from the PVMP perspective, warden has gotten weaker than it was before the update, unironically.
>marked/diminished target are now generally weaker and more difficult to apply.
>no more stance dancing for additional bleeds or HoTs, since the same bleeds are on both ranged and melee stances
>cashouts are weak and not worth it
>primary DPS drivers are curable by common creep AOE and Self-cure skills, with no real alternatives or preventative measures.
>no more seize the moment
this all on top the double jeopardy warden bleeds experience where they can be resisted on application and resisted on tick, meaning you need a fair amount of finesse.
all that on top of the fact that warden takes a very long time to ramp up to a very underwhelming peak dps in a world where defiler healing and WL aoe healing are very strong compared to that damage.
why take this slow clumsy class as a DPS when you can take something that ramps up to the same peak DPS nearly instantly and stays there like champ/burg/hunter/minstrel/rk? you know, the ideal damage profile to get AHEAD of the healing?
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Every single warden that I've seen in either 1v1 or Group play since the update hit has been utterly destroyed and doesn't even come close to being competitive with literally anything else. Skill issue? perhaps. but its actually disgusting how weak it appears to be compared to every other class right now and how badly it performs against creeps in 1v1 and group play. It seems more helpless than reaver at its lowest point pre-Orion.
I can say with confidence that it is now far and away the worst class for PVMP right now, and its not even close.
Last edited by Saruman_Of_Numbers; Mar 26 2023 at 01:33 AM.
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