Suggestion: Warrior improvements

[Veronyca]

So my primary role in this game, is warrior. i feel that the development team has put forth a good effort in trying to keep paladin and warrior balanced, however it still is not there. while we have been raised to a comparable level to that of a paladin in terms of defense, our offensive scale is sadly NOT where it should be. we are still slightly behind paladin in terms of mitigation ability, which IS COMPLETLEY OK! but as a trade off.... our over all damage capabilities should be expected to be WAY higher than a paladins..... however... they arent.....

heres some tweaks to existing abilities, and new abilities that i feel would help warrior shine more at dealing out that damage.... it would also remove the need to put in that terrible tank swap mechanic.


Some suggestions to increase warriors damage output by tweaking existing effects.

Defiance - Reduce damage penalty to 10%

Berserk - Remove pacification. its pointless for it to be there. no other offensive cool-down gives this large of a detriment. infact only ONE Other offensive cool-down gives any detriment, and its not that bad.....

Improved Fracture - Cut the TP cost in half, Remove it from the global, and allow it to not break chain.
Fracture is largely just a TP sink at this point in the game, as the damage it puts out is minimaly better in comparison to standard abilities. on paper its great, but its TP drain sucks, and the fact that i have to Put off either my enmity combo, or debuffing rotation to do it is stupid.

Increase our overall base damage by 10%... its a freaking greataxe... it should hurt when we hit somebody, but 99% of the time the damage is laughable .... i mean FFS... the marauder quest is about shattering BOULDERS with an axe half the time. don't see paladins doing that.....



or we could do New job abilities.... if you want to go that route.

Oor Dolg (Nordic for Battle Frenzy) This is intended to be analogous of Defiance
TP Cost: 0
Recast: 10 S
Cannot be used with defiance
Increases base damage by 25%
Reduces Healing Received by 20%
Prevents Bonus Enmity Generation from abilities
Abilities generate wrath (Infuriate, Steel Cyclone & Inner beast work with Oor Dolg)

Inner beast: Restores 300% of damage dealt as HP – Increases attack speed by 5% for 8 seconds
Steel Cyclone: Increased Critical Hit rate. Critical hits Stun your opponents

Fury Break
TP Cost: 0
Recast: 0
Potency: 200%
Requires Enraged V
Only Useable with Oor Dolg
Consumes all Wrath when used
Delivers an area of effect attack
Additional Effect: Applies Current targets Warrior Debuffs to all targets in melee range, and refreshes their effect duration to their maximum. (works with Storms Eye, Storms Path, and Fracture)
** off of global

Rampage
TP Cost: 0
Recast: 5M
Duration: 30 Seconds
Only Useable with Oor Dolg
Grants 5 wrath
Lowers wrath cost for moves to 1 (maximum of 5 Wrath powered moves)
Additional Effect: “Exhaustion”
“Exhaustion”: Prevents any Wrath Generation for 60 seconds

War Cry
TP Cost: 200
Recast: 3 Minutes
Any Stance – Generates 2 wrath – No Stance – Recovers 400 TP
Oor Dolg: Lowers all enemies defense by 10% for 30 seconds
Defiance: Lowers all enemies Attack by 10% for 30 seconds
No Stance: Enhances the melee attack speed of all party members in range by 10% for 30 seconds

Tivar Hamarr (Gods Hammer)
Level 30
Tp Cost: 150
Potency: 125%
Recast 45 Seconds
Any Stance – Generates 1 wrath
Can only be used when 10-20 Yalms from target
Leap to your target and deliver an area attack to targets within range (range is equal to fire arrow radial icon)

[Tiggy]

Take Defiance off. The warrior will now do more damage. The entire point of Defiance mode is to tank. Not to do damage. I don't think these suggestions are required at all. If you want a DD then just play a DD.

[Thorauku]

The only change I want for WAR is Holmgang. How come I can't freely move when I bind someone using my chain?

[Alvarion]

Take Defiance off. The warrior will now do more damage. The entire point of Defiance mode is to tank. Not to do damage. I don't think these suggestions are required at all. If you want a DD then just play a DD.

You know, I am not for or against any of the suggestions made by the OP, but god forbid you enjoy playing a class/job, right? I mean, who wants more versatility? I know I sure don't..... /sarcasm.

[SpookyGhost]

The only change I want for WAR is Holmgang. How come I can't freely move when I bind someone using my chain?

Being stuck in place isn't so bad, but being able to live with 1 HP and still requiring mass heals is a bit... meh. It'd be cool if Holmgang had an increased healing received buff so that it didnt take Cure 2/Lustrate bombs to get you back up to full.

[Sotek]

The only change I want for WAR is Holmgang. How come I can't freely move when I bind someone using my chain?

Because you're still holding onto the chain? The animation makes it seem like you throw the chain at the enemy, pull them in, and hold them there. If you could move around then you would effectively be holding a lead and you'd be pulling the enemy. I just wish Holmgang had a longer range...

[PArcher]

Berserk - Remove pacification. no other offensive cool-down gives this large of a detriment. infact only ONE Other offensive cool-down gives any detriment, and its not that bad...

Pacification on Berserk is actually useful in long fights...a forced break to regen TP. WAR have no other means to do so other than to stop attacking completely (PLD have Shield Swipe, the other three TP users have Invigorate)

Also, the other detrimental CD, AKA Blood For Blood...yeah, I'll take 5 seconds of Pacification over the potential to be OHKed anyday...oh, and that +50% damage instead of +30% (or 10% for cross-class)...


You also know that Fracture isn't the most TP-costly DoT, right? Phlebotomize, Windbite and Venomous Bite all cost 90 TP...


As for the rest, WAR is fine. I vastly prefer to WAR over PLD due to the versatility, and its just more fun. And like its been said, just turn off Defiance when you're not tanking if you need to DPS...

[RaideDuku]

Don't expect too much sympathy from BRD's and SMN's, considering that the last patch ripped abilities from them and gave them to WARs. You want to do DPS, play a DPS class.

[FelisC]

WAR already does quite a bit more DPS than PLD, at least in my experience. If you're that worried about your DPS, stance dance more; you can get away with it in most fights.

Although it'd be cool to have another stance that outright increased DPS and dps abilities, that's asking a lot for a single class.

[Junpei]

NO 2 OP.

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