5.0 WAR is a disappointment

[Draemoris]

Oh god.


It's PRETTY obvious that you don't know what you are talking about, but you are trying really hard to look like you do. As much as we complain that warrior is braindead easy(which is true) we can't deny that it is also one of the complex tanks when in comes to optimization as in fights you have to put a lot more thought than gnb. Like there might be a minor downtime and you'll have to think whether you have enough time to do another SP or you'll need to reapply SE. Or you constantly need to land certain attacks in buff windows, if that ninja is late on trick you have to adjust, if you had to use onslaught cause otherwise you would've lost gcd, you have to adjust your gauge management. All that while also being careful not to overcap. And that's why its more complex, you have to think and adjust and not blindly follow your rotation. It still doesn't make warrior any more interesting cause its rotation is piss easy and extremely boring. When all of the job's complexity comes not from its rotation but from outside factors like fights and other players it's a pretty bad design.
While gnb is straight forward: JUST PRESS EVERYTHING ON COOLDOWN. Yeah sometimes you need to change your opener and that means your rotation changes, but you STILL PRESS EVERYTHING ON COOLDOWN. But you know what? Its still more fun than WAR, cause its rotation is engaging, double weaving is engaging, high apm is engaging, having big numbers is engaging.

BUT gnb numbers should stay high as compared to other tanks their party support is not that great. OH WAIT warriors have the worst OT support skill, that sick 10% + health restored, which has any use ONLY IF you time it right, while you also sacrifice raw intuition that could've been used to power up another underwhelming(compared to other tanks) support ability "Shake it off". Unlike other tanks' abilities that provide mitigation for 15 secs, SIO can just pop and you're left with nothing for continuous raidwides. AND despite all that WAR is close to last in dps. So i heard you are all about that balance, and judging by warrior's clearly inferior party support it should absolutely be top dps tank. You wouldn't be against that, would you?

You can't really claim that warrior is difficult because it has to do things every other job in the game also has to do. I really think you should probably just reroll since Warrior isn't doing it for you, if you can't make it work, that doesn't suddenly mean it has an issue. It could definitely use a boost, but you're making it sound way worse than it actually is and are claiming it's *also* complex, which is factually incorrect. There is nothing complex about warrior itself, adjusting isn't specifically a "warrior" thing, every job has to adjust for mechanics and downtime.

EDIT: "that's why its more complex, you have to think and adjust and not blindly follow your rotation." Nobody should blindly follow their rotation. Your entire argument can be summed up with "I have to do things everyone else does in order to succeed" and you would be correct, you do and I don't see the issue with needing to adjust the way you play to meet the requirements of the content. Literally everything you're complaining about can be applied to other jobs and they get by just fine.