Thread: Warrior 4.0 Concerns

don't think i will ever use that charge attack since it only has 100 potency, consumes beast gauge and you can't use it as a pulling move since infuriate is unusuable pre battle
not to mention berserk now is nothing more than poor man's fight or flight, same damage increase, same cooldown but the duration is 10 seconds shorter
and bloodbath is gone too, this new war won't be as bad as 2.0 war, but it will be less fun to play than 3.0 war
i might even change main job permanently if this is the direction they're taking

The cost for switching stance is a big concern for me when it comes to opener. I think it's going to either be quick unchained (tomahawk > eye combo > unchained > block combo > deliverance) to minimize the gauge cost, or the current "meta" opener (tomahawk > equilibrium > deliverance) at the cost of losing a big self heal and hp cushion from defiance.

Even if we're not pulling bosses to do the 6 cleaves opener we'd have to build up 100 gauge, which takes at the very least 4 full combos (eye path path eye berserk), and holding your opener burst for 30s into the fight doesn't seem like a good idea since you'll miss out on a lot of raid buffs. Has anyone come up with opener examples yet?

Another thing that troubles me with WAR 4.0 is how the Beast bar will work in dungeon trash AoE. As it stands, the bar only increases via combo weaponskills and Infuriate. What happens in the case of AoE then? Be forced to do single target hits to generate AoE hits? Or just cling to that one Infuriate for a single hit?

Please share how you imagine WAR 4.0 trash AoE.

Originally Posted by FallenWings

Same old Overpower spam and Decimates if you have your Beast Gauge pre-charged from an earlier pull/Infuriate.

I can really see warrior being a bit squishy without blood bath plus overpower i just dont see rampart doing the same justice

Can confirm warrior is a little squishy without bloodbath overpower because I forgot bloodbath was even a thing when I got back in and still do if I'm tired enough. But to be honest it'll be really easy for me to conform because I barely used bloodbath.

WAR is an even stronger MT than it was before. non of their defensive skills got nerfed nor taken away. it seems some of you give bloodbath more credit then it deserves. rampart is by far a superior cd. not just for single targets but also for dungeon packs.
pulling in dungeons isn't much different than before either as you still do overpower by fitting in eye combo to gain that damage buff. berserk is available more often aswell without the drawback. war's biggest handicap for big pulls still remains TP management.
as with all tank discussions atm it seems ppl are to still set with their mind in tanking everything in dps stance. that's not the goal of SE nor was that ever the general way of doing things. it's simple the fallout of individuals trying to enforce the so called meta onto every content without having the skills or the party support that is needed to make it work. the 3.x desease as you could call it.