Am I the only one who does like FC spam?

I feel like I'm alone in this for the Warrior changes: Fel Cleave spam is boring. One of the appeals of Fel Cleave, imo, is that its one big hit, its squeezing in more by using your skills just right. Just building up resource then spamming them seems kinda boring to me. Is it really going to be fun when you're just doing it 6 times in a row?

I've mained Warrior since ARR, while I have all 3 tanks capped WAR has always been my favorite, but with the fel cleave spam, I dont know what tank I'll be maining in SB, but it wont be WAR.

Then Don't Spam FC. Problem solved :D

Yeah, I feel the same way. I can see the appeal of being an FC bot I suppose, it's just not for me. I don't expect them to change the job to appeal to me if I'm in the minority though, so I'm probably just switching to PLD or going DPS and switching to SAM since both of those look like they'll at least be fun.

Dont reply to this, I messed up the thread title

i'm gonna play paladin

i don't like it too, since war can't increase their STR with accs means the damage is going to be smaller, what's the point in having a loads of quantity if the quality is weaker

What attracted me to WAR besides Greataxes and the aesthetics of a Barbarian was the common gameplay type affilliated with aforementioned aesthetics: Charge/Windup/Rage.

I thoroughly enjoy playing small/regular hit buildup into an explosive big hit and FFXIV WAR resonated so well with me in that regard(My soul animal!). But seeing the preview of changing the gameplay into more frequent Fell Cleave spamming as well as the nerf to Berserk potency has taken away from that greatly. Now Fell Cleave has less individual impact and has become just apart of the small/regular hits.

This ontop of the lack of any meaningful gameplay change to WAR such as a useless and cost-inefficient gap closer, a very plain oGCD, a kind of lackluster Status Purge and a rather pointless meme hyping(although admittedly, the visual aspect turned me on) buff has slated WAR in 4.0 to be virtually the same as WAR 3.0.

What did I want from WAR in 4.0?
- Defiance and Inner Beast relevance. All they had to do was make Defiance not punish an aspect of our role(Do damage) to unnecessarily overfill another. I.E Successful usage of Inner Beast(Threshold of Damage mitigated/Tankbuster) would grant a limited damage boost/increase the potency of your next Fell Cleave by the difference loss from entering Defiance and using IB over FC + A little bonus.
- Exemplify the Charge/Buildup/Rage gameplay. With new additions to utilize that aspect.

So I decided to drop the greataxe and turned my sights to my next favoured themed class: DRK and all I frankly saw was a dumbed down 3.0 WAR. I'll see how it all plays out in the release version and for the first tier of Omega. If my fears come true with the dumbing down of classes, WAR and DRK being ruined, and the nerf to tank stat weights(...again).
Then all I have left in terms of a melee weapon wielding(and possibly armour wearing) fighter that doesn't use spears is SAM. And boy do I hate the very principles this selfish, not even great-katana wielding ronin-esque type Samurai stands for.

Stormblood continues to disappoint with each day that draws closer.

/endrant

I'm mostly fine with it because it will likely not be a good idea to do such a thing (mostly because of storm's eye upkeep). I'm quite worried however for both dark knight and warrior. dark knight lost a huge amount of complexity, and warrior lost a large portion of identity. Paladin got a massive buff, but one job does not make an archetype.


time will tell i suppose.

I love it, but I'm not sure how much I'll actually get to use it while tanking with the cost to stance switching....

It looks fun imo...I hope it isn't going to be something that you can do only as off tank.

In fact I'd rather they modify unchained to allow access to Fell cleave for a limited time while in defiance or something...