Tanking Rotation

As far as weapon skilling rotation goes, I think i got it down pretty well. However, as of late, i've started seeing warriors use silver francsicas (thrown weapons) in their rotation while tanking. Does this throwing not interfere with swing timers or do these people just wanna throw axes for fun?

From what I've seen it gives them that little bit of tp they need to start a combo sooner. 2 Axe swings will usually only net around 900 tp, and they need 1000 to start their enmity combo. With such a long swing timer, the sooner they can combo the better.

I constantly use throwing weapons. It's a quick way to get TP, nothing more. I'm famous within certain circles for using bomb arms. People give me donations of bomb arms by the truck load.

Cool!

Ive been tanking since a little after beta and never even thought to do this! Definitely gonna try it out next time we do something. Thanks for posting this!

The only thing I can add is that I try to time my abilities so you can fit an auto swing in. By spamming one ability after another you can delay your swiongs almost indefinitely, but by giving it that half a second delay you can get the tp but not waste any animation time.

Time to craft up some throwing axes =) Thanks for the tip!

Your throw doesn't overwrite your auto attacks delay, so you can throw whenever

Just a tip here, it's better to use farmable items for throwing. The difference you'll get in damage from throwing a Silver Francisca vs a Bomb Arm is negligible, so why not throw the cheaper item?

Or spend 75 seals on a stack of Levinstones. Rather than farming bomb arms you can do one caravan and instantly get like 6 stacks or more.

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Originally Posted by Brannigan

Or spend 75 seals on a stack of Levinstones. Rather than farming bomb arms you can do one caravan and instantly get like 6 stacks or more.

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I never used those. if I ever run out of bomb arms, i'll check there. thanks!

Yeah +1 on company levinstones. When those were added I felt like one of the few who actually cared lol.

There's also bronze fransiscas you can buy from a LL vendor and Exorcism Beans which is a low level CUL craft you can use for throwing. While the damage on them aren't much, they still will do damage and give you TP.

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Originally Posted by Churchill

Your throw doesn't overwrite your auto attacks delay, so you can throw whenever

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I tend to think it does. Even with garuda claws, no matter when I throw (right after/before swing), it still takes me almost the full 5 sec on throw cooldown to attack again... probably not as noticeable with war because of their longer delay, but it is better to time your throws IMO. If you throw too much, and skip a lot of AA, overall dps starts to suffer from my past experience

Overall probably better to just save for initial pulling and when mobs like garuda are in mid-transit to you that way you can still output a little DPS and build TP in the process to nail her once they get to you.

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Originally Posted by SwordCoheir

Overall probably better to just save for initial pulling and when mobs like garuda are in mid-transit to you that way you can still output a little DPS and build TP in the process to nail her once they get to you.

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you'r not missing out on auto attack by throwing things, there really isn't a downside. trust me, i use bomb arms constanly and am usally in the top 2 or 3 dps when i parse.