Quote Originally Posted by wereotter View Post
I never played Warrior in ARR and wasn't familiar with the job then... but I can see how that was an even earlier start to the system. Though I thought wrath stacks in ARR just provided potency buffs? I feel like I never saw warriors drop it in combat, but maybe I'm remembering incorrectly.

But it does feel like Monk ends up being the testing ground for job mechanics that get polished when moved to other jobs while monk keeps the klunky unrefined version. Greased Lightning and Chakras being the start, the Riddle of Earth being more the precursor to Improvisation and Meditation (although monk also got Anatman for that same type of situation)
Warrior stacks were always spent on Inner Beast and Steel Cyclone. In ARR it was common for people to sit on them because they gave a 10% increase to Parry and it was before the average mentality for players shifted toward doing as much damage as possible.