Quote Originally Posted by Canadane View Post
You seem to forget Grit itself is a defensive ability. Defiance isn't on it's own, and requires healing to be any sort of thing other than a nerf to the warrior using it.
Sure you can blow 50 Beast Gauge on Inner Beast for some defense on WAR, but you don't need to spend your blood on Grit like that. THere's no equivalent to the defense of Shield Oath and Grit for a Warrior.

This is the main reason Defiance and Deliverance are oGCD while Shield Oath and Grit are not.
Warriors always seem to forget that Dark Knights and Paladins also immediately lose eHP when they drop out of their tank stance, whereas Warrior only loses HP if they have a higher HP total than their Deliverance maximum. That's a big enough advantage right there to nullify the disadvantage of not receiving any immediate eHP upon swapping to Defiance.

This despite the fact that Equilibrium is essentially always available to a Warrior swapping into Defiance, allowing them to heal themselves to their full Defiance maximum on the same GCD that they tank swap, rendering the Grit/Shield Oath "advantage" totally meaningless.

And on top of that, in this instance the DRK is still penalized with 1800 MP, whereas Warrior loses absolutely nothing on stance swap.

DRK and PLD stance swaps shouldn't be kept on the GCD just because WARs like to make a big deal out of the tiny disadvantage of the Defiance stance swap, particularly when Warrior is already being compensated two or three times over for that disadvantage.

It's very much an "I stubbed my toe, so to make things fair, you have to cut off your leg" scenario.

And frankly, even if it were true and even if Defiance did suck that hard in comparison to Grit and Shield Oath, that still doesn't mean that Warrior's poor class design should be used as an excuse to inflict even worse class design on DRK and PLD.

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As for the OP: Yes, that Grit change is long overdue, and definitely needs to be put into the game ASAP.

However, making Blood Weapon and Blood Price share a button isn't a good idea. That probably would have to mean that they would also share a cooldown, and that's an unnecessary nerf that DRK really can't afford at the moment.