I have been playing a Bruiser for a long time.
In the begining we were incredible: We put out DPS like gods, we solo'd like gods, we tanked just as well as most.
Then they nerfed our DPS.
We still solo'd amongst the best, we could put up ok DPS, and we could tank just as well as most.
Then they nerfed our soloability the first time.
Then we could solo as well as most classes, put up ok DPS, and tank as well as most.
Now they have nerfed both our soloability as well as our tanking ability.
Now we DPS subpar to most, are subpar tanks, and solo on par with warriors (see:bottom of the barrel).
What happened??
Just one example: I am a very well equipped Bruiser in one of the best raiding guilds on my server. I have fabled upon fabled and am working at maxing out my new set of AA's pretty quickly. I was in loping plains yesterday and see the named werewolf up. He is White to me and three arrows. So I throw up my mitigation buff, get a decent position, and pull him with my str hex doll to slow downs his attacks a bit. He comes in, I twist out my offensive stance, throw up KO combo, and start laying into him. I see things are going fairly well for the first 15 -20 seconds and as my CA's run out and KO combo is about to drop I switch to Defensive stance, hit em with my short term mex, and as it runs out make sure I land my eye gouge (all skills master 1 of course). Then he starts beating the [expletive haxx0red by Raijinn] out of me... I throw up my heal and he lands three more hits real quick and realizing its about to end bad, I FD.
Swashy comes running by as I lay there licking my wounds and I see him rush the named. I think to myself that I am about to watch a swashy get slaughtered and consider grabbing some popcorn...then by some grace of god I watch him drop this mob in about ten seconds... so I go up and inspect this guy expecting him to be one of the best swashys I have ever seen.. and yet I see legendary gear at best..
[Removed for Content] happened to us??