Title: Awakening Warrior PvE: the problems, the solutions.
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a) Unrewarding gear progression. In most scenarios, we'll still need one of the 2 main DPS skills to clear a pack, and having that skill on cooldown means we'll have the same clear speed next pack, regardless of upgrades.
Merciless IV: increase PvE damage by 70%. This skill is one of the only 2 spammable ones we have, and we avoid it like the plague because it's extremely slow and low damage.
Balance Strike to avoid Flow: Hilt Strike using Greatsword Defence (Q cancelling).
These seem like well thought out changes, maybe even underwhelming compared to some of other classes buffs that went live.
Great post, 100% agree, we are being left behind in the dust compared to all the newer classes and PA isn't doing anything about it because certain people still think we are OP from back in the stone age days.
I vote we also get full Super Armor for Reckless Blow for the whole duration of the skill and not just the charging portion, it feels like crap charging up and then getting knocked on your ass before you even get a chance to deal damage.
Yep, awa Warrior PvE needs SOMETHING alright.
Hopefully PA won't decide to do something silly and based purely on KR feedback.
I don't want range buff on my greatsword, I'm OK with pulling mobs close to me and I want to melt them.
Mechanically, I would not mind for Q buff and Shift+SPACE to go away. It was somewhat acceptable for a while but now we've seen decent QOL tweaks to other classes clunk and there's no reason for Warrior to be awkward just for the sake of it.
Yep, awa Warrior PvE needs SOMETHING alright.
Hopefully PA won't decide to do something silly and based purely on KR feedback.
I don't want range buff on my greatsword, I'm OK with pulling mobs close to me and I want to melt them.
Mechanically, I would not mind for Q buff and Shift+SPACE to go away. It was somewhat acceptable for a while but now we've seen decent QOL tweaks to other classes clunk and there's no reason for Warrior to be awkward just for the sake of it.
That's another thing I agree with, I hate the whole mechanic of constantly Q- BLOCKING for an AP BUFF. Like, I block when I want to take less damage, not get a damage buff. It's awkward and clunky constantly blocking like an idiot before every pack just to make sure you constantly have that AP buff up. I'd rather they just moved that AP buff to either an attacking skill, or as some kind of passive.
Did small modifications to the original post regarding "merging" balance strike with hilt strike. The idea we had (it's been brought up by many people multiple times, I'm not the first) is to remove/rework Hilt Strike and give balance strike hilt strike's stats (accuracy rate included). Naturally this is a change that would impact PvP and not just PvE.
Buff this so I can feel like I'm not griefing myself by playing the only class I enjoy in this game. Well thought out post, buffs are even mediocre compared to other buffs and damage from other classes. Warrior is a true melee class, we deserve the damage output to equalize the risk vs. reward for not playing ranged.
it's kinda sadge that every class getting buffed and Awakning warrior still untouched even forcing or thinking that i have to grind it's frustrate me
Awk Warrior Reboot : Changing VFX of Awk skills it's soo funny 🤣🤣🤣
Buff this so I can feel like I'm not griefing myself by playing the only class I enjoy in this game. Well thought out post, buffs are even mediocre compared to other buffs and damage from other classes. Warrior is a true melee class, we deserve the damage output to equalize the risk vs. reward for not playing ranged.
Warrior received considerable buffs during the reboots, there's a star contrast PvE wise before and after, as well as many QoL changes to cancels for both PvE and PvP. The problem is that, pre reboot, awakening warrior was mediocre in PvE, and, because every other class received equal or greater buffs, it remained mediocre or worse than before. Add to that that every single class in the game since reboots (over a year ago) has received buffs except for Awakening Warrior (you can verify this, I find it hilarious) and you end up with one of the top 3 absolute worst PvE classes in the game (and also a pretty bad one in PvP outside 1v1).
If you're curious the other 2 are Succession Nova and Awakening Ninja. No surprises here.