Live Letter - Not enough information.

[Umbeliel]

The confirmations are lackluster. Removal of stance penalty for Warrior is just fixing what they broke in the first place and doesn't address the issues brought by the changes themselves at all- just makes it playable as opposed to not. Nonspecific changes to a skill with zero purpose, and some potency changes does not and can not compensate for the complete lack of utility or identity.

Also, drk was given what was pretty much a token mention...

I'll hold final judgement til the actual notes but there's really not much to expect with what we've been given.

[Fyce]

It was a Q&A live letter. Not a patchnotes reading one. They talked about the biggest issues. If you're not happy with the amount of detail they gave, then wait a few days.

[Greedalox]

Removal of stance penalty for Warrior is just fixing what they broke in the first place

Why would I want to hear about something as trivial as "makes it playable as opposed to not?!?!"

[Umbeliel]

Why would I want to hear about something as trivial as "makes it playable as opposed to not?!?!"

Not wanting to hear about it is one thing, but pretty much saying "oops we messed up we fixed that and other stuff is happening" and moving on is... Bad. He obviously had no issue going into at least some detail for sch and mch- why is war and drk any different?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Not wanting to hear about it is one thing, but pretty much saying "oops we messed up we fixed that and other stuff is happening" and moving on is... Bad. He obviously had no issue going into at least some detail for sch and mch- why is war and drk any different?

Because Wars fix is some potency and the removal of gauge cost on swap? what more do they say?

[Xenosan]

Because Wars fix is some potency and the removal of gauge cost on swap? what more do they say?

IMHO Path buff required, a necessary fix. Shake It Off too. Removing the stance penalty though..

.. I think in the long term this could hurt WAR. With that stance penalty there was absolute cause to adjust other parts of their kit that weren't adjusted to compensate for the extra Wrath consumption. Their new burst rotation falls short of old Zerk, could have had more Wrath building methods - which was the problem of stance penalty mostly, buffs & unlinking for Inner Release and a number of other abilities (maybe see Defiance's -25% penalty reduced), and go back to a short and deep burst window opposed to the new long and shallow (which is easier to disrupt & less gains).

But the likelihood - of at least some of those improvements to their kit I would have liked to have seen - or a change to their action priorities - is mostly gone I imagine.

Warrior reached for the low-hanging fruit. SE was happy to oblige - one less monkey on their back. I've got mixed feelings on it.

[DWolfwood]

WAR is pretty straight forward and needed nothing else. They're getting extra DPS as their utility, which is by far the best utility by default imo.

DRK... yeah no info really. So many skills on DRK need work, and I know we won't get them all fixed. Knowing they're reworking Quietus is nice at least.

[BluexBird]

I think in the long term this could hurt WAR.

No, the stance swap penalty absolutely KILLED Warriors. It made opening as main tank one of the most annoying and unrewarding things in the game! It punished you for staying in Defiance for too long, AND for using Infuriate in Defiance if you were planning on swapping to Deliverance later. The only reason you had for using Infuriate early on, is so that you can pop Unchained. Which is a dumb thing to do considering Inner Release. The only times I've ever considered using Unchained was when I realized my healers were garbage and knew if I swapped to Deliverance for an Inner Release combo, I'd probably end up dying. So I just used Unchained for some AMAZING DAMAGE, WOW! SO GOOD!

With this change though, now you can at least build your enmity, switch to Deliverance and use your full damage-stance rotation properly the way the other tanks are able to! Yes, that does make Unchained even more of an obsolete skill, but between that and losing beast gauge on swaps, I prefer the former. Perhaps in the future they will realize that no sane Warrior uses Unchained, and put the two on separate cooldowns. But for now, this is a good start.

Does it fix everything? Well no. There's still the slight issue with Onslaught, and we still don't know exactly what they're doing to Shake It Off. Hopefully it's something amazing though. We'll just have to wait and see. All we can say for now is that, if they keep their word and really go through with this, Warrior will be fun to play with again.

[DWolfwood]

Does it fix everything? Well no. There's still the slight issue with Onslaught, and we still don't know exactly what they're doing to Shake It Off.

There was no issue with Onslaught, just a lot of misunderstanding. Onslaught is nearly the same potency as Fell Cleave, so it was a great ability to dump beast gauge with before swap. It's also still a dps gain if you're going to be off the boss for too long and if your beserk window is finishing and not enough gauge for another Fell Cleave.

[Shinkyo]

doesn't address the issues brought by the changes themselves at all- just makes it playable as opposed to not.

I have no clue what you're talking about...
They are fixing what needed to be fixed. The announcement was in line with what war players wanted as a balancing adjustment.
What you're expecting is much more than that and you can be certain that war isn' going to chance significantly for the rest of 4.0.
The only thing they can done (from a resource perspective) is adjust/tweak the current design.