Grit/Blood Weapon Shenanigans

When doing a dungeon as a DRK, I often do the following:

1) When in Grit + Darkside, I pull the mobs.
2) I generate a sufficient amount of hate on the mobs
3) I turn off Grit
4) I turn on Blood Weapon
5) I proceed to kill mobs with increased DPS

The Grit/Blood Weapon switcheroo is what I want to focus on in this post. It's kind of a pain to have to turn off Grit before turning on Blood Weapon. It would, however, be a lot smoother if turning Blood Weapon on automatically turned Grit off. That way, 3) and 4) would become just one step.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...nterchangeable

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Originally Posted by DestroyerOfLargePlanets

When doing a dungeon as a DRK, I often do the following:

1) When in Grit + Darkside, I pull the mobs.
2) I generate a sufficient amount of hate on the mobs
3) I turn off Grit
4) I turn on Blood Weapon
5) I proceed to kill mobs with increased DPS

The Grit/Blood Weapon switcheroo is what I want to focus on in this post. It's kind of a pain to have to turn off Grit before turning on Blood Weapon. It would, however, be a lot smoother if turning Blood Weapon on automatically turned Grit off. That way, 3) and 4) would become just one step.

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PLDs have to turn off ShO before turning on SwO, WAR has to turn on Deliverance before using Fell Cleave/restoring TP, I'm fine with having to to turn off Grit before using Blood Weapon. So should you.

A tip: If you're able to turn off Grit before a bunch of the stuff you're tanking is dead, you should be doing bigger pulls.

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Originally Posted by Syzygian

PLDs have to turn off ShO before turning on SwO

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I'm almost positive this isn't true whatsoever. SwO turns off ShO and vice versa.

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Originally Posted by Syzygian

WAR has to turn on Deliverance before using Fell Cleave/restoring TP

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it's more like they can just turn on deliverance which will turn off Defiance and vice versa.


It's a little different for the DRK since Blood Weapon is a timed buff, not a full DPS stance. But as DRK doesn't have a DPS stance, it's not an unreasonable request.

None of his posts are based in reality. As for OP, I agree- even if Blood Weapon auto cancelled Grit it'd be a more seamless transition more on par with war/pld.

It is not hard to do this...not necessary.

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Originally Posted by Mikedizzy

It is not hard to do this...not necessary.

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It's not hard to get up and change the channel on my TV.

That doesn't mean I'm going to throw away my remote.

The SwO-ShO and Grit-No grit transitions are both horrid, but I can almost understand why they do it (compared to warrior who has to be healed up).

Can we make SwO/ShO and Grit abilities with mana costs? Please. Please.

(And yes, you can go from SwO directly to ShO. I have a macro that replaces ShO button with SwO when I'm in ShO and vice-versa).

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Originally Posted by Syzygian

PLDs have to turn off ShO before turning on SwO, WAR has to turn on Deliverance before using Fell Cleave/restoring TP, I'm fine with having to to turn off Grit before using Blood Weapon. So should you.

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Nope. Your argument is doodoo stain. I'll let you figure out why.

I agree it is a bit annoying especially when it gets laggy.

And yes SHo and SWo switch between each other.