Removing Auto Crits and Direct Hits from WAR

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It really isn't. You could change IR to simply giving Warrior a flat damage increase on a comparable level to what CDHs provide and accomplish the same thing. I know several Warriors who would be very happy with such a change. They could also go the route of making DH no longer benefit tanks or healers at all, thus making all tanks go DET or TEN. Granted, they'd probably have to increase TEN a little but they really ought to do that anyway as it's currently garbage.

There are a lot of suggestions out there, I just don't see how most of them fundamentally change anything. What you're specifically saying here just sounds like a buff for buff's sake, giving IR baseline damage "comparable" to it's current damage with auto-CDH *plus* allowing it to interact with all the raid buffs. IE, to CDH on damage that's scaled up to be comparable with CDH damage.

No doubt there are more than a few warriors who would be happy with such a buff. In and of itself, however, this doesn't sound like it changes the nature of WAR burst damage nor FC/IC spam with 70 sec of boring downtime in between. IMO it's just a sneaky suggestion to move WAR back up the DPS ladder.

I'm not suggesting that WAR should or shouldn't be buffed. Personally I'd just like to them to stick to their previously exalted design philosophy of balancing utility with damage. WAR should probably be a little bit higher than PLD, for example. But overall the current spread tanks being within a couple hundred DPS is pretty solid, it just needs some fine tuning.