Do you want to play a Warrior in the game of Wow? As a Warrior, you will find yourself right in the middle of the action. A Warrior's ability to stand toe to toe with any enemy and take huge amounts of damage is in a class by itself. A Warrior also has the ability stun, disarm and reflect enemy spells. The Warrior's primary roles are that of a tank or a melee DPS. One of the Warrior's greatest assets is the ability to tank many instances and mobs with specializing as a Protection Warrior. The Warrior class is a very easy class to start and play but can be very difficult to master.
   But this doesn't mean all Warriors are tanks but you will need to decide if tanking is something you want to do. You will be often asked to tank for a group and that usually means setting targets and the pace of play. Though this doesn't always mean leading the group, there is an added amount of responsibility involved and not all players are comfortable with that. No other class has a wider choice of armor or weapons. Warriors can not only wear just about any armor including plate but they can equip just about any weapon and dual wield weapons. As a DPS Warrior, there will be times when a tank might be taking too much damage and be killed. This could be your time to shine with your ability to quickly equip a shield and switch to defensive stance you could provide the critical seconds that the party needs to down a mob or boss and prevent a wipe.
   The strengths of Warrior are that they have the ability to equip all armor and weapons with the exception of wands and switch roles in mid combat from DPS to tanking. Plus they have very high hit points.
   The weaknesses of Warrior are that they are very gear dependant and there is no way to reduce threat and no significant ability to heal.
   The Warrior can provide lots of benefits to both PvE and PvP. In PvE and PvP, the Warrior can supply the group with much needed buffs like Battle Shout, adding AP to your group members or Commanding Shout, adding additional health to your party. Warriors can apply debuffs to your enemies. Demoralizing Shout reduces the AP of all enemies in a 10 yard radius. Thunder Clap decrease the time between your enemy's attacks, and Sunder Armor reduces your targets armor for everyone in your group. Warriors have a great arsenal of CC abilities, like Hamstring and Piercing Howl. In PvP, Intercept is one of your greatest tools, allowing you to charge your enemy, closing the distance with your opponent in the blink of an eye and stunning them briefly.
   You as a Warrior can take a huge amount of damage while having the ability to taunt an enemy or slow them down when another in your party takes agro. In the endgame, a Warrior can be one of the strongest damage dealing classes and many encounters are made much easier when you have a class that has the ability to fill in when you need a second off tank for a specific encounter.

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