Buffing Warriors damage in Xpac?

[Kuwagami]

buff inner beast to 300% self heal
buff blood to 50% seal heal
nerf defiance to 10% heal bonus or maybe even remove it, if you can can heal yourself better then healers wont need to heal you as much so the defiance buff isn't really needed

#1 was already there and was a failure. Much better now.
#2 would be nice as a trait if nothing better comes in between
#3 would just set PLD as the one and only tank. Defiance as it is now is already weaker than shield oath (not by a lot, but it is) because you need more heals to regen the same HP.

also, DRK is apparently going to be a parry/dodge tank. Please explain how that is what the WAR is supposed to be (meat tank) ?

[DonkeyPooh]

#1 was already there and was a failure. Much better now.
#2 would be nice as a trait if nothing better comes in between
#3 would just set PLD as the one and only tank. Defiance as it is now is already weaker than shield oath (not by a lot, but it is) because you need more heals to regen the same HP.

also, DRK is apparently going to be a parry/dodge tank. Please explain how that is what the WAR is supposed to be (meat tank) ?

I would say it was less of a failure and more of a too "complex" for most people to operate properly. Since it required healers to know when u were going to IB as to prevent overhealing. The biggest "failure" with the old version of WAR was tying the healing bonus into Wraith stacks. Which made most warriors afraid to ever even use them. I actually prefered WAR how it was except for a few minor changes and wish they devs would have kept it more of a "blood" tank than and PLD w/out a shield with more health as it is now. IMO there really is not many major playing differences in pld and war.

[Kuwagami]

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As much as I'd want to agree, I won' allow myself to be blind regarding the major flaws of WAR back then. IB had no mitigation buff, and while communication about it to prevent overhealing was appreciable, WAR were next to incapable of tanking T5, and would have been utterly unable to tank T9, and maybe any of the new Coil (T10-13) due to high damaging skill happening far too often to throw vengeance for all of them. During the 2 month period before the WAR revamp, finding a group for coil was nearly impossible as a WAR. Now they just ask you to OT at most, if they even bother to make the distinction.

WARs would have worked properly as meat bags if they had had like +40% hp instead of +25%, and something like +30-40% heals to make up for the "no defensive CD" thing. Numbers may be a bit high, but when you have no mitigation options, you have to truly make up for it, and 2.0 were simply unable to do that.