[Feedback] Why can't Soldier have 100% War Cry uptime?

[mad_lee]

Voted no, but not because War Cry is good as it is (btw, those choices really incentivize people to vote yes :p, good job if that’s the intention). I think % damage reduction should become a rare commodity again. Nowadays aside from inq and Necro, we have those from items that also have a fair amount of uptime - the dawnshard “set”, Morgo items, just a few examples. If it was just soldier and overnerfed (in terms of the DR) censure, it still would’ve been fine if warcry stays the same.

But I doubt Crate is going to rollback all those damage reduction items and devotions. All while War Cry stays in its Vanilla state. So it’s easier to modernize War Cry, imo.

If it had 100% uptime, I feel like the damage reduction value should be nerfed to 20%. I would still prefer 20% with 100% uptime over the current 25% with 66% uptime. Could also make overcapping warcry worth it more. Currently you just always softcap it without even thinking about over/undercapping it.

This, I don’t think it should have 100% uptime with current DR value. I would even take 15% DR but permanent coverage against what it is now.

It’s still an instantaneous AoE RR debuff (in fact it’s the highest source of “X reduced resistance” in the game), so it needs to have some downside.

It is, but flat RR is vastly overrated in my opinion. It’s just not as effective as -RR%. And current meta clearly demonstrates that: RR from Storm beacons in Crucible (15 flat rr) is more than enough for all the builds. I even made one of the fastest PB builds that has no flat RR, in fact, it was too fast for Zantai so he had to nerf it from multiple angles. Another example is my recent Warborn Dervish vs. Warborn Cadence Warlord thread where Warlord actually has 100% uptime on its War Cry (well it’s not technically 100% because you change position a lot) and had 22 more flat RR than Dervish. Somehow it almost didn’t scale at all.