I haven't really been using my warrior too much (hehe retbull), but it seems to me that they nerfed warriors way too hard. 17%? Way way way too much. I think maybe a 5, or a 10% at most would have been workable.

What people don't seem to understand, is this nerf has NO BEARING WHAT-SO-EVER on damage at lvl 80.

It is based purely on level 85 damage. I'm not in beta, but it appears that Collosus Smash and the ability to spec into deep wounds again, will bring fury back up to just under pures, where its supposed to be.

No doubt on cleave or melee favoured fights it will shine. And just like always, towards the end, it will become the number 1 melee dps, as it sees more benefit from gear than other classes.

Having said that, yes the nerf hurts. And I have only logged on my warrior a couple of times since the shattering, because I don't want to experience them in their weakened state.

Remember when leveling and doing dungeons you had full blue gear, maybe even epics from 70. And that mage had greens and only few blues and still did 2 times your damage?

Its that all over again.

The above is entirely untrue. Before the nerf, my Arms warrior was doing 11.5k Overpowers and ~12k MS. After the patch, the average is 8.5k/9k. It was a significant difference.

Go outside? Let's not get crazy here. The obvious solution is to have a plethora of max-level alts. That way, SOMEONE's bound to be overpowered in any given patch.

That's what I do. I have 4 80s and a 73, as well as a slew of alts in the 40-50s. The main reason is I never leveled without a pile of rest XP.

By midway thru Cataclysm I expect to be fully FOTM-proof.