NW, on top of the current March PTR changes, only needs to make simple tweaks to its current combat system, namely the need to separate DPS abilities that also have cc/heal/support effects from pure DPS ones, lower cooldowns for pure dps abilities to a max 6 seconds and increase other ability CD times to multiples of that for DPS abilities with cc/heal/support effects and emphasize self buffing through light/heavy attacks more and it’ll be in a great shape.
For example light attacks could do a stacking 5% DPS bonus maxing at 30% while heavy attacks increase defenses against incoming damage by say 5% per hit stacking up to 30% for 15 seconds.
By lowering the cooldown for pure DPS abilities to a max 6 seconds, combat variety will help make it more fun and strategic in terms of choice rather than blow cds and while waiting for CD recovery spam left click like it is now.
Dodging and blocking are in a good place atm.