Melee DPSers in Keep Fights/Mass RvR?

[keLston]

Was having a ton of fun on a new Witch Hunter I rolled but he's only T2 still. Going by the threads on Warhammer Alliance though, it looks pretty grim for the melee DPSers come T3+ or when it's like keep battles.

I can understand what they're saying since you have to be up in there to do anything but you got the giant hat that says LOL HIT ME HIT ME, so if you pop out and try to kill something everyone turns around and rapes you before you can do something meaningful. So it seems like a lot of em are either just trying for suicide runs at a clothie or sitting back and operating the siege weapons, but I didn't roll a melee dpser to sit on a siege weapon ;x

So anyone playing a WH/WE later in the game in big fights? Like, how is it really? Do I want to spend time still leveling it?

[Final]

I haven't tried it but I assume tanks need to set WE/WH to guard and guard them mostly while holding the line seeing as how healers aren't really accessible with enough people.

[Duckers]

With your tanks rotating Guard, peels, HoTs, and Group Heals going off left and right they honestly shouldn't die that fast.

[Militant]

being 27/24 (rank/RR) ive done several t3 keep sieges and i must say i was quite unimpressed with WH sadly. i'd have to say i knew i was by far the least useful class in the warband. at 30 you get that ability that lets you sneak in the postern door so that could help by booby trapping siege defense equipment, although it has a long cooldown and kinda low dmg for what it does. you could kill clothies on the ramparts but all in all it'd still be a suicide mission imo just because of the way incognito works.

1) you can stealth in and get an opener
2)or they can see you a mile away and rape you as you come, but youll have stealth to escape.

option 2 is very rarely feasible, so most clothy kill missions are suicide

sadly when it comes to keeps WH seem crappy atleast in t3, we'll see in t4 i suppose

[keLston]

So either I have to be a handicap for the group hoping the tanks and healers focus me or... keep playing Sorc/bright wizard if I want to dps?

[Final]

at 30 you get that ability that lets you sneak in the postern door so that could help by booby trapping siege defense equipment, although it has a long cooldown and kinda low dmg for what it does.

This is lockpicking ability I assume? Maybe you're supposed to be like a spy in the castle sneaking around through the back and tearing up the enemie's back line(like a WoW-rogue strikeforce thing)

[Krigare]

WE/WH are supposed to be cloth killers anyway, not frontline fighters. Sneak around and gank a squishy and then die or get out.

The light armor MDPS are so squishy I don't even think guard would really save you.

[Teddymonster]

yep, sneak around and kill the squig herders in the back. healing the various destro classes I've realized they're the hardest to keep up. They go down faster than a french whore.

[Alphatier]

Take 5 witch hunters with you and tear up the walls where people will be healing, casting and shooting. It's pretty simple.