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

I have one request. If the Inner Beast buff goes through make it so paladins can rotate a reliable 20% damage reduction on each death sentence too.

Originally Posted by Wizhard

I have one request. If the Inner Beast buff goes through make it so paladins can rotate a reliable 20% damage reduction on each death sentence too.

yea its called shield oath

in all seriousness, there are some not needed buff like unchained/mercy stroke CD, but otherwise it very well thought of changes overall. It really doesnt change the meta much as pld + warr is already preferred spec in T5.

Originally Posted by NightReach

yea its called shield oath

in all seriousness, there are some not needed buff like unchained/mercy stroke CD, but otherwise it very well thought of changes overall. It really doesnt change the meta much as pld + warr is already preferred spec in T5.

Shield Oath is an answer to Defiance not the new Inner Beast.

Originally Posted by Wizhard

Shield Oath is an answer to Defiance not the new Inner Beast.

Except warriors needed an answer to shield oath because shield oath was so much better than defiance. I forget the math for it, but it's something to do with healing, which defiance stacks not making up for the increased healing warriors need. Even with the proposed buff to defiance, it's still not enough to equal shield oath.

Originally Posted by Wizhard

Shield Oath is an answer to Defiance not the new Inner Beast.

sarcasm... would u like to buy some? Dime a dozen

Everyone and their mom would take shield oath over defiance any day regardless if the skills are mathematically equal. As most of the discrepancy comes from if both classes suffer a double 4000 potency atk, a 8000 hp warrior would be dead, while a 6500 hp pld would survive not to mention the mental fatigue on healer when they see warrior health jump up and down.

Additionally you still have block which unlike parry reduces magic damage as well as physical. people seems to forgot how much block helps.

Originally Posted by NightReach

Additionally you still have block which unlike parry reduces magic damage as well as physical. people seems to forgot how much block helps.

Since when? As far as I've seen, you can only block physical attacks. I have never blocked the ADS attacks from turn 2 for example.

Originally Posted by Ladon

Since when? As far as I've seen, you can only block physical attacks. I have never blocked the ADS attacks from turn 2 for example.

My mistake then, I do believe you can block death sentence, but I have never parried death sentence before.

Originally Posted by Tano

since inner beast is off gcd.

lolwat do you even warr?

also it is not the same as i said 2 4000 potency attack will instantly kill a warrior but will not kill a similar geared pld.

Originally Posted by NightReach

My mistake then, I do believe you can block death sentence, but I have never parried death sentence before.

You can both block and parry death sentence as it is a standard physical attack. I regularly block and parry it.

Shield block functions exactly the same as parry, it's just an extra check that an enemy has to go through to do full damage to a Paladin. We can also fortunately improve it with better shields as well.

I will not discredit the overall benefit of shield block as it is a very nice bonus for tanking, however it simply is not a mechanic that can be compared to any 100% chance active mitigation skill since shield blocking is unreliable and it limited to physical type damage only.