Pretty much all you can do as warrior that is any semblance of fun is raid log once every 3 days right now. Outdoor PvE, farming, PVP, or any other activity besides raid DPS is just simply not enjoyable. Everyone is like “Just you wait! They scale with gear and get OP at level 60.” Sure… Maybe… This is SoD though, so we don’t know that for sure.
The same thing was said in phase 1: 'Just wait until phase 2! You get MS and berserker stance" and it is worse now than in phase 1, so why should we expect level 60 to be any different? Even if it is true, level 60 is time gated until Summer or later, so warriors cannot level themselves to access their alleged “true potential” for another 5 months. Why pay for a sub until then? While I’m at it, how about I rent a jet ski in the winter because it will be fun in the summer?
My brother in christ you chose the class. All these other cool choices and you pick the class that did big number in era, the devs came out the gate with memes about bringing every class up to or above warrior level. I’m a bit biased though, I simply think brown class is boring and everyone should play another class.
First off, I picked a warrior because I barely ever played one in era, so I wanted the most fresh experience. Secondly, everyone knew warriors were rough at level 25 cap. It’s the way it always was, but we made the investment because we were under the pretense that at least at level 40 it would get fun (just like in classic). However, it didn’t. It got worse.
It’s not like we had PTR servers to preview how bad it was either. Blizz kept everything secret because “Season of Discovery”. How were we suppose to know the game would devolve into a long-range instant-cast insane dmg meta? Maybe if I could transfer all my profession skill levels, reputation grind, etc. to another class I wouldn’t be so annoyed, but i cannot and I don’t want to do that all over again on another class.
Sunk cost, it’s not too late yet. Better than wasting your time on a class that most likely is going to be middle of the pack at best in pve content and worse in pvp content. Still got time before this phase ends, could get ready for 3 at least.
Even at 60, Warrior mains have a Mage or Hunter alt for farming. I had/have both.
It totally sucks that dungeons are entirely irrelevant in SoD, because premium tanking was fun and could make some coin from first orb reserves and all that.
Funny you mention that. I actually tried tonight, but it just rekindled my anger for the total lack of class balance. I’m on a PVP server as a warrior you see… I got ganked while fishing and had no recourse even with long cooldowns and PVP trinket up. It’s really fun having a shadow priest just dot me up, dispersion while the dots tick me down to almost dead, and then instant cast kill me when dispersion ends… By the time I run back to my corpse, his cooldowns are ready to go and do this all over again.
Blizzard has always had an issue of maintaining content relevancy outside of era content. SoD isn’t really any different, skill books were so lol since SM is something everyone and their mom spams.
Take the rogue pill, it’s very fun to mutilate a priest to death while I perma stunlock them. And even if we’re F tier at some point you can always escape in stealth unless they do something really stupid and give a class a spectral sight rune lmao.
The problem goes beyond just warrior. It’s PVP damage being too bursty in general. The crazy burst prevents any fun interactions because often you just get globaled, so not even healing matters. Overall PVP dmg needs to be reduced somehow (instant casts especially) while damage against mobs from players remains the same, so we still have that ‘powerful feel’ that SoD devs want to deliver on. Also, anything that requires stopping and hard casting is barely seen in PVP which makes interrupts and slowed cast times irrelevant. Could you imagine if all raid bosses and mobs were killed so fast that you literally just ignored all mechanics? No need to dodge crowd pummeler knockback - just kill him first… No need to click buttons to stop bombs on final gnomer boss - just kill him first… It would not be a fun game. That’s practically the state of PVP right now.
Back to warriors: Besides lowering all classes PVP dmg giving them a chance for a fight to actually happen, I also think they need like an out of combat rage regen (like rogue energy) up to like 30 rage. This way they can use an ability right away when combat starts like every other class can. It would also help with PvE such as being able to get threat right away while tanking, or use sweeping strikes right away, etc. Maybe other stuff too.
my brother in jehovas if you actually had some braincells its not a players fault for choosing a class and the devs just make warrior the same playstyle but worse off than a hunter
The day Blizz nerfed CBR (for the second time) and Raging blow end of P1 (can’t remember if they had already nerfed Devastate at this point?) I knew that was it for Warriors being anywhere near the top for tanking or DPS phase 2 and immediately leveled a warlock. Looking at the datamined runes for P2 before it released, you could see every other class was getting so much more than warriors were getting. Blizz is clearly trying to limit Warriors scaling as well. Warrior DPS and threat are average/below average with full world buffs, raid buffs & consumes. If you don’t have them (Feral druids are hard to find on Alli) you’re trash.
Until rage gets normalized or they remove mortal strike (which they will never do) I just don’t see warrior being worth playing.
Y’all manage to eek out top meters both phases because of hyper scaling and if y’all become toxic in PvP ALL melee in the game become useless and not worth playing.
It’s just a bad design. What they can do instead is offer fun runes for survival and disruption like spell reflect, thunderbolt, etc.
Anything that offers any kind of pew pew will just see you go 12091204 dps and everyone crying.
Unfortunately as a ret paladin I NEED y’all to be viable for me to be viable since we are trash outside of DPS or supporting a warrior.
Honestly you had to know this going in… I have my warrior ready and moderately geared each phase to make leveling easy. Alt right now until they shine. If you somehow did not know that… don’t know what to tell you. Make an alt for farming.
