Ogre frontal stun immunity as a Warrior

Healthcare · #1 06-17-2010, 12:35 AM

So how critical/important/helpful is it? No doubt the raw str/sta is nice but I've never really got a melee high enough to know how high lvl mobs and the stun from them works to know if the frontal stun of ogres is extremely helpful. I'm just curious if you're basically screwed by NOT going ogre as a warrior but say troll or whatever.

Lukan · #2 06-17-2010, 01:06 AM

For high levels, raids especially, it is essential. There are very few high level mobs in the game that do not stun and if you do not have stun immunity you cannot hold taunt which is the primary goal of the raid MT.

Taluvill · #3 06-17-2010, 01:06 AM

for raid tanks... its basically unmatched

astarothel · #4 06-17-2010, 01:10 AM

did the stun immunity's usefulness increase with that change to the arc? I never tried post patch.

Dumesh Uhl'Belk · #5 06-17-2010, 01:38 AM

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for raid tanks... its basically unmatched

You know, I've heard a lot of people say this, but in all my raiding from classic through OOW, we had an never had more than one ogre warrior at a time in my various guilds and we never noticed a difference with him tanking. We had dwarfs, half elves, humans, barbs, halflings, and gnomes all MT with plenty of success. I did a lot of tanking myself as a barbarian warrior. It seems like there might have been one or two fights (out of all the bosses in the first 5 expansions, and I don't think any where in classic through Velious) where stuns were an issue and we just let the tanks have 2-5 more seconds at the beginning of the fight before calling the assist.

Frontal Stun immunity is certainly a nice benefit, but imo, it is a bigger boon to soloing shaman.

Until warrior kicks start stunning at level 55... and I don't even think that was put in at the beginning of Kunark... the best reason to be a big race tank is so you can slam without shield swapping. In that respect ogres are no better than trolls or barbarians. Interrupting casters in xp groups and while soloing has the biggest game effect of any racial ability imo.

Auvdar · #6 06-17-2010, 04:12 AM

2 yaks + a FBSS. Screw the frontal stun crap.

Zordana · #7 06-17-2010, 04:38 AM

frontal stun immunity ftw.. i was always laughing at tanks when i saw em spinning and spinning and spinning [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

twincannon · #8 06-17-2010, 09:11 AM

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frontal stun immunity ftw.. i was always laughing at tanks when i saw em spinning and spinning and spinning [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

THEY SPINNIN!

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Omnimorph · #9 06-17-2010, 09:28 AM

Ogres do look rubbish, especially this one ogre i see, he's an sk, think his name is buttillus? i forget [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

My warrior is a darkelf, because they get the coolest looking velious armour.

Lukan · #10 06-17-2010, 09:34 AM

As a former Cleric I can only say that I seemed to spend a lot of time using my click stick rezzing in the DPS classes whenever a stunnable warrior decided they wanted to take a turn at MT. Once that stun hits you start spinning like a top and whichever mob you are on start rampaging through the rest of its hate list.