Since Blizzard has already buffed other classes who preform simularly to fury warriors massively, I think its fair game to revent this change now.
Last night Feral druids got massively buffed with some changes to prevent bearweaving. This is looking to be a 700-1k+ dps increase depending on whether or not said player bear weaved to minmax before.
A little while ago ret recieved a simular buff. And ret is already a powerful spec come ICC, where this change will snowball numbers alot.
Well fury on the other hand has only recieved 4 pointless nerfs in wotlk so far. Biggest one is losing fiery weapon which would be around a 400-500 dps increase in FULL ICC BIS while 80 dps in naxx bis. Fiery weapon was also an effect that worked in original wrath, and weapons like Shadowmourne had a simular effect that could crit and give deep wounds, so it was a very faithful interaction to OG wrath. Meanwhile ret is a spec with simular ICC dps as fury. So why buff ret for 700 dps while nerfing fury for 500?
Should we be awful all expansion while multiple pointless nerfs while simular preforming specs gets buffs? While both of those specs also has alot more utility than us? It just feels so bad.
Fiery weapon was strong because when it crit it helped keep deep wounds up. The more crit you obtained, the less valuble fiery would become. Currently we basically choose between ArP or Crit, come ICC we’ll have enough of both.
Also, Ret wasn’t “strong” in ICC. It was just playable.
As a Warrior main, I think the Fiery weapon thing was dumb and I have no desire to see it return. Also, Warrior is “ok” in Ulduar and will continue to get better relative to the rest as the expansion progresses.
I do pretty alright on my Warrior, regardless of the overall statistical class balance I am able to be competitive on every fight other than Hodir and Vezax. If you removed those fights from the logs I’d have topped this weeks raid, despite many people in the 90%+ range for the overall raid.
Warriors are not that bad anymore, it’s not naxx. And in T9/T10 it gets better, a lot better.
Spell crits were common knowledge for like 12 hours before they got nerfed, it was literally a nonfactor. Nobody did this in the original WOTLK, and Warriors were incredible in ICC. If it was even possible to do this during the original WOTLK is up for debate, many bugs in Classic were related to the port to the retail client, and not accurate to the original game.
If Blizzard wanted to buff Warrior, as they have with other classes… Well this ain’t it.