Removing Auto Crits and Direct Hits from WAR

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I don't undestand the agrument that WAR is a burst tank therefore it shoudn't move and everything is fine with it being a drag to play outside of IR. Look at DRK, even with its issues of having Delirum being an IR the downtime for DRK is far more manageble while still being a... BURST TANK. You can have your cake and eat it too, that's no excuse to defend WAR's current state. Again, do you guys want 6.0 to come around and WAR once again getting no new skills and passives instead of evolving the job like every other job?

I mean, I'm not sure DRK is a good comparison since at least half the players are torn on whether they actually like this version better than any others. DRK reworks are still being talked about. Is that really having your cake and eating it too?

For me, at least, it's not so much an argument against change, but change for change's sake doesn't exactly have a good track record in this game. It's always a mixed reception at best. WAR's "formula" was successful in HW and SB, and along with the planned rework of DRK and introduction of GNB there's at least a nexus for understanding why there wasn't a significant overhaul to WAR's playstyle. Or at least, why they would have been reluctant to change too much with it.

And if we really want to take the time machine back to the past, when all the other tanks were screaming about nerfing WAR because it was too OP the last 2 expansions, I repeatedly advocated for bringing the other tanks up to WAR's level instead of "knocking it down a peg". This is pretty much exactly what SE did, they reworked and made the other tanks better while not changing much with WAR. And to clarify, I don't mean this to be acceptable per se, I just see it as rather reasonable on SE's part. GNB was going to be "overtuned" to help ensure it's popularity at launch. DRK was promised to be better. They probably didn't realize how much stronger PLD was going to be with improved uptime ability. And I think WAR was looked at apprehensively due to the 2 years of "NERF WAR" feedback from the community.

At the end of the day (aka this raid cycle), it's not like there's a massive, game-breaking disparity between the 4 tanks. They did a pretty decent job all things considered, and it doesn't deviate too much from what our expectations should've been at the outset.

As someone who's played WAR since ARR released, I'm perfectly fine with the way it plays. Why should I care if some new-comers (or elitist 99th'er types) show up and don't like it? Pick another tank. Or another job. There's plenty of diversity available.