Warrior Is SO BAD...

Thought I would give POE2 a final try today before heading back to POE1 by making a warrior tank, as they had said in the video's (if you want to make a tank, you can make a tank!)(Ya, you can make one but it does not work). Even with pure passive nodes being armor/block I still can get 1 hit by a boss with phy damage so easy, even with 52% damage reduction around 300 armor and all my resist are 30% plus.

Oh just roll out the way they say, pffff warrior is so slow and sluggish, you just can not roll that fast out the way.

All other skills for shield are busted or don't work other then holding right click to block.

Why in the world would you make it so that you can be surrounded by enemies and NOT be able to roll out of it? While they are bombarding you with blood/chaos pools under you.

Found 1 support gem in 15 levels, this might have some thing to do with it seeing you only get 2 from campaign quests.

I'm a warrior, and I legit want to know how other warriors are playing. I am about halfway through A3, have finally hit my stride, i put crystals out there and detonate with my warcry. I'm built for area damage and stun and went titan crushing blows.

The reason I say i finally hit my stride is because everything else is too slow. I'm basically committed to the two hand, and my goodness, like 2.5 second to rolling slam or sunder, and I'll tell you what, that'll get you killed.

I beat the landspeeder/pike/jet ski boss for spirit last night, and I ended up using my warcry detonate strat to knock her off the bike. Then I just had to beat her to death my using my two handed mace attack. Is this how other warrirors are playing? I coulnd't do good damage or even hit her otherwise, and that's almost my only attack fast enough to not get hit by everything she's putting in the arena.

yep thats about it, just swing your weapon for 3 seconds, then wait 3 more seconds for the explosions/aftershock and hope you dont die. My reccomendation is to get a good life flask, and everytime youre about to take a 4 second swing, use your pot while you stand there like an idiot.

Good luck! Hopefully they fix.

Ya, nuts isn't it?

Having never really played POE 1 I didn't quite know what I was getting into but Warrior was the one class I really wanted to play.

Nearing the end of act 2 and NOTHING feels good any more. All I see is witch/sorcs/mercs all dancing around constantly shooting or having their minions kill things while I have to wait 5 hours to swing my 2 hand mace twice to apply a debuff? Almost all of my skills are maxed for this level and the support gems are helpful but I feel like my passive tree is having zero affect on my skills and I'm following a guide from a vet.

My gear isn't terrible and I have a decent 2 hander but as enemy density increases warrior just gets worse and worse. I hit 32 and I have yet to see a lvl 9 skill gem drop. I have yet to complete my ascendancy trial because I keep getting screwed by random hits or trials even though I know the easier paths to take.

I've played all the dark souls games in triplicate and beaten Elden Ring + DLC without as much issue in melee as I have here.

Now that my vent is over here's the TLDR.

TLDR: Warrior wants to UNGA BUNGA. Why do I have to be so slow and MADE SLOWER via passive selections and still feel like I fall behind my counterparts in sorc/merc/witch? Having to swap to a shield/1 hander to survive WHILE STILL HAVING TO ROLL AND REPOSITION is not fun when I still can't cast my skills by the time a friend has killed things. REMOVE THE TIME GATE ON WARRIOR SKILLS. LET ME PLAY!

which act are you up to? im a warrior too at the end of act2 and ive been steam rolling everything.

The mere fact you can only slot ONE support gem of each kind, really breaks the game for me. It is the most stupid thing I have ever seen. There are tons of support gems I have made that say "melee" on them, but when I go to actually use them, nope! They are restricted to a weapon type, but it doesn't tell you this.

I just don't understand who in their dev team decided it was a good idea to remove basically everything that made POE 1 great.

I honestly don’t understand why everyone is so upset with warrior. I’m at end of Act 2 and absolutely destroying everything with 2h mace. Earthquake for huge aoe and boss damage, but avoid for small packs because of long detonation time. Otherwise most skills are useful situationally but build for herald of ash long term. Bosses are pretty chill, just earthquake on cooldown, break their armor and stun them. Pew pew.

Tried monk to level 8 but found it was boring and squishy.

Level 71 warrior here. Honestly, I went through hell to get this character to this level, and now that I've reached the endgame, it feels like I'm weaker than ever. Sometimes, level 65 enemies kill me with just ONE hit. And before anyone says I should focus on defense, take a look at this:


Am I doing something wrong?

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ADAMASTOR005#2147 wrote:

Level 71 warrior here. Honestly, I went through hell to get this character to this level, and now that I've reached the endgame, it feels like I'm weaker than ever. Sometimes, level 65 enemies kill me with just ONE hit. And before anyone says I should focus on defense, take a look at this:


Am I doing something wrong?

If you want assistance you can pm me and we can compare trees but if this is just a whine post the so be it.

First off warrior scales. By level 71 you are definitely hitting your strong point.

Second - your resists are bad. Do you expect to tank without investing in tank stats?

Third - 0% block chance again, see point 2.

Fourth - Level 71 with 1400 hp is criminal. I was 2500 health when i hit level 70.


For reference im overcapped res 78/78/78, block capped (75%) and have far more hp than you at level 71. I don't exactly know where your stats are going to end up with these low of numbers