A Question For Warriors into SB.

[MoroMurasaki]

OP I can only comment from the healer side of this but (and this is agreed upon by most casual healers over in our forum) tanks are all in general a bit squishier right now. A lot of that comes from suddenly being ilvl appropriate (or, gasp, undergeared) for the SB content. At the end of Heavensward most people were around 60 ilvls ahead of most of what they were doing.

The general consensus is with time, gear, understanding new abilities and (where appropriate) buffs things will all hit a little softer the longer you play.

Also as a healer thank you for even thinking that you might be overtaxing us, considerate tanks are awesome!

[Conando]

Yeah, as it is right now, every tank can take a pretty big beating if you don't pace yourself. It could be a new game balance, or it could just be that since we're not all ridiculously overgeared anymore, we forgot how it was. I think it's the former, though. There seemed to be a pretty big desire with the dev team to focus more on better defensive play for tanks and healers.

[Marxam]

If you're disgruntled about the WAR changes, the best possible course of action you can do is stop playing a job that you no longer find fun, and spend your time playing the game doing something that you enjoy doing.

I'm disgruntled because I'm passionate about the job. I love the story, lore and aesthetics behind it. I just hate to see my favorite job in the game just suddenly turn into a one button masher. Unfortunately game play was the deal breaker. I liked where they were taking the war in 4.0, the execution just fell a bit short of the goal. With regards to playtime, I already made my vote. I'm currently lvling up SAM and once that's 70 I'm going dps until further notice and hope that some changes will be made. Im also leveling my crafts and gatherers. I really do like this job but it just doesn't play "right" atm.

This has always been a false notion that misinforms new players.

WAR's HP does not bounce down more than the other tanks if played correctly as their CD suite is often times as effective when used and used more frequently.

WAR in 4.0 defiance is actually the one thing that improved in 4.0. The gauge allows easier access to Inner Beast thus making mitigation much more consistent and frequent which is always good for tanking.

[SargentToughie]

I'm disgruntled because I'm passionate about the job. I love the story, lore and aesthetics behind it. I just hate to see my favorite job in the game just suddenly turn into a one button masher. Unfortunately game play was the deal breaker. I liked where they were taking the war in 4.0, the execution just fell a bit short of the goal. With regards to playtime, I already made my vote. I'm currently lvling up SAM and once that's 70 I'm going dps until further notice and hope that some changes will be made. Im also leveling my crafts and gatherers. I really do like this job but it just doesn't play "right" atm.

Trust me, I am absolutely right there with you. I'm still going to offhandedly level my WAR to 70 for the sake of my friend circle, but you won't catch me dead queuing for anything DF related on a tank for the foreseeable future.

It won't take a lot to win me back, really.

I want bloodbath, I want stance dancing penalties gone, and I want to gain Attack Power from my accessories. That's really all it would take for me to shut up and go back to full time tanking.