BoT is the best, highest weap damage/balance and 5% dmg on crit mastery, also rage mastery. Shao just because of the highest weap damage/balance.
Nop, they just balanced the "random damage", weapons had also another random value, and that wasn't really the problem. The damage difference between weapons is impressive, unbalanced as GC, shaos and bots will be the strongest in this version too sadly.
From grinding a Shao and grinding a BoT, I'd say BoT have more damage imo. I read somewhere that all weapons would have the same maximum damage but I could be very wrong. I did notice though, I felt I was taking more externals with my Shao than my BoT.
So are BoT healers good? If I want to go CK healer way later, should I build HD healer or BoT healer? Are CK healers even good in this version?
Shao and BoT have the same weapon damage. BoT's mastery gives the same 5% crit damage which helps a little bit.
There is a rummor that they have higher crit and hit chance as general .... BUT !!!! I never seen it somewhere written anywhere in game. Its just some expirienced players sense... ( they all play Shao n BOT warris ), now i can tell you that max DMG difference for HG saber vs HG spear is prety large ( and this is not a sense but numbers) Also i can tell you that if HD and BOT warri do competition with 100% equal gear, BOT will win like 97.98% no matter PVE or PVP, the rest 2% are if a BOT is total noob.
I've had an HD, a WT and a BOT warriors in the past and I believe that I was able to crit more with HD/WT than with BOT using the same gear on all of them. But this is just my perception; I might be wrong.