Rest in peace War dps

[Sousoulsu]

Having started to main WAR on this new patch, I may not be as affected as long time WAR mains, but damn those fell cleave crits while on berserker are still delicious to contemplate, somehow overall DPS on WAR feels right and being able to moderately stance swap for fell cleaving and berserker while maintaining safe margin of aggro is still doable and satisfying.

Your experience is what people need to remember: The playstyle of shifting smoothly between dealing and mitigating damage. The damage numbers were just lowered, and not even drastically.

[Galgarion]

... and don't see why people are complaining about "tanks approaching bad DPS numbers", as Galgarion was fearmongering about, with almost no context.?

I wasn't fear mongering. I think it's awesome. No matter how many surgeries they perform, the worm keeps growing baaaaaaack.

[RapBreon]

This is correct.
It'll be similar to that one MMO about Orcs and Humans fighting that's been out for a decade. Warriors in that game scaled much better with gear than most classes; so in the early parts of an expansion their DPS would be lackluster, but as time went on in the expansion cycle it got astronomically higher.

Gear scaling is fun 'w'

I like it when I understand things gud!

[PogueX]

WAR is still more fun to play though. I get bored playing pally with the 1...2...3 combos all day

[Synestra]

WAR is still more fun to play though. I get bored playing pally with the 1...2...3 combos all day

All 3 tanks has 3 combos so if you just do 1.2.3 then you are doing it wrong.

[Iagainsti]

All 3 tanks has 3 combos so if you just do 1.2.3 then you are doing it wrong.

I know what they're referring to, since I ise the same term for pally. Its the least combo oriented of the 3 tanks, so it feels like 1,2,3 zzz half the time.

Pvp though, Paladins are sweet

[Synestra]

Its the least combo oriented of the 3 tanks, so it feels like 1,2,3 zzz half the time.

I dunno as i find DRK even more Zzzz when you are in MP building phase, that is literally good ol 1,2,3 with random ogcd due procs. Not to mention DRK animations feels slow as hell >_>

[Ragology]

Not to mention DRK animations feels slow as hell >_>

I think DRK was animated that way so that the combat would appear as seamless, nonstop sword strokes. Much like how Paladins "stab, wait, stab again" is masked by their frequent blocking (so we can assume the PLD is taking a moment to watch the opponent and counter their blows.) War gets to appear slow because its an axe.

[SpookyGhost]

PLD also has quicker autos, so in-between their 123 are sword pokes that make it seem more seamless. DRK is just a million oGCDs, then you run out until Low Blow resets or something comes off CD, at which point you look a bit slower. WAR is generally slow moving as we only have one real oGCD and our autos are slow (but strong).

[Synestra]

WAR is generally slow moving as we only have one real oGCD and our autos are slow (but strong).

I still find WAR faster than DRK when oGCD's are on CD tho, must be due how animations are made for DRK.