WAR needs a rework

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

Oky I'll be honest here I mained WAR through the later half off AAR and I have to say and this is an unpopular opinion but first NF is a shit skill. I am not saying that it doesn't have it's uses. But the fact it requires a target party member to use is stupid. Oky next let's face the elephant in the room why the fuck would you put a limit on the number of skills used during IR!!! they need to undo that let me just rage out and unga bunga the fuck out with as many fell cleves or Decimate as I can, Also why not just make PR an upgrade to Decimate.

I'm not certain if you just posted a relic of Shadowbringers days, are intentionally sarcastic or if you are genuine with this post. I really hope it is the first. But in case this is genuine, here some clarity.

Raw Intution/Bloodwhetting VS Nascent Flash
- [Raw Intuition]/[Bloodwhetting] are what you use if you only use it for yourself. This is "self-mitigation" on a short cooldown.
- [Nascent Flash] is a WAR's equivalent to PLD's [Intervention], with the difference that WAR gets double value by also healing themselves. The usecase here is "targeted mitigation".

I'm gonna blissfully ignore the Inner Release comment, because this made no sense to me.

Why Primal Rend isn't a Decimate upgrade
1.) Game-design-wise it would make it very dull if you just spammed this instead.
2.) Primal Rend requires a target and is also a dash.

[Undeadfire]

- [Nascent Flash] is a WAR's equivalent to PLD's [Intervention], with the difference that WAR gets double value by also healing themselves. The usecase here is "targeted mitigation".

Triple in a way.

Nascent Flash grans lifesteal to you and your partner, but at the time your own lifesteal feeds the same to your partner. In other words, partner gets double lifesteal.

[Launched]

Triple in a way.

Nascent Flash grans lifesteal to you and your partner, but at the time your own lifesteal feeds the same to your partner. In other words, partner gets double lifesteal.

Not true. Flash only heals you, Glint gives the target the same healing. They don't get double healing.

[Mithron]

I actually love Primal Rend and wish DRK got one too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Shadowbringer is a close second, but there's just something really satisfying about using that finisher move after Inner Release, and Confiteor/Blade of Valor with Req.

[Elizasylen]

I actually love Primal Rend and wish DRK got one too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Shadowbringer is a close second, but there's just something really satisfying about using that finisher move after Inner Release, and Confiteor/Blade of Valor with Req.

Shadowbringer is technically more burst dps but it doesn't feeeeeel impactful. With warrior every IR Fell Cleave, Inner Chaos, Primal Rend just feel good to use. Seeing those big numbers pop up is pure serotonin. Also I will never say no to more gap closers.

[Gemina]

Shadowbringer is technically more burst dps but it doesn't feeeeeel impactful. With warrior every IR Fell Cleave, Inner Chaos, Primal Rend just feel good to use. Seeing those big numbers pop up is pure serotonin. Also I will never say no to more gap closers.

PR is on the GCD. The closest DRK has to having the kind of impact PR, Fell Cleave, and Inner Chaos have is Bloodspiller. However, I wonder if this is the intent behind DRK and their skills. DRK feels like it has the power to weave shadows offensively at their enemies. Their plethora of 'Shadow' skills very much take to their name, and are hardly even tangible.

I think a way this can be addressed is if Living Shadow also grants a dmg increase for the DRK. This would have the DRK hold onto their strongest oGCDs for this window, and the DRK and their Shadow would basically unleash these skills together for a brutal burst session. Abysmal Drain and Carve and Spit sharing a CD was a poor design choice as well when it comes to the 'feel' or impact DRK has.

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

I think a way this can be addressed is if Living Shadow also grants a dmg increase for the DRK. This would have the DRK hold onto their strongest oGCDs for this window, and the DRK and their Shadow would basically unleash these skills together for a brutal burst session.

That wouldn't change anything about DRK, since that's literally what it does now.

You already use all the OGCDs when Living Shadow is out, because LS is on 2mins which means it aligns with the 2-minute burst when you want to go ham on your OGCD spam. If you're not burning every offensive OGCD you have in the general timeframe when LS is out, you're doing something majorly wrong.

As far as the topic, A rework wouldn't solve anything. Through their changes to PLD & GNB this expansion by simplifying aspects about their job design (Attonement nerf going into EW to squash optimization of attonement shifting, Continuation range increase, Bloodfest 90s -> 120s, the upcoming burstification of PLD that will no doubt place huge emphasis on Req and simplify the rest of the kit), they want to keep tanks simple to play. A rework in the hopes of giving them more complexity is pointless - effectively every single rework they've done since SHB has just made jobs simpler. Asking for a WAR rework would be likely to just make them make it even more smooth brain, like removing eye's gauge generation while changing path's generation to 25 so everything would be cleanly divisble by 25 and prevent overcapping on combos or getting non- /25 values when using infuriate + combos, or removing Storm's eye entirely and baking its damage buff into WAR's potencies by default.