Lets examine other professions abilities and how these mechanics are not only extremely annoying but under the control of competent players are strait up over powered.
Mesmer, Invulnerability spam (evading is close enough) Stealth spam, Blink and teleport spam, Clone spam. Range, Confusion, interrupts, CC Kiting
Thief, Blind Spam, (Blind spam is the big one.) Its ridiculously overpowered in the right hands. stealth spam.
Elementalist, AOE spam, CC spam, Regen spam, boon spam, Range ( D/D and S/D is 300/600 range. Before you make the case that is melee compare it to warrior or melee cleave =130 range Kiting
Necro. Condi Spam, Fear Spam, Army of pets. Multiple HP bars. AOE spam.
Ranger not worth mentioning.
Guardians are in a good place.
Engis are in a good spot. The AOE CC spam is a bit much.
There you have it. What does warrior spam? Pretty much nothing and everything is telegraphed.
Lets compare other classes and warriors in a graph.
As you can see the graph the only players warriors have no problem beating are bad players. It is much harder for a warrior to beat a competent player of another profession than it is for a competent player of another profession to beat a warrior.
just got off work so i’m kinda tired but browsed the fourms and found this so I want to comment I apologize if I say or word anything wrong.
I have all 8 professions and I completely agree with you.
warrior has so many common myths about them it’s laughable actually had someone tell me warriors have the highest dps in the game. which if false.
at best warriors are about half way in that department. hell a power necro gets easier access to might and more dps then a warrior on a single target. the only comparable skill between power necro and warrior is axe mainhand. which is slow 3+ sec to complete a entire chain. vs 2.1 sec for dagger.
merciless hammer nerf… warrior have a grand total of 2 skills that can make any decent to good use of that trait they are the infamous skull crack and earthshaker. with that said warrior do get pummel bash and shield bash both which add a gran total of 1 sec stun each one attack is basically all your likely ot get out of the hammer. (knock down doesn’t count)
yeah 100 blades hits like a truck over a 3 sec time limit but lets face it one two steps back wards and your golden.
i’ll admit necro’s attacks don’t cleave but dear bloody hell lich form is better then any elite the warrior has dps wise. (i’ll concede that battle standard can be better). on top of that you get minions bone minions explode hits like a brick and also is a blast finisher allowing for aoe blind retal or weakness depending on the field your running.
mesmers are the king of small fights their clones can easily disorient any player long enough for a Mesmer to reek havoc unless you have powerful enough aoe which in case of the warrior depends on the build. that is ofc if a Mesmer knows what it’s doing.
hell their 2.5 sec invul skill is on a 12 sec cd.
we get a 3 sec invuln (traitable to 5) on a minute.
thieves take your pick enough evade skills to avoid a lot of dps unless the actually spam or capable of stealthing easily. as with the Mesmer can kill what you can’t actually hit.
that’s just some of the stuff that could be mentioned when they bring up (high armor and highest health pool although necro does actually have a higher one since death shroud fill up easily and can be used as a extra life bar (although that is bad play on a necros part as they shoud be making use of death shroud but you are going to take a hit or two in it)
people gripe about how much mobility the warrior which lets be honest while i’ll admit warrior can get somewhere fast there is more to mobility then swiftness and rush skills. warrior has no teleports meaning their movements are predictable and a cripple or chill will redce the range of their movement. it has 1 good source of vigor war horn and they have no evade skills minus whirling blade.
