Does Phys/Shield Warlord only come good late game?

Hi.
My first build was a Warlord. He surely cannot compete at damage with my follow up builds like my DW Infiltrator/Dervish/Shieldbreaker/Blademaster.
Well, its the shield which cuts off alot of damage, so you have to try to squeeze every damage where you can.
So here is some suggestions i will try to explain on behalf of my own Warlord build which is only my opinion of course.
My actual build for comparison or to give some ideas:
Features:
Permanent Overguard = -100% Block Recovery @ 70-80% Block Chance
200% Attack Speed most of the time
Good OA/DA (2800)
High Armor (4200)
Moderate Phys Res (27%)
High RR (-122%)
Good ADctH (17%)
https://www.grimtools.com/calc/wV1vEMLZ

  1. You could drop Menhir’s Bulwark for Oleron’s Rage for more damage and massive OA and another flat IT damage which ignores enemy armor.
  2. You could go Markovian Advantage instead of Jugdement for DA-shred, its a WPS instead of active skill, so thats quite a improvement.
  3. 10% more RR and a significant damage reduction on enemies if you would switch Shattering Smash with Warcry, which can compensate somewhat the dropping of Menhir’s Bulwark for Oleron’s Rage.
  4. If you go Warcry instead of Shattering Smash for RR and skipping Jugdement than you still have the same button gameplay.
  5. Give Zolhan’s Technique a try to increase total WPS %
  6. Although Obelisk of Menhir maybe strong, you could go Shieldmaiden only and then go down to get Ulzaad/Rhowan’s Scepter/Oleron which in total gives significant damage.
  7. Counterstrike 1 point is very good investment whatsoever
  8. One thing i did try and is something which i am still considering to go for is high Cunning instead of Physique but then there is Military Conditioning, well…

As a sidenote: This Warlord build was able to get me deeper in SR Ultimate than all my other DW builds so far besides Shieldbreaker which is not there yet.

I hope you can find a way to make your damage smoother.