This may be common knowledge already, but based on feedback from LS friends and others, I felt inclined to post here.
While being warrior in Abyssea can be extremely fun with a GA, in most cases you'll be required to use just about everything else available to you for misc red/blue procs. So for anyone either new to warrior (was my case) or procrastinated on weapon skillups and breaking WSNM latents, meeting those red/blue proc requirements can be both difficult and time-consuming. Luckily, there's a solution.
If you're 90, this strategy works semi-effectively solo within Abyssea, and is utterly mind-blowing if you have a RDM (alt or otherwise) with good Enhancing skill to cast Phalanx2 on you.
Effective Target Areas* there's probably tons more to choose from, but this is where I've gone
- Abyssea - Altepa
- Abyssea - Attohwa
Target Mobs* essentially, anything that hits for moderate-low damage and fast
- Mandies
- Chigoes
General requirements
- Retalliation (duh)
- Defender (optional, but helps)
- Aggressor (for more frequent retalliation)
- /SAM - Significantly increases TP gain and almost required to make latent breaking work while solo.
- /DNC - Effective for solo skillup.
What you need when solo inside Abyssea* This atma set is by far not set in stone, but it's been the most effective for me. When solo, Ducal Guard is a MUST if you plan to pull more than a couple mobs.
- Atma - Mounted Champion
- Atma - Razed Ruins
- Atma - Ducal Guard
What you need with RDM PL inside Abyssea
- RDM must have a good amount of merits (3-5) into Phalanx2 -OR- /SCH, and Moderate-High Enhancing skill.
- Atma - Mounted Champion
- Atma - Razed Ruins
- Atma - Various. Just pick this based on the strength of the mob (another regen or -PDT for T+ mobs) or what you're doing (I preferred Sea Daughter for breaking latents and Haste/-PDT for skillups)
What you need to do
This process is very simple.
- You go to a target area.
- Find a target mob that is EP-DC.
- Pull as many of them as you can, while maintaining a stable HP level.
- Pop Retaliation and Aggressor as soon as they're up (& Defender if solo) and ensure most, if not all, mobs are in front of you.
- If you're going for skillup, just idle and watch the points roll in. If you're going for latents, find a WS combination to get you at least to level 2. Most, if not all, weapons WAR can break can self-level2.
-- Using this strategy, I've been able to take almost every weapon from ~180-300+. You could probably attempt to start at a lower skill (maybe 150) but the skillups would be significantly slowing, since retaliation is directly dependent on accuracy. Perhaps accuracy food might help? I just followed this same pattern on mobs in the Boyhada Tree; taking my RDM PL, just pulling 5-10 robber crabs at a time, and migrating back to abyssea around 180.
Known combons for level 2 skillchains
These are just the once I used to break latents. The rest, either I've yet to do or already had em done; you can easily find a skillchain chart to look up those.
- Great Axe: Raging Rush -> Raging Rush
- Staff: Full Swing -> Full Swing
- Club: Skullbreaker -> Skullbreaker
Good luck, and happy swinging!