Reasonable buff to war

[Hierro]

Uh, you sure about that?

I remember launch it wasn't all that well liked, including through the savage patch and 4.1 adjustments. And then unga bunga 4.2 came along and at that point the job became a meme. Sure, people had fun with it, but I wouldn't go around calling that the prime example of great class design. I think Paladin gets to take that crown before the Warrior does, and from personal opinion I'd still put SB Dark Knight in front of it.

And then you just expand to other roles and I'd count like five others who could claim it before Warrior. Stormblood Bard without much question, Red Mage and Samurai (Though it was their expansion, so no adaptation from previous iterations had to be factored in), SB Black Mage, and personally I'd say SB Machinist too.

Oh, right. I forgot about that whole segment where stance dancing halved your guage. Such a blunder had to be wiped from my memory. However, the point remains that was something carried over from HW and maintained roughly afterwards. 4.2 changes aside, we still kept that main identity and design philosophy.

Now, while PLD was effectively the best tank, I wouldn't call it better designed due to how its tank stance never felt good going into, how slide-casting had to be performed to excel in, and other stuff that I don't care to get into. I loved SB DRK, more so than WAR, but that's preferences, and not something I'd attribute to design either.

Point remains, WAR's awesome right now.

[Kabooa]

Point remains, WAR's awesome right now.

Eh. Personally, the only time I got excited while leveling it was when Nascent Glint came online, and even then it should have just been a Bloodbath upgrade. It's kind of in the same park as Red Mage for me.

It's got no new toys, and any new conflicts that could have happened were immediately curtailed.