Warrior Tanking, Potential Fix. PLEASE SUPPORT THIS!

[Mysteltain]

Maybe instead of the shield being based on your HP make it take a % of the damage you've recieved over the past X seconds, this goes better with the theme that a WAR is a reactive, not proactive, tank. We have high HP pools so we can take hits and then 'undo' the damage.

I second this, but would say it should scale off of where your current HP is with regards to your max HP. That way it adds some strategy to its use: do I want my healer to keep me topped off and I use this after a big hit, or do I tell my healer to lay off until I'm at critical HP and then pop it and get topped off? After all, if they mistime a heal and the effect kicks in at 6500/7000 HP, you just wasted it. But if you coordinate and pop it at 500/7000 HP, then your healer tops you off, you've got one hell of a high amount of working HP.

I think giving it such a high risk/reward would be good way to balance it.

[peaches]

I second this, but would say it should scale off of where your current HP is with regards to your max HP. That way it adds some strategy to its use: do I want my healer to keep me topped off and I use this after a big hit, or do I tell my healer to lay off until I'm at critical HP and then pop it and get topped off? After all, if they mistime a heal and the effect kicks in at 6500/7000 HP, you just wasted it. But if you coordinate and pop it at 500/7000 HP, then your healer tops you off, you've got one hell of a high amount of working HP.

I think giving it such a high risk/reward would be good way to balance it.

As a Scholar, the idea of letting a Warrior get down to under 1000 health scares me. Do you know how many Physicks it would take to cure 6000ish health? o.O I cure around 700-800, 1200 on a crit, and my fairy cures for 300ish. It would take me at least 6 Physicks with my fairy also curing to get you back up there.

Not saying it's a bad idea, it'd just work better with a WHM, or I'd have to pop all three Lustrates, or... something :P But it's an interesting idea

[CardeaC]

I still favor my original idea, but maybe decrease the cooldown and up the percentage of max health the shield is up. Having a 5000 damage shield once a minute would be a solid addition to our "cooldown suite."

Perhaps 75% of max health as a shield, on a 60 or 80 second cooldown.

[peaches]

I still favor my original idea, but maybe decrease the cooldown and up the percentage of max health the shield is up. Having a 5000 damage shield once a minute would be a solid addition to our "cooldown suite."

Perhaps 75% of max health as a shield, on a 60 or 80 second cooldown.

I don't have any tank class yet, I just enjoy this kind of discussion, so please forgive my ignorance - but wouldn't a 75% shield be basically as effective as a Paladin's invulnerability? With their damage mitigation, I don't think they'd be taking much more than 5000 damage over the duration of that ability, and to have that short of a cooldown seems a tad crazy :O Then again though, 5000 mitigated damage on a PLD would be a crap ton more unmitigated on a WAR. Still, 120s or so seems appropriate.

[Mysteltain]

As a Scholar, the idea of letting a Warrior get down to under 1000 health scares me. Do you know how many Physicks it would take to cure 6000ish health? o.O I cure around 700-800, 1200 on a crit, and my fairy cures for 300ish. It would take me at least 6 Physicks with my fairy also curing to get you back up there.

Not saying it's a bad idea, it'd just work better with a WHM, or I'd have to pop all three Lustrates, or... something :P But it's an interesting idea

I don't really play healers, so I wasn't really sure just how intensive it would be on you. That being said, we Warriors get a healing boost from Wrath (15% boost at 5 Wrath), as well as being able to use Inner Beast+Convalescence to get a huge heal, assuming they bothered to level up GLD for the skill. So it really wouldn't be that bad on you if the Warrior knows what they're doing.