Warcraft Class Guide. A Beginners Guide to Playing a Warrior.
It’s common for new players to pick Warrior as the first character class they try. Early in the game this can be a decent choice. The warrior class is relatively simple to play for the first few levels. However, once you reach end game, or start doing instances and dungeons in groups, it takes on a whole new aspect.
There is only really one role for a Warrior in a group. That is “Tank”. Whereas most other character classes have a choice of role, the Warrior is dedicated to this one.
A tank is someone who is prepared to stand toe-to-toe with the biggest baddest foe in the room and take everything he chucks at you. And survive.
In a group A Warriors role in Warcraft is not really to cause the most damage, it is to absorb it. This gives time for the other group members to do two major jobs.
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.
In larger raids there will also be players who will be assigned to CC (Crowd control). Making sure that any minions that the main boss has are not distracting the group from the job in hand. Keeping those quiet using traps and spells to freeze, slow or morph the enemies that might be looking to distract you from the main boss.
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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