71Likesyes its like a boot up the buttOriginally Posted by id0l
When you say "positive update" and then list mage changes...I get confused...lol.
Were you just being sarcastic?
yes its like a boot up the buttWhen you say "positive update" and then list mage changes...I get confused...lol.
Were you just being sarcastic?
im back to rift after a long absence. i thought it was just me but it seems warriors have probs.
pvp speaking it is usually range range range, i have no problem with that. the problem is im a warrior i exspect to live. i dont live at all. im not a warrior to top dps charts and sometimes i do.
id rather be able to take a longer beating then to be pumping out damage, i am damage spec but thats not the point.
even healers and mages sometimes beat me down face to face. i try going behind them or whatever doesnt seem to work. if a healer or mage is gonna kill me it should take awhile. seems like the prob is in resistances and how much damage we take.
it gets annoying when your a tank and your seen as an easy target. tanks are suppose to go down last not first.
Time to move on....
I am a warrior tank; my guild loves me because we are a rare breed. LFG queue times are almost non-existent because we are a rare breed. DPS moan about waiting for an hour to get into an LFG group.
Despite there being fewer tanks in the game than any other role, it seems our numbers are being reduced further because of inane decisions with the class.
It's easy to complain about your chosen classes of course. But why reduce the tank playerbase when it affects everyone in game so much?
I can only thank Trion for making the wait for GW2 and SWToR a little more bearable. Rift had so much potential and now it's the game that people play until a better MMO comes along.
Exlusive: Warrior facts revealed!!!!!!!!
How we see ourselves: http://sf-fantasy.suvudu.com/files/m...0Barbarian.jpg
How Trion sees us: http://images.spoof-media.com/thespoof/pdi/KidSword.jpg
Overall performance at top rank (2h): http://i.imgur.com/SQmVo.jpg
And with sword and shield: http://www.mypartyplanner.com/common...age_262902.jpg
As you can see, the rapid decline between the two specs. 2h is old news, where snb is still over-inflated.
Another problem is that the warrior community doesn't really know where the warrior is headed. Many successful warrior builds rely on strange mechanics (like 38 RW), or bugged/misbehaving skills (deadly strikes for the longest time). Warriors build in fear of being radically changed because the class doesn't really have any direction.
Many of the souls in the warrior trees were designed for specific purposes but end up failing at those roles or become supplementary souls for trees containing superior abilities (i.e., Fiery Burst and RS/RD).
Out of all 8 warrior souls, only 3 can stand alone as successful 51pt trees (in PvE):
-Void Knight
-Riftblade
-Champion
Notice how the 2 of the 3 successful trees are elemental based and not physical? RIFT seems to be overly dominated by elemental damage and the warrior class suffers because of a lack of adaptive skills to this environment.
Any other 51pt combination will get a warrior completely crushed in performance. Right now the popular view on warriors is pretty much "hybrid or die."
Out of 8 trees, its pretty bad that only 3 can stand alone. Each of the trees should excel at it's original design purpose while allowing synergy with other trees to achieve about the same level of success. Right now the cost for failing to hybrid is too high to even try outside of using just these three souls. On top of that you CANNOT have a successful soul combination without having at least one of these trees (usually VK for tanking, and RB for dps due to RS/RD and FB).
Right now warriors hybrid and build their specs and gear knowing they are completely dependent on one or two skills (misbehaving or not) in order to do well. Warriors are in constant fear that one of these abilities my be changed, completely destroying everything they worked for.
Right now, its not very fun to play a warrior because right now the path that a warrior is forced to take (high dex, building for crit, burst DPS and relying on FB) makes no mechnical sense. The community feels like this will change soon and it is very hard to play a warrior and feel secure due to so many design flaws, bugged abilities, and a general confusion about how long warriors will remain to be viable in this state without being completely overhauled.
Because warriors are 100% gear dependent, radical changes will always hurt the warrior as well. Warriors are difficult to build because it feels like you are trying to build a pagoda on the last little wooden block of a jenga tower. Right now that pagoda is wobbling pretty hard.
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I had a similar experience on sicaron as well this week - I usually run DW, and we have another warrior that's DW as well, and we both do pretty similar dps - however, I've always ran 2h on sicaron since it gave better results, and I was generally a couple hundred dps ahead of the other warrior.
On our sicaron kill this week, I went 2h as always... but I was a couple hundred dps behind where the DW warrior was, that I usually beat. There was nothing out of the ordinary as far as contracts went, I was just simply doing significantly less dps with 2h this week.
I'm r8, so both my dw and 2h weapons are ~the same quality, and my builds are pretty standard, 38/22/6 dw, and 38/26/2 2h. I'm still using the pvp crystal, and the other warrior did not have a crystal yet either, no gear changes to explain the difference, 2h just seemed to have a significant drop from previous weeks.
This may be attributed to the recent patches' changes to slayer's bearing. Prior to 1.5 and without the slayer's bearing bug, a 2h RW build or BM with a proper rotation would always blow a DW build out the water on the DPS meter (on a standstill dps race).
Right now slayer's bearing is only improving crit damage by only 11% despite 3/3 in intense training. If you are seeing higher numbers with DW, this may be why. 2h builds are much more reliant on SB than DW builds because the lack of WotW and supporting DW DPS talents from Paragon.
This bug has been posted and confirmed by various sources. For now warriors have resorted to running soldier's bearing as a bandaid fix until Trion addresses the incorrect values of these talents.
Last edited by Lunacresia; 10-02-2011 at 10:29 AM.
could some good soul summarize what builds we've got left for pvp?
And another question: how is 51rb doing? and what would you pair with it?
51rb/15 champ or para (I run para and go DW personally) - Top DPS build for actually killing things, total glass cannon though
Some stupid SnB thing with rb/pally
Some Ragestorm thing with a 2her
That's all I can think of.
They were doing it wrong.
38 para 2h beats DW every time, given similar gear levels.
Only if they do the rotation flawlessly and always have fervor/tablet available. Also, mostly only on Sicaron, because of how the damage bonus is calculated. On Murdantix I can tend to beat our 2h warriors.
Isn't that a charming nerf.
This will never occur until PvP is isolated from PvE in regard to finishers.
The problem is largely psychological. For our finishers to equal the damage of Fiery Burst would put them at such a high number that PvP people would freak out. Other classes would freak out in PvE as well, after comparing to their own?
Same reason, IMHO opinion, bloodthirst just got nerfed. The thing was already on 30 second cooldown.
Right now, folks see FB tickin' for a few 100 in PvP, no cause for alarm, or a symbol to grasp and complain about in the forums.
Wack 'em for 1,000 in a single hit and everyone freaks out.
Maybe all of our finishers made into DoTs???
No, the answer is to attach DoTs to Reaping Harvest, Deathblow, and Punishing Blow and increase Tearing slash's bleed DoT damage.Maybe all of our finishers made into DoTs???
It should equal Fiery's damage (plus the applying finisher on the direct damage portion of said finishers) over the course of the DoT and the direct damage should remain where it's at.
This would make those finishers worth a crap and would unglue us from RB in every DPS build.
These DoTs should scale with the points spent in the trees that provide the finishers.
Then the passives that they can't balance around (Tot5R, Weapon Spec, Rift Fury, Deadly Strikes) can be converted into talents that instead increase AP's contribution to our damage and possibly provide some regen outside of crit.
Doing this would go a long ways towards fixing warriors in a logical fashion.
Last edited by Marrocco; 10-03-2011 at 05:52 AM.
Make the damage magical on the DoT component so it can be dispelled if this is doing too much damage.
I don't think it will with how burst healing is.
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