Thread: 5.0 WAR is a disappointment

Originally Posted by BarretOblivion

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There's a very clear and obvious reason why WAR is significantly less popular than the other tanks, that being that it is more or less obsolete in its current state. It does more or less equal DPS to DRK while having mostly comparable mitigation to GNB. Yet each of the other tanks offers something that WAR doesn't; PLD having more DPS and significantly more utility, DRK being the reigning king of mitigation, and GNB bringing the highest raw DPS. If WAR's DPS was more closely tied to GNB's (but still slightly behind) then it would be fine, imo. GNB would still have a little more DPS while WAR would be close behind and trade a bit of raw mitigation out for healing.

As for Titan screwing you out of IR multiple times during the fight, I don't know what to tell you other than that you're timing your IR incorrectly. It's possible for him to screw with IR exactly one single time during the fight, and that's if he does car second instead of gauntlets in phase 1 since most of the time that happens I end up having to manually click off IR after 3 or 4 Fell Cleave's so as to not get screwed over by the knockback immunity on the move. Other than that it all lines up perfectly fine, so if you're having multiple IR issues on Titan then I'm sorry to say but you're doing something wrong.

Edit: WAR isn't below the other tanks by a "vast" margin in savage clears. It's the lowest, for sure. However there are currently 18,822 logged kills for Paladin, 15,977 for Dark Knight, 13,091 for Gunbreaker, and 10.041 for Warrior across the whole savage tier. No one will argue that Gunbreaker is unpopular, and the difference between them is almost exactly 3,000 clears, in a question of tens of thousands. A difference to be sure, but not large enough to be considered a "vast" margin. The only place there is a significant margin is in Alexander ultimate, and in that case there are almost 4x as many clears for both Dark Knight AND Paladin as there are for Gunbreaker and Warrior.