I'm rather new to this game, only played it for a few hours on a warrior. It looks like a very good game. I was hoping somebody could give me a piece of wisdom though. The question is simply how the playing style of warror (especially compared to other tanking classes). I've read many posts about tanking classes vs each other, but all of them rather concern which is best/worst. I'm not asking about who is best, but rather the playing style since this is what is important for me in order to have fun. I'm used to WoW warrior tanking, and especially in vanilla + The Burning Crusade I found warrior tanking very amusing, very entertaining. So I'm basically looking for the tanking class that replicates this playing/tanking style. As I understand it Warrior's in VG tank with two weapons as opposed to the Paladin whom uses a shield. I don't know how important the shield is in VG, but in WoW Warrior tanking I had many abilities that was bound to the shield and I liked that, so I wondered if the VG Paladin was actually more like the WoW warrior tanking style. So my question is really, should I pick a Warrior or Paladin. I could try both but I haven't got a lot of playing time available so I'd rather pick the right one in the first attempt
The Paladin is still the top tank in regards to Vanguard, however I play a Warrior and absolotly love it, its my second favourite class to my main Rogue. They excel in the group environment, due to having special orders and shouts that give the rest of you and your group short term benifits such as 100% crit chance and +25% damage aswell as other defensive orders and shouts. You also get aura buffs which can be maintained and give your group a permenant buff. Recently Warriors got a revamp to the class dynamic, with increased hatred in defensive stance aswell as an overhaul of some of the abilities. This has made the Warrior class a solid tank for many situations. It will be hard to solo as a Warrior, as they lack self healing abilities, but if you know how to pick and choose your fights, you can still solo viably. DPS wise, Warriors can hold decent dps if the right rotation and use of shouts and orders at the correct times. I have played all 3 tank classes, and still find myself longing for my Warrior when playing the other 2.
if you're familiar with vanilla wow, the vg warrior is similar to the fury dual wield spec minus the rage aspect.
paladin might be the best tank, warrior is by far the most all round tank. paladin has no aoe skills to build aggro on multiple mob pulls. he neess to manually switch target to each mob and build some aggro on them. tedious, not immersive and plain stupid. i'd play paladin again if they'd add some aoe. anyways. warrior is great tank in groups for his added bonuses to the group. 1. warrior can cast a run speed skill on the entire group that makes the whole group run fast from one mob to another. 2. he can cast +X% damage to melee/ranged/spell damage every x seconds (best to macro these skills). 3. he can debuff mitigation on a mob with armor rend, increasing the damage everyone does overall, speeding kills up. 4. he kan kick mobs in the groin. no kidding. its even the best skill to get a critical hit (which opens oppurtunities for the critical finisher skill chain skills) 5. he is MADE for grouping. he can't solo anything decently. take that in mind. 6. when **** hits the fan and you pull 5+ 4 dot mobs, warrior can taunt them and aoe melee them in split second. a paladin can't do it easily. usually all the light casters are dead before he does. 7. warrior has a skill that can hit 3 mobs at once. he is best aoe tank, if played right warrior just taunts all mobs and there is no crowd control needed. which adds versatility in group setups. i can go on.. one example. /cast "taunt I" /cast "barrage" /cast "myrmidon's gift" /cast "press the attack" /reactionchain 1 /reactioncounter 1 /cast "kick I" /cast "sunder I" is a basic aoe aggro build macro. it has the +% damage shouts in it as well as the skill that lets you crit a skill to open up the finisher line. if you want more macro's for a warrior: just pm me.
I enjoy my warrior immensely. I'm even one of the few warriors who continued to play my warrior through the hard times instead of rolling up a paladin. Paladins still wins hands down when it comes to tanking and absorbing damage, but in terms of agro and utility all the tanks are pretty well balanced. DKs need a couple tweaks and things will be close to perfect balance. However, I find my warrior to be far more fun to play than the other two. Just don't try to solo a lot. The warrior just seems to have a more 'active' playstyle I guess. I'm not sure if that's really accurate but it just feels that way to me is all. I'm always spamming buttons and skills, buffs, chains, taunts. I don't use macros really (the kind you just spam constantly), so playing the warrior really keeps me engaged. Plus, I can throw on a few pieces of dps gear when I'm not tanking and crank out some pretty respectable dps.
paladin is best for raiding tanking sure. but nothing can beat a warrior for lvl 1 to 50 group tanking in my honest opinion, for the reason mentioned above. but i do agree that paladin is superior to warrior for raid tanking in many ways, since its usually just ONE mob. although i doubt he actually has higher mitigation ad block then a warrior.. or is it cause paladin gets free resists versus spells or so end game? never played one till 55.
It sounds like the warrior is the class I'm looking for. Active playstyle and busy button pressing is exactly what I love about tanking. Thanks a lot for the replies.
verkoop wrote: Not so much via stats, but their ability set gives them a few more tools to use defensively. Multiple invulns being the most obvious, but other factors as well. The difference isn't huge or anything.
with the recent changes, i now play my warrior whenever i get the chance rather than keep him chained to the forge.
