Japanese to English translation - Discussion Thread

[Rivienne]

My random opinion on the subject of warriors as a borderline okay (but not remotely great) WHM who isn't end game.

Good warriors are the best tanks to work with. They spike damage yes, but that isn't a problem I don't think. They are very consistent about when it happens, and you know it is going to happen and can often your cures timed to hit at the same time.

The other day in Qarn (first successful run in DF) me and 2 Monks waited 20+ minutes for a War to join party in progress. We just ran straight through that dungeon they were on fire. The two (three?) times we wiped it was completely my fault. Same thing happened with Cutter's cry. Same dynamic. They carried me. When we wiped it was all on me. It had nothing to do with the Warrior. I was more or less along for the ride.

Seriously I think people need to sit back and watch the aggro and damage management with warrior without thinking about paladin or the normal group dynamic you have with a paladin. Maybe experiment more with a group that doesn't mind wiping a lot to figure out what works best.

How you heal a warrior is very different than how you heal a paladin, and personally I prefer it thus far. Timing matters a tad more than with paladin, but once you get it down it is amazingly smooth, and it opens up some very interesting group dynamics for different bosses.

That said, MRD especially early on, give a bad impression. They are mushy without any of the mitigating factors for the most part, and part of that I think is everybody is still trying to figure the role out. Once they hit warrior though, by and large, they are really fun to be in a party with.

Anyway! Just my opinion. I am however inexperienced with MMOs (this is my first) and thus am looking at this with entirely fresh eyes, and maybe I don't know what I am talking about, or maybe other people are just biased from bad experiences and expectations in the past.