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My initial thoughts on GW Fighter
sheepdog3
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Great class and fun; however, I would like to see for their first Encounter power (sorry I cant remember the name and cant get into the game right now as it is stuck on the login screen) a "Red Carpet" of the path that he will be dashing. This does two things, it tells me the path he is actually going to be going, and two how far he is going. Right now I am guesstimating and unless I am already close to my target, I have been stopping about 10 feet away from the target not doing any damage to them.
And my only other issue is how many healing potions I have to go through at early stages with them if I play solo (typically 3 - 5 of the minor healing pots) depending on the instance. And with caster fights, it seems to be at least 2 is needed during each fight.
Granted I expected to do more dmg as a DPS (maybe not as much as my Rogue, but close). It has taken me an hour of play time on my rogue to get to level 8, and about double that with my dwarf GW fighter.
Once I hit level 10 on the GW, things did go much smoother, however, still downing pots or running back to the "healing fires" in instances more than I do with my newly created rogue.
Anyone else's thoughts on the GW fighter??
And my only other issue is how many healing potions I have to go through at early stages with them if I play solo (typically 3 - 5 of the minor healing pots) depending on the instance. And with caster fights, it seems to be at least 2 is needed during each fight.
Granted I expected to do more dmg as a DPS (maybe not as much as my Rogue, but close). It has taken me an hour of play time on my rogue to get to level 8, and about double that with my dwarf GW fighter.
Once I hit level 10 on the GW, things did go much smoother, however, still downing pots or running back to the "healing fires" in instances more than I do with my newly created rogue.
Anyone else's thoughts on the GW fighter??
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Players have to be really stupid to stand that close to eachother and the normal attack barely hurts other players.
1v1 vs any class you hardly stand any chance, the st damage is just to low, and you get spam disarmed by rogues and have no counter
Edited... WOw i need to change my commited about GWF not being good at single target.. I just hit lvl 15 and got Sure Strike.. WOW this ability is nice... its a left mouse button ability.. It has smaller aoe radius like 5" and it attacks fast and does alot of damage.... I just did a pvp match and now i'm getting alot more kills lol.. One ability change's everything... It seems like it does the same amount of damage as Wicked
Strike but its faster and on its 3rd or 4rd hit it hits hard.... Very nice ability.. I think its way to early to judge a class before you have played it to at least mid lvl to high lvl....
It was seriously stomping face by the time I did the orc assault skirmish with high points in kills and damage and it made me happy after worrying they were kind of lackluster.
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I don't quite understand why people are complaining about the heal on restoring strike, it does more damage to a single target than any of the daily abilities, and it heals for 10% of what you hit.
After level 30, the class really begins to pick up with the new two at-wills you recently got. And if you go down the destroyer tree with your heroic and paragon feats, you begin to deal a lot more damage in both AoE and single target (still not as much as a rouge). Not to mention that if you go down the destroyer tree, you can build your tab ability off of doing damage, which you should be able to in the first place x.x''
The only thing about the class that is lackluster, in terms of PvE, is that the 1-20/30 experience is quite slow, and there needs to be something to make the class less reliant on heals/pots to solo effectively.
My biggest gripe is the healing strike power. The damage is great and it's a valuable ability for tough mobs, but the 10% heal's so small it might as well not be there. 15-20% might make it more noticable.
Restoring strike, the heal is extremely lame. Just remove the heal component and either give it another benefit, like knocking the target down or increasing your damage resistance or simply up the amount it heals by a lot. Yes it does some of the heavier single target damage, but the whole "restoring" part is a joke and completely worthless based on the amount/cooldown.
The tab ability is cool, but really should build off damage done. Yes I understand there is a path later on you can go to get that, but really this should be a baseline function based on how the class itself pretty much plays. Also, the build up for it in pvp is really slow when compared to how long it lasts and the necessity of it to counter the large amount of CC being used here.
Reaping strike, this ability is kind of a joke. I removed it from my hot bar as soon as I had an alternative. The charge takes up too much time, and you move too slow while holding the charge to make it worthwhile. It would be about useless in pvp, and not much better in pve. Power attacks are cool and everything, but its just too slow and clumsy.
I only got the GWF up to 27 so I don't know how well the higher end does but once I had some good gear and hit about level 20 I had a lot of fun with the character, though he wasn't terribly great in pvp.