it's not all bad
I was entirely pro the changes. I felt it would make warrior a profession that people needed to learn. After logging in my warrior still did well against light professions played averagely. It did ok with skilled professions played well…So with 900 odd hours at the warrior helm I can do ok..but some of the ‘updates’ have just been taken dramatically too far. The decay is too much vs it’s ability to gain. The GS burst is much smoother, but only hits marginally harder than a good crit auto attack. The increase to axe offhand is very so-so. Rifle is good, rousing is good (or will be after they fine tuned it’s release day bugs.)..all in all They took a good warrior adjustment and pushed it too by far 30%. Any celestial ele/ engi now just eats me and asks for more. I just can’t pressure them enough with damage for them to be put on the back foot.
The axe buff is still terrible. Axe auto attack chain still out dps’s it by a fair amount.