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Ode to the Sword and Board

It took me a very, very long time to warm up to warriors. I rolled several that never made it to level 30, then Kezeyah came along and she made it to level 62 before I grew tired of the character concept and had to retire her – that toon was recustomized and became Matojo, who originally was a Hunter. I also had Ojore, who was paired with another character but, due to scheduling conflicts, the partnership was dropped and Ojo has languished for quite a while, inactive, ’til I recently changed him to a Protection warrior.

… And now I have several warriors scattered over three servers.

I don’t know what it is, I never used to like the class, but mechanics changes over the past three years have made leveling them fun. The warrior is my favourite tanking class, followed by Death Knight, Druid, then Paladin and it’s one of the classes that I can level, and level, and level without growing tired of it.

On Thorium Brotherhood I have Matojo (76), Ojore (49) and Briske (10). On Moon Guard, it’s Daniil (10). Then there’s Zul’jin’s Tecila who, at the time of typing this article, is level 12 and steadily climbing.

I love the variety of tools that I have that I can use to grab and hold aggro. Sure, I lack the sheer number of AoE effects of the Death Knight, but once something sticks to me it’s still extremely difficult to peel it off. Matojo, as he is currently geared, hardly takes any damage – hell, he was able to finish off the last 30% or so of that Lich boss in Gundrak without a healer and with careful timing of his cooldowns – and his priorities and rotations just seem to come naturally to me.

Really, it’s like Warrior was the class that I was meant to play, but it took me my entire playtime to figure it out.

So, Warriors, I salute you! You are awesome and you should feel awesome.

My Other Mount is a Troll, Tank Talk, WHARRGARBL | admin | February 13, 2010 10:11 pm

2 Comments

By Askevar, February 14, 2010 @ 12:41 pm

I just finished leveling my warrior and I have absolutely no desire to repeat the experience. It seemed agonizingly slow to me [I leveled prot]. Props to those who enjoy it. We have one active warrior in our guild, and we just got him as a regular raider. They definitely bring something worthwhile to the table.
By Ceirin, February 18, 2010 @ 2:02 am

/agree

I’m generally a ranged class type, so I’d never tried warrioring. Almost did with BC, but elves couldn’t be warriors and I wanted an elf, so…another hunter!

Started a Tauren warrior last night, and man this is fun. I’m looking forward to leveling and seeing what else this class can do. Cow smash~