A detailed Reaction to Warrior in SB

[Tegernako]

Just seems like after a vague live letter people are already optimistic over the little tidbits (not just from this thread).

Like Shake It Off is obviously a hot topic, yet really know nothing of what will come of it. It's great that the community spoke up about it and is getting a change that we can enjoy.
And my earlier comment was a bit vague I suppose, acknowledgement of problems is great, but there is still some other things to be addressed.

And the question of what a warrior was, I asked only because I'm genuinely curious what other players think. Was it the self-sustaining tank or the high damaging tank?

*shrugs*

I'm not naturally a pessimistic person. Just a part of who I am. Not going to excuse being happy.

For me, WAR was always a fluid fun class that helped out the team in numerous ways. I love competition. I am constantly close to or MvP in nearly all fps games I play like Halo, Battlefield, and other games like Gears of War.

So for me I have two things, one fun factor. I don't play games unless I find them fun. And two competitive factor, how useful I am to my team with what I have at my disposal.

For instance in Battlefield the Aug A3 was not the best gun in the game. But it was still my favorite gun. Therefore I used it the most. However that being said I would tryhard with other weapons I absolutely needed every advantage. So 70% of the time me being better then everyone else is enough for me to do what I want but there's that 7% from my 77% win/loss ratio that came because I went full try hard and used all the best setups in the game.

You may be asking why this matters, how does Halo an fps game or battlefield another fps game fit in here?

It's because for both games I play for fun first and foremost but I also like winning.

But XIV is not an fps and it's also my first mmo.

So I didn't choose warrior at first because it was meta, I chose it because I knew tanks didn't die easily and someone told me that it had good self healing. I was scared of not being an asset in a genre I hadn't dedicated myself too. It just happened to turn out that WAR was really good at a lot of things.

But the reason I stuck with the class, was because I loved the fast, fluid, brutal nature of the class. But I also enjoyed what I brought to the team in terms of utility later on when I learned all about the other classes and cleared my first EX (King Mog) and continued onwards. It's nice to be fun to play but it's also nice to be wanted by others.

So warrior to me, is a class that is fun to play but also useful. It'll be fun to play again come tuesday but it won't be useful. That is why I place hope on shake it off because it's literally their only chance to add a "new" ability" that makes us useful AND fun to play without having to completely overhaul multiple abilities which would take far more work to balance then simply redoing one ability.

If they realized and fixed one of their biggest mistakes coming into SB with stance dancing and lesser damage then maybe, just maybe, I can trust them to fix the other issue given time.

(And yes, I am primarily an xbox player lol that is my sin apparently )

(also to add irony to this post, this is my 117th post. So I guess I'm Master Chief now)