Going to chime in on this as well real quick, If your first answer to someone saying your build is overpowered is to point to another class that is considered vastly overpowered and say “Well they’re overpowered” then guess what, You’re overpowered.
This isn’t about Warriors no longer being free kills as you say, But maybe just maybe, Anet overbuffed certain aspects of your class recently in regards to how powerful it is, Just like the Necro..Which if you think about it, Is quite hilarious since they said themselves it wouldn’t take much to overpower both of those classes….Yet they still managed to do it.
Coming from someone primarily who plays a Ranger..Trust me when I say you mine as well just admit to being OPed and take the lumps, because the nerfs you’ll have coming to you will end up completely decimating your builds.
I’ve had my builds eat it constantly for the past few months…and i’m pretty much expecting to eat it some more next patch.
That isn’t really what those of us who want an explanation are saying.
Prove to us that the counters we’ve mentioned aren’t enough, and prove it without using WvW 40% food as the basis for the argument. Prove that the build can handle the sort of situations other bunker builds can. Use the counters to explain why the counters aren’t enough, and do it while trying to analyze why they would be enough.
It’s a strong build. It has more survivability than people are probably used to seeing on a Warrior, and it punishes sloppy play with a fairly simple combo. But if you’re going to make claims about it being OP, then I want to see some proof.
At this point, it’s the principle of the thing. All I see now is “just admit that it’s OP”, or “3-4 second stun on a 7 second cooldown gg”, or “you haven’t responded to me? I must be right, it’s OP”. Sprinkle in some claims about the counter-play without defining what quality counterplay means to the poster, and it’s an absolute mess in here.
I just want some critical thinking. Is that too much to ask? Is balance about insuring that a bad player with no build cohesion and blind ability spamming won’t get destroyed? I’ve dropped Thieves basically 100 – 0 with a simple Hammer comkittenf Hammer, because it’s OP with its AoE 600-range stun on a 7 second cooldown that you can basically guarantee to land with Leg Specialist?
At this point, I don’t know what people want. Warriors have generally been about melee pressure/control. Like it or not, this game isn’t new-player friendly. You’re going to get totally blown up by someone who knows what he/she is doing, or if they’re playing bunker, they just won’t ever die.
You’ll never catch a Mesmer and you’ll die without knowing why.
A Thief will perma-blind you or Backstab you for half of your health.
A Ranger will just shoot you forever, then once you get close, will evade 4+ times and you won’t do anything.
A Necro will condition bomb you back into your mother’s womb.
A Guardian won’t die, and meanwhile, you will.
An Elementalist also won’t seem to die, and you won’t know why.
A Warrior will lock you down and grind you into the floor.
An Engi… I honestly never get to fight Engis, so I don’t know. Suddenly sad.
Either way, I don’t understand what they want their fight against a Warrior to be. If you get chain-stunned and killed, it’s probably going to be frustrating. Ok. That doesn’t make it OP. If anything, stun is one of the most counterable things in the game.
So I’ll continue to wait for someone to try harder at proving it’s OverPowered. To prove that it’s too powerful in the game and needs to be toned down because it’s crippling sPvP, PvE, or WvW.
Note: 1v1 roaming matches have absolutely no substantial impact on the WvW match itself.
