All my opinio: Believe it or not, anet found themselves in a pretty uncomfortable situation regarding warrior. Warrior is still extremely good for WvW, but absolute crap in PvP. So, when you buff warrior in PvP, it becomes op in WvW. And vice versa. Another example of balance having to be split.
I disagree… most warriors will have true 1 vs 1 against someone with equal gear or skill. Don’t be blinded by the wvw videos posted by vanxx, shin, etc.. Unlike spvp, in wvw gear matter. So wvw or split balance is not the problem. Now I am no way saying that warriors are weak.2 but when everyone and their mom can carry by either placing traps are having fear/boon removal on auto whilst warrior always get slapped at the end of every season… you know we have a problem
@OP warrior will never be OP again, cause I have a feeling that’s what you are asking for ’s so frusterating, i used to be able to wipe entire teams and now i get stu.. thats OP dude.
I know the feeling of getting the short end of the stick. I found it in Tempest myself. Although d/f tempest is currently in the meta, I don’t enjoy being a supporting healbot and nothing more. I find it fun in PvE, since people appreciate your good healing, but in PvP/WvW people don’t even realize it.
As for warrior, one of the best abilites (and a balanced one) is Eviscerate. Easy to dodge but deals massive damage, requires setting up burst (just like ele Phoenix now that I think of it). I wish they made abilities in the game more like this, with apparent strengths and weaknesses. That I think is the core of the problem with warrior, or better yet, that’s the reason warrior is bad right now. So many HoT abilities have no clear weakness, and warrior has very few of these kinds of abilities (gunflame tho, completely OP)
Yea, I might have gotten carried away by warrior roaming by Vaanss, but now that I think of it, I would rather face him with than a druid kiting with bow, or any current top tier build actually.
My greatest fear is that rather than making Burst skills more reliable by adding traits that counter blinds and the like, they’ll just speed them up and increase adrenaline gain and turn the class just as spammy as everything else is atm. Heck, Berserker already made Burst skills more spammable as it is.
I really, really hope that they keep Burst skills as something that are devastating but require good timing to land. Even Gun Flame is fairly predictable as it is now. Adding an evade to Rifle was also a good idea to give Wars active sustain.
Wars need a major rework imo. I HATE that I can have 2 stances up at once, it makes no sense. I also dislike traits like Endure Pain and Last Stand that basically play the game for me.
I want a system like the one I described here more and more as time goes by. It’s about time the class got some more complexity like GW1.
Just an angry old man…
Old Man Burr (War), Bad Hat Ben (Engi), Manly Manny Manson (Guard)
If revenant did not exist, warrior would be in a good spot.
Lose to condi mesmers
Lose to bruiser engineers
Lose to sustainy rangers
Other matchups are reasonable.
More or less this. Sustained Rangers are probably the weakest of our counters here but overall, those three we lose to are literally at the top of the game in the meta.
Suicidal Warrior.
Putting Perspective on Zerg Sizes since 2012. Common Suffixes for 40+ include ~Zilla and ~Train
“Seriously, just dodge.”
war is fine, nerf power creep (cough scrapper, cought rev, cough reaper)
All is Vain~
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