#6
by Somber
Warriors miss out on dps for a few of reasons. First, dl/edl armour doesn’t give elemental damage like rogue and ranger armour. Thats free damage for them. Unless you’ve got DG pieces, warriors are behind the dps game when it comes to armour. Secondly, two of the better dps weapons for chaos/non chaos mobs require a slash lure to bring warrior dps back up to par. EDL sword on chaos mobs with its decent damage and divine procs, and shadow+ Gele axes elsewhere. Better auto damage, and decent speed with an axe, but doesn’t hit like it should due to low chance of a slash lure.
Third, no true offhand DPS quest weapon. Sure the dl/edl shield adds divine damage, but both ranger and rogue offhand offer divine damage and really good skills that come with them.
Unfortunately otm kinda had one direction in mind with warriors....tanking. Don’t get me wrong, warrior dps is decent overall, but decent doesn’t mean fantastic.
If OTM were to branch out and make classes more dynamic there’d be a lot more happier customers. If they’d create more options for quest weapons or divine type offhand we’d be singing a different tune.
I’d love to see some variations/adaptations of classes from other games.
Warriors I could see:
barbarian, specializing in heavy blunt/axe/2 handed swords, dishing hard hitting autos with a bit slower weapons
paladin, kind of your traditional tank with some minor healing ability and self buffs
shadow knight, similar to paladin but more dps/hybrid, uses a shield but has offensive abilities
duellist, specialist in 2 handed swords
Now that would add quite a few new skills to warriors alone, but would allow for a variety of builds, choices and open up a whole plethora of fun. Each “class” type would have unique skills that can only be used with certain weapons etc. not necessarily a skill tree like in OaC, but adding new weapons/skills to the game.
My 216 warrior currently is:
Full edl
Dark champions helm
Imp str vit def Proto bracer
Imp armour attack melee hrung bracer
2 handed hammer
Imp blunt Necro ring x2
Royal blunt Necro ring x2
Skain frost charm
190 poacher ammy
Level 6 grey bear and level 6 silver chicken
Kind of a weird build, but it works for my needs. With that I have the following:
7876 with frenzy
4400 damage
3300 defense
1800 str
9.5k defense
I run rupture, shatter, pummel, frenzy, taunt atm. Taunt because I sometime trilog mini bosses and tank in a jam. Eventually when I get EDL shield I’ll drop something to run shield bash as well.