Warrior Changes ahead? - Blue Tracker

#0 - Feb. 24, 2009, 4:45 p.m.

I noticed an overwhelming lack of buffs or changes to Warriors. Are there changes ahead for Warriors and that's why it has relatively no attention being paid to it? It was outright stated and is a commonly known fact that Protection Warriors are not nearly as desirable as DKs, Prot Paladins, or Feral Druids in ALL situations.

Is there anything being done about the rage problem? The rage system seems incredibly out of date and scales backwards, meaning the more gear I get the less rage I have. I don't even get rage anymore unless a raid boss is beating me, and even then I have some rage problems. I noticed you guys were looking into granting rage on dodge, block, and parry - is this why you took the rage component off of Blessing of Sanctuary, or was that to somehow nerf Warriors in PVP which is highly unecessary considering their deplorable state in PVP especially compared to a DK or Ret Paladin.

I know people widely don't consider threat generation an issue, and on most fights it isn't, but there is a massive discrepancy in the threat the different tanks generate (AE and single target). I cannot get more gear. If I try to itemize for more threat I have to gimp myself for mitigation, due to Warriors having to focus on the most stats out of all of the tanks and being given the least help from talents. Protection Paladins generate nearly double the TPS a Prot Warrior does on both single and multiple mobs while not sacrificing anything, is this intentional? Threat will be an issue when dps start to pull away from the potential threat generation tanks (Prot Warriors especially) can put out which is already starting to happen with full Naxx 25 geared players.

A response would be greatly appreciated since I am seeing so many rerolls to Prot Pallies, DKs, and Ferals.

Bornakk

#2 - Feb. 24, 2009, 4:47 p.m.

Get used to seeing this type of comment to these questions:

We still have a lot of changes and additions we want to make in this patch, this includes class changes, we got the PTR up to start testing but we definitely aren't done with everything.

Bornakk

#22 - Feb. 24, 2009, 5:17 p.m.

Q u o t e:

Dear Bornakk,
You say "get used to seeing this type of comment" but I've "gotten used to seeing a specific type of thinking from blizzard." Regardless of what you claim, years of playing your games and following patch notes have lead me to believe that 90% of the changes are indeed in this patch and very very little will actually change.

People should be getting every bit as upset and angry as they are. This is what years of following these posts have taught me. The "we're not done" is just tossed out there to calm us down while the inevitable comes.

I know we have a bunch of Arms-Warrior changes still planned along with some Mage things, but take it as you wish, just know that questions like this will get an answer you have already seen.