IS WAR as hard as it seems?

[Jim_Berry]

I'm not sure how it is since Heavensward. Back when I leveled WAR to Lv50, I had fun with it until I tried endgame content. Found out I had a higher survival rate as PLD instead. I have no intentions to take WAR past Lv51 lol...

[Mendalas]

I'm not sure how it is since Heavensward. Back when I leveled WAR to Lv50, I had fun with it until I tried endgame content. Found out I had a higher survival rate as PLD instead. I have no intentions to take WAR past Lv51 lol...

Things changed a lot in HW for warrior. The survival rate is not quite that of a paladin, but pretty darn close. Warrior makes up for the lack of mitigation with the insane amount of self healing it provides with bloodbath, inner beast, storm's path, and equilibrium. Not to mention you now get raw intuition as yet another defensive cd. Pair this with the existing cd's such as vengeance, foresight, and the cross class abilities from paladin that you can use and you can see how warrior is extremely powerful.

On top of all this, warrior does the most damage out of any tank and is arguably the most fun. There is also the amazing dps stance that they gave is called deliverance that allows you to do an extremely powerful AOE and single target attack. And since you can switch in and out of deliverance/defiance off the global cd and the stacks of wrath/abandon are converted when you change stances, you can pull off some insane burst damage. Starting a pull and building your first few wrath stacks, use berserk, internal release, blood bath/vengeance (to keep you up and for extra stacks), pop deliverance at 5 stacks and do double decimate using infuriate followed by overpower spam until berserk is over. I usually switch back to defiance after that since you get 5 seconds of downtime unless you have a competent healer that can keep you up and dispel the debuff. I can't tell you how satisfying that is to do in expert roulette or any big trash pull. You can also do the same thing on a boss fight using the single target attack fel cleave for some MASSIVE damage, especially if you critical strike. Sure makes dungeons go a lot faster!