Warrior QoL wish list I'd like to see in 5.1 ~ 5.5

[OmegaSinX]

I feel like the community has been pooping all over Warrior as of late but I for one, still love the job. While PLDs are raking up the highest numbers in parse and they bring the most raid utility, it's still hard for me to play my PLD over WAR because, for me, Warrior is more enjoyable to play. I leveled PLD and War evenly, but when I'm playing WAR the job just flows better for me. However, because I play both, I do see some shortcomings when playing Warrior. Below are my suggestion for SE to make in 5.1 that would make WAR even more enjoyable to play.


Change Overpower animation to a circular AoE vs the Cone No explanation necessary. It's long overdue.

Remove the cost of onslaught and increase the potency to 200: Outside Inner release, onslaught is a DPS loss, especially when you factor the buff of Upheaval, no stance dancing to do Fell Cleaves, and the addition of Nascent Chaos. It feels like SE forgot to buff it since Warrior already had a gap closer in Storm's blood.

Make Nascent Flash and Raw Intuition CDs separate

Separate Storm's Eye 10% Damage up effect into an oGCD button. 30 secs duration, 10sec recast. It would effectively be the same bonus except it wouldn't be gated behind a combo; its a bit cumbersome trying to apply it in AoE situations. We would still be able to keep the 100% uptime if we remember to push the button on time.

Keep the Storm's Eye Combo but switch the damage up effect with the "Fracture" effect OG Warrior's will remember this skill. It was a DOT; I would like it if it made a comeback via Storm's Eye. 50 Potency 30-sec duration maybe?

Give Choatic Cyclone an Aoe Dot Effect 40 potency, 24 Sec Duration.

I don't think Warrior needs more Party utility because if they gave them more then they would be stepping in on Paladin territory; this would equate to the endless cycle of buffing other jobs to make them equal.


The recommended changes would more solidify Warrior as the AoE Tank. Homogenizing blows ( go ask healers). If it were up to me, with 4 tanks in the game, to balance them, each tank would have a certain niche.

PLD Best Mitigation Tank
WAR Best AoE Tank
DRK Best Single Target Tank
GB - Best Support Tank

Each tank should be good at the fundamentals but certain classes should excel in certain areas: Right now PLD has Best DPS/ Best Support/ Best Mitigation. 6sec Damage reduction every 30secs or so via Shelltron. Semi Spammable 1200 Potency Heal you can use on others (1800 potency if you use Req) . I'm an immortal button. 2 Raid Wide mitigation + 1 Single party member mitigation.