Quote Originally Posted by Absurdity View Post
The problem with Delirium is that it doesn't have increased potency, Bloodspiller is only 500 potency and Delirium doesn't buff it in any way, so of course it feels weak. Dark Knight in general doesn't have any really high potency attacks, it just has a ridiculous amount of dps oGCDs to make up for it.

What people seem to conveniently forget is that reworking warrior to get away from guaranteed direct crits isn't just a case of removing the buff and calling it a day.
The potency on Fellcleave has steadily been going down compared to other abilities to account for the guaranteed direct crits, of course it would feel lackluster if you just removed those without increasing Fellcleave's, Inner Chaos' (which honestly could just be removed if Fellcleave didn't hit like a wet noodle) and Primal Rend's potency.

You just need to look back at HW warrior. Old Berserk was a 50% attack power increase, which is basically just the same as a % damage buff, but Fellcleave was one of the highest potency abilities back then so that tripple cleave under Berserk hit like a truck, especially when crit rng blessed you.

Best current example is GnB's Double Down. Whether or not it's actually a good ability is questionable, but there's no denying that it has impact. And when you get blessed by the rng gods once in a while it doesn't just hit like a truck, it hits like a freight train, at almost double the damage of Primal Rend.
I agree, there would probably have to be a fel cleave potency change if they did end up removing DH/Crits from IR, depending on if they add an attack boost to IR instead. It's all knobs that can be tweaked to put warrior exactly where the Devs want them in terms of DPS. I would rather have higher baseline Fel Cleaves with those big hits thrown in when you are lucky enough to get a DH/Crit, be able to synergize with most of the buffs instead of barely synergizing with any of them (especially with the design mentality shifting to every job has their buff phase every 2 minutes), and be able to gear all my tanks the same instead of having to go for a Det build for warrior and have subpar secondaries for the other three tanks due to no DH.