Warrior Q&A with Ghostcrawler2009-10-17 00:00:00A little late
on this
one too! What with all the time we're spending
on the Profiler combined with some big news we have for next week, and we're a little slower
on the draw than usual this week. But here it is, the Warrior Q&A! Thanks to MasterofDisguise for helping me throw the blog together. I can't comment much
on the actual c
ontent here, Warrior is not a class that I play鈥攖he rage mechanic never really appealed to me, and the interview below indicates the same may be true of the developers! You can read the entire interview after the break, or read the original
one linked below: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/warrior.html Community Team: We鈥檇 like to start things off by asking a questi
on that players often ask in regard to the very purpose of each class. In this case, we鈥檙e looking specifically at warriors, which have been stalwart base for comparis
ons since the start of World of Warcraft. Q: Where do warriors fit into the larger scope of things currently and where do you see them going from this point forward? A: Historically, warriors have always been
one of the most dominant classes in World of Warcraft. In Molten Core and for raids afterwards, warriors were THE tank, no questi
on. DPS warriors could also top the damage meters, and were a very potent PvP force. We think we allowed the warrior class to overshadow some other classes, which is probably to be expected given the ic
onic nature of the plate-wearing fighter in RPGs that l
ong preceded World of Warcraft. We think they are in a fairer place now, in that there is room
on the stage for other classes, yet they are still a very powerful and popular class to play. The warrior class has been a very tricky
one to balance, largely due to the way rage c
onverts into ...
