The rage system was terrible in WoW and it's only going to be a little better in Diablo due to the fact that you have have a lot more AI mobs attacking you to raise your rage faster, and you had no healers.
The biggest problem is pvp.
Yeah, you take damage and get rage, looks good on paper... Except the fact that you have to take your opponent's initial nuke (which they will open up with) before you get any rage.
Also you can't strategize or syncronize with others.
Warriors in PvP in WoW were near useless in high level arena teams because they couldn't time their abilities with others.
The Warrior only has a very select window of time he can execute his abilities, from when he generates the rage, to when it decays.
You can't predict when you will get this rage, and when you do, you either are already behind, missed your opportunity, or shouldn't because it won't be worth it, stubbornly chasing and getting yourself in deeper trouble.
It wasn't a good system then, it won't be a good system now.
EDIT: The only reason people thought it was good, was because it offers a potentially limitless supply of 'mana'.
people fighting warriors thought the rage system was awesome because the warrior wouldn't run out. The reason the warrior wasn't running out was because he was taking massive amounts of damage.
The reason he could take that much damage was because he had 1 or more healers keeping him alive.
they had to balance a warrior getting healed so that he wasn't overpowered. Once they did that, if you didn't have a healer you were dead before you could do anything.
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The biggest problem is pvp.
Yeah, you take damage and get rage, looks good on paper... Except the fact that you have to take your opponent's initial nuke (which they will open up with) before you get any rage.
Also you can't strategize or syncronize with others.
Warriors in PvP in WoW were near useless in high level arena teams because they couldn't time their abilities with others.
The Warrior only has a very select window of time he can execute his abilities, from when he generates the rage, to when it decays.
You can't predict when you will get this rage, and when you do, you either are already behind, missed your opportunity, or shouldn't because it won't be worth it, stubbornly chasing and getting yourself in deeper trouble.
It wasn't a good system then, it won't be a good system now.
EDIT: The only reason people thought it was good, was because it offers a potentially limitless supply of 'mana'.
people fighting warriors thought the rage system was awesome because the warrior wouldn't run out. The reason the warrior wasn't running out was because he was taking massive amounts of damage.
The reason he could take that much damage was because he had 1 or more healers keeping him alive.
they had to balance a warrior getting healed so that he wasn't overpowered. Once they did that, if you didn't have a healer you were dead before you could do anything.