Back in Chaos

Hello out there.

Long time since I made a tanking post but here is one again. The reason for that is I have started playing Warhammer online (yes I know i jump around alot) and rolled a Chaos warrior class called Chosen. Incredibly cool class to play. From the experinece I presume it will be a bit similar to Death Knights in WoW.

Basically the Chosen is an evil human in fat armour wielding sword 'n board and having auras. The reason for the auras is the corruption from the evil Raven god the Chaos armies worship.

Aside from auras and ordinariy spanking abilities the Chosen have acess to some semi-magical abilities aswell. Like Ravage which is a attack making spirit damage and therefore negating armor.

One of the best things about the Chosen tank class is the viability in PvP (called RvR in WAR). Aside from taking damage we can really dish some out. And we can be annoying enough for the other team so they need to take us out. This is mostly by snare abilitys etc, but also due to the fair damage output we do.

In WoW's Warsong gulch the tanks was mostly flag carriers and in Arathi Basin and Alterac Valley we could be mostly ignored. Not so in Warhammer.

PvE?
But how is the tanks in PvE. On sologrinding we are good. Better than good I would say, downtime is about zero. But I havent doneany dungeons yet. I'm just lvl 15 (of 40) and about right level for the first available instance. Looking forward to it though.

Will fill you in when I know more.

The ring runner

Have been playing Lotro mostly the last couple of weeks. Logged in to WoW to level an alt a bit more. Oh what a drag. Especially since I realized that warrior is the thing for me.

Warriors really have the best of two worlds: survivability and melee dps. Even if specced arms/fury we are tough as nails. And being able to dish out huge damage while specced right is nice - the best part is tanking.

When choosing a class in Lotro I was heavily into going Guardian (like a prot warrior) but since my best friend already rolled one I started a Champion instead (dps warrior). My luck was really with me on this choice since it has occurred to me by reading forums etc that Champions are more than viable tanks in ordinary instances. And that you need to dps tank to keep aggro!

This is really sweet. Not only is my role to be the one up front taking the attention of the mobs - but I can wield two swords at the same time!

Reached lvl 30 yesterday (that's when you get the tanking stance called Glory) so I am all eager to try some serious tanking soon.

Oh, by the way. My friend is going to contact the Guardian Union for class stealing and unauthorized tanking ;)