warrior vs pld for solo gameplay

I've always used my pld for everything. Almost leveled my warrior to 50 because pld was just to boring. I'm curious which is better for just questing? With warrior do you keep defiance down or up? With pally I always have sword oath with protect and stone skin so was curious which is over all better solo.

I like Warrior, it's much more fun. Haven't played my PLD much sinc WAR hit 50. For soloing, drop Defiance since it reduces your damage. Ignore the threat skills and go down the Maim combo line (buffs your damage), finish with Storm's Eye first (reduces slashing resistance, further buffing your damage). Buther's Block is slightly higher damage than Storm's Path (by 10 pot), but SP reduces the enemies damage by 10% and heals you for 50% of the damage so I prefer that.
All in all, DPS is a lot better on WAR and you shouldn't have survival issues on any of the solo content. Plus chopping things up is so much fun =)

Depends on what you like. I go war since hitting BB for 1200 crit is always awesome to see. What I've noticed is that PLD has a ton more crit. When I compared my war and pld with the exact same gear (minus the head, can't get my fc to farm T5 again) its a 90 stat difference. However the base dmg of a pld is lower by about 30 compared to war.

In the end you gotta ask yourself do you want a dmg increase of 30% for 30 seconds + higher crit stat or 50% for 20 seconds + 20% dmg increase for 24 seconds + 15% crit rate (IR) for 15 seconds + 10% slashing debuff (SE) for 15 seconds? Also if you add second wind during the berserk and IR rotation you can potentially crit it for over 1200. Its basically a cure 2.

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Originally Posted by ManaKeKz

For soloing, drop Defiance since it reduces your damage.

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Only if you're fighting single enemies. If you're fighting multiple enemies, stay in Defiance for Steel Cyclone.

In a general sense, WAR is better for soloing since you bring legitimate self heals along with more ST *and* AoE damage so that you have less downtime and faster kills.

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Originally Posted by Kitru

Only if you're fighting single enemies. If you're fighting multiple enemies, stay in Defiance for Steel Cyclone.

In a general sense, WAR is better for soloing since you bring legitimate self heals along with more ST *and* AoE damage so that you have less downtime and faster kills.

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^ This. Thinking about it and I really cant think of any advantage that PLD has over WAR for Solo'ing. Outside of Mitigation, which isnt as important when solo'ing since mobs dont hit hard

WAR has better damage and more options for AoE (Maim, Internal, Berserk, Storm Eye, Vengeance, Overpower, Steel Cyclone) on 0 to Low Cooldown .

PLD only AoE Attacks are Flash which does no damage and Circle of Scorn which has a 25sec Cooldown.

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Originally Posted by OmegaSinX

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Speak of tanks, had a WAR tank in Garuda HM last night who rushed in right off the bat to pull her without waiting for buffs. Your sig perfectly portrays what happened so I laughed my ass off when I saw it. xD

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Originally Posted by Velox

Speak of tanks, had a WAR tank in Garuda HM last night who rushed in right off the bat to pull her without waiting for buffs. Your sig perfectly portrays what happened so I laughed my ass off when I saw it. xD

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LOL. im sure everyone is guilty of that at least once.