Quote Originally Posted by Karshan View Post
I'm not saying it was the rotation that made him the best, but that it's the clue he was a real favourite.
So much it began to be custom made, like design on demand to some influencers ideas. It was already n°1 in damage, even when you were not so lucky with crits in burst windows, someone got whining "I am still too much crit dependant, we should be criting every FC" and you're like yeah right as if you needed that but BAM ; within 2 months it got inner release rework full guaranteed crit DH in debuff window, like wth.
Meanwhile Bards had to wait an expansion to not be so stat dependant desperately seeking always crit stuff pieces because both part of their rotation AND their damage felt like shit without 3k + crit.

All I'm saying is : it's never fun to get stripped of things, but please deal with not being top for a few months after 4 years of domination.
For me, it has nothing to do with being "top" or "dominating." I couldn't care less about dps unless there was a gigantic discrepancy. However, warrior gameplay i feel has really deteriorated. I miss having 2 buffs and a debuff to maintain. I miss the powerful feeling of lining up berserk, infuriate and bloodbath. High level tanks didn't use tank stance in raids. Okay, but I loved spamming steel cyclone in dungeons or being able to pull through when my healer dies in a dungeon cuz of my great self sustain in tank stance with ib.

Aoe ing was just overpower twice then single target combo to decimate which felt fine and wasn't clunky like overpower to mythril tempest is now.

All this stuff didnt necessarily make warrior a top tank for raids. But IT WAS FUN. To me anyway.

ShB war design just doesnt feel as cohesive as past iterations did.

Even if wars were so-called top in demand tank right now with top dps, I'd still hate it and much prefer its hw or sb versions.

Last thing, i always rolled my eyez when people complain about "fell cleave spam meme" or whatever, but now, i kinda get it. ShB warrior is a fc spam bot. Even more so with infuriate and ic - which is just another fc in my mind. Would be nice to have some kind mechanic around maybe upheaval, or upheaval applying a dot or something instead of more fc spamming.

Or maybe some kind of defensive manuever tied to beast guage. Maybe a heal tied to it? Or something to fill in the hole left by the absence of ib as a rage spender whose primary purpose was mitigation and self heal.

I actually miss inner beast.

Eh...