@zeyele: There is no “crying”, people just feel their class is in need of some fixing that’s all.
@Eddard: Elementalist are possibly the best designed class in the game. Can dish damage and condition damage through fire, heal with water, absorb damage with earth lalalala.
Now another break down. Warriors do have the highest Hp in the game, but armor isn’t a viable way to mitigate damage. Ranged classes get to kite, elementalist can put on earth shield and absorb damage, other classes get access to Aegis and Protection. All of these give a higher damage mitigation than armor. Since the warrior doesn’t have access to any damage mitigation other than armor and shield stance < which forces us to use a shield, the warrior suffers from much more damage than any other class.
Historically warriors are masters of war, be it through tactics, inspiration or brute force. Anet really nailed these in the warrior design but while it does look good on paper it doesn’t in practice. Why? Simple enough,
Brute force:
Physical skills:
Bullrush: Misses too much.
Bollas: Counts the new range created by a moving enemy as a range increase thus missing most of the time, sometimes it even goes in the wrong direction or hits a higher land and misses.
Kick: This should be a knockdown, instead it sends the enemy flying away, like if a warrior could create such a level of force against a fully armored healthy competitor.
Stomp: see above.
Now the inspirational part.
Banners:
All have good effects if spec into them. Problem? Their area of effect and buff duration is so limited it makes them close to useless. If picked up they replace your skill bar with useless skills. Their cool down is horrible and a bit more. This makes them a not viable as their town time is too great for their benefit and usually said benefits is none existent due to the miserable area of effect.
Shouts:
Are fine, even if shake it off should either remove more than one condition or send the condition back to whoever placed it on the warrior IF within the shout’s reach.
Now for the tactical part:
Signets: Every other class gets benefits from signets passive and active form. In the case of warrior the passive is no different yet the active leaves a lot to be desired. Our healing signet regeneration is great at low levels yet a high levels it barely heals enough to make any difference yet it’s active effect is so low it doesn’t make up for a healing slot. Mending removes conditions but again it’s healing value is way too low. Our only viable heal becomes our adrenaline oriented heal which either heals good if fully under full adrenaline or heals for crap if not full, this one comes with a higher cool down than the others. Signet of rage is a different story as it’s effect is great and has a decent cool down.
Stances:
Stances cool down is way too high, 180 seconds for some so on. These give little tactical advantage if used correctly but their cool down time is so high they barely become viable. Also in other to get quicken we take 50% more damage, this makes us way more soft than any glass cannon and makes it easy for most glass cannons to take us down within seconds. Someone mentioned we got higher def so we need to give more? Well thiefs get stealth to mitigate and land damage easier + their damage is sky high compared to a warriors and their skills got no cool down. We quicken and do a hundred blades. Big deal people can interrupt dodge or kite us. A thief can stealth teleport and land any skill he so wishes not only that but he can spam them.
Elites:
Signet of rage: Is perfect as it is.
Banner: Great skill under such a long cool down that you can barely use it or even think it exist making it not viable. In a dungeon with a good party you might get to use this twice as it will be under cool down any other needed time. For a few buffs that any other class can get for free in normal utilities and the ability to res which guardians can do on normal utilities as well. This skill got a way too long of a cool down.
Juggernaut: This skill was one of the things that inspired me to be a warrior pre release. But upon seeing it work is the worse skill ever created in any game I seen. It increases our max hp but doesn’t heal it. It gives us 5 new skills on top of our skills. You may say Wow that’s awesome but nop. You get to throw a stone. Such a long animation and slow projectile time that it can be ignored. You are taking damage while doing this. A bull rush which is the same as the bull rush utility. A kick…same as the utility…and a stomp again same as the utility. Not only are the animations slow, but their cool down is so long you will only get to use them once. They give you no advantage at all since everything they can do you can do on your normal form. Making this elite useless. Also you grow bigger…yeah that’s the greatest animation ever for a 30 skill point cost skill.
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