The Warrior is very often the first class chosen by new players to Warcraft. To begin with it seems a simple class to play. But under the hood the Warrior is in fact a very specialist class indeed.
Playing a Warrior in a group of players, you need to understand your role. Warriors in groups have only once real role to play, that of “tank”.
A Tank’s job is to stand at the front and take on the biggest enemy in the room in a melee Absorbing the anger and damage that the main threat to the group is throwing at you. And of course surviving
The Warrior is not really as damage causing class. In a raid your job will be to absorb damage. It’s about being the spearhead of the team. Others behind you will perform the other two main roles.
Your allies need to keep you healed. The groups healers will focus on the tank and make sure you are constantly being healed. Some of the elite foes can cause massive damage very quickly.
Then of course there are the damage dealers. Often ranged classes, capable of standing back and sending out massive amounts of damage. These classes are not built to withstand damage like the tank, but they can certainly dish it out. They are often termed DPS (Damage per second) classes.
If the raid is a large one you will have other roles as well. “Off tanks” whose job it is to take threat off secondary enemies that are too much of a threat and need to be dealt with. Also “CC” classes – crowd control. These players have talents that freeze, stun, morph or otherwise manage to keep groups of the enemy from being able to co-ordinate.
In summary, “tanking” is the main role of a warrior. Take on the biggest enemy. For that you need very high stamina and massive amounts of plate armor. You use “threat” to make sure that the baddest mobs in the room target you.
Despite what you may initially think, Warriors are a very difficult class to play end game. Without the luxury of having different roles to play in a raid, you are always going to be a tank. Standing up to the toughest mobs you can find. Still feel up to it?
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