Warrior Tanking, Potential Fix. PLEASE SUPPORT THIS!

Quote:

Originally Posted by CardeaC

**New Ability** Iron Skin: Gives the Warrior an absorption shield of 25% of the Warrior's maximum health that lasts for 10-15 seconds, and consumes 5 stacks of Wraith. Cooldown somewhere between 60 and 120 seconds. I support 90 seconds.

This has nothing to do why WAR is ineffective. As a "potential fix", the idea fails to identify the weaknesses of WAR compared to PLD. WAR does not scale with enemy damage. Your buffs are all focused on flat heals. That will not fix WAR's endgame troubles, it will just make WAR more able to faceroll the easy stuff. The ability is also rather ineffective in its original incarnation. Compared to your (rather mildly) buffed Inner Beast, the increased recovery bonus would make it essentially a wash -- you'd actually add effectively nothing at all to WAR's burst mitigation. Furthermore, you meet equivalence as a burst cooldown with Rampart in 4-man content and scale to half that in 8-man content.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mysteltain

I second this, but would say it should scale off of where your current HP is with regards to your max HP... I think giving it such a high risk/reward would be good way to balance it.

I would say that's really inverse scaling. The more damage enemies deal, the narrower the HP window you can afford. If an enemy deals 100 DPS post-mitigation, it will be 70-75 seconds at least before the tank goes down. You can fall to 500 HP before you're 2 GCD from death. When you're getting blasted for 1500 DPS, you're always 2 GCD from death. You can't afford to push your luck when damage goes up, so the skill becomes less useful as damage rates increase. This is the opposite of what WAR needs.

Quote:

Originally Posted by peaches

With their damage mitigation, I don't think they'd be taking much more than 5000 damage over the duration of that ability

Double Dreadnoughts are more like 20,000 over the duration.