[rant]Swifty, Blizzard and Warriors.

Hello Everyone,

I just have a minor rant I would like to make here, and since I'm banned from the official WoW forums for rage-replying to one troll too many, this is my 'rant' venue.

Anyways, anyone that follows up on Warriors, should be familiar with Swifty, author of Incredible Warrior Tricks (google it up or look for it @ warcraftmovies).

Swifty is (or should be) known for is innovative nature regarding warrior PvP, and his die-hard passion for his Warrior, some people might not respect this, but being a full time warrior, I do.

Basically a few months ago Blizzard made the talent Juggernaut, this talent was obviously a staple talent for PvP Warriors. However in this effort to bring back a long dead tree (before this talent Warriors were basically the very bottom of the food chain, with one or two exceptions of sucess (Fury spec) Blizzard made one mistake, they forgot how many people were actually playing warriors, thus when they finally made the Warrior's PvP tree viable again, the Death Knight re-rollers came pouring back in with their mains, immediatly
Knee-jerk reaction nº1, nerf Juggernaut's Mortal Strike crit chance.
Knee-jerk reaction nº2, decrease charge benefits from glyphs, turning a major glyph into a piece of crap.
Knee-jerk reaction nº3, in the first time since the beginning of WoW history, a Talent that actually INCREASES the cooldown of a baseline skill.

Shortly after this nerf, Swifty began fooling around with the concept of having a Block Value set to make a huge Shield Slam (I'm not claiming he was the first, in I myself was already fooling around with this idea). So he did it, he made a video and ...

Knee-jerk reaction nº4, Cap block value contribution to Shield Slam damage.

At this point, Switfy came back with an ArP Crit build around protection spec (/w warbringer talent) where he showed Protection PvP was still a viable PvP spec.

Knee-jerk reaction nº5, Upcoming nerfs to warbringer, effectively destroying protection PvP's main advantage (mobility). And slicing Concussion Blow's damage in half, on top of (again) reducing the Block Value contribution to Shield Slam damage, effectively destroying the spec PvP-wise altogether.

Basically it just seems whenever Warriors stick their head a little bit above the crowd they immediately beat us down with the nerf bat. It does seem however the same thing doesn't apply to Paladins, or Death Knights ...