A Warrior Tanking Compendium?

The Thing With War is the mitigation with the combination of HP > DPS > HP recovery .... this is where SE says its balanced ... but where so many players say its convoluted and tricky to play.

you have combinations of abilities like
Convalescence + Inner Beast

or

Berserk + Internal release + BloodBath

... along with your Maim DPS buff to Healing magic received +50% Combo

you need to work in with your regular Enmity producers...

it can be done but getting worked up or confused in the middle of a fight can easily lead to a few broken combos and then a lot of big hits taken consecutively.... PLD is a lot more cut and dry mitigation ... the biggest mistake I see WARs doing is sitting at 5 stacks of wrath infuriated and not dumping them with Inner Beast on Bosses. DPS isn't how you stay in the game longer saving your healers MP is..

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Originally Posted by Giantbane

huh? why would you be wasting GCDs on Heavy Swing? Our combo abilities only build wrath when they're part of a combo, so you HAVE to include them in a combo to get back to infuriated.

As to your rotation above, you're trying to fit 11 GCD actions between the start and end of berserk (20sec). How is that possible? How much skill speed do you have?

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People are misunderstanding what I wrote. Of course you have to use Heavy Swing to start your combos and you need combos to get the combo damage and wrath stacks. The issue is when do you pop your CD's and Inner Beast to maximize burst or healing.

The most basic WAR berserk rotation is:

**Berserk
Inner Beast - 300 Pot
Heavy Swing - 150
**Vengeance (Stack I)
Maim - 190 (Stack II)
Storm's Eye - 270 (III)
Heavy Swing - 150
Skull Sunder - 200 (IV)
Butcher's Block - 280 (Infuriated)
Inner Beast - 300
**Pacification - Total Pot = 1840

Or

**Berserk
Inner Beast - 300 Pot
**Infuriate
Inner Beast - 300
Heavy Swing - 150
**Vengeance (Stack I)
Maim - 190 (Stack II)
Storm's Eye - 270 (III)
Heavy Swing - 150
Skull Sunder - 200 (IV)
Butcher's Block - 280 (Infuriated)
**Pacification - Total Pot = 1840

Both of those rotations use two 150 Pot heavy swings during berserk. Inner Beast doesn't interrupt combos. You can increase the Pot during Berserk by moving the first Heavy Swing to before Berserk > Inner Beast. Here are my suggested Berserk rotation:

Heavy Swing (to start your combo)
**Berserk
Inner Beast - 300
** Vengeance - (I)
Maim - 190 (II)
Storm's Eye - 270 (III)
Heavy Swing - 150
Skull Sunder - 200 (IV)
Butcher's Block - 280 (Infuriated)
Fracture - 300
Inner Beast - 300
**Pacification - Total Pot = 1990

Or

Heavy Swing (to start your combo)
**Berserk
Inner Beast - 300
** Vengeance - (I)
Maim - 190 (II)
Storm's Eye - 270 (III)
Heavy Swing - 150
Skull Sunder - 200 (IV)
Butcher's Block - 280 (Infuriated)
Inner Beast - 300
**Infuriate
Inner Beast - 300
**Pacification - Total Pot = 1990

My rotation is better optimized because it replace a 150 Pot Heavy swing with a 300 Pot Fracture or Inner Beast. It also gives you wrath back one GCD earlier because you first GCD after IB is a combo not Heavy Swing. That raises you overall crit rate and healing bonus after using your wrath stacks.

Wonderful!

Thanks for the explanation. ^_^