Welp, 2.1 is going ot be a happy time for warriors!

From Reinhart's translation of the dev letter this morning.

y; people are saying war is weak so I wanted to go over that
y; people are comparing war to pld, the main part is the bahamut 1 and 4
y; this is our miss, and I apologize, the boss monster has buffs
y; once the boss has 3 buffs stacked up the tank won’t be able to pass
y; it’s set up that way
y; but PLD is able to live through it and that wasn’t supposed to be that way
y; PLD was able to pass that, and we’re talking about what to do this
y; changing the system isn’t good, so we have to make it where WAR can do what PLD can do
y; so we’ll make it where WAR can be good here as well
y; I went to Ifrit HM with WHM, tank needs to stop everything
y; they need to stop eruption and all that so I think it’s really hard to tank
y; the plan we had for Brutal Swing which uses GCD and PLD can use over
y; so it takes longer to use, so we’ll make adjustments to make it faster
y; people also are testing 2rath and use gensho (english?? the healing one)
y; You should wait for heal before using gensho as you get more heal
y; PLD has high VIT but with WAR you can heal about same amount and if you have wrath on you’ll take much more.
y; if you heal after wrath the buff is gone so you’ll get lower hp
y; how you run through the pattern is really hard
y; for healers if the WAR uses gensho it’s hard to heal
y; for that reason people think WAR is softer tank than PLD
y; so we think this is bit too hard so we’ll be making changes in 2.1
y; we got about 7 topics to change for WAR
y; just because we had the issue where PLD was able to pass the bahamut with this method
y; we need to make these changes now.
y; we won’t make it harder on the content so please don’t worry

Gensho of course being IB. Basically, PLD's are too strong, but they realize that proper IB usage requires the healer be in sync to prevent overhealing, which is too rough, so they're making life easier.

Also chat of bards getting nerfed and dragoons/monks getting QoL changes to make fights like titan less stressful.

Good, I might start playing it again.

Excellent, thank you for the news. Will be interesting to see where they take it.

Summary

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

In Regards to WAR
The Binding Coil of Bahamut
Especially for Turn 1 and 4, strategies have been employed that the development team hadn't considered (such as only using paladins to live through multiple stacks of a buff the boss has), and a situation has developed where paladins are favored over warrior. We apologize for this. In patch 2.1 we will be making adjustments so that warriors can do the content that paladins can do.

Adjustments to Stun
A warrior’s stun is different than paladin’s in the sense that it can be used at any time separate from the global cooldown, which is an advantage, but for specific content where stuns need to performed multiple times or with precise timing, it’s difficult to utilize warrior’s stun, so we will be making adjustments in patch 2.1 to improve its usability.

We also plan for a variety of other adjustments for warrior in patch 2.1.

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The two jobs I play the most are getting changes, so I'm excited to see how they implement things. I'm not at endgame yet, but the warrior's stun being on such a long cooldown always sucked in many situations. I would rather it be 1 sec long and on low cooldown than the way it is now.

Well as a warrior doing coil this sounds exciting. But Really SE when is this 2.1 coming...
Im bored of farming for gils waiting for this update. I heard it might only come late december...really if it is true i might not be on the game anymore.

Pretty sad we dont get a few hard mode dungeons (from leveling) to keep us busy.

So it was more a matter of PLD being too strong. Still don't know how Yoshi got use out of storm path.
Nice that they'll buff WAR over nerfimg PLD, nerfs suck

glad to know! monk and warrior getting buffed, both are class i played atm lol

Glad they finally came to their senses.

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Originally Posted by Krenen

Well as a warrior doing coil this sounds exciting. But Really SE when is this 2.1 coming...
Im bored of farming for gils waiting for this update. I heard it might only come late december...really if it is true i might not be on the game anymore.

Pretty sad we dont get a few hard mode dungeons (from leveling) to keep us busy.

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It was stated long ago that major content updates like 2.1 would be coming every three months. So based on that logic, we get late Nov-Early Dec for 2.1. If you don't have the patience to wait for 4-6 weeks for new content then I don't think it's actually possible to satisfy you.

4-6 weeks man lets be real...how many dungeon do you have at lvl 50 ????

One weak palace and a fun but overfarmed Adampor...oh wait and one raid that u cant even farm coz it's once a week...

Well i think i can say this is NOT much and many people will leave if they dont release more PVE content. How many dungeon do we have while leveling...x3 this or so...