Warrior struggles because our traits are just bad. Let’s look at the grandmaster traits for the common warrior builds, using Strength, Discipline, Defense, or Berserker and compare it to other grandmaster traits in used builds.
Strength: “Berserker’s Power”- damage multiplier after burst skill for 8 seconds
Defense: “Last Stand”- stances last 25% longer and give vigor for 6 secs. Plus 1 free balance stance proc on 40 sec cd. or “Cleansing Ire”- remove conditions if you land your burst skill. Key word if.
Discipline: "Gain Quickness when enemy below 50% for 4 seconds, 15sec icd.
Berserker: Gain pulsing stability when you activate berserker, or taunt foes when you activate berserker.
Now let’s look at any other ‘meta’ class at the moment.
Necro: Chill does damage
Critical chance +50% in shroud
Signet icd 20% reduced. gain 3might and corrupt 2 boons on use.
Thief: Improvision 20% chance to recharge a skill group and 2x use of stolen item
Steal 20%icd reduce and dazes
Swiftness on dodge and remove all movement impairment
Druid:
When you receive damage, apply weakness and protection 15sec icd
Gain quickness and might on pet swap
CC a foes causes then to get binding rooted 10sec icd
Engineer:
HGH elixer might 20% duration increase 20%icd reduce
Adaptive armor stacking toughness buff and condition damage 20% reduction
Third is build dependent
Guardian
Meditations heal you and icd 20% reduce
Virtue stun break and shared stability
Long bow knockback and gain stability 10sec icd
So what are the common themes here.
1) Warrior does not get utility cooldown reduction, unless you go into shouts but healing coefficient is low.
2) Warrior traits majority are damage or gated by burst skill. If we keep hitting harder we could win. Except blinding or missing the burst skill negates the trait entirely.
3) No defensive traits. You may argue rousing resilience, but it is gated by stun and stun break utility. Last stand provides vigor, but vigor is reduced so dodge frequency with vigor goes from 10sec recharge to 7.5 sec recharge.
Now, we could sit here and point out all these things I did not write in this post, but my main point is this.
If you took a warrior and gave him any other classes trait lines, he would be 10x better.
Utility Cool down reduction
Defensive traits not gated by utility use
Actual damage mitigation- You could make to the limit heal for 80% of your health and we would still die quickly without actual mitigation.
Proceed with l2p posts now.