Thread: Warrior "buff" in 2.1: not what we are expecting?

Raising parry a ton = bulwark= onlyphysical= not very useful.

Originally Posted by Fyreus

It still lowers damage taken over the duration of the fight, which makes a difference.

The current changes do this a lot more effectively than your suggestion would.

Originally Posted by Leiron

Raising parry a ton = bulwark= onlyphysical= not very useful.

What. How can you discount a free ~26% damage reduction on a completely separate roll? The only non-physical boss in coil is ADS.

I would kill for a parry buff on my warrior for turn 4. Hell even turn 1. Then again we abuse turn 1 by not killing blobs after the split. Works great.

Even if we got a parry buff it would have to be higher % than bulwark to make it equal because block is on a separate roll.

I was thinking about this, I'm sure others have mentioned it, but what about healing a portion of incoming damage? Like 30-50% depending on duration? That would scale with incoming damage and still be the self-healing aspect of WAR. Finally ran T1 with WHM and could not keep the WAR tank up after the split, just couldn't heal fast enough. Maybe the SCH should have been healing him, or maybe there was too many stacks, not sure it was my first attempt so maybe I just suck. Either way, I couldn't keep him up.

Originally Posted by whiskeybravo

I was thinking about this, I'm sure others have mentioned it, but what about healing a portion of incoming damage? Like 30-50% depending on duration? That would scale with incoming damage and still be the self-healing aspect of WAR. Finally ran T1 with WHM and could not keep the WAR tank up after the split, just couldn't heal fast enough. Maybe the SCH should have been healing him, or maybe there was too many stacks, not sure it was my first attempt so maybe I just suck. Either way, I couldn't keep him up.

Unfortunately, this would dip into mechanics that Dark Knight would use (if it became a tank). So Square Enix will probably hold off until level update to see if they turn Warrior into a self heal tank (unlikely) and scrap Dark Knight (unlikely), or make Dark Knight a DPS (plausible).

Originally Posted by Enjin

What. How can you discount a free ~26% damage reduction on a completely separate roll? The only non-physical boss in coil is ADS.

I am not, Fyreus' idea was not in conjunction with the inner beast/vengeance/holmgang changes.

Originally Posted by Enjin

I would kill for a parry buff on my warrior for turn 4. Hell even turn 1. Then again we abuse turn 1 by not killing blobs after the split. Works great.

You do?
You gotta explain that one to me.
We need to kill the blobs off for removing stacks cause the WAR offtank just gets crushed.

Originally Posted by Enjin

Even if we got a parry buff it would have to be higher % than bulwark to make it equal because block is on a separate roll.

No, not quite.
If you want the cooldowns to be equal, you can keep it the same and that would be fine.

Originally Posted by Leiron

You do?
You gotta explain that one to me.
We need to kill the blobs off for removing stacks cause the WAR offtank just gets crushed.

I'm sure there are different methods. Not speaking for Enjin, but my group does the kite method. There is a couple different ways you can implement it. Burn the PLD's (MTs) real quick while the Warrior gets ST threat. Soon as his drops you sprint/kite around the room. Not too hard to do with triggered tail swipes. Don't get too far ahead or he'll cut across tiles. Or you could burn the Warrior's (if you are able to regulate slimes easy and keep pre split Cad in check have Warrior MT) then have PLD Kite.

Some groups just have the DD/heals to kill both before X stacks as well, that might eat your Warrior.