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

Originally Posted by Gamemako

WAR STUFF

Max HP is fine as is. Really all Thrill of Battle needs to come close to Rampart is a better cooldown time (90s), a bigger HP buff (25~33% depending on whether Rampart stacks multiplied to Shield Oath or additive respectively) and a matching heal boost for the duration. Problem I see with focusing more on healing boosts for WAR is that healers will generate more enmity than while healing a PLD. WAR already edges out a little bit against PLD but I'm not sure how well that will hold up if they are consistently receiving heals for 3k+

Originally Posted by CurlyBruce

Max HP is fine as is.

I disagree for several reasons. First, WAR eHP is lower than PLD for burst situations, so WAR is just plain easier to kill. PLD + Rampart is more eHP than WAR+ToB, and ToB is on a longer CD. Second, because Inner Beast is reactive, you can't get any benefit until HP has dropped, so you can never precast. This means that even when WAR's eHP pool is equal, the nominal HP for most situations is actually lower. In practice, this is manifested as WAR leaving a gap between current and max HP. Anyway, I've made those points in my balance thread before. I'll get back into more detail on ToB later -- it's a tough one due to the way it heals HP, which means it has some annoying scaling problems.