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This build is very easy to play, provides tons of survivability, some limited utility, and adequate DPS numbers.  If you are hitting enrage, or you’re trying to earn yourself a raid spot, or keep your raid spot, this is probably not recommended for you.  I play it quite a bit, but I’ve got the gear/niche use for it.  Most people will look at you with a confused look on their virtual face if you play this spec in raid, but it’s worthy of taking a look at.  Now, I’ve been playing and experimenting with Warlord since Infernal Dawn, and always set up my own macros and spec.  There are a couple of guides on the forums about Warlord, so in order to avoid being accused of not giving credit where credit is due, Zvas from Greybriar and Steelwind have also done theorycrafting and some guiding on the forums.

The choice between the two builds is up to you.  The difference would be the soul gifts of Paragon giving you 1% more base damage + with 61/15 vs the increased AOE damage of Killing Field and Wave of Steel plus the 5% physical damage boost.  …

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In a thread asking suggestion Trion add a group dueling sytem (instead of the 1v1 we have now), it switched gears and went to the discussion of Arenas in PVP for Rift. It’s something that’s been requested a lot over the years (it’s still weird saying that!) but has always been met with firm a firm “No” or other variations. So since it sprung up again, Daglar snuck his way into the chatter to let the community know that Rift has never had any plans for Arena to squash a false claim that Trion had Arenas backlogged to work on Conquest.…

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For well over a year and a half, people have grown very accustomed to running expert dungeons for raid mark currency. However, with the launch of Storm Legion, how we earned marks changed slightly. Level 60 expert dungeon bosses do not drop marks individually anymore but rather you earn them from your “Random Storm Legion Expert” bonus at the completion of the instance. The other change was that there was no raid currency you could receive as a reward.…