Disclaimer. I mostly do Frontlines. Please don't comment if you are going to just say Frontlines don't matter and Feast is everything and balance should just be for Feast. Feast is not everything. If it was, then we wouldn't be getting a new Frontlines map.
Warrior
I think there's 2 big issues for Wars in Frontlines. The biggest is that Nascent Flash has a party target requirement to work. It won't even work cross-alliance. In Frontlines where it's chaotic and you can often find yourself separated from your party, for instance rezzing after being killed and finding someone at your team base taking the point, Nascent Flash becomes a dead action in those instances and Warriors have effectively no way to heal themselves at all. I don't think any other tank has this issue.
The other issue is how insane infuriate works in PvP with FC reducing infuriate by 10 seconds. Infuriate is on a 30 second cooldown. What this really means is the Warrior is going to be spending somewhere between I'd say 75 to 90 percent of the time just fell cleaving in frontlines.
I wish I was exaggerating, but in Frontlines where you don't actually fight constantly, where engagements can be brief, where you often attack, then run if you're out of position, and then reposition and atttack, fell cleave is always up because infuriate is on a short 30 sec cooldown and how fell cleave reduces infuriate by 1/3 of its cooldown.
This leaves no room for the warrior to use his stormspath combo because the warrior seems to able to generate enough rage/beast guage from THE SPENDER/FC ITSELF through infuriate. What further decentives the use of the stormspath combo, is the fact that the heal from stormspath is inconsequent and certainly not worth sacrificing a multiple fell cleaves for. Even more, all of the Warrior's buffs/debuffs which were attached to the combo actions were removed.
The warrior, I think, is the only tank without a debuff or buff attached to his combo.
All of this essentially means that in a Frontlines setting, the Warrior will have no opportunity or incentive to ever use his combo, because there is no incentive to do it as the heal is terrible and there is no longer a buff/debuff attached to it, and because the war is able to generate ample rage from the RAGE SPENDER itself through infuriate.
I hope this gets fixed. I hope they rework infuriate somehow, or buff the Warrior's combo somehow so that it's worth the time to hit that button in frontlines.
Well, that's my two cents. All you Feasters enjoy War, that's great, for the rest of us Frontliners, War is not enjoyable now - at least not to me. So I hope they do something about it.
What is everyone hoping for their respective mains/jobs for pvp?
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Warrior
I think there's 2 big issues for Wars in Frontlines. The biggest is that Nascent Flash has a party target requirement to work. It won't even work cross-alliance. In Frontlines where it's chaotic and you can often find yourself separated from your party, for instance rezzing after being killed and finding someone at your team base taking the point, Nascent Flash becomes a dead action in those instances and Warriors have effectively no way to heal themselves at all. I don't think any other tank has this issue.
The other issue is how insane infuriate works in PvP with FC reducing infuriate by 10 seconds. Infuriate is on a 30 second cooldown. What this really means is the Warrior is going to be spending somewhere between I'd say 75 to 90 percent of the time just fell cleaving in frontlines.
I wish I was exaggerating, but in Frontlines where you don't actually fight constantly, where engagements can be brief, where you often attack, then run if you're out of position, and then reposition and atttack, fell cleave is always up because infuriate is on a short 30 sec cooldown and how fell cleave reduces infuriate by 1/3 of its cooldown.
This leaves no room for the warrior to use his stormspath combo because the warrior seems to able to generate enough rage/beast guage from THE SPENDER/FC ITSELF through infuriate. What further decentives the use of the stormspath combo, is the fact that the heal from stormspath is inconsequent and certainly not worth sacrificing a multiple fell cleaves for. Even more, all of the Warrior's buffs/debuffs which were attached to the combo actions were removed.
The warrior, I think, is the only tank without a debuff or buff attached to his combo.
All of this essentially means that in a Frontlines setting, the Warrior will have no opportunity or incentive to ever use his combo, because there is no incentive to do it as the heal is terrible and there is no longer a buff/debuff attached to it, and because the war is able to generate ample rage from the RAGE SPENDER itself through infuriate.
I hope this gets fixed. I hope they rework infuriate somehow, or buff the Warrior's combo somehow so that it's worth the time to hit that button in frontlines.
Well, that's my two cents. All you Feasters enjoy War, that's great, for the rest of us Frontliners, War is not enjoyable now - at least not to me. So I hope they do something about it.
What is everyone hoping for their respective mains/jobs for pvp?
Continue reading...