What WAR needs; compilation

[Darthvoltrius]

General wishful thinking:

Introduce attack food, this would buff second wind and general self heal/dmg done/ dd jobs in general.

I hope they add the unique ability buffs/passives on AF/Future AF upgrades like AF3 version or whatever, like WHM body: cure potency +15%, WAR body: Double Attack x%, BLM: Increase x magic potency + x%/etc but very hard to get (harder than coil stuff for exmaple)
or they could add that stuff right now if they added "special materia" that's only gotten from crystal tower/coil and meldable only once per armor piece or only meldable on af2. (im a personal believer that allagan gear should have come from mythology and af2 from coil (just feels like af2 should be the iconic gear people should be aiming for but whatever doesn't really matter that much)

Make AF1 Revelant in the future, necessary to upgrade to AF3 for example.

There's so much potential for this game =/

[castillle]

Erm..how about change PLD instead?

Shield Oath - 15% reduced damage taken
Rampart - Cross Class skill (buff to 25% reduction for paladin)

[Eightbit]

Erm..how about change PLD instead?

Shield Oath - 15% reduced damage taken
Rampart - Cross Class skill (buff to 25% reduction for paladin)

Nerfing Paladin doesn't really help warrior though. Come any new content you will see warrior struggling even more with the same issues unless they add some changes to the class to improve it.

[Hundred]

Storm path could absorb some more health.
I don't have much qualm with WAR but I don't like Storm path's heal. If I pop unchained + Berserk and crit, then it's visible otherwise I don't think a healer can feel it. Sure if im soloing and do say 6 Storm paths I'll see a difference between how much health I have with that combo vs if I had done BB combo, it'll be small but it's there. However against a boss it's hard to justify.

[Yagrush]

Also, I would keep Warrior on the "Self-healing tank who need no direct mitigation" niche, leave the parry-specialization to the possible Samurai Tank job that many people are speculating.

[Marxam]

Defiance is fine as is. Its the wrath stacking that kills it. I think all (if not most) of the skills when under defiance should produce wrath of some kind. i.e Overpower produce's 0.5 stacks meaning spamming OP 4 times would give you two stacks.

There should also be a rotation bonus for successful execution. That way you can build 5 stacks in two rotations rather than 2.5.

i.e Heavy Swing > Skull Sunder (add one stack) > Butcher Block (add one stack) > (one stack bonus for next Heavy Swing) > Heavy Swing (add one stack) > etc.

And I do not agree with giving wars more def cd's cause the point of a war is to "manually" mitigate the damage. Meaning "you" the "player" must mitigate it yourself and that is the true nature of how wars should be treated. Not as a passive buff like shield oath. Also fix Storm's Path because the tp cost far outweighs its utility and the measly 50% of hp absorbed (roughly 70-120 hp) is not worth the 10% slash debuff from Storm's eye imo.

[LunaChild]

just saying some ideas.

make Steel cyclone and Inner beast have buff after used.
example;
Steel cyclone : reduce damage taken or increase some defensive stat for 10s
Inner beast : increase some offensive stat for 10-15s

[Hundred]

Have Second Wind affected by convalescence and Wrath
Steel cyclone reduces Fire resistance.
Bloodbath: +25% (50%) absorb under Defiance
Storm Path + 100% (150%) absorb under Defiance

[Trapslick]

Ok, this is the way i see the War

Warrior: Self sustain (heals) and DPS (higher damage)

as of right now, warriors do a horrible job at that, 100 dps extra that warriors have is almost noticeable when in a 4 man group. I think that if you fixed it so that warriors did a good job at their more specific philosophies, we would be more forgiving of the faults

Favorite ideas
Self sustain:
1) Self heals (does not apply to friendly heals or potions) will add to a shield that degrades exponentially over time (example: 100 shield degrades slowly, 3k degrades rather quickly), allowing for things like bloodbath to never be a useless buff.
2) make Storm's Path useful... to put things in perspective, since it takes 3 attacks to trigger it, it has a healing potency of ~40 on gcd (or 10% of second wind). I would personally be happy if you took it off the combo and took away its wrath generation (imo: up heal to 66%, lower damage to 150)

Extra DPS:
Decrease damage resistance instead of slashing resistance. actually noticeable damage difference in a party of 8 would be awesome (~12% difference instead of ~2% vs Paladins)
remove damage debuff from defiance, it seems counter productive to the mentality of a Warrior. Unchained could just be a damage buff

Notice: I'm not a number cruncher, so please be forgiving if my numbers are off, but i'm just trying to get a general idea out there

[SwordCoheir]

Eh I think there should be faster ways to build up Wraith to help utilize Inner Beast and Steel Cyclone better, otherwise give us ways to reduce the useage of Wraith.

Some Examples

- Let Heavy Swing build Wraith
- Boost the amount of Wraith by 2 when Unchained is in effect.
- Allow all abilities to build Wraith when Unchained is in effect
- When Unchained in effect all Wraith moves consume one charge.
- Increase the recast of Unchained but abilities will no longer consume wraith during it's effect.

Just throwing out some ideas there.