Warrior is just bad

Warrior's state is beyond terrible. Only one build viable for early endgame with warcries with decent clear speed, but then you'll hit the strength wall not being able to damage mobs efficiently.

All abilities other than that particular build are slow, take a lot of animation time and delay, meanwhile deadeye, invoker, and stormweaver are just blasting through content like crazy.

at /ladder there are just them

Warrior needs some aoe fast clearing ability like whirlwind/bladestorm, or thunderclaps without movement penalty.

I'm 74 right now, got all my resistances, decent dmg with good health regain and decent build, it just feels 10x slower than other classes.

Ok, when its 10x slower, than its 10x faster with bosses!

No,

its slow too.

Virtually every mace skill is slower than the auto attack by 20% to 40% while the damage for these slower skill just isn't there.

The class just feels too sluggish.

When all is said and done, it will end up being the best boss killing class in the game. It is slow though and I haven’t seen a great mapping build yet. I just view it as a trade off of quick boss kills and slower mob clears. I’m also positive there is probably some kind of aftershock build that has you charging and jumping all over the place that is good at mapping. Haven’t thought it out myself though but I’m sure someone has figured it out.

Check out my leveling build.

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/profile/4ea40d52-5e05-400d-aeaa-a8f4a79b439e/builds/e7c80477-6e39-40e4-ac82-bff1060d37be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBOYT1sUXFI - Build showcase

https://youtu.be/DS_RHCCJHAE?si=6fc_FS9BqFRyngl1 - Ketzuli kill

https://youtu.be/zHRea4jZyiQ?si=NVT3uUHVIA7yyvo1 - Viper Napuatzi kill


I use perfect strike and boneshatter for basically everything

Wished they'd start fixing the massive clunky playstyle. I was so damn hyped for Stampede, hype died when I tried it and got stuck everywhere trying to use it not to mention, the AoE its pretty damn small and miss bosses all the time as you hit them in the face but for some reason you glide past them.

I'm level 80 atm, mapping is a slugfest for sure. Bosses and Elites, quite easy. It's just unlike other classes who have awesome skills from PoE1, we got non of the classics maybe except for Sunder.

It would have been a bit better if they didn't decide to triple stat Giant's Blood, at least we could have had some decent movement with shield charge.

Most of the slam skills are slow jank that will get you killed even trying to finish swinging them, while playing through the acts quickly priming monsters for boneshatter feels like twice as fast and convenient than any slam. But I will say getting stampede with armour explosion support and the shattering blow notable has made my warrior a chain explosion clearspeed god (herald of ash and aftershock/aoe investment helps massively too). And of course the single target is nutty, I'd say warrior is one of the strongest classes tbh.

Edit: btw if you hold down the stampede button you get to steer it a little bit while using it. Also idk if warrior having very few cracked build is that much of a disaster considering that's reflected in how there's literally only one melee weapon(two counting quarterstaff, but there's no nodes for it around warrior's side of the tree) type in the game at the moment.

With Warbringer armor break nodes. Basic Attack + Armor Explosion Support can 1-tap the entire pack. Mace Strike FTW.

I’ve made a biuild with amazing clear speed and boss dmg. There are videos of both examples there.
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3626426

warrior so slow, 8 out of 10 people on /ladder play warrior