Onslaught should get buffed.

Pretty straight forward a buff, and I know there has been multiple threads already about it but i dont want them to give warrior the copy-paste dash like other tanks have.

Onslaught has its problem, the problem lies down to the cost of the ability per potency used on it. It is pretty much not useful outside of IR.
Since warrior is one of the lowest DPS tanks in the game, it is a great opportunity to make onslaught more useful and interesting thing to use and give WAR slight dps buff overall.

How about giving it a combo potency after using Tomahawk, Upheaval and Fell Cleave?
You use one of those skills, and you gain increased potency on Onslaught.
The potency increase should be big enough so it will be more worth per gauge spend, something in the middle between upheaval and fell cleave.
Its base damage is 100 potency and additional combo potency should be set at 150 giving it total 250 potency if used in combo with one of the three above.

Tomahawk giving it combo potency will make it worth to use it from distance as real utility gap closer, and combo with upheaval and fell cleave will make it useful in melee distance as well.
Warrior DPS has been increased, it got a little more interesting to play too, the thing is possible to make because GNB has similar GCD > oGCD combo mechanic too.
Please give it a look SE.

Ya, onslaught really need a buff. Right now it is the gap-closer that all the other gap-closers laugh at.

The easy solution is honestly just taking it off the Beast Gauge entirely.

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Originally Posted by SpookyGhost

The easy solution is honestly just taking it off the Beast Gauge entirely.

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Its boring solution :p

The problem with this idea is now you only want to use Onslaught combo'd otherwise you've thrown away damage. If the combo potency was high enough justify delaying another Fell Cleave. It would likely be better to simply eat the GCD loss than Onslaught uncombo'd.

Boring solution it may be, however the whole idea of gap closes is to use them for that very reason.

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Originally Posted by Nedkel

Its boring solution :p

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I mean yeah, it is, but if we're honest it's not like the other Beast Gauge abilities are full of flavor to begin with. You press Upheavel on CD, you press FC whenever you can, and you press Decimate when there's 3+ enemies. Onslaught is the only one you press in the extremely specific situation of the boss teleporting away or pushing you back - which does often happen, but not to such a degree it warrants being on the Gauge. The other solution is basically what you said, which is upping the potency - which I'm also fine with tbh but it just feels weird that Onslaught is the only ability you really have to plan your Gauge usage around.

It really makes no sense for a mobility/gap closer to be tied to beast guage and only have use during IR windows. It simply should act as a strict gap closer and ideally one that can be used to initiate fights in dungeons and to get to bosses quicky after mechanics. They should remove the guage cost and potency and have it be a utility gap closer.

Onslaught is also a gain in the uncoomon instances that your gauge is about to overcap and you cannot Fell cleave since you will lose eye. In those cases it is dps positive to not overcap on gauge. This solution will simply turn onslaught into a press after fell cleave button always and remove most if not all nuance from the skill.

To put this in perspective: using onslaught is a 43 potency loss at most. If this prevents you from missing a GCD skill that will quickly turn this back into a positive.

Of all the abilities Warrior has onslaught is already the one which has the most situational uses over press on cooldown. I would be nice if it stayed that way.

Plus warrior has always been the slower and big hit tank. I'm not crazy about the idea of having a 10 seconds press on cooldown skill as it seems like its going to take us away from that identity of big hits and move us towards the higher frequency GNB oGCD spam.

For the love of war leave onslaught alone.

Dont just remove gauge. A 10 second recast spam ability makes no sense.

Dont make it a clone of the other tanks 2 charge system. Theres already problems with those as it is.

Combo systems and procs? What is wrong with a gap closer being a gap closer? Making it a dos gain skill just plops it right into the same issues plunge (and now all yhe other clones) have always had.

Onslaught is the only gap closer that is actually well designed. It does its job of closing gaps better than the alternatives. It has niche, nuanced uses in gauge management. It increases damage when used to close gaps without being locked into an inflexible dps rotation. It enhances wars job defining burst phase. Its one of the few places tanks havent been fully homogenized.

Leave it alone ffs.

Id like the cost removed. It just uneccessarily complicates things being tied to beast guage.