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Wow ranting disguised as a ramble
Feb. 12th, 2008 06:20 pmOk, the debate rages and everyone still refuses to see that I am right :p
Let’s talk dps warriors - arms/fury or any combination of the 2. We are sadly glutted with the damn things and I say sadly because I really really don’t see the point of them. No-one has ever successfully told me why I should want a dps warrior over any other dps - they always give me 2 answers:
The first is the most pathetic: “They do good damage.”
Well duh. They’re dps. That is what they do. So do rogues, mages, warlocks, feral and balance druids, hunters, shadow priests, shamans and even Retridins (well, kinda). That is what dps classes do. I don’t notice dps warriors doing significantly more damage than the others (though threat? Threat they have in spades!) But all the others come with something else - buffs, conjured items, crowd control, interesting debuffs, back up healing - y’know, something. The dps warrior? Doesn’t. Not really.
The second false reason: “We’re tougher than other dps.”
Ok, again kinda. They are tougher and that matters... in a normal instance. Or maybe some of the easier heroics. In a raid? Honey, you can flounce away with your shiny metal armour because if you’re not a tank the mobs are going to cut through you like a hot knife through butter anyway. Saying “hey, we’re as fragile as wet cardboard” IS technically better than saying “we’re as fragile as wet newspaper” but when High king Maulgar’s trying to demonstrate his skills as an interesting new kitchen utensil on your sorry corpse it doesn’t make that much difference.
Can I also get a great big “Die in Fire” for prot warriors who respec fury AFTER we’ve dragged their useless metal arse up and down Karazhan a thousand times to get them good tanking gear?
Can I make that fire a little bigger to fit in all the other dps warriors who INSIST they’ll respec prot as soon as they get the gear, need on all the gear and are STILL waving around a damn double handed whammy sword of extra agro-doom?
Let’s talk dps warriors - arms/fury or any combination of the 2. We are sadly glutted with the damn things and I say sadly because I really really don’t see the point of them. No-one has ever successfully told me why I should want a dps warrior over any other dps - they always give me 2 answers:
The first is the most pathetic: “They do good damage.”
Well duh. They’re dps. That is what they do. So do rogues, mages, warlocks, feral and balance druids, hunters, shadow priests, shamans and even Retridins (well, kinda). That is what dps classes do. I don’t notice dps warriors doing significantly more damage than the others (though threat? Threat they have in spades!) But all the others come with something else - buffs, conjured items, crowd control, interesting debuffs, back up healing - y’know, something. The dps warrior? Doesn’t. Not really.
The second false reason: “We’re tougher than other dps.”
Ok, again kinda. They are tougher and that matters... in a normal instance. Or maybe some of the easier heroics. In a raid? Honey, you can flounce away with your shiny metal armour because if you’re not a tank the mobs are going to cut through you like a hot knife through butter anyway. Saying “hey, we’re as fragile as wet cardboard” IS technically better than saying “we’re as fragile as wet newspaper” but when High king Maulgar’s trying to demonstrate his skills as an interesting new kitchen utensil on your sorry corpse it doesn’t make that much difference.
Can I also get a great big “Die in Fire” for prot warriors who respec fury AFTER we’ve dragged their useless metal arse up and down Karazhan a thousand times to get them good tanking gear?
Can I make that fire a little bigger to fit in all the other dps warriors who INSIST they’ll respec prot as soon as they get the gear, need on all the gear and are STILL waving around a damn double handed whammy sword of extra agro-doom?