Why are Warrior Axes so tiny?

[LineageRazor]

I think people are forgetting what a Warrior is here. A Warrior is an embodiment of wrath, rage, whatever. It's that rage that has them choose pure offense, and larger axes, which in a fantasy scene, has a much, much larger impact than smaller ones. The Titan axe is beautiful in size. When you swing it, it actually feels like you're swinging a weapon that is appropriate for what you are, a beast that destroys whatever is in it's path with ridiculous amounts of force, when you CHOOSE to.

Well, the game kind of already betrays this notion by making a WAR a tanking job. More than ANY DPS job in the game, the flavor text behind WAR talks about blood 'n guts 'n rending your enemies and whatever, but in practice, WAR's job is to hold enemies in place and keep them from beating on your buddies. A ridiculously oversized axe just compounds the silliness.

LUDICROUSLY HUGE AXE ATTACK!!!

Itty bitty damage numbers...

WAR should've been a DPS job from the start, given the lore of them being bloodthirsty combatants thirsting for blood, but since they're not, huge weapons just make them ridiculous. A NIN poking an enemy with his cute li'l pigstickers should not be doing twice the damage a great axe swing does...

[myahele]

Well, the game kind of already betrays this notion by making a WAR a tanking job. More than ANY DPS job in the game, the flavor text behind WAR talks about blood 'n guts 'n rending your enemies and whatever, but in practice, WAR's job is to hold enemies in place and keep them from beating on your buddies. A ridiculously oversized axe just compounds the silliness.

LUDICROUSLY HUGE AXE ATTACK!!!

Itty bitty damage numbers...

WAR should've been a DPS job from the start, given the lore of them being bloodthirsty combatants thirsting for blood, but since they're not, huge weapons just make them ridiculous. A NIN poking an enemy with his cute li'l pigstickers should not be doing twice the damage a great axe swing does...

You'd be surprised how many WARs out dps the dps

[VargasVermillion]

You'd be surprised how many WARs out dps the dps

DPS that lose to a tank have done something wrong though. Anyway weapon type is irrelevant to the actual damage dealt since in the lore they are destructive forces to be feared.