-Bloodbath lvl 8 heals for 25% of damage dealt -> Nascent Flash lvl 76 and originally couldn’t be used on self…but we were just whining right. It’s not a broken version of what we already had? That didn’t need fixed tho. WAR mains are just spoiled.
-1st place damage dropped to 3rd at best but that’s fine right. Since I see so much PLD talk, why wasn’t PLD being able to block magic ok? Same with PLD and not having a gap closer. Same with “Why don’t we do as much damage as WAR” until PLD was made 1st/2nd in Shadowbringers. I can keep going.
-Foresight lvl 2 20% mitigation…gone
-Deliverance lvl 52 5% damage increase w/ a stacking 2% crit increase, up to 5. Our job’s identity…gone
-Fracture lvl 6 100 potency, for 30 seconds…gone. Oh, PLD still have Goring Blade tho.
-Steel Cyclone lvl 46, health damage returned as health…feature gone and with it, low lvl survivability. That’s not bad tho…right.
-Mercy Stroke, Brutal Swing(stun but hey…PLD still has shield bash), Butchers Block…all damage skills and all gone with nothing in their place.
What we DID get in Shadowbringers…
-Chaotic Cyclone lvl 72…nothing new
-Inner Release lvl 80…we already had that too. Only difference, they removed the 8 second mitigation (I think) that came with the original.
-Already mentioned Nascent Flash lvl 76 which replaced our lvl 8 skill, but for four GCDs at best instead of the original 15 seconds. That’s good right? No self sustain until lvl 76 makes perfect sense even tho PLD has Clemency at lvl 58. No validity to that complaint.
Miss me with the off the mark comments. This wasn’t a case of whiny gamers moaning about a 1% damage loss. This was an entire job ripped apart for no apparent reason. I respect the devs for the updates that made WAR a better version of the nightmare Shadowbringers launch was. The only job that had anywhere near the destruction we endured, DRK. Guess what…they aren’t happy right now either.
So spare me the PLD talk. That’s the ONLY job that gains every single expansion. UNLIKE PLD mains, I’m not asking for anyone to be dismantled so I can hold on to my claim as god every expansion. I’m not jumping on their posts trying to discredit their opinion either. I’m asking for an actual return for all we lost. Identity that goes beyond buffed potency. WAR never felt like this until now and it isn’t a good thing.
If all that and asking for a rework that’s feels complete makes me a spoiled brat bragging for the devs to run to my aid (in some of your opinions)…I’m 100% fine with that. My only goal is for WAR to receive the same tlc other jobs have gotten, instead of watered down reworks of skills we had years ago.