With most of the warrior posts pointing out problems but offering no solutions, the goal of this is to come up with ideas that would help the general state of the class.
I’ll start with a couple of ideas.
Introduction of skill books that:
Support shouts (battle and command) no longer cost rage.
With other classes given longer duration and reduced cost on their buffs, it would be in line to remove the rage cost of shouts to allow for buffing out of combat.
Free low % weapon damage strike that generates rage on a cooldown. E.g Enraging Strike - Deal 50% Weapon Damage and Generate 15 Rage. 12 Second Cooldown. Numbers always tweakable
This would greatly help with rage generation, while providing a relatively minor raw damage increase. It would be based on weapon damage, so that fury would have the least gain considering how well fury scales late already.
I’d honestly just take 10m shouts instead but this would work too.
The problem with this is that warrior scale too well in endgame. This fixes a qol issue today but introduces a multitude of issues down the road.
Edit: maybe this works if you make it so bad at max level that the global isn’t worth using. I dunno. I feel like there is a better solution I’m just too dense to come up with it rn.
How about since warriors die immediately in pvp and that sucks, they instead add some QoD skillbooks (quality of death). Right now dying sucks, it’s very low quality. Instead, why not having a QoD skillbook, dying shout. When you die, nearby allies gain a bonus 30% damage and 30% damage reduction for 15 seconds. QoL would not be enjoyed in pvp as we die immediately
Out of curiosity what is the issue with rage generation? I have just gotten my warrior to level 40 (yesterday), and sort of feel that the phase 1 rotation with Raging Blow and Quick Strike, teaching us to pool rage, was a nice lead in to Slam and Mortal Strike, of course now there’s more going on with Berserker stance and Whirlwind to work in after swapping from Battle Stance for Charge and/or Sweeping Strikes.
Endless rage seems to help with rage, but I guess I haven’t really felt much in the way of rage issues yet, so I’d be kind of curious as to whether you could elaborate on the actual issues? (I’ve seen a lot of complaints, but nothing that really says anything, so I’m asking).
Yeah, well I think that actually makes sense. Someone mentioned the Prot warrior Sword & Board fantasy yesterday, and I know there’s a number of people who seem to like that style.
It is otherwise, a completely dead tree. Honestly though, at end game, I think you’ll be hard pressed to find a group as a sword n board warrior even if they buff threat. Fury tanks do so much damage that they essentially fill the tank role while having the effect of an additional DPS in the group.
Putting it down to 1 Min CD would be a good start. Maybe have it allow Berserker Rage to be usable in any stance, so those in Battle or Defensive Stance don’t have to pop Bloodrage.
