Warrior DPS. Turn 9.

So I'm going warrior in T9. I'm hearing that some of the higher up warriors are getting 200-260 DPS, obviously the 260 are geared up.

So my rotation is Fracture, Path combo, Eye combo, Block combo, repeat. And I guess you would also use Defiance, Internal Release, Berserk, Unchained, and then combo until its off for the crit bonus. Is this right? Is this what top DPS warriors use for their DPS rotation? Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks.

200+ can easily be reached as a warrior. Don't reapply Fracture until it's about to wear off, you are just wasting its potency, if you do. I also wouldn't keep Defiance up when doing dps, the -25% damage penalty is significant. Just have it on when you need to be tanking, a bit before that, actually, so you can still Provoke -> Butcher's Block under Defiance.

War, Easily puts up 200+, I will DPS with my static on certain things. If your MT is a PLD, I wouldn't use butchers block combo at all, some solid crits specially with berserk up you will rip right off em even out of defiance. Also, since you are DPSing, just rotate Eye and Path combos (slash damage up AND 10% reduc for MT) and toss a Fracture when ever close to done (<6sec). Defiance is a stance, turn it on to tank turn it off to dps.

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I've been playing around with my melded lvl70 DPS accessories and I've been very impressed by how much DPS WAR could output.
Here are some of the results I got in runs I did yesterday:

- Levi EX: 162 DPS in Defiance (BB>SP>SE rotation, wave axe) was #2 DPS on the fight, only second to a BRD by 20~ DPS. There's a lot of down time in the fight so DPS isn't that high overall.
- Demon wall: 260 DPS without defiance (SE>BB rotation, wave axe)

I've parsed myself as PLD on the same gear (slightly better ilvl because I have wave sword but tidal wave shield) and PLD can do pretty damage too.
- Training dummy: 232 DPS in Sword Oath

Overall, Tanks can output quite a bit and usually have the advantage of having more uptime than melee DPS with no positional requirement.

Opening rotation for war ot:
Switch defiance on 10sec before fight stats.
-infuritate
-innerbeast
-off defiance


-eye combo
-fracture
-eye combo
-butcher combo
-eye combo

Repeat.

Swap butchers for path combo if required ie; before Ravensbeak or Ravensclaw .

Our most recent T9 kill, I only did about 180 DPS.

We double tank the first phase. I am wearing 5/5 i70 Crafted Accessories, sitting at about 9000 HP. This is more than what some Warriors use for this fight, but we're at a point where we only see one Ghost of Meracydia in Phase 3. I like this balance of STR/VIT.

FWIW, I do about 250 DPS to Rafflesia/Melusine.