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Adept in the art of physical combat, brave feral Warriors excel in offensive and defensive tactics. Their rigorous training, and fierce dedication to protecting their cause have given them strength and tenacity not found anywhere else. With strength of both heart and body, warriors fight to protect what they believe in, and stand up for their trusted allies.

While sharing the spotlight of being a physical damage class along Hunters, Warriors specialize in non-elemental close-ranged fighting. The class' unique resource of Fury let's them charge up with melee strikes before comboing with advanced attacks. Such skills revolve around immobilizing running opponents then unleashing full-on brute force. As such, the effective Warrior has the highest physical strength stat of any other class.

Through utilization of armor and skills, warriors may choose to fight offensively or defensively. At their core, offensive Warriors focus on damage dealing yet sacrifice health whereas defensive warriors focus on defending and withstanding damage but loose damage. Yet, a strategical warrior will utilize both offensive & defensive skills and armor to adapt to optimize their efficiency within a party. Rarely will you see a successful warrior with skills from only one of the two paths.

Combative Tactics

Offensive warriors spend most their points into the combat skill trees, yet often keep the defensive skills Smite, Bash, and Charge as well.

Primary Skills

• Auto Attack

• Bite

• Slash

• Thrash

• Overpower

• Swipe

• Focused Strike

Passive Buffs

• Adrenaline Rush
  • Gives you fury, at the cost of slightly reduced defense. This is a great skill especially at the beginning of a battle, where you do not have any fury (and thus cannot use most of your abilities). Even within battles, Adrenaline Rush can push you just over the fury cost of an important spell that you need to use right now - such as Smite (to interrupt some spell of doom a boss costs), or Thrash (for extra burst damage).

• Natural Fighter
  • This ability gives you the "Grace" buff every time you land a critical hit. Since Grace halves the fury cost of your next ability, it is best used on expensive, high-damage abilities such as Thrash.

• Improved Bite
  • Improved Bite is very helpful to tanks - not only does it help keeping the monsters focused on you, it also heals slightly every time you use bite. This makes it easier for your healer to heal you - especially when you time your bites so that they recover your health after you just took a big chunk of damage.

Active Buffs

• Battle Stance

• Battle Cry

Defensive Techniques

Defensive warriors spend most of their skill points into the defensive skill tree, yet often have the offensive Bite and Improved Bite in addition to Auto-Attack.

Primary Skills

• Taunt

• Growl

• Bash

• Smite

• Shattering Strike

Passive Buffs

• Toughness

Active Buffs

• Defensive Stance

• Burning Determination

• Unyielding Rage

• Endurance

Additional Notes

• Pairing warriors along with priests are important to overcoming many of the more challenging dungeons: the warrior makes sure that the bulk of all monsters' damage is focused on them, while the priest uses healing spells to keep everyone alive.