So most, if not everyone, knows that Warrior as a class (At least DPS-wise) is in the gutter at the moment.
Issue for me is that I have felt quite useless compared to other classes since the beginning of Dragonflight and it is starting to feel demoralizing.
I’ll start with some positive and I think that Mountain Thane feels really good with the new set bonus in M+, it’s fun, does good damage, and is kinda cool.
But the issue is that it has been increasingly difficult to get invited to groups for the past 2 expansions, and I don’t blame people. Warriors have very little to offer in terms of Dungeon or Raid utility.
Spell reflect will always be awesome and I love that for us, Shockwave is good, but compared to capacitator totems and thunderstorms from classes that also have raid buffs, AND BL, AND Reincarnate, and several other great utilities, we literally pale in comparison.
And just to bring it up, Rallying Cry… My god, why is this ability still the same? It is pretty much of such little significance that it is almost a mistake using it due to it being on the GCD.
It would be one thing if our lack of utility was paired with DPS capabilities to outmatch other classes, but most of the time we don’t even keep up on the meters let alone beating them.
From the hard-to-soft target cap of 5, most of the damage even reduced by 65% on 4 out of the 5 targets, to little to no utility (That is also still outmatched by the majority of classes) I definitely understand the hesitance of inviting DPS warriors, and our damage output, self-sustaining ability, and our Spell Reflect just don’t make up for it.
I have played my warrior for over a decade and I definitely won’t stop anytime soon, but it would be nice to see some sort of rework to make the class more viable, because despite the state of all the numbers and whatnot, I find it to be an enjoyable experience to play Fury.
[TL;DR] So to the things I’d like to see:
a BL has been asked of the community a lot lately and I want to echo that, I think it makes sense, if that gives an edge too much to Prot warriors, I don’t know, there are several tanks that have CRs, Prot warriors do have an edge when it comes to damage, so if its too much of an edge, give it to the DPS specs.
Rallying Cry, add a 4% damage reduction or something like that, if that gives too much of an edge in PVP, scale it differently between the modes, plenty of separate tuning going around anyway.
For Fury, more specifically Slayer (Which has its own plethora of tuning issues) I think the Hack and Slash proc needs some work, it is not uncommon for me to see about 6-10 procs of it on my screen, only 1-2 or two of which has any real consequence as Raging Blow only stacks to 2 and it isn’t possible to use it at all, so the proc and related buffs are basically meaningless, so I don’t know, buff the damage further of Raging Blow based on how many procs above 2 you get or something, maxed out at X stacks.
And do something with the target cap, not sure what would end up being fair, as previously mentioned I think Mountain Thane does alright these days, but again, we are also still quite behind in terms of what is possible compared to other classes in big packs, I appreciate we have a pretty steady / stable and decent damage output throughout dungeons, but I am not sure it matches up with the others nor do I think players themselves value that as much.
How much can be done without making us OP when combined with the above ideas, and I wouldn’t dare ask of all of these, but something to make us more viable in the LFG space.