Quote Originally Posted by kingfury View Post
So your saying the only thing holding them back is Retaliation? Not DA, Critical hit boost, multiple ways to boost attack and dmg with JAs and such? I've actually never even seen a DRG use their 2hr... like ever. o.o

Maybe I've not had the honor of fighting along side some pimp DRGs is why I find this hard to believe. I've never seen a DRG out dmg me even when I was rockin RR only. I'd love to find a master DRG to compete with!
DRG 2hr is actually stupid powerful, but unfortunately it's only that great in one of those no brd situations and when you have a DNC.

Spirit Surge= 25% Magic Haste, release cooldown on Jumps, causes jumps to reduce defense by 12% each, stacking up to 24% and stacking with angon (IIRC). This means it basically caps your attack on anything if you use both jumps and angon.

Well, since DRG gets a bit of DA in gear the new auto crit jumps make up for the last 15% WAR has over them. DRG is also more capable of a lower xhit considering they have more access to stp gear over WAR.

In the end if a DRG is using Angon it will probably match WAR's Berserk and Warcry, meaning the only thign WAR has over DRG is Blood Rage and Crit Hit bonus, which is big in abyssea, not so big outside. In some way the wyvern makes up for this, however the fact that DRG's empyrean weapon sucks makes it a far and away competition if the DRG doesn't have Ryunohige. But in that case, WAR is a far and away competition in every way anyway.