In general when I play a character, I like to focus on stats like Power, Precision, Crit damage, tougness on my gear, but then compensate for the lack of defense with very defensive utility skills and probably either the toughness or vitality trait line. I understand that Warriors are inherently going to bring more Offense/Damage to the table than utility, but I think building adrenaline should allow us to be effective both offensively AND defensively. Here’s my proposal:
WHAT IF there were additional burst skills. For example, every burst skill I can think of is Damage/Offense oriented. Why not give options, like the Mesmer’s shatter skills, that we could use situationally, but would all share the same cooldown, all burn adrenaline, and be effected by any trait modifications. We could have one that maybe gives a “block next 3 attacks, and gain stability/protection for 5 seconds.” Another could be “Meditate in place for 3 seconds, taking 50% reduced damage and gaining 1 second of protection and regeneration for each attack hit during this time.” I’m thinking of certain actions that could give you some extra tankiness, mobility, block, or utility, rather than the straight burst damage there is now.
I did love the idea of an extra weapon slot I just read recently, but that might receive more shun than praise. Another possibility could be allowing warriors to use 2 two-handed weapons at the same time, kind of like a Diablo Barbarian. This would give you some extra skills to try out, but then again, expect to lose out on some survivability if you go this route, unless they allowed a major trait like weapon blocking
Let me know what you all think of this, thanks