And after you are done using this to block just use revenge and there is a 40% chance to stun.
So far all these tools are making it very hard to do any real damage to a warrior.
(I will finish this later.)
