My take on the current state of PvP warrior.

My take on the current state of PvP warrior.

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Posted by: SolarDragon.7063

SolarDragon.7063

PvP warrior is, as far as I can tell, definitely underpowered. By how far, I’m not exactly sure, but I’m noticing areas where we really fall behind many other classes right now.

1) Our skills are among the hardest to land reliably. Especially on mainhand sword, I notice that a huge proportion of attack swings actually result in misses from simple point movement. This doesn’t happen to me on even the other melee classes.

2) Our burst damage is also harder to land. We have to trait for immobs if we want to land most of our damage, and many classes simply resist or shed these now.

3) Our elite spec needs work. Torch offhand doesn’t even do half the damage and condi it should, and the same for our primal burst skills. It’s also a condi spec on a class that has trash for condi.

4) Our mobility is among the lowest of any class now. We don’t have any ability to teleport across z-levels like many other classes (rev, mesmer, guard, ele at the least), and our map mobility has become lacking compared to many classes as well. The GS does some to alleviate this, but it’s nothing compared to what some classes have.

5) Our auto-traits are lacking compared to most classes. Which way this needs to move is uncertain-perhaps the problem lies in other auto-traits being too good, rather than warrior too bad.

6) Our defenses are again, some of the worst among classes now, with many classes getting stealth or evades on multiple weapons and utilities. Warriors are more block-oriented, and many classes are starting to have skills and traits that negate this.

7) Our disengage ability is also at the low end, mostly because of 6 and 4.

8) Because of our [perceived?] lack of power, people throw games when they see warriors to
“punish” us for playing a bad spec in their game. [/cheek]

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Posted by: naphack.9346

naphack.9346

Warrior is in a good place. You need skill and timing to land your skills and any defensive skills have a huge trade off.
It’s the other classes that need to be nerfed.

The only crime, turrets committed, is being good against the celestial meta.
The mob has spoken and the turrets shall be burnt at the stake.

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Posted by: Harvey.7820

Harvey.7820

It’s an L2p issue. Warriors are fine. Mesmers and revenants need more buffs.

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Posted by: Choppy.4183

Choppy.4183

Warrior is in a good place. You need skill and timing to land your skills and any defensive skills have a huge trade off.
It’s the other classes that need to be nerfed.

Lol, that’s practically the same position as the OP. Both speak to a relative power differential.

@SolarDragon
You’re more or less in line with most people posting on this forum. While the warrior can do alright or even well in some areas (pve, low-level pvp, various niches in wvw) it seems to be more a matter of having greater skill or opportunity in those instances.

I don’t personally think the lack of class balance is that dire, but some work is definitely needed.

That being said, I’m not with you when you say the new Bezerker bursts do half the damage they should. I’d gladly offer some of them up for nerfing in return for more fundamental class fixes and toning down some similarly excessive things on other classes.

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Posted by: SolarDragon.7063

SolarDragon.7063

Warrior is in a good place. You need skill and timing to land your skills and any defensive skills have a huge trade off.
It’s the other classes that need to be nerfed.

Lol, that’s practically the same position as the OP. Both speak to a relative power differential.

@SolarDragon
You’re more or less in line with most people posting on this forum. While the warrior can do alright or even well in some areas (pve, low-level pvp, various niches in wvw) it seems to be more a matter of having greater skill or opportunity in those instances.

I don’t personally think the lack of class balance is that dire, but some work is definitely needed.

That being said, I’m not with you when you say the new Bezerker bursts do half the damage they should. I’d gladly offer some of them up for nerfing in return for more fundamental class fixes and toning down some similarly excessive things on other classes.

Well, I can see where you’re coming from here-if the rest of the class works, the F1 skills don’t need to carry the class any more.