Poll: Does anyone actually like being the "warrior"?

[socialmenace42]

For first play through purposes the 'standard class' is good fun, basically because it's the simplest and best for getting a feel for the game. I think mages and rogues are so appealing because they invariably start out kind of weak but end up preposterously powerful. Well, that's why i play them anyway...

 

[Vicarious Reality]

I almost always play as a ''ranged'' class
It's fun to destroy things from a distance while hidden

 

[SenseOfTumour]

Stepping aside from RPGs, almost everyone wants to be the warrior in FPS games, who wants to be thinking, or using tactics when you can just run face first at everyone and blow stuff up?

See Painkiller/Serious Sam/Duke Nukem/Doom/Quake/etc

 

[Gottesstrafe]

Personally I prefer to play to my power fantasies of being a suave, socially accepted and cunning individual by being the silver-tongued rogue/thief class with a crippling case of kleptomania and heavily romanticized case of explorer's OCD. However, that doesn't mean I'm unable to appreciate the Warrior class.

Warrior is a relatively simple class, easy to learn and moderately difficult to master (that is to say if you've never changed your strategy beyond move to point A and hit target B until you or it falls over) and a good for beginners who are unfamiliar with the controls. A good melee system has its fair share of blocks, dodges, and parries that keeps combat fluid and exciting as opposed to an exercise in spamming arrows/spells from a distance or abusing stealth to the point that your hunched over back has probably fused a few spinal disks for the sake of convenience. We've come a long way from the days of yore where warriors only came in the flavors of your Conan the Barbarian types or your mobile steel towers that can and probably have needed to be resuscitated after tripping face first into a shallow puddle. The increased proliferation of sub-classes for warriors have really changed the game, for the better I think anyway.

 

[Farotsu]

Unless I'm playing a trickster type of a class (low healthpool, high damage and mobility) I prefer to be able to take a beating while dishing more back. Actually these days I play almost all my games like that. Balls to the wall who backs off first kind of play.

 

[Dogstile]

Nothing wrong with warriors. Even in WOW back when I played it the warrior was a decent class to play because of having to hold aggro for everyone else. It wasn't always easy.

Although I prefer Diablo 2 for warrior play, its pretty fun.

 

[Random berk]

I generally use warriors. They're simple, but effective in a good game. In SW: Battlefront for example, I loved the trooper because I could get up to thirteen kills per death, the only time I could do better was when I got Darth Maul or Obi Wan Kenobi (At which point I could kill the entire enemy garrison). In LOTR: Conquest I always picked the warrior, because the shitty game mechanics meant that no other class would be able to beat the enemy warriors one on one. Even in Fallout 3 I tended to use mid range weapons like the shotgun, assault rifle or similar energy and plasma weapons all the time, though I did get quite good at using the .32 rifle for sniping towards the end. The only game I can think of where I prefer the other classes is Mass Effect, in which I quite enjoy using the infiltrator class.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Yes I like being a warrior, how else do I get to use a sword and shield when spellcaster only use wand and staff? Granted if there is another melee like classes like a rogue, paladin or thief etc (a melee but not as strong as a warrior) I tend to play those instead.

 

[Titan Buttons]

My favorite role is being the Tank that either is a sponge for damage or just to be the heavy hitter

 

[Bishop99999999]

I think the warrior is a pretty cool guy. Eh wear heavy armor hitting things with sharp sticks and doesn't afraid of anything.

 

[spartandude]

Only when I'm a dwarf or if im a dps warrior

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Me? I do.

Though in terms of what social class I fall in with RPG's, I'm kind of the dirty Peasant who cleans up the lettuce that gets thrown at the prisoners in the stocks, so really my opinion doesn't matter.

 

[Eccentric_Jon]

I almost always play the stealth class.

I'll have a dabble with others, to see how well structured they are etc, but I always end up back with the Rogue.

 

[Tyrannical]

My character in Oblivion: Battlemage (slightly adjusted for axes instead of blades, no block, etc. but yeah).

My character in DA. I forget the name because I uninstalled it, but it's a mage specialization that allows you to equip heavy armor and stuff using magic in place of strength. This allows you to, again, be a battlemage.

I like using magic to augment combat, but just playing a pure warrior, not so much.

 

[m72_ar]

Tank? Hell no. DPS warrior, hell yes.

 

[Senaro]

I'm in the Hybrid boat myself I will generally when available I will employ archery to open combat then switch out to an appropriate close quarters weapon , said weapon being single handed with a shield unless a spear is available can't beat a good spear

Though when skyrim comes out I'm definitely seeing if I can use duel shields for a total defence set up

That reminds me of when I tried dual-wielding shields in Demon's Souls, but my "Main hand" shield was just used to bash people's faces in instead. Not very effective, but I was damn happy to see that I could do it if I wanted to.

 

[Evil Raccoon]

I absolutely loved my DA: origins shield and sword dwarf warrior with the noble origin. And getting the shield in Denerim completely made my character complete. A juggernaught armor wearing dwarf tank carrying the symbol of his family on his shield, holding the front lines while my squadmates (Usually Lelianna, Wynne and Sten)laid down the pain. Man, those were some good times.

 

[Dalek Caan]

The warrior type had always been my favorite. I do try out Archery/Magic/Stealth sometimes but at the end of the day nothing beats cold steel. Where's your magic now?

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Good god no. Spending the entire game just running up to things and hitting them repeatedly is so fucking tedious, compared to standing in the background hurling spells around like a hyperactive Gandalf.

Where's your magic now?

Boiling you alive with fire in your clunky metal armour as you lumber towards me, that's where.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

I usually prefer (in RPGs) some kind of melee/magic crossover, typified by the battlemage, but it is fun to sometimes just play the 'kick the door down with an axe in either hand' meathead. So yeah, I occasionally enjoy playing the warrior.