Hello all,
As a discussion, I would like to recommend that the dev team reintroduce gladiator spec for warriors back into wow, either a talent node or a 4th spec. While I am not the biggest fan of Augmentation Evoker I can say that I do like the idea of playing a support spec. I think it would be cool to add a new support spec to warriors among other classes and in the case of the warrior you could add defensive layer support with low range damage. Supports work well in many games and I can see it really working wonders in this game if there was more variety than just a mid range caster that has a limited way to apply buffs to the group and maintain those buffs. Gladiator warriors could bring back the sunder stacking that debuffs the enemy so they take extra damage or bypass a certain amount of armor etc. Just an idea and I would love some open discussion on the matter.
If gladiator got reduced to a debuff spec, that would annoy basically anyone who enjoyed it during it’s brief stint in WoD for it’s off the GCD play.
If anything more support specialisations are not needed for the health of the game simply due to balance, or lack thereof.
Utility should be spread between existing classes as benefits of bringing them into content. Not to make certain specs absolute must haves for composition.
This. 100% this.
I remember the good ol’ days of Glad and I’ve hoped every expansion for jts return, but I absolutely do NOT want to see it return as some debuff/support spec.
Only of it dual wields shields. Lol
What if they changed up battle stance (rename it to if you want) to increase damage done and increase damage taken? So you could swap at will in combat and gain more than just your 5% damage back and 3%crit.
I don’t remember glad stance, but from what I’ve heard, you couldn’t stance dance out of it in combat, so you lost the use of your shield block in favor of shield charge. (Which we have via talents now)
So would keeping all our prot stuff available but simply giving us a higher damage output be worth while? And then make it increase damage taken as well for balance purposes.
So you’d use it when your co-tank has aggro, or if you’re in M+ with an awesome healer and you’re not taking much damage.
The Shield Charge Gladiator stance gave is different to the current version. In WoD Shield Charge increased the damage of your damaging abilities by X% for Y seconds (Can’t remember the exact numbers for X and Y)
Sure, but with my suggestion you’d have a, let’s say 15 - 20% damage increase at all times (in glad stance) and still have access to the current shield charge which deals damage.
And can always swap to defensive stance for soaking damage.