More advice needed

External Since: Jan 07, 2005 Posts: 1091

I think it was Catriona R <catrionarNOSPAM DeleteThis @totalise.co.uk> that wrote
something like...

>>And as a bit of a side question, what is it with warriors as tanks, anyway?
>>I hardly ever see a warrior being played these days. Usually the tanks are
>>either feral druids or warlocks with a Voidwalker out, or in some cases a
>>paladin. No warriors. What gives?
>
>As others have said, warriors can't do very much as prot outside of groups,
>while feral druids can solo fine and prot paladins can solo well given the
>right mobs (forget it on casters, but get a bunch of melee mobs and aoe
>killing is very fun indeed)

I was going to say a heap, but stuff it.
Prot warriors can solo fine, just slowly. It might depend on your
personality, but they can be just as much fun, if not more, to play
than any other class. Certainly was more interesting than my frost
mage until I respecced to an AoE frost build.
(though they can be discouraging if you try and take on mobs a few
levels higher than yourself while still undergeared, even though you
were able to do that with your other classes.)

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External Since: Dec 17, 2007 Posts: 44

I think the problem with some retadins in groups is that, as a paladin, most
people want to think of you as healer-in-a-can. When in fact, as a retadin,
you're more like a druid with high defense instead of catform stealth, able
to do the tanking with Righteous Fury and Consecrate, able to do healing
when you're not on the front line, and able to put a large amount of damage
on a foe when needed. The thing is that you're never going to be the Main
Anything unless your group is really hurting. You're the Jack of All
Trades, master of none.

This I'm fine with. I know my role in a party is as the off-tank,
off-healer, off-DPS. I tend to stay loose in the group, acting where I'm
needed. Main tank having problems? Pop the Righteous Fury, wade in and
rescue him, keep the aggro on me while the tank is being healed. Main
healer out of mana in the middle of the fight? Help out with my own spells.

Retadins have a place in any group, but you just have to make sure all your
main bases are covered. Then they're like any other 'off' class -- hunters.
druids, shamans and so on. (Yes, I know the phrase 'but a <fill in the
blank> can <fill in the blank> just as easily as a <fill in the blank> can'.
But often they're not geared for doing exactly that. At L70, sure, you can
afford to specialize. But getting to L70 is the problem here.)

-Jobbles