Give WP/DoK a gap closer.

[Pinrri]

Well, funny that you mention this... Isnt it the dok/wp who suffered exactly this, more than any other class? Because everything you list up here to prove your point, is discribinng 100% what allready happend to this class and made it bad. So your wannabe wisdom argumentation is nothing but a boomerang, because your "warning" what should not happen, allready happend years ago. I dont know if you are realy playing only since 3 years like your account says. If yes, then obviously you just dont know what you are talking about. I will give you a small tutoring.

If one class lost its identity and became nothing more than an aesthetic choice, then its DPS dok/wp. Why? Because his identity was, to be a melee dps healer / supporter class, wich did damage and supportive heal at the same time. This role was cuted completely, when they implemented a shield path. Shields didnt exist in AoR and also didnt in the begining of RoR. So what they did is, they took everything what made him unique out of the dualwield, and pressed it in their new frankenstein shield path. No Aoe heal life tap anymore. No spirit damage, Devour Essence aura from 9 targets, to 6, to 4, no heal debuff on crit, and the list goes on and on. So now there is a shiled build with all the melee healer things, and a dual wield build wich completely lost its identitiy. Then they tried to homogenize it, made it more similar to other melee dps. Actualy they gave him a charge ability the beginning, what was at least consequent. But they were not done with it, they doctored around more and more (because it was a mess) until the point we have now, with this drowning in blood mechanic... This is not what dps dok was about. Hes drowning in ****, because he lost his identity on dual wield completely, and even the things left, got nerfed more and more, until more or less nothing is left from the old path. Instead they gave him things like armor debuff, wich he just didnt need before, because of spirit damage. So, IF you try to homogenize a class from his original identity to "just another mdps", than do it right, and give him all the necessary tools like a charge. All this gibberish about "he has other unique abilieties instead"... well, he HAD. And it WAS jsutified. But they all got nerfed or cutted out of dw path. So asking for a gap closer, as a consequence of homogenization, to make him at least playable i every game content, is not asked too much.

So freshman, take your text wall of pathos, bring it to your "top players" and keep on brownnosing.
You want to hear an oppinion of a player "who have demonstrable experience in all facets of the game such as incredibly high SC winrates over thousands of matches, high city winrate over many dozens of matches, all classes/archetypes in multiple roles bis, etc." ??
Here i am. My winrate in all these categories was allready high before this joke of a killboard and ranked SC even existed, that people like you use as a benchmark. 90% of Scenarios i join, i finish as the top scorer of my archetype. I played this class on live server as on of my main chars. I know 100% what im talking about when it comes to dps dok, and I dont need to rely on any of your "top players" to build my own oppinion about it. I tell you, this class is not even a shadow of what it was, or what it used to be. So to bully people that they have a skill issue and should learn to play, only because they promote the proposal of a gap closer, is an impertinence. And i dont accept a "learn to play" from a forum bigmouth hero like you, whos telling people his arrogant "learn to play" in every second thread.

learn to play

[kleinbuchstabe]

Now I'm intrigued. Who are you? Give me some names.

For what, for this?

learn to play

You expect some "look how superior i am" now? I think there are enough people around who do this allready.
I have no reason for flashing here just to get judged by people i dont know and dont care about.
The point of my claim is, that not everyone is a noob, only because he promotes something, that some proclaimed "top-gamers" see different.
I play this game long enough, and good enough, do have an opinion on my own. And it should be possible to present your opinion here without some know-it-all people come around the corner all the time, and tell you "l2p". There is indeed a lot of skill issue presented here, and with valid arguments you can prove it.
But a claim like "top gamers have a different oppinion about it", whoever they are, doesnt count as an argument, and i dont take this gibberish.

[Pinrri]

hey, look how superior i am

[kleinbuchstabe]

yes you are. good boy.
I made my point and raged enough here. Enjoy your popcorn alone.

[Pinrri]