Just a reminder. Warriors scale exponentially and their new runes amplfy this. The runes do not increase warrior damage only by the percentage on the tooltip. This is because by increasing warrior damage, it directly increases rage generation which means they can spam more abilities for even more damage. Consumed by rage alone will bump warriors up dramatically from the already massive lead over all other dps classes. We’re playing season of warrior.
boomers figure out how warrior work 19 years later
yea expect a 20-30s icd or reduction by like 5-10% per phase til 10%. this rune was designed to shore up low level warrior dmg which is typically bad. they clearly didn’t account for sub lvl 30 windfury and a mortal strike equivalent as well.
This is true, but vanilla has always been that way with warrior. (Rage normalisation when?)
Honestly though, hear me out, what if the warrior can’t spend the rage? Like physically can’t spend the rage because they are generating too much.
The warrior can never go below 80 rage, and you’re probably thinking “that’s OP, they will always be in Consumed by Rage”. However, that is not the case, crossing the 80 rage threshold is the trigger for the rune to activate, if you can’t go below 80 rage you can’t activate Consumed by Rage!
It won’t happen because there are spenders that are more expensive and can break that threshold I know, however it would be amusing if there was a circumstance where warrior swere too gear and thus couldn’t use the rune as they couldn’t go below 80 rage lol
New Warrior Nerf idea: Make the rune increase their rage maximum to 200.
Here comes the warrior defense force. No new metas ever. 25 warriors in your 40 man raids, forever and ever. Nothing but warriors and warriors. 20 years of warriors. Nerf any class that challenges their top spot.
They don’t scale exponentially. They scale nonlinearly. There’s a big difference
Listen, if a hunter breaks into their top 500 DPS Parse spots they need to be nerfed.
Yep don’t forget newly added gear that is way more powerful than what’s typically available at our levels.
Another thing, they really gotta do something about the usual world buffs that we get in later phases. Without any changes to those, warriors (and melee) are going to continue to rule.
Hoping they disable them and just leave new seasonal world buffs in, like what we have with BFD.
I honestly just can’t wait to see what happens at 60.
Currently the expectation is level 50 raid gear should be better than like MC/BWL 60 gear or pretty damn similar.
So will we see completely restatted items at level 60? Just new content in general?
How much different will level 60 be compared to regular vanilla outside the rune additions 
Just suffer for one more year with warriors being the meta by a long shot. It’s only been 2 decades. Surely blizzard will fix it this time!! Just one more patch bro, wait for that next hotfix.
Oddly enough they had a sign at blizzcon that said “Making everyone OP, not just warriors”
Yet they are drastically nerfing anything that seems to be overperforming due to runes, healing priests for example (not gonna comment on hunters)
Nothing will change, they haven’t done any mechanical changes like caster scaling, actual baseline changes to non-meta specs, or things like rage normalisation to reduce scaling on kings like warriors.
I honestly don’t expect much when SoD constitutes a few rune abilities and some new dungeons with associated loot.
This made me laugh at work during a 12 hr shift thanks for that lol
So what class would you prefer on top?
No other class will ever be at the top. Warriors got nothing but massive buffs in SoD. To bring warriors to par with every other class, they would have to get no runes which increase damage. The devs are too busy nerfing everything else.
The devs aren’t nerfing for PvE.
The hunter and priest nerfs directly affect PvP.
The hunter and priest nerfs are not pvp specific. They impact all aspects of the game. Warriors scale so well that they kill equally geared players in 1-2 hits in era late game.
This isn’t era
You’re right. Warriors are dramatically stronger than they were in era. It’s going to start happening sooner than late game. Potentially next phase.