Quote Originally Posted by SpeckledBurd View Post
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.
The original effect was a 2% crit rate buff per stack (10% at 5 stacks). This was changed to a +2% parry per stack in HW with Abandon stacks giving +2% crit rate per stack. Even when Wrath/Abandon stacks were a dps buff losing them all from using Inner Beast/Fell Cleave or a phase transition wasn't a major dps loss.

GL on the other hand started out as some like a ~30% damage loss if it dropped, creeped up to ~33% a loss in HW and SB and is now something like a 43% damage loss if dropped. I suspect losing GL wouldn't have been such a meme if GL had been something like +5% crit rate 5% increase in speed per stack rather than a 7% to 10% flat damage boost per stack in addition to the speed increase.