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.
Warriors only really have one role in groups. That of “Tank”. So while most other classes have a choice of role, and with the ability to have two talent specs, they can swap between them. The only position that Warriors excel at is that of the groups Tank
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.
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.
Of course someone needs to be pouring on the most damage to the enemy you are fighting. While you are at the front getting hammered (and doing some hammering back) the ranged DPS (Damage per second) classes are causing as much damage as possible – normally from well behind you.
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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