FINAL FANTASY XI Job Adjustment Manifesto-Warrior

[Airget]

I was hoping for some good news on the WAR end seeing as we got nothing new this VU lol. But seeing this kinda bums me out I was hoping to see something interesting like perhaps a JA or JT but instead we seem to be getting hit with a nerf bat lol. I wouldn't be so bothered by it but when you look at a job like SAM they've basically gotten an adjustment every update and now WAR isn't so much getting a boost as it's being hit down a peg.

I guess what I"m curious about is are there any plans to add anything for WAR from 91-95?

[buddyslack]

Seriously? You guys announce a nerf as a job adjustment? Is this supposed to get us excited?

[Neisan_Quetz]

We are planning to update the test server extremely soon and we will be releasing the exact schedule in the information section. Below is a planned adjustment for warrior:

• Cap on the weapon skill damage increase effect from Restraint will be lowered

Since this is an adjustment that will reduce damage output, we will proceed carefully and take our time to do this, more so than other job adjustments.

How about actually buffing other jobs instead of doling out nerfs for once as if that actually fixes anything?

[Siiri]

Honestly of all the things that make WAR overpowered is restraint even one of them? I would think retaliation would be nerfed first.

[Neisan_Quetz]

Restraint sucked ass when it was first released and they had to fix it because the first incarnation was more useless than Defender. War has no useful native defensive abilities other than kill stuff faster, nerfing restraint is the dumbest move I've heard for their 'adjustments' to War other than when they first released restraint.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

Instead, you could always go back to having Restraint actually, y'know, restraining something.

[Zoner]

I agree with the WARs here, don't nerf warrior, buff other jobs to be equal with WAR

[Leonlionheart]

Good going, because Restraint was totally what makes WAR OP

Not every other JA and a crit WS that, even without critting, deals pretty much better damage than everything else or anything. Nope, it's the x% amount of damage that most people don't even cap because ideally you should be WS'ing faster than it takes to cap the damage bonus.

I guess this is supposed to appease the masses, I mean they're effectively doing absolutely nothing in terms of changing WAR, except taking the obscure situation where you store TP to 300 to let out one big blow instead of ws'ing every 10 seconds, out of the question.

Lowering a cap that no one who is actually good at war should ever be reaching, nice.

[Ophannus]

You should be happy they're nerfing something so minor. It could have been something on the same scale as:

RNG Nerf(Ignored level correction)
Penta Nerf(TP return equal to first hit on all hits on WS)
Meditate Nerf(1 minute recast; instant 100% TP even when subbed)
Sneak Attack Nerf(Worked from side)
RDM Nerf(Had Cure5/Flash)
Haste Nerf(Reduced haste cap from 92ish% to 80% reducing attacks made per minute more than half)
Heavy Strike nerfMade a seemingly awesome BLU spell for NM/HNMs basically worthless)

[Runespider]

You should be happy they're nerfing something so minor. It could have been something on the same scale as:

If they think war needs to be nerfed and this does not have the desired effect you think they won't nerf it in other ways too?