So far, I would like to say thanks to the previous PvP Balance Designer “Roy” because 70% of my warrior suggestion came true.
1. Adrenaline should considered a “use” while warrior missing the burst skills.
2. Cleansing Ire shouldn’t proc when warrior missing the burst skills while the adrenaline will be used.
3. Impale is overpowered, should find a way to make “Torment” fit a better position for a real condi damage spec, shouldn’t shine when players using pure power spec.
I would say almost 100% of them came true, I’m looking forward for it. At least we all know that we cannot spend our burst skills anymore due to the reasonable punishment.
Next, I would like to talk about several changes that I’m considering with.
1. Greatsword changes.
– Greatsword, a powerful weapon in PvE, that never shine in PvP after “Quickness” nerf. Should not receive any kind of damage nerf.
As a player that always been playing and trying to create some possibility builds for Greatsword, I would have to say that the only reason now to pick up Greatsword is its mobility. The only reliable damage source from Greatsword is “Whirlwind Attack”, which isn’t that reliable while other skills cannot do any big damage in high tier level PvP. Let me talk about Greatsword from its skills individually. (only from a PvP perspective)
1. Hundred Blade- This skill looks pretty strong from the description, but it’s actually very useless either in team fights, or in 1v1s. If you want to play with Greatsword in PvP, you must build yourself into Pure Berserker Spec in order to pull out its damage value. That means the build diversity for Greatsword is very small. This skills is only “a little bit useful” against people whoever trying to ress someone in downstates. Like I said its just “a little bit useful” because we all know that poison is the only thing that can counter plays the ress/ress utilities.
Conclusion: Hundred Blade shouldn’t receive any kind of nerf. Instead of nerfs, it should receive some loves like dmg increase or cast time decrease like you just did to the Rapid Fire on Ranger’s longbow.
2. Whirlwind Attack- The only skill on Greatsword that is quiet useful in team fights and 1v1s. Like I said in previous paragraph, the only reliable damage on this weapon while its not really reliable sometimes.
Conclusion: Whirlwind Attack should remain the same as now. This skill is reward/risk now and it’s in a good spot.
3. New Arcing Slice- The new version of Arcing Slice looks pretty good. The only unreasonable thing is it’s range is kind of small, it will hardly hit anything unless you are in a zerg or fighting on the point. So far this skill looks pretty awesome, but I cannot give any kind of comment before I actually try it out by myself.
2. Adrenaline Dismiss when players out of combat-
I actually like this change, but this change will impact skill players that always remember to build their adrenaline while they are still in combat. For me as an example, I always try to swap weapon to build my adrenaline while I was trying to rotate from A point to B point, which I believe many warriors don’t do. This change will impact some “smart plays” from players. It will also impact some skills such as “Signet of Fury”, “Healing Surge”. These skills are already not popular, and this changes will make these skills even more useless.
From my perspective, if you are trying to balance classes from this kind of situation, as a sarcasm, I will suggest that you also need to dismiss Necromancer’s Life Force while out of combat.
So far that’s what I have on my note, I really appreciated your reading. Although my grammar sucks, my content is really worth reading from a balance perspective.
Regards.
Anas Tarcis
