Quote Originally Posted by TouchandFeel View Post
I honestly don't really have an issue with the WAR changes to the upkeep of Storm's Eye since there have been legitimate complaints regarding it's upkeep for a while now. As for the idea of making it this much easier resulting in the buff upkeep becoming "braindead" similar to DRK's Darkside, I'm not sure I fully agree with that since it just results in you having to use Storm's Path less frequently whereas Edge/Flood are used consistently on DRK regardless. I mean I get that having to use Storm's Path less and having to pay less attention to the buff is simplifying an aspect of the job, that I agree with. Curious though how much of a potential dps buff not having to use Storm's Path as much could provide over an encounter.
It is unlikely to affect the warrior's dps ceiling significantly. At most the gain is going to be 10 more Beast gauge every 3 minutes. The gain is going to be more on the dps floor as lower skilled players won't be clipping the buff as much and won't be dropping the buff during IR as much.

So now for an unpopular opinion. I don't like the change to Nascent Flash because I've always felt that NF is supposed to be the support ability equivalent of TBN, HoS and Intervention. The self-heal from NF has always been too powerful imo and turned a support ability into primarily a really strong self-sustain ability instead. It seems like the devs and many of the players can't get beyond WAR's past where it's tankiness came from being a huge HP sponge with lots of self-sustain to compensate for a lack of direct defensive abilities. They changed the HP sponge approach for good reason and gave WAR direct defensive abilities yet kept the huge amount of self-heals in one form or another for some reason in the subsequent iterations. I personally would have preferred if they had reigned in the self-heal from the ability to emphasize it as a support ability but now they have removed the target requirement instead signaling that they are fine with it not being mainly a support ability and again doubled down on "WAR gets huge self-heals because ...".
You are not alone in your opinion on Nascent Flash.