Filed under: Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, News items, Cataclysm
Sorry if you were desperately hoping for a discussion of leveling, but with the new Cataclysm beta and the lifting of the NDA, we have details -- Finally, glorious details! It"s been so long! -- to discuss about where the class is going. While there are not actually a lot of new talents to discuss, a great many talents have been altered in order to fit with the new design elements. Safeguard, for instance, isn"t useless; it"s practically mandatory. You"re not going to want to take it ... That intervene effect more or less fits the definition of "useless" still ... But you"ll need to take it for the crit immunity. This is the way of things for quite a few changes with Cataclysm. You may like them, or you may hate them, but you have to deal with them either way.
I"m going to drop my usual attempt at detachment and be up front going into this. I like some of the changes a lot. I hate others. I am not unbiased about what"s coming. How could I be? I"ve been playing warriors for over five years now. I love the class, and I"m never giving it up no matter what comes down the pike.
So let"s take a look at what"s coming down said pike. Yesterday we covered talent and ability changes. I"m not going to repeat too much of that here; no reason to reinvent the wheel and all. Supposedly, Inner Rage is trainable in the latest beta build. They"re also moving crit immunity from Safeguard to Improved Defensive Stance. As always, beta means constant changes.
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