Quote Originally Posted by Nedkel View Post
If i want to play something complex i would play DPS.

Tanks should be straight forward, not complex, their responsibility for the run/dungeon/trial/raid is too high to make it complicated to play, it will mess up anything below 75% percentile and there will be a fountain of complains about tanks not being able to do X and Y.
Warrior didn't have to be played in a complex way. You could still sit in tank stance and spam IB and unchained/zerk for days if that's what you wanted to do. Even in offense you could do a lot of damage just using zerk and IR when they were up. But the ceiling for warrior was much higher. You could really get down to the nitty gritty and squeeze a lot out of War with good, precise play. And for the effort of doing that, there was a payoff. Managing your gauge to setup for strong zerk and IR windows was a goal to keep shooting for as you learned raid fights better and better. But at the same time you could still play casual dungeon warrior and never leave defiance and be very safe and reasonably effective spamming IB all day.

Now the floor has been raised (you don't need to do very much to be effective offensively), and the ceiling went down (once you do the basics theres really not a lot of room left to grow). Warrior used to represent the magical "easy to learn, hard to master" design that every game strives to achieve. War has always been a very safe, sturdy, non-punishing tank with good defence and enmiy generation. But it also had a lot of room to learn and grow offensively. Now its just "Easy to learn.......The End."

For people who never set foot outside of dungeons warrior suddenly got 'awesome', but it was entirely playable and always very effective at lower levels long before the IR change anyway. So you just got to enjoy big numbers for little effort you weren't seeing before, but it was always a sturdy safe tank for beginners anyway. For everyone else that wants to push the envelope, it became extremely limiting and restrictive on what you can do with the job.