Warriors - How to fix our damage mitigation

[dandelions]

HiirNoivl,

Hate to break it to you, but you are not a special snowflake. You'd actually be a detriment as a tank to most FC groups with your inability to put your ego aside.

At an extremely basic level, before CD's are ever factored in, Warriors require more healing for less of an effect; with the inability to make up that gap through self-heals. This is not something player skill can ever overcome; it is a hard limitation of the rules we play by. This deficiency affects the entire group, especially healers who now have less time to heal others or adjust to boss mechanics due to being stuck in casting animation more frequently. A Warrior brings nothing to the table to make up for the deficiency as a Tank role; Paladin/Warrior dps is a common subject, yet both are extremely similar and more importantly largely irrelevant compared to the numbers real DPS classes can put out.

Even if Warrior possessed the ability to make up the gap, reactive self-heals (based on 2.5 second GCD's and off GCD ability's between) will always be worse than instant on-hit damage reduction. And with the current Warrior ability lists and mechanics, it takes multiple off GCD abilities combined with on GCD abilities to even produce one worthwhile reactive self heal, which then gimps the healing deficiency further until you can build 5 more stack of Wrath.