User:Readem/Warrior

Reason for Buffs/Nerfs/Reverts: Skills such as Agonizing Chop, really added depth to Guild Wars. Serving as not only potent interrupts, they increased a Warrior's overall DPS significantly. The second part of this update attempts to revive both the Hammer and Sword.

Hammers are slow but powerful, and have the amazing ability to immobilize and shutdown targets through KD-chains. However, they have fallen out of the metagame due to “Block-meta” and superior Axe DPS (basically on-demand DW). In order to balance things out, I have increased their (Hammers) ability to defensively train targets, as well as add some new devastating AoE (to help them compete with the AoM Dervish at VoD). Hopefully we will see the return of Earthshaker and Dev Hammer.

Swords are very weak when taken as a whole. They have low DPS and conditional DW. In the past Swords carried utilities such as Empathetic Removal; but in the current metagame, this is not necessary. With this update, swords will hopefully have powerful skills (such as Final Thrust) to help them contend with the Eviscerate chain and Axe Warriors in general.