The next patch NEEDS to have significant Warrior, Mace Skill, AND Armor buffs.

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Kashou#2868 wrote:

Then you play block or armour/eva.

I don't want to use a shield, I don't want to use evasion. I want to tank hits and deal bigger ones.

we all want this but what we are going to get is a nerf to basic attack.

I just don't understand how GGG thinks they could make enemies like dark souls but not include Hyperarmor for big melee attacks...

Warrior is fine, the ascendancies are good, the passive tree area they start in is good.



it is just the mace skills that are so bad.

Warrior is not fine unless you play 1 or 2 speffic meta builds. The tree needs major work. I'm trying to play Shield Charge + block defense and its very rough. Blocking isn't perfect of course and is limited cause every other defense HAS to be limited.

The three shield skills are all terrible. Charge is somewhat useful but when compared to something like Sunder or Hammer of the gods it's laughable. Many mace skills end up the same. Poor scaling, major mana costs for a class that has little access to mana boosting outside gear rolls, and accuracy being a big FU when compared to casters.

The tree really needs to be reworked to have better use of armor along the path of going 1/2h and then sides focues around each of the mace skills. The fact you need to basically fly all somewhat into the upper left and lower right is really horrible if you need block, or leech or accuracy. Many of the nodes are place in weird spots like block major block nodes up towards the north west or nestled in merc's zone. Then you get things like a few area increase nodes slotted between the life regen nodes. With armor having a dozen notables spread the same way so even if it becomes good you're basically playing twister to get a build running and spend 50 some odd levels just traveling the passive tree to get a dozen notables that barely do anything.

I started playing a warrior wanting to make my own bleed build but.

i given up in act 1 . coz there is no mace skills that can be used .

they fall into two categories :

1. Too slow.
2. they dont scale well with physical dmg.

i guess i am not leveling a warrior until swords come out and maybe spears .

Not to mention a blood mage would be a better fit for a melee bleed build then warrior .

Titan is really strong for any build, I am hoping it doesn't get nerfed.

Maces on the other hand are the weakest in the game. That isn't to say you can't make a strong mace build, and some mace abilities are really strong (hammer of the gods with chrono for instance), but in general you will have a harder time playing through the game using maces primarily than any other weapon/spell setup.

Warrior with a Q-staff is WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY easier to destroy everything with than warrior with a mace. It's not even comparable. Ice Strike just freezes everything and with herald of ice, blows it all up. It's great for clearing and it freezes bosses so fast they never get to hit you.

Mace CAN get very high damage and take out bosses fast etc, but it's more work to get there, you need better equipment and it's just not as fun (opinion there obviously).

MACE needs boosting.

Warrior I hope they just leave alone. The other ascension warwhatever....could use a boost though lol. Just please don't nerf titan, it's my favorite ascension (yes I know hulking is really op.....just.........let us have it for now please).

Warrior as it is right now, if you ignore mace, is the best class to test EVERYTHING with because titan is so versatile, you can alter your build to work with anything. Wanna try spells? Titan rocks with spells, want to use summons, titan is arguably better at summons than infernalist (or at least as good). Wait, you wanna use a bow? Yep, all those physical/attack/two handed nodes by warrior...makes bow skills freaking ROCK.

You can play anything as a warrior just by resetting your passive tree, which isn't that expensive at all. Try any build without having to level up again, play with any spell combo, any weapon combo, all on one character. If you use the weapon slot specific skills, you can even have a strong build that uses 2 different things (Q-staff + bow for instance).

Warrior even has a freakton of bonus stats near it, 100+ strength and 49 int. It can have a truckload of eshield (Due to the 50% bonus to small nodes) while still getting alot of %armor which translates at 40% to eshield regen (making you have better eshield than anyone other than monk with meditate basically).

Warrior rocks, hopefully it still rocks for awhile. Maces.......maces never change...wait wrong game....maces could use some work.