A Look at the Warhammer Shadow Warrior
DateTime:7/8/2009 5:21:12 PM

MMORPG.com Warhammer Online Correspondent Louis Rossi writes this overview of the Warhammer Shadow Warrior Career in Mythic Entertainment's newest RvR game. In the overview, Rossi looks at the effectiveness of a number of the career's damaging abilities.

The ability to correctly analyze your situation and change your stance and fighting style accordingly is really the key to effectively playing a Warhammer Shadow Warrior. The High-Elf Shadow Warrior is your classic ranged DPS class, or is it? Upon playing a shadow warrior a while, you’ll discover a few things differ between yourself and the traditional ranged, non-magic damage dealing classes plaguing so many other MMOs these days.

Starting out with the basics – along your career as a Shadow Warrior, you’ll acquire three stances, of which only one can be active at a time. Each has a 5 second cool down when switching – to clarify, you can’t enter once stance, make an attack, and immediately switch stances again. It should be noted that switching stances does NOT throw a global cooldown at you for all of your skills.Making poor decisions, deciding its ok to get just one more eagle eye off before you re-distance yourself from the crowd, or running into the middle of combat to get that finishing blow on the tank that wandered a bit too far from the healer will more often than not leave you taking a dirt nap and wondering how long your respawn timer will be next time you do something that stupid.