Overview

Warleaders are the direct healers and buffers of the creeps.  Their role is to ensure that the DPS classes stay alive to wreak havoc in freep ranks as well as to buff their fellows and debuff their opponants.

Skills

Traits

Class Traits

Recommended Corruption Traits

The corruption traits are more based on personal style. For those who attact a lot of firepower, particularily NPC due to healing, slotting Common Mitigation is important. Freeps tend to use a lot of light damage. The Rank 5 stealth trait is also very useful. Otherwise for tank builds, maximizing health at the cost of either power or damage is best for survival.

Tactics

[Vyxe, Elendilmir]

As the main direct healer in the creep side, it is your duty to keep up your fellow creeps, both in and outside of the group to provide the damage for you. It is usually best to group up with some DPS classes to help rank up.

Heals can be done both proactively and reactively. Targetting through freep DPS classes can give you a very good idea of who the creep target is, and you can heal through them to the creep. A proactive approach is far better than a reactive due to the very long cast time for both single and group heals. The bubble also takes approximately 3 seconds to go off, so use it early when needed. With a large freep force, they can take off a half health creep before your bubble even goes off. Also with healing, it is important to reduce the aggro on yourself. Ensure that the DPS classes keep you cleared of NPCs if they want a heal. The single target heal can be cast when under attack from one NPC or freep, the group heal is nearly impossible. Within a raid, heal your group unless designated otherwise, pay attention to other creeps and heal them, especially other warleaders. For burst healing, alternate between the single and group heal. Make sure to use food as much as possible for these situations as the power bar will be drained very quickly.

Rezzing in a small group should be done based on the situation, usually early to help it start recharging. Save it if another creep is likely to die soon. Remember the radius and try to keep your group tight so dead bodies can be rezzed. In raid situations, wait for the raid leader to designate when to rez to maximize the effectiveness of each rez and not to double rez too quickly.

For buffs, run Aura of Command as much as possible even though it is a significant power drain. It is a very large increase to your fellowed melee. Turn it off if power gets low. The Banner of Terror is a very strong weapon against freeps, when possible, stand off a bit to get out of combat then place the banner as close as you can to the freeps. If there are multiple WL's around, coordinate with them to try to maintain a constant banner presence on them (note the duration and recharge times).

Soloing can be done on a warleader, albeit very slowly and if the freep wants to run away, they usually can as the WL has no snares. For all classes, keep your health up as much as possible and use shouts in between.

The absolute best conjunction for a warleader is yellow, Wight's Rot. This will significantly refill your power. When grouped with weavers and wargs who can open conjunctions in a PvE situation, have them hold their CJ's till you need the power and in range for yellow.