I’m a mesmer, but allow me to give you my take on a warrior.
But firstly, do NOT go asking to buff that healing signet. It may have just been a single post in this entire thread, but that signet is really, really annoying to deal with. Sometimes it feels like I’m getting 0 net damage[probably am] just because I let off the pressure for a second.
Now, back on topic, I think of warriors as one of two things: easy-to-hard learning curve, and well-rounded. The first part is simply saying that the skill cap to become viably good with a warrior is less than that of other classes, allowing players to quickly pick up warriors and beat other classes of around the same skill level on the lower tier of PvP. The problem warriors have, though, is that while it’s easy to pick up and learn, it’s much harder to progress and master. It’s like being stuck at 70-80% efficiency from the start. For an elementalist, let’s say, the learning curve is higher and the ele will start at around 10% efficiency, but gradually rise up to 80-90% given time to learn the profession. Within the same amount of time, a warrior will have improved to 82% efficiency.
Now, warriors as a class are very well-rounded, putting it lightly. But they’re well rounded very strongly, meaning that they can do most of what they put their minds too, but aren’t particularly good at becoming specialists[correct me if I’m wrong]. In this way, they have nothing they’re weak to, but they don’t hard counter anything[some argue they hard counter everything].
Anyway, that’s how I view it, and might explain why you feel less powerful in certain PvP situations, though warriors are by no means weak. In fact, by my definition, warriors can never be “weak” just because of how they’re balanced to handle a good amount of everything[Direct damage, condition damage, cleansing, support, defense, etc.]. It’s this sort of superman-likeness that gains Warrior a lot of its hate.
