Warrior changes are a HUGE disappointment

#0 - April 8, 2010, 9:16 p.m.
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I couldn't wait to hear what was planned for warriors. I wanted to know what kind of awesome changes we would have, and to be honest, the rage normalization didn't bother me, since everything was being rebalanced for Cataclysm anyway.

I read the first attack, Inner Rage. Seemed good, would make balancing rage more interactive and less faceroll, since at this point, there is nothing really to balance. Boring change but could seem good, on to the next one.

Gushing Wound. Wow, this change is pretty nice, it works in PvP and PvE, so its like a rend for fury, double bleed damage(from deep wounds), sounds good, especially if its a kiting fight. Will probably get nerfed into oblivion because of arena tards complaining.

Then, a huge smile went across my face. Thats it! Heroic Leap, finally, the spell I have been waiting for. As my eyes went across the lines, the smile slowly faded, turning into a frown. So wait, the spell that I have been waiting for, is only usuable in Battle Stance, and shares a cooldown with charge, and does the exact thing as charge, but has a different graphic. Are you guys fking serious? Who is the idiot that came up to this one. The Heroic Leap in Wotlk beta could be used to target anywhere, so you could either use it as a gap closer, a way to escape or a way to LoS. Now, not only does it share a cooldown with charge, it does the EXACT same thing and I cant even use it as Fury in a PvE environment. Terrible, terrible level 85 attack. <--- Massive disappointment right here

Then i continued to the other changes. Wow, whirlwind, one of my favorite attacks and a major part of the fury rotation...is nerfed into oblivion. Mortal strike is now reduced from 50% to 20%, great. Whats this? You guys are seriously putting in a talent called "Single Minded Fury" to make dual wielding 1-handers viable for arms WHILE keeping Titan's Grip. Have the people in charge of the warrior class seriously lost their fking minds or is this a belated April Fools day joke, because if it is, I can seriously say its the funniest one ever done. This is going to be a huge balance nightmare, one of them will ALWAYS be better than the other, Titan's Grip and SMF will NEVER be equal in terms of dps.

Next thing that caught my eye was furious sundering. Well, its a good change, because with all of these terrible changes to fury, id assume that dps warriors will only be brought to raids for sunder, if a prot warrior isnt on hand.

Fury overall, doesnt even have enough attacks for a rotation. Heroic Strike, Bloodthirst and Slam procs = rotation? The Q&A regarding this has been carefully avoided with poltician-style skill, instead, explaining to us why whirlwind was nerfed. Sure, there was a hint that fury might need another attack, but no further detail.

In conclusion, I, and many other warriors, are disappointed with the Cataclysm preview, because basically everything was a nerf, with a few minor "quality-of-life" changes thrown in like furious sundering and the shout changes.

Game mechanics aside. These changes are not fun, they are not exciting. They dont add any additional "flavor". Honestly, if these changes go live as they are, im either rerolling or quitting, since I have lost all interest in the warrior class after reading these.

Here are a few suggestions to make this more fun:
Double Strike: A powerful melee attack that hits the boss with both melee weapons, dealing damage. This will do the same damage as whirlwind currently does now, be single target, and cost slightly less rage. Whirlwind will be for aoe and this attack will replace whirlwind in a rotation, shared cooldown.
Heroic Leap: Allows you to target an area and jump to it as long as it is within line of site and on the same level as you are(so you cant jump up ledges and glitch).
Change Inner Rage(Level 81) to be a deep fury talent.
Victorious Blitz(Level 81): Refreshes the cooldown on Charge or Intercept after a killing blow. Charge is arms spec, intercept if fury spec.
#93 - April 21, 2010, 2:14 p.m.
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Feedback on the previews is fine -- encouraged even. But check the sky is falling rhetoric at the door if you want us to take your feedback at all seriously.