Bash! Chop! Stab! Jab! Impale! Pummel! Entwine! Disembowel!

Blood and guts, ready for violence at any moment, these are the hallmarks of a warrior. Always wanted to be the hero with the magic sword? The last one standing in a knife fight? The barbarian with an axe and mace crushing all before her? If you can imagine that warrior, CF allows you to BE that warrior.

The warrior is the master of personal, in-your-face combat, capable of learning every weapon type and even no weapon at all but knuckles and fists. No other class teaches how to use every weapon, and thus no other class can take advantage of its opponents’ inability to parry a sword or axe, a polearm or staff, a spear or flail. Warriors are one of the few classes to learn how to dual wield weapons, doubling the potential for your death dealing blows. And warriors are the only ones taught to deliver up to a fourth attack every round of combat, with each weapon. You are a killer, plain and simple.

But just as no two killers are the same in the real world, in the Carrion Fields each warrior can be different from the next. The mercenary for hire? Warrior! The crazed magic-hating berserker with two axes and an attitude? Warrior! Jack-the-Ripper’s second cousin with a love of slicing and dicing the ladies? Warrior! Champion of the weak and oppressed, a freedom loving force for good? Warrior!

And the thrill of combat rides high with the warrior, never growing old, as CF warriors are as diverse as the players’ imaginations:

Choose your weapon!

The warrior can go beyond mere weapon proficiency, and choose two weapons as specializations, one early on at level 20 and a second later at level 40. There are eight different specializations: axe, mace, sword, polearm, staffs and spears, whips and flails, daggers, and hand to hand. Like to make your opponent bleed? Specialize in daggers and hurl one through his chest, or in spears, and impale him through the chest! Want to make her drop her weapon from weakness? Pick maces and boneshatter her body, or in axes and whirl your axe points into his. Worried you will be hit first? Learn the nuances of the polearm and chargeset the attack.

Choose your legacy!

When you have advanced to the 44th level and again at the 48th, you will be allowed to choose a legacy, a special training giving you even more versatility. Think your axe doesn't parry well enough for you? Learn to put up the Ward of Blades. Feel like bashing down your enemies like a falling mountain? Choose to Greet the Avalanche. Need to hold onto that weapon even when riddled by holes and shattered bones? Fist of the Titan will help. There are thirty six (36) legacies, and every warrior gets to pick two. Spend your life trying to play all combinations and you’ll be old and gray before you finish!

Anytime is a good time!

Warriors can be lethal at every level, and with a minimal of additional preparation. The warrior is uniquely suited to just diving right in and stirring things up. See your enemy walking down the eastern road? Jump him! You don’t need to zap a wand or take a long time to prepare yourself, you’re good to go with your two weapons and a cool head. YOU are the weapon, and all you need is your ability and your skills to take a go at anyone, anytime.

As a warrior you will be one of the healthiest of all classes, gaining more hitpoints per level than any other class. Your high movement gains per level will enable you to catch your running victims. For many types of warriors, you will dishing out the damage faster than almost anyone else, winning fights where your enemies commands are denied through your lagging moves. And as a warrior you will have several utility options unavailable to anyone else, able to dash up to someone and start an attack quickly, or retreat from combat in a direction you choose rather than flee mindlessly. And nobody takes advantage of cowardice better than you, with a parting blow to any who can’t match your power and flees in fear!

But be careful!

The warrior spends almost all of his time perfecting his physical abilities, and so has little understanding or use for the magical or priestly powers, and these can be potent indeed. Your enemies will often be able to elude you with a simple spell of word of recall or teleport, or to stand up to you with their damage-reduction abilities like invoker shields, sanctuary, barrier or stone skin. And if you don’t take care to keep your body strong and fit, most often through the clothing and equipment you will to gather, all your training and skill with that sword will be useless when you drop it from weakness, or take great harm from the potent damage abilities of mages, communers and bards. Sometimes even a warrior needs to look before she leaps!