Lan Deathrider.5910

And it will get banners that mount to its back and a 5s weapon swap. But we digress.

Because Anet is pushing a boon/condi/bunker meta onto us whether we want it or not.

And it will have MH pistol right?

Or both. When they nerfed Resistance they should have gone through and increased the durations of each of it's sources. In same cases they should have added Resolution alongside Resistance on some skills.

And when the Steam release fails because of the poor balance they can come lift my ideas directly from the forums.

Just one?! You Monster! *wrecks brain* My vote would be for Heightened Focus to make quickness more effect on warrior and let it have the original cast time reduction from release if you take the trait. I would say also increase quickness duration from but you said one change, so I'll stay in spirit of the thread but for what I have in my head it would be this: Heightened Focus: Quickness on you has increased effectiveness and quickness you apply to yourself has increased duration. Increases attack and action speeds by 100%. +20%/10% quickness duration (PvE/Comp split) Aside: The current quickness is only a 33% reduction in cast time, so this change would make it a 50% reduction in cast time. What that would do is make it far easier to land 100B, Final Thrust, Whirling Axe, all of hammer..., Flurry, Kill Shot, really just all of the warrior kit would finally flow the way it is supposed to.

Or when you play a Necro and that dear sweet life force doesn't drain between fights.

Anet is 100% free to copy and paste my ideas into any update for warrior and has my full permission to do so without having to provide me with compensation.

See, this is why the lack of a proper tradeoff has ended up hurting FB though, all the nerfs elsewhere. I don't ask for tradeoffs in a vacuum, I fully expect Anet to rebalance a spec as a result (because that is what they should do if they are doing their job right). I will agree in part. If tradeoffs are supposed to be a thing, then Anet needs to be even handed with them, but time and again they've been heavy handed with certain classes and not at all with others. Alleviating one while pushing for specs that have received very light tradeoffs that come off as in name only is valid. Is part of the problem that Core Warrior out of the gate started out with the simplest mechanic? At this point I would say yes. Is updating it for the times part of the answer. Yes, and I did indeed make a whole thread on that point. I do also recall saying something similar for Ele (a F5 Arcane Attunement for core only) and Guardian (a core only F4 virtue).

Yeah, weakness durations need looking at across the board along with the other soft condis.

This is why you see me harp so much on tradeoffs and how light some specs got off on them. But yes, it extends even to this sort of borked up balance. I really wish Anet could afford a larger balance team to go through and take a hard look at the classes in detail and give them all a good polish while getting rid of all the extraneous 'tradeoffs' since they have proven unable to levy them equally.

A proponent of nerfing everything I see.

True story. It makes most rangers sitting ducks, but let's not blame core skills for the sins of especs eh?

Not like most necros have two stunbreaks on their bars though. Definitely a bad Necro player regardless.

Okay then can Berserker get rid of the -300 toughness and BSW get weapon swap, normal adrenaline gain, and normal adrenaline cap back? You're overlooking the fact that some get tradeoffs that are wrist slaps where others give up too much for the gain. Do you not see why this is a source of discontent and a driver of imbalance?

*cough* warrior *cough*

Norns... In... Space....

This was after they hit me with the elite elixir so... And no it wasn't a long fight. I healed back all their damage with VS, and cleared all the condi between SiO and warhorn. They panicked and ran. Savage Leap into BC to catch them then swap into axe/axe to do a PvE rotation since they blew their stunbreaks already apparently or never took one.

Meanwhile the warrior subforum is begging for the BSW elite to be nerfed so that the rest of warrior doesn't suffer after the newness of EoD wears off and CMC gets the go ahead for wholesale nerfs

I used one.

IMHO, reduce the CD to 10s and give it an instant cast then remove the condition duration reduction, pulsing stab, and stat increases. /s but not really /s...

Wolf, Bear, and Raven were the original three great spirits from GW1 with Bear being the most revered (as evident by all the Norn immediately taking Bear Form when in battle). Does that mean that Anet did not do justice by Snow Leopard? Can't say, we don't know how much of IBS would have focused on that spirit had Covid+layoffs not have happened.

All I have to say to that is that they gained effectively 12 new skills. BSW trades weapon swap, altered adrenaline acquisition, altered adrenaline cap, and core bursts just to gain 5 new skills. Any one of those alone would have been equivalent to what FB is considered to have as a tradeoff. That sound about right to you? Because to me it sounds more like some specs get "tradeoffs" and others get multiple tradeoffs. And no, losing access to a core traitline does not count as a tradeoff.

Meanwhile I chased a harbinger down this weekend with sword/horn + Axe/Axe core warrior and blended them. /shrug

FB isn't the only one without a true tradeoff.