Quote Originally Posted by Cabalabob View Post
if those fell cleaves weren’t direct crits you were losing a massive portion of your damage dealt due to pure RNG
This is a good point. The number of hits (oGCDs included) a warrior can land during a 15 sec buff window pales in comparison to DRK and GBR. Pali has one more with requi than warrior (along with a dot that is constantly ticking). The shear volume alone reduces dramatically the RNG variance over the course of the fight. The GCD potency boost would need to be absolutely astronomical on warrior to compensate properly for the loss of guaranteed high dmg. Again, this is because beyond the gapcloser spam that every tank has, warrior has just one oGCD, upheaval. DMG comes from oGCDs, as adding in a big GCD hit (like primal rend) doesn't really add that much as it competes with whatever GCD u would be doing instead. An oGCD on the other hand, has no competition and thus it is 100% effective DPS increase.

DRK got 1200 oGCD potency in EW. All of it can be used under raid buffs. Massive boost on shadow clone too, which is again oGCD, good chunk of it goes under raid buffs. oGCD retrigger on salted earth. I wonder y DRK does so much dmg now huh.
GBR got continuation on burst strike. A big GCD hit every minute. Overall DMG boost feels more reasonable than above DRK.
Pali: lol. While cool the new ranged combo was barely better than the melee combo. No wonder they were so far behind until they got much needed potency boosts.
WAR: primal rend GCD ability. That's it. 1 min IR, free gapclosers and upheavel was y warrior was well ahead of pali.

For this reason, because id rather not see warrior turned into another oGCD monkey job, it is best to keep the CDH moves and to make sure stats above 100% do not get wasted in order to stay competitive. Personally i dont understand y GBR with lots of oGCDs has one that does 700 potency (yup, same as primal rend potency on an oGCD and HALF the CD). Upheaval and burst strike should trade potency values.