There are too many warriors posting in this thread. If you think ESW should be nerfed, then you clearly haven't played a mage. I will now post some screenshots of some hits I took through my pa140 set. Hopefully someone will realize that warriors are not the only one taking mass damage. When warriors have MA, esw doesn't hit so high, but my PA doesn't work too well.
GBH hitting -945 on PA set.
GBH hitting -1080 on PA set.
Kloness Axe hitting -1313
Kloness Axe hitting -1431
Kloness Esterk hitting 600+ (been hit higher by them). Little high for an
esterk, don't you think? Also considering that they almost have the same crit range as a bow.
Dark Executor hitting HARD!
So, why am I posting this? To let the warriors who think ESW hurts so much know that they are not the only one taking massive damage. Warriors still have pfm and MA is cheaper than PA even though it works better. Look at the crazy damages I take on the screenshots above. All the hits were taken on a PA140% set. Imagine how a mage with blacksmith armor would feel. I don't think
any warrior has the right to complain but I know why they do it anyways. Of course most of them want to ease their own situation cause they don't care how hard it is to play mages.
I have a good example too (no screenshot though). I was on my deva warrior in Elvine standing a few steps outside safe zone when a kaxe warrior runs out of safe
and crits me TWO times and I died. 2300 HP gone in TWO criticals. Now THAT is insane!