Curse

kobar · Sep 25, 2006, 11:16 AM // 11:16

I have been thinking about making a warrior and I am curious about a few things:

1) /mo seems to be both thought of as a good PVE subclass, and yet looked down upon by pretty much the whole community at the same time; why is this?

2) Would /a's teleportation skills for getting to a mob that is beating on the monk quickly be useful, or would I end up breaking the other enemies attention away from me by disappearing like that? Perhaps some of their survivability skills would also come in handy or would I be giving up something important from a more standard sub like monk or ranger.

3) Being an MMO veteran from way back, the lack of specific aggro gaining skills confuses me a little. How exactly does one keep aggro? I understand that a warrior uses pulling to get initial aggro, but how does one keep the squishies in the back from gaining the attention?

4) Any other tidbits of useful information not readily available in the stickies anyone wants to toss my way would be greatly appreciated!

SnipiousMax · Sep 25, 2006, 01:47 PM // 13:47

^ I switch my secondaries like shoes. No sense wearing Timberlands to a wedding.

sgtclarity · Sep 25, 2006, 02:54 PM // 14:54

1. It's a great class choice when used properly. Unfortunately, a warrior that has the capacity to heal support is thought of as a Paladin; a legendary fantasy class that is quite popular. As a result this leads to an influx of excessive amounts of players that have no clue what to do and thus give it an infamous reputation.

2. To be honest, the shadow stepping skills are not necessary in pve. Your monks if decently cohesive and well skilled, should have little to no trouble nullifying damage caused by NPCs. You could certainly make it work, however it won't necessarily make it better or worse than /Mo or /R.

3. In pick up groups, I generally don't advise it. It's just too much of a hassle to try and make people listen who don't know a damn thing about the fragile subject that is agro in GW. Basically, you need to be the first to engage the target. Next, you have to generate enough "threat" to the NPCs in question that their AI establishes you as a primary target. It's after this point that your party members can begin to DPS. But even if all this is followed you can lose agro very easily either by a monk who is repeatedly slinging out 300 point heals, or an elementalisit dishing out 100 damage nukes. And yes, the AI usually drops you and picks up the closest target if you shadow step out.

4. Just look in the "Important Warrior Posts" thread.